Aniruddha Masoorkar

Atheist, dad, love cricket and music, believe in excellence. All views my own.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Young boy with biliary atresia treated by Ayurveda practitioners for many months in 2022 and progressing rapidly to end stage liver disease, severe malnutrition ( due to Ayurvedic Viruddha Ahara nutrition concept) and brain failure inside our pediatric ICU.

Same boy, two years later, after we worked so hard to get him nutritionally fit, reverse organ failures other than liver failure and finally getting him a life saving liver transplantation (grandmother donated) and now learning karate!

In 2024, if you still do not realize that Ayurveda is a super scam when it comes to healthcare, you need a real education.

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

The way we run debates needs to change.

[World Archery @worldarchery]

The world’s first female armless archer…
is the WORLD NUMBER ONE! 🔥

#worldranking

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The best magic trick ever

[Pankaj Advani @PankajAdvani247]

A GRAND DOUBLE 🏆🏆
IBSF 150 up World Billiards Champion 😃😃
What a week this has been!! 2 World Championship Gold Medals 🥇🥇
Thank you for all the congratulatory messages, love and support over the last week 🤗❤️

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Ghee the detox superfood?

I am now convinced that Instagram is just Whatsapp University with videos. It has become a cesspool of health misinformation that Meta needs to really do something about dangerous "health talks" from people with zero education in medicine & healthcare.

Like this incospicious actor-turned-model Ekansh Jayaswal who is monetizing and trying his luck on Instagram giving advice a lot of health topics that he has no idea about and in the process, misleading people with dangerous misinformation.
https://t.co/i4sAcLCedn

He claims that drinking 10ml of ghee (which is clarified butter) everyday in morning on empty stomach has the following benefits:
1. It is a detox
2. Helps in digestion
3. It controls sugars
4. Hydrates skin
and 5. (which he claims is most important) - lubricates your joints for easy mobility.

The fact is, Ekansh is actually a science-illiterate and also medically ill-informed. He does not understand basic human anatomy and physiology.

Here is what all of this really means:
1. There is nothing called a detox. It is a wellness fraud marketing term. The liver, kidneys, skin and lungs are the only detox you'll ever need.

2. Consuming ghee does not help in digestion. Digestion is a complex anatomico-physiological process that occurs autonomously whether you want it or not and ghee does not affect an autonomous normal physiological process.

3. Ghee does not control sugars. In fact animal studies have shown that ghee worsens lipid profile and fasting sugars and that people with duabetes must limit saturated fats such as ghee as it worsens systemic inflammation. https://t.co/viKhXMPrgV, and https://t.co/69BJvqGQaO, and https://t.co/nyWEPh4NmZ

4. Ghee does not hydrate skin. There is no clinical evidence that it does. This is literally just a bluff.

5. There is absolutely no way that orally consumed ghee enters the joints and lubricates it. It can happen only if the human digestive system is directly connected to the musculoskeletal system or the oral cavity is directly connected to the musculoskeletal system in the absence of a digestive tract. But we know that is not possible, but Ekansh has not gotten that point it.

In fact:
A study showed that ghee that is predominantly saturated fats had an increasing effect on non-HDL-cholesterol (bad fat) compared with olive oil, adding further evidence to the existing recommendations to replace dietary fats high in saturated fatty acids with dietary fats high in unsaturated fats to reduce heart disease risk. https://t.co/NAtpj36QEg

Ghee is not a superfood, and its consumption must be limited, as it is a rich source of saturated fats, has potential to increase cardiac risk, has no proteins, is all fat-based calories, is not a prebiotic, is a good source of fat soluble vitamins and its daily consumption can increase risk of obesity, and not burn fat or reduce weight.

On another note, when preparing rice dishes, adding a little ghee with specific timing and within a stir-fry technique could help reduce post meal glucose spikes: https://t.co/u9bAwP9ETW

[Aniruddha Masoorkar @MeetAniruddha]

@PTI_News Can't this be behind a holding black screen advising viewer discretion?? There is absolutely no warning at all except the text on top which no one will read. A lot of people (like me) may get extremely disturbed with this

[Sanjay Jha @JhaSanjay]

I know India has been normalised to another level altogether, but I still can't imagine a World Cup football match being played at a Donald Trump soccer stadium or a Rishi Sunak football stadium.

Quite ridiculous!!!!

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Today, few neighbors of my patient, a 33 year old man, came into my outpatient department to convey the message that he had died by suicide.

On the way to Kasargod town by train, he jumped on to the tracks from the moving train and was smashed to death.

He was sufferring from alcohol use disorder and barely survived a severe episode of severe alcohol-related hepatitis 4 months back. It took me and my department a whole lot of shouldering burdens to get him out of the ICU and discharge him home.

He went through a de-addiction protocol and was off alcohol for two months. But on that train, he was partly inebriated.

He left behind his wife, aged 29 and a cherub of a daughter, aged 3. People love to believe that there is an afterlife and the spirits of the deceased linger on out of love. These are consolation borne out of grief and loss. The young child's father died. The young wife's husband is no more. There is no afterlife. When some one dies, it is same as it was before birth. Nothingness. They become memories for the living to grow around and move on. And nothing more.

Value lies in living a life. Not in living to death.

Covid had destroyed his travel and photography business. He could never recover losses. It was as if, he decided he wanted to die, as he could hardly provide for his family and became dependent on his elderly parents. To die and to quit - alcohol use reinforces that decision very easily. Even if the best doctors work on it, the simplest of answers for the patient always lie at the bottom of a bottle - because temporarily, it takes you elsewhere, away from all worries and paints an inaccurate picture that eveything was going to be ok.

When people think about alcohol use, they always think about the liver. But there is more than meets the eye with alcohol use and the one I dread, because consequences are unpredicable, is alcohol's influence on the brain. It is terrifyingly close.

Alcohol use (sometimes even one drink a day)
➡️Can reduce brain volume and accelerate brain shrinkage
➡️Can reduce "gray matter," leading to brain degeneration
➡️Can make it difficult for consumers to make new memories
➡️Slows down how your brain processes information, making it harder to work out what you are really feeling and possible consequences of your actions
➡️Alcohol targets and feeds negative feelings inside your head - regardless of your mood
➡️Increases anxiety, depression, and other psychiatric disorders higher compared to non-drinkers
➡️Can increase risk of social anxiety disorder and panic disorder
➡️Alters sleep physiology, reduces rapid-eye movement stage of sleep, induces periodic limb movements during sleep and worsens sleep quality

You can never know what alcohol can really do to you - small or large. You can never be too sure either. Because if alcohol is your friend, trust me, you dont need any enemies.

I lost my patient. A family lost their son, husband and father. What can you do about it? Directly, nothing. But there is something we all can do. None of us can stop people from drinking or enjoying their drinks. We are all adults and the most intelligent ones take the right decision on alcohol use. To abstain from it.

But the other lesser intelligent ones, can still help. At least, STOP normalizing alcohol on social media - on Instagram, on Twitter (X), on Facebook, and on your Reels and Shorts. There is no style in it. There is no love in it. When you feel putting up photos of your alcohol escapades, try to deviate and put up another picture - of your dog, your flowers, your garden or a nice book collection or something that is useful for others. Do not give undeserving credit to this socially accepted poison.Take honor in not doing so, because this way, you can contribute towards your fellow humans well being.

[Jyoti Goyal @jyotigoyal08]

Don't let the stories and pretty lights fool you, boys. Religion is darkness.

[Satish Acharya @satishacharya]

The legendary knocks. #KapilDev #GlennMaxwell

[Vardy Magic @VardyMagic]

Recap of Glenn Maxwell's record breaking innings from last night...

#CWC23 #AUSvsAFG

[Glenn Maxwell @Gmaxi_32]

Pretty overwhelmed with all the ❤️ Thank you so much to everyone that has sent messages.
@patcummins30 was amazing out there! Sorry I knocked back a couple 🫣
Time to get back to dad duties 👨‍👩‍👦❤️

[Aniruddha Masoorkar @MeetAniruddha]

@melindafarrell @patcummins30 contribution will forever go understated, but it was innings of no less grit and determination than Maxi's. Stuff of legends.

[Aniruddha Masoorkar @MeetAniruddha]

@cricketcomau @LouisDBCameron A few stayed awake to witness the miracle @Gmaxi_32 My only regret from last night is I could not scream at the top of my lungs because the kids were asleep.

[Caribbean Cricket Podcast @CaribCricket]

If you arent fully respecting Pat Cummins supporting knock in this game, are you really a cricket fan?

[cricket.com.au @cricketcomau]

Absurdity

#CWC23

[Ben Stokes @benstokes38]

My goodness Maxi 😮😮😮