Dr. Vikram Dravid

11/01/2026

It is my belief through observation that modern dermatologists know very little about the skin and how to treat it. Even expensive laser resurfacing treatments have downsides. “Just use sunscreen and hydrate” is outdated and low level advice.

Someone with a functional working knowledge of Ayurveda and its wisdom of dinacharya that includes oiling the body will have a supple, clear and healthy skin.

This is achieved by enhancing the skin’s acid mantle (barrier) as well as doshic balancing of the various layers of skin by actives from at least half a dozen whole herbs that protect and rejuvenate skin at its deepest layers.

An Ayurvedic cleansing scrub / masque that I make (and use myself daily) is packed with the best skin herbs in the right ratio.

Such a 100% natural cleanser would be the first step in a 2-step anti-aging skin routine. It allows the skin to absorb water soluble actives that begin the healing and nourishment of the skin while also cleansing and polishing gently through soluble micronised herbs and clay.

The second stage is using a specialized skin oil described in a classical text that has lipid based herbal actives that deeply nourish and correct inflammation and promote skin repair.

If you are interested in the cleansing masque or for personal consultation for yourself, please DM.

03/09/2025

A breakthrough discovery from the REBOOT trial substudy, published on August 30 in the European Heart Journal, shows that women treated with beta blockers had a higher risk of death, heart attack, or hospitalization for heart failure compared to women not receiving the drug. Men did not have this increased risk.

“REBOOT will change clinical practice worldwide,” says Principal Investigator Borja Ibáñez, MD, CNIC’s Scientific Director, who presented the results. “Currently, more than 80 percent of patients with uncomplicated myocardial infarction [heart attack] are discharged on beta blockers. The REBOOT findings represent one of the most significant advances in heart attack treatment in decades.”

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250831010539.htm

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03/08/2025

Withdrawal effects after antidepressant treatment (especially long term) are common and often severe. Dr. Moncrieff re-investigates a very flawed Lancet Psychiatry review that has tried to whitewash and minimize a serious public health confern.

“It is depressing that so many psychiatrists seem keen to minimize the problem and happy to see prescribing going on rising. Maybe admitting that a widely used treatment, like antidepressants, has messed up thousands of lives is too much to contemplate.

The medical profession needs to own up to the problem, make sure people are properly informed about the risks, and provide people who want to stop their antidepressants with support and guidance to reduce the difficulties of withdrawal.”

Recent reviews claim antidepressant withdrawal is clinically insignificant, but they are based on flawed and short-term studies. Minimizing withdrawal problems is worrying.

13/07/2025

An interview with my Ayurveda teacher Vaidya Neelesh Tawre who lucidly explains the core basic Ayurvedic concepts of digestion and gut health in easy language without the hype. Every concept discussed is from the original Sanskrit texts.

Recommended.

In this episode with Dr. Neelesh Taware, we explore how Ayurveda views Gut Health/Digestion—not just as a physical process, but as a mirror of our habits and...

16/07/2024

23/06/2024

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that a type of white blood cell - called a regulatory T cell - exists as a single large population of cells that constantly move throughout the body looking for, and repairing, damaged tissue.

This overturns the traditional thinking that regulatory T cells exist as multiple specialist populations that are restricted to specific parts of the body. The finding has implications for the treatment of many different diseases – because almost all diseases and injuries trigger the body’s immune system.

Current anti-inflammatory drugs treat the whole body, rather than just the part needing treatment. The researchers say their findings mean it could be possible to shut down the body’s immune response and repair damage in any specific part of the body, without affecting the rest of it. This means that higher, more targeted doses of drugs could be used to treat disease – potentially with rapid results.

“We’ve uncovered new rules of the immune system. This ‘unified healer army’ can do everything - repair injured muscle, make your fat cells respond better to insulin, regrow hair follicles. To think that we could use it in such an enormous range of diseases is fantastic: it’s got the potential to be used for almost everything,” said Professor Adrian Liston in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Pathology, senior author of the paper.

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While this sounds promising, it will hopefully lead us in the direction of understanding that the Master controller of these systems, which mobilizes and moves cells, is the real force for healing and repair.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1048109?

A single large population of healer cells, called regulatory T cells, is whizzing around our body - not multiple specialist populations restricted to specific parts of the body as previously thought. These cells shut down inflammation and repair the collateral damage to cells caused after our immune...

28/05/2024

A win for the People. For now.

Enforcing such a pandemic treaty with broad sweeping rules would effectively make illegal to treat using any other means (Including the use of nutritional, Ayurvedic, off-label drug based treatments). Doctors will be forced to comply with the government mandates. We all know how that ended up in the last pandemic.

World still needs plan to deal with the next pandemic

01/04/2024

Thank you Dr. Asheesh 🙏🏼

21/02/2024

There has long been debate in scientific academia about whether or not s*x plays a role in how the human brain operates - in other words, whether men and women fundamentally "think different". Ancient cultures have always recognised this as a truth, and now we have modern recognition:

A team headed by Vinod Menon, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of Stanford's Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Laboratory used AI to differentiate MRI scans of male brains from female brains with over 90% accuracy.

“A key motivation for this study is that s*x plays a crucial role in human brain development, in aging, and in the manifestation of psychiatric and neurological disorders,” said Dr. Menon.

“Our findings underscore the crucial role of s*x as a biological determinant in human brain organization, have significant implications for developing personalized s*x-specific biomarkers in psychiatric and neurological disorders, and provide innovative AI-based computational tools for future research.”

03/02/2024

Beautiful deep saffron-hued superactive siddha taila (full-spectrum oil extract) made from Manjishtha (Rubia cordifolia). The rakta prasadaka and vishaghna property reduces toxicity and inflammation in the skin and purifies blood. Improves complexion of the skin, and heals acne and other inflammatory skin conditions. In the dry powder form I use this in my refining and polishing face scrub (one of the dozen purifying and nourishing skin herbs).

03/01/2024

Many intellectual greats with a refined sensitivity to subtle phenomena looked to the ancient wisdom of India for a more complete understanding of the mysteries of human existence that Ayurveda elaborates exactly as Jung says - “understanding through Life”.