When Your Body Speaks, Will You Listen
When Your Body Speaks, Will You Listen? Millions of women across India are quietly living with conditions they barely understand — hormonal imbalances that manifest as irregular periods, unexplained weight gain, brain fog, hair thinning, or exhausting fatigue. PCOD (Polycystic Ovarian Disease) and hypothyroidism are two of the most prevalent such conditions, yet they remain among the most misdiagnosed and mismanaged. The root cause, as nutrition expert Rujuta Diwekar points out, lies not in faulty genes alone, but in an entire ecosystem of lifestyle choices — what we eat, how we move, how deeply we sleep, and how meaningfully we connect with the people around us. Society has told women to lose weight to fix their hormones. This is dangerously backwards. The actual prescription is to gain health — and when health arrives, hormonal balance follows naturally. Chasing a lower number on the weighing scale through crash diets and punishing exercise only deepens the hormonal chaos. ...
