Critical Care patients’ transition to well-being
Dr. Suman Rao, a MBBS and MD in general medicine, has set up a lot of dialysis units in multiple hospitals in her 20 years of career as a Nephrologist. She primarily deals with kidney ailments and works with critical care units.
She ruminates that, in the initial days of her career, she was not much open about curing her critical care patients through nutrition. But over the years, she actually experienced that a combination of food, stress, lack of exercise and lifestyle of the patients are the real underlying causes for these diseases to crop up. She has also observed a lot of side effects emanating out of allopathy medication. So, Dr. Suman subsequently started incorporating nutrition and other holistic approaches in her ways of treatment.
As an example, she spoke about her grandpa, who is 95 years of age and was suffering from severe illness. It was initially believed to be due to his old age. So, as an experiment, Dr. Suman put him on a high protein diet and also started him on a course of few immunity replenishing supplements. It took him just a week of time to recover mostly. That was a massive faith builder for her, on nutritional ways of treatment, and her conviction level went up significantly.
Treating people from the Chhattisgarh Belt, she regularly comes across a lot of patients and their relatives who suffer from blood related diseases like sickling (sickle cell anaemia). These patients got very good results from diet modifications and specific supplements like iron among others.
She advocates that if we start leading a good life style we would be leading almost a disease free life. The secret of having a good lifestyle stand on the pillars of eating right, daily exercise, proper rest, meditation and possessing a positive attitude towards life. She asks the eager ones to get in touch with someone who can coach them to develop a healthy lifestyle and who walks the talk as well like the Wellness Quotient community associates.