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[00:00:09.130] - Darshan Doshi

Hi guys. Welcome to DASAR. Today we are going to talk about health and wellness. They say good health is wealth. And this topic today that we are going to talk about is something that's very, very dear to me. And it's about nutrition, it's about chronic diseases. It's about well-being, it's about preventive health care or simple things that you could do to remain healthy for as long as you can live, right? And I could not think of a better person than Mugdha Pradhan. I've known Mugdha for a few years now. She has been through a personal experience, which I'm hoping we'll be able to talk through in this podcast. But a quick introduction. Mugdha is the founder of iThrive. She's a TEDx speaker. She has been or is a nutritionist. She works with a lot of people of different ages on managing their nutrition, their health, their well being, overcoming, curing, chronic diseases, and a whole lot of things that we are going to get into. So in this podcast, it's going to be a long podcast, we go deep on the topic of nutrition, of chronic diseases. So stay tuned if you have any questions. If you think we should cover anything more, drop in a comment. So, Mugdha I have given a quick overview of who you are. I would love to. First of all, thank you for coming on DASAR. It's such a pleasure to have you here. And my first question to you, Mugdha, is how big is this problem, the wellness problem, the health care problem? We are 1.3 billion people nation and growing. We have one of the youngest population in the world, but we also have a very large number of elderly people facing some massive health challenges. So can you just give a context of what is the problem, the size of the problem, what is the problem in healthcare that we are dealing with today?

[00:02:05.580] - Mugdha Pradhan

For sure, before I answer that amazing question, thank you so much for inviting me. I always keep looking for opportunities where I can actually talk about this because it's like I do this day in and day out. I see people who get sick for such simple I mean, you can just prevent and reverse so many things from happening, right? And I'm like, if I could just talk about this more. So, thank you so much for inviting me. I do have a master's degree in nutrition and I've been doing this work, like working with people, reversing diseases, helping them with their chronic health conditions for the last five years now. So, lots of insights that we've seen. So, in India, what happens with research to answer that big question, right? Like, what truly happens with chronic health conditions, at least abroad? When we go into research, we have so much data around the overall chronic health problem. In India, it's all fragmented. So you'll have data about diabetics and then it's shocking data, right? So, for example, as of 2020, I'm sure the numbers become worse because of how people ate during the lockdown. As of 2020, there were 77 million diabetics in India.

[00:03:15.290] - Darshan Doshi

Wow.

[00:03:15.760] - Mugdha Pradhan

Yeah. The number of cancer cases have been going up and the predictions are pretty bad for cancer. And again, people think cancer is something that just happens. But if you look at it deeply, if you go down deep, the way we look at the body and nutrition, it actually is another lifestyle disease. I was looking at the numbers for cardiovascular because so many young people are just passing away with heart attacks, and that number is scary as well. It's around 55 million people who suffer with some sort of a cardiac ailment. And the worst, though, is currently there's an estimate of 190.7 million people with mental health problems, which is not even spoken about, at least diabetes, you get like a diagnosis saying your blood sugar levels are high, and then there's a little degree of compassion around it. People say, don't eat sugar. And all of that happens. Mental health is, again,