1. Overview: What this test reveals and why it is important Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is an 84-amino acid polypeptide hormone secreted by the four parathyroid glands, which are located posterior to the thyroid gland in the neck. PTH is the primary regulator of calcium and phosphate homeostasis, acting directly on bone and kidney and indirectly on the intestine to maintain extracellular calcium concentration within a narrow physiological range. The secretion of PTH is tightly

In our previous conversation, we spoke about the deception of depression and anxiety. We explored how these conditions ride us, how they make us look for excuses, and how we unknowingly feed them those excuses so they have a reason to exist. We talked about how depression and anxiety use our memories as food, hacking into our past to justify their presence in our present. But there is more to this story. There is another kind of circuit, another kind of hunger that operates i

Shravani, a resident of China, had been in India for quite some time and we had spoken on multiple occasions. However, this particular call seemed to be different. When my young niece started talking, I could hear genuine distress in her voice. She wanted some guidance with a new found companion, 'Anxiety,' which had become a part of her life after COVID. "About five years back, when I was in Guangzhou," she began, "I went to a medical facility. I was admitted to the clinic,

We rarely fall ill in a single, dramatic moment. Sickness usually begins as something small we choose to ignore. By the time we are forced to act, the problem has often grown into a complex system, demanding powerful, and sometimes brutal, interventions like chemotherapy. This is not just a truth about medicine; it is a truth about how problems grow in our bodies, our relationships, and our societies. --- From a Single Hut to an Entrenched Slum Imagine a quiet piece of govern

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Why Your Dandruff Matters Dandruff is not merely a cosmetic nuisance or a sign of poor hygiene. It is a visible, often persistent signal from your scalp, skin, and systemic health, indicating an imbalance in the microbial ecosystem, an overproduction of sebum, a sluggish shedding of skin cells, or an underlying inflammatory state. Those white or yellowish flakes are not just dead skin; they are the physical manifestation of a disrupted terrain, a scalp ecosystem in distress.

The modern medical system finds itself in a strange, almost paradoxical situation. If a doctor heals a patient perfectly, it becomes a problem; the patient won’t return. Therefore, they cannot afford to provide solutions that properly fix a problem. Conversely, if they fail to address the problem and the patient dies, the patient also won’t return. That, too, is a problem. So, the biggest challenge for the pharmaceutical and medical industries, whether allopathic, ayurvedic,

Why Your Eye Misalignment Matters Strabismus, commonly known as crossed or wandering eyes, is not merely a cosmetic concern or a simple muscle weakness. It is a direct, profound communication from your neurovisual system about disrupted coordination between the eyes and the brain. This misalignment represents more than an eye that turns inward, outward, upward, or downward. It signals a fundamental breakdown in the brain's ability to fuse the images from both eyes into a sing

Why Your Lazy Eye Matters Amblyopia, commonly known as "lazy eye," is not merely a condition of reduced vision in one eye or a simple cosmetic concern. It is a direct, profound communication from your neurovisual system about disrupted neural development during the critical period of childhood. This reduced vision represents more than an eye that doesn't see clearly. It signals a brain that has learned to suppress input from one eye, favoring the other, because the visual sig