The 5 Minute Pill
A 5 minute pill of physical activity can improve your longevity by 30% if you are not active at all.
A Case for the Shingles Vaccine
Taking the shingles vaccine after the age of 50 is likely to improve healthspan
Prediabetes - A Risk Factor NOT a Disease, A Yellow Signal NOT a Red Alarm
Prediabetes is not a disease or a red alarm. It is a risk factor, a yellow signal that tells us to be more careful about the way we lead our lives in general, over the age of 50.
Lecture: Atmasvasth and Your Prevention Playbook
There is a lot we can do ourselves to increase our healthspan. The two most important are physical activity and controlling high blood pressure. The video goes through everything else we can do ourselves.
The Strength of Resistance Training
Resistance training should be an important part of our physical activity routine. Along with walking and running, resistance training helps us live long, healthy in multiple ways.
The Updated 2023 CBD Data on Risk Factors and Diseases That Cause Death and Disability
It is important to know what risk factors and diseases kill us, so that we can take action to mitigate risk and prevent disease
Avoiding Monsoon Maladies
Heavy rains directly and indirectly cause disease and death in cities like Mumbai. The death rates are higher in years with higher rainfall and every year, they are higher during the rainy season than other seasons, disproportionately in slum dwellers and low-income people.
Cognition and Dementia Updates 2025 - Walking, Multilingualism and Creative Experiences
Walking, the ability to speak multiple languages and being creative increase cognitive reserve and brain resilience and reduce the rate of cognitive decline as we age.
The Pull-Up
The pull-up is the apex exercise, the grand-daddy of them all. If there is one movement to focus on, it would be this, the only one where it "you-versus-you", pulling up your own body weight. In the 60th year of my life, I have finally managed to do one, consistently and hence this ode to pull-ups.
A Simple Polypill to Change Lives
A polypill with one anti-hypertensive drug and one statin has the power to dramatically reduce cardiovascular risk and events in those around us at an extremely affordable, low cost.
