Are Health Challenges Unique To Each Individual?

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Madhavan and Vidya Balan’s weight gain journeys highlight how health challenges are unique to each individual.

Madhavan struggled with reduced activity, stress eating, and role preparation, while Vidya faced hormonal shifts and inflammation.

Stress affects eating habits and weight management in different ways, often influencing the types of foods we crave and how much we consume.

  1. Comfort Seekers: Turn to sugary, high-calorie foods for emotional comfort.

  2. Escape Eaters: Snack mindlessly to avoid anxiety or distract from problems.

  3. Reactive Eaters: Crave salty or fatty foods due to hormonal shifts like cortisol spikes.

Understanding your stress-eating type is the first step to Weight Loss.

Tools like NutriMap offer personalized solutions, because when it comes to weight loss diet, one-size-fits-all never works.

Discover Madhavan’s weight loss journey .

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Hey! I’m a neuroscientist, and for the last 3 years have been working for a company that makes mini organs in the lab from patient stem cells. We use those mini organs to test drugs, so that you get treated with chemicals that work for your biology.

I wouldn’t flinch even once before commenting that “healthcare needs to be personalised”. For decades, we’ve been using this one-size-fit-all strategy, understandably so, as globally we do not have the infra to diagnose, treat, and care individually. But I’d like to think its changing. I’m trying to build product packages for the mental health needs of Indian women. Mental health is vague, and is highly dependent on the individual interactions we have with our environment. So its going to be battle to address, but I am up for this challenge.

You seem to be working on nutrition, what have been your observations in personalized nutrition training? I’d love to know

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Thanks for sharing your story! It’s inspiring to hear about your work on personalization in mental health and the exciting experiments you’re involved in.

I’m a pharmacist, so I understand the importance of personalizing medicine dosages and treatments. If we can bring that level of precision to healthcare, it would truly be transformative for humanity.

My personal journey with colon inflammation, along with my co-founder’s recurring gout, validated the principles of personalized diet and lifestyle changes. Seeing positive results firsthand encouraged us to expand these principles to address various health issues and goals.

We’ve observed that mental health, stress, hormonal issues, and gut health in women are all deeply interconnected, and diet and lifestyle play major roles in managing them. Personalization in these areas has proven to be more effective than one-size-fits-all approaches.

Now, we’re working on building a sustainable solution—a Food Navigator App. This app aims to personalize nutrition while generating data that can be used for scientific evaluation and evidence-based recommendations.

Would love to hear more about your approach to tackling mental health challenges for Indian women. It’s such a critical and impactful area!

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Indeed, its all interconnected. I can cite multiple paper that show an association between anxiety/gut health. Its amazing that someone that has struggled through the problem is trying to solve it. We need that kind of empathy in businesses. However, my gut (pun intended) intuition wonders, how will you inculcate the discipline for people to log-in their nutrition?

My venture - Boss Naari wants to provide culturally-sensitive therapy for Indians abroad. Having lived 8+ years abroad, I know how difficult it was to find a therapist that truly understood the nuances of my conditioning and culture. I’m just trying to provide that as a brand.

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It’s heartening to know you value the empathy-driven approach in addressing these challenges.
As for inculcating discipline in logging nutrition, that’s a challenge we’re tackling head-on. Our strategy revolves around making the process as seamless and rewarding as possible: