The Silent Health Crisis Among indian Men
Indian people (especially men) are having cardiac arrests around the age of 40 yrs, and nobody is treating it like a crisis.He works 14-hour days, skips meals, sleeps for 5 hours, runs on chai and stress, hasn’t seen a doctor in 3 years, but he’ll tell you that he’s “fine.”
Throughout this journey, several small yet impactful milestones played a significant role in shaping progress. Together, these can be summarised as below:
Here’s what’s actually happening:
1. He’s eating two meals a day and both are wrong. He skips breakfast and opts for heavy lunch and a late heavy dinner. His body is running on insulin spikes and crashes all day. He’s not lazy at 3 pm. He just hasn’t eaten properly all day.
2. He is losing muscle every year and doesn’t know it. After 30, men lose 3-5% muscle mass per decade without strength training. He hasn’t lifted anything heavier than his laptop in 5 years. He’s getting softer, weaker, more tired - and blaming it on his schedule
3. With weekend drinking, fatty food all week and with no movement, his liver is taking damage nobody told him about. About 38% of Indians have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. His SPT level is probably high and he doesn’t know because he hasn’t tested it. Fatty liver has zero symptoms until it’s serious
4. His gut is destroyed and he thinks it’s normal. He feels either bloated after every meal or feels acidity every night. with symptoms of irregular digestion, he pops Eno or gelusil like it’s candy. He has been told that he has a “sensitive stomach.” He doesn’t. He has a terrible eating pattern that nobody has questioned in 10 years
5. He is vitamin deficient and has no idea. 70-100% of Indian men are Vitamin D deficient. Most are B12 deficient. The fatigue, the brain fog, the low mood - he blames work. It’s his blood. He just never checked.
The average indian man’s health strategy is: ignore it, push through it, and hope it goes away. But, it doesn’t go away. it compounds. Quietly. Every year.
Throughout this journey, several small yet impactful milestones played a significant role in shaping progress. Together, these can be summarised as below:
Here’s what’s actually happening:
1. He’s eating two meals a day and both are wrong. He skips breakfast and opts for heavy lunch and a late heavy dinner. His body is running on insulin spikes and crashes all day. He’s not lazy at 3 pm. He just hasn’t eaten properly all day.
2. He is losing muscle every year and doesn’t know it. After 30, men lose 3-5% muscle mass per decade without strength training. He hasn’t lifted anything heavier than his laptop in 5 years. He’s getting softer, weaker, more tired - and blaming it on his schedule
3. With weekend drinking, fatty food all week and with no movement, his liver is taking damage nobody told him about. About 38% of Indians have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. His SPT level is probably high and he doesn’t know because he hasn’t tested it. Fatty liver has zero symptoms until it’s serious
4. His gut is destroyed and he thinks it’s normal. He feels either bloated after every meal or feels acidity every night. with symptoms of irregular digestion, he pops Eno or gelusil like it’s candy. He has been told that he has a “sensitive stomach.” He doesn’t. He has a terrible eating pattern that nobody has questioned in 10 years
5. He is vitamin deficient and has no idea. 70-100% of Indian men are Vitamin D deficient. Most are B12 deficient. The fatigue, the brain fog, the low mood - he blames work. It’s his blood. He just never checked.
The average indian man’s health strategy is: ignore it, push through it, and hope it goes away. But, it doesn’t go away. it compounds. Quietly. Every year.
