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Peak Living Dr Gauri Mittal
MBBS, MD, PDCC Lifestyle Disease Management from AIIMS Rishikesh. MindBody-Lifestyle Educator at "Peak Living."

I teach and write about mind-body-lifestyle approach to health & well-being. I have done MBBS, MD and PDCC (Lifestyle Disease Management) from AIIMS Rishikesh.

The Truth About Comfort Zone
29/01/2026

The Truth About Comfort Zone

कम्फर्ट ज़ोन वह जगह होती है जहाँ तकलीफ़ में जीना भी बदलाव करने से ज़्यादा आसान लगने लगता है। यह अक्सर जड़ता की स्थिति हो...
29/01/2026

कम्फर्ट ज़ोन वह जगह होती है जहाँ तकलीफ़ में जीना भी बदलाव करने से ज़्यादा आसान लगने लगता है। यह अक्सर जड़ता की स्थिति होती है, जिसे भारतीय सोच में तमस कहा गया है।

यह जड़ता हर इंसान में अलग-अलग तरह से दिखाई देती है। किसी को लगातार चिंता रहती है और नींद नहीं आती। कोई गुस्से और झुंझलाहट से भरा रहता है। तो कोई उदासी और आलस्य में डूब जाता है।

इस नकारात्मक कम्फर्ट ज़ोन से बाहर निकलने में सबसे मुश्किल होता है पहला कदम उठाना। और यह पहला कदम होता है सही काम करना; ऐसा काम जो हमारे स्वभाव, हमारी पसंद और हमारी प्रकृति के मुताबिक हो।

Comfort zone woh jagah hoti hai jahan struggle wali life bhi action lene se zyada easy lagti hai. Yeh aksar inertia ki state hoti hai, jise Indian philosophy mein tamas kaha gaya hai.

Yeh stuck hone ki feeling har insaan mein alag tareeke se dikhti hai. Kisi ko lagatar anxiety hoti hai aur neend nahi aati. Koi anger aur frustration se joojhta rehta hai. Aur koi depression aur lethargy mein chala jata hai.

Is negative comfort zone se bahar nikalne ka sabse mushkil hissa hota hai pehla step lena. Aur yahi pehla step hota hai right action; aisa action jo hamare nature, hamari liking aur hamare unique mind-body type ke saath match kare.

Comfort zone is a place where even a struggling life can feel easier to face than taking action. It is often a zone of i...
29/01/2026

Comfort zone is a place where even a struggling life can feel easier to face than taking action. It is often a zone of inertia; known as tamas in Indian thought.

This is a state of stuck-ness which manifests differently for different mind-body types. Some experience continuous anxiety and lack of sleep. Others struggle with anger and frustration. Still others sink into depression and lethargy.

The most difficult part of getting out of this negative comfort zone is the fist step. That first step is right action; action which suits our liking, our inclinations and our unique mind-body type.

Healthy Food Is More Than Carbs and Fats: How Food Additives Affect Gut Health:-The most important part of packaged food...
24/12/2025

Healthy Food Is More Than Carbs and Fats: How Food Additives Affect Gut Health:-

The most important part of packaged food isn’t the nutrition label; it’s the ingredient list. When we think about eating healthy, we usually focus on cutting sugar, carbs, or fats. But there is another part of the picture that often gets ignored- synthetic chemicals added to packaged foods.

Many everyday foods like chips, namkeens, instant noodles, biscuits, cakes, frozen meals, and soft drinks contain artificial flavours, mineral-based food colours, and anti-caking agents. These substances help food look better, taste stronger, and stay shelf-stable, but their long-term effects on the body are not fully understood.

Some of these additives are made of extremely tiny particles, called nanoparticles, which are smaller than 100 nanometres. At this size, materials behave very differently from normal powders. Many of these additives were approved decades ago, based on short-term animal tests that never looked at how such tiny particles affect the gut lining, the immune system, gut bacteria, long-term, daily exposure starting from childhood. In other words, they were approved before modern science even understood how important gut health really is.

Because of their tiny size, these particles may Enter the cells lining the intestine, get trapped in gut immune tissue, cross a damaged or stressed gut barrier. Instead of causing immediate harm, they trigger slow, ongoing inflammation. Over time, this inflammation damages intestinal cells and weaken the gut barrier.

Why this matters for whole-body health: The gut is not just about digestion. It plays a key role in immunity, metabolism, and even brain function. Long-term gut inflammation has been linked to many of the modern health issues our society is facing like imbalance of gut bacteria, inflammatory bowel diseases, “leaky gut”, autoimmune conditions, depression and other mental health problems, diabetes, high blood pressure, and cancers.

Additives commonly involved: Some commonly used additives with known or suspected gut effects include silicon dioxide (E551)- anti-caking agent, titanium dioxide (E171) -used to make foods look white, iron oxides (E172) - colouring agents, aluminium silicates (E554–E555)- anti-caking agents, artificial flavour delivery substances.
Healthy eating isn’t just about nutrients. It’s also about reducing daily exposure to poorly understood additives that interact with the gut and immune system. Choosing fresh, minimally processed foods isn’t a trend or fear, it’s a practical way to protect gut health in a food system that often tests convenience more thoroughly than biology.

04/12/2025

Anti-caking agent in famous instant noodles and other processed food. E551 can lead to inflammation in the wall of the intestine leading to many different kinds of health problems on long term use. Most chronic health issues happen because of unchecked long term inflammation.

This is the front page of Times of India today, promoting widespread general use of oxymetazoline - a decongestant nasal...
27/11/2025

This is the front page of Times of India today, promoting widespread general use of oxymetazoline - a decongestant nasal medication that works by narrowing blood vessels inside the nose.
1) Using this spray for more than a week causes "rebound congestion" which is a dependency on the drug. Relieving this dependency may need nasal steroid medication.
2) Oxymetazoline has drug interactions with MAO inhibitors. It is also given with caution in people who are hypertensives, heart disease or glaucoma.

This is an open advertisement for a drug without any clearly visible warnings or drug instructions. Is this ethical or socially responsible?

Breathing - A choking hazard in Delhi.
27/11/2025

Breathing - A choking hazard in Delhi.

25/11/2025

Less Alcohol = Better Blood Pressure Control.

25/11/2025

Use this prompt -->
"Deep Safety Check With Warnings and Alternatives"

1) Take pic or screenshot of ingredient list of whatever product you want to check.
2) Upload it to ChatGPT.
3) Type the above prompt.

Get more control over your safety and health

18/11/2025

We have confused stimulation with entertainment. Our minds are overloaded... while our bodies are forgotten. This is your reminder to touch the real world again. Entertainment should calm you, not exhaust you.
✨ Cook. Walk. Paint. Garden. Stitch. Breath. Consciously.
✨ Come back to your body.

Interoceptive awareness strengthens the neural connections between the insular cortex and limbic system, in the brain. T...
12/11/2025

Interoceptive awareness strengthens the neural connections between the insular cortex and limbic system, in the brain. This leads to better emotional regulation and consequently better autonomic regulation. Over time, stress response decreases, lowering cortisol levels and chronic inflammation in the body. This brings better mental and physical health.

We Are Not Doing Entertainment RightOnline media has turned our world into a predominantly mental world. There was a tim...
08/11/2025

We Are Not Doing Entertainment Right

Online media has turned our world into a predominantly mental world. There was a time when our routine entertainment was grounded in physical reality of the body like sitting together and talking to people in real life, walking with people, embroidering, gardening, listening to music, etc. Being children before the internet was a thing, for us entertainment meant sitting outside on the ground and playing with sand and mud, climbing on trees, playing with flower bushes, and talking to each other. Most things which keep us aware of the physical body are in today’s time missing, most of the time.

Being aware of the physical body strengthens the interoceptive sense which connects the brain and the body and makes us better at regulating our emotions, and brings more parasympathetic dominance or a state of relaxation by slowing down mental processes. This is the state of an “Earth” mind-body-personality.

Excessive mental indulgence brings a state of sympathetic activation or “Wind” mind-body-personality elements. It happens when we watch reels, continuously scroll through social media for more information like never-ending irrelevant news, messages, videos, tv shows. Our brain is continuously stimulated. Thousands of thoughts rushing through it stimulate the body’s sympathetic system or the stress response, thus turning our body-mind into a confused imbalanced pool of stress and hyperexcitability.

To slow down and ground ourself means working according to how nature intended our body-mind to work and not just how technology-driven society wants it to work. Replacing mind-based entertainment, at least to some extent, with body-based recreational activities like origami, other crafts, writing, singing, walking, embroidery, sewing, painting, cooking, gardening, listening to music, etc is a good way to increase mental stability.

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