Dr. Yuvraj Singh Gehlot

Gut Surgeon. 25+ years, 25,000+ operations. I read the evidence on gut health so you do not have to.

[Dr. Yuvraj Singh Gehlot @GehlotYuvi]

25 years as a gut surgeon. 25,000+ operations. And the most expensive thing in Indian gut health is not surgery. It is the quick fix sold before anyone asks what is actually wrong. This account exists to check those quick fixes against the evidence. Here is the worldview.

[Dr. Yuvraj Singh Gehlot @GehlotYuvi]

Solid checklist. The item I'd add sits upstream of much of it. A fatty liver tends to travel with higher ApoB, triglycerides and fasting glucose all at once, and from the surgical side I've watched the whole panel ease once the liver is sorted. On a first-stroke list, a fatty-liver check earns its place.

[Dr. Yuvraj Singh Gehlot @GehlotYuvi]

Surgeons learned this one the hard way. Before a big operation, the thing I most want to know isn't weight, it's muscle. A weak handgrip warns me of a rough recovery better than the weighing scale ever does, because healing runs on protein and muscle is the only reserve the body can raid. That handgrip test in the article isn't a gimmick. We use it before surgery.

[Dr. Yuvraj Singh Gehlot @GehlotYuvi]

The piece these coffee summaries always leave off is the liver. On the surgical side, regular coffee drinkers tend to show less fibrosis and lower liver-cancer risk, consistent enough that I bring it up in clinic. Association not proof, but the liver story runs as strong as the heart one.

[Dr. Yuvraj Singh Gehlot @GehlotYuvi]

Thanks, that genuinely means a lot. Small heads up since the video is in Hindi: the English gist is simple. Colour, form, and how often things change tell you more than most people expect, and a clear shift that sticks around is the part worth a doctor's eye. That's most of the deep dive in one line.

[Dr. Yuvraj Singh Gehlot @GehlotYuvi]

Most people flush away one of the most important health reports their body gives them.

Your stool can reveal problems with your gut long before other symptoms appear, if you know what to look for.

In this week's Inside Out Deep Dive, I explain how to decode those signals.

🎥 Watch here: https://t.co/MmLTBe917M

[Dr. Yuvraj Singh Gehlot @GehlotYuvi]

@hyderabaddoctor Exactly. And the liver takes the first hit: visceral fat drains into the portal vein, delivering its fatty acids and inflammatory signals straight to the liver. That's why fatty liver often shows up long before the scale or BMI ever moves.

[Dr. Yuvraj Singh Gehlot @GehlotYuvi]

@hyderabaddoctor The direction of the arrow is the fun question here. People well enough to enjoy concerts may also age slower, not just the other way around. Either way it's a pleasant prescription. In clinic, patients who keep a social life do seem to recover better, whatever the mechanism.

[Dr. Yuvraj Singh Gehlot @GehlotYuvi]

@warikoo I close wounds for a living. The honest secret is we only bring the edges together, the body does the actual repair on its own schedule. Our main job is protecting the wound from interference. 25 years in, I think losses work the same way.

[Dr. Yuvraj Singh Gehlot @GehlotYuvi]

@hyderabaddoctor @hydrunners @SahuSKNT Strong run. In clinic, the gut is usually the first system to complain on long efforts, not the legs. Blood shunts away from the intestine under load, so fuelling and gut training matter as much as mileage. Respect the discipline.

[Dr. Yuvraj Singh Gehlot @GehlotYuvi]

@DoctorNene Agree. From the gut side, sugary sports drinks often backfire on everyday workouts: the high sugar concentration pulls water into the intestine and can trigger cramps or loose stool, the opposite of hydration. Water with a pinch of salt does the job for most.

[Dr. Yuvraj Singh Gehlot @GehlotYuvi]

@krishashok From the gut side: probiotic trial effects are strain-specific and mostly modest, yet the sachet at the chemist is sold as one-strain-fits-every-gut. A probiotic is a tool for a specific diagnosis, not a daily lottery ticket.

[Dr. Yuvraj Singh Gehlot @GehlotYuvi]

@hyderabaddoctor Prediabetes rarely travels alone. In clinic it usually arrives with a fatty liver on the ultrasound and a growing waistline, years before any sugar medicine enters the picture. It is not a lab footnote. It is the metabolic system's earliest loud warning.

[Dr. Yuvraj Singh Gehlot @GehlotYuvi]

Full breakdowns live here every week: https://t.co/YkLduzRc7H

[Dr. Yuvraj Singh Gehlot @GehlotYuvi]

25 years as a gut surgeon. 25,000+ operations. And the most expensive thing in Indian gut health is not surgery. It is the quick fix sold before anyone asks what is actually wrong. This account exists to check those quick fixes against the evidence. Here is the worldview.

[Dr. Yuvraj Singh Gehlot @GehlotYuvi]

If your gut has been running your day and Google has been running your treatment, follow along. And tell me below: what is one gut fix you tried because the internet said so? The most common answer gets the first Myth Autopsy.