Growing up in a family surrounded by members opting for alternative medicines to heal themselves , I always aspired to be someone from the medical field. I completed my Bachelors in Science B.Sc in Microbiology and Chemistry from the Jai hind college. After my graduation, I soon got married to a very caring and a loving man. Even then somewhere I felt I wasn’t complete, a part of me always wanted to reach out and explore and help. That was when I chose to do an international course in Aromatherapy. I became a Certified Aromatherapist. I also completed a year diploma course in Naturopathy soon after that from the Baroda University. Things took its natural course and I became pregnant. It was during the same time of my pregnancy that we built a naturopathy centre in the outskirts of Bhuj, Gujarat. I was thrilled to travel back and forth and see the entire place come up so beautifully. I delivered a lovely child and we named him Shaan. My son being a nature lover, we used to spend majority of our weekends at our naturopathy centre called Navjivan Nature Cure Centre.

In the meantime we discovered that my husband had put on a lot of weight and that he suffered from a genetic disorder. We went to a couple of good and famous dietitians for his weight loss but I soon realized that no one was giving a holistic approach to his diet considering his genetic disorder. That’s when I decided to join college again and study diet and nutrition. I completed my post graduation in dietetics from the SNDT Women’s University. I have worked in Nanavati Hospital and many Bal wadis, slums and NGOs helping them understand the importance of nutrition to correct their deficiencies.

I started treating my patients with a combination of Aromatherapy, Diet, Naturopathy and Ayurveda (with the help of Ayurveda doctors at my Naturopathy centre). We saw fast recovery amongst the patients undergoing a combination of alternative medicines. I consult patients of all age groups and help them become health gainers. I do family nutrition consultation and individual consultations. I have done a few international projects with companies like Novartis relating to diet and cater to international patients in Dubai, USA, Australia as well as patients in different parts of India. I practice in Juhu and Andheri and do online consultation.

My focus has always been therapeutic diet consultation rather than just on weight loss diets. Though obesity being a major disorder which could lead to other health issues, correction only through fast weight loss is not the key to solving it. Don’t start a diet that has an expiration date but focus on a lifestyle that will last forever. Health needs a holistic and long lasting approach. That’s where I play a role. I specialize in Smaller issues like Constipation, Acidity or some serious ones like Hormonal imbalance, Diabetes, High Cholesterol, low immunity, etc which can be corrected with a few changes in your dietary habits. As I believe “our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food”, my focus is mainly on giving the patient a therapeutic and corrective diet which will also lead to weight management eventually. I always motivate my patients to educate themselves and make the necessary changes with awareness. Awareness to bring a change and the effort to change will last longer if it comes from the patient himself. A beautiful quote by Zero Dean says ” If the results of your habits don’t make you a better, stronger or a healthier person , it’s time to consider new habits that do”.

I have recently studied Psychological COUNSELLING from St XAVIER’S college, Mumbai as I felt the need to master this art as majority of the disorders are PSYCHOSOMATIC as well. So that’s new on my list.

“To eat is a necessity but to eat intelligently is an art”.