Dr. Avinash Ignatius

Modern Medicine I Nephrologist and Transplant Physician I M.D. Medicine #SJMCH I D.M. Nephrology-#AIIMSDelhi I Fitness Enthusiast I Polymath I Rationalist

[Dr. Avinash Ignatius @dr_ignatius]

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[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Something important.

Dear friends, my recently concluded talk is now available to watch on YouTube.

Before I started my session, I put out a disclaimer that alternative medicine practitioners seated in the audience might find my talk extremely triggering. This is one session I thought would be taken down by alternative medicine (Ayush) regulators in India...
...because I do not mince my words at all, about the massive public-fund wastage called Ayush.

For students who are planning to join Ayurveda or Homeopathy or such Ayush-related colleges for professional training... or those parents who are planning to send their children to Ayush - especially Ayurveda-related professional colleges to make a career out of it, this video will mess up your mind - and rightly so.

This is one video, which I would like everyone to watch, share and promote.... especially among those trying to get into alternative medicine colleges in India as a career option because they will be given the title of 'Dr".

Let us stop wasting our childrens future in India by sending them to a career of deceit and fraud - in alternative medicine - just for the legal (but never practical or logical) 'Dr' title.

Sacred Poisons | The Liver Doc | RenaiESSENSE'26
https://t.co/d0GkKVIpnr via @esSENSEGlobal

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

With all the forced pseudoscience projects with questionable outcomes emerging from Indian Institutes of Technology across India, degrading decades of scientific credibility, mostly from political and religio-cultural agenda from the BJP and the Ministry of Ayush, this is a timely piece. Never before seen kind of "secret war" for those who really love this nation. Science community in India needs to be stronger than ever and come together to fight this spreading blight and growing rot. The hapless public deserve our candles in the dark.

[Hindustan Times @htTweets]

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[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Dear friends, if you were unable to read the review/interview of my book and work with The Indian Express, here is it is!
Please take a moment out of your time and read this beautifully written reflection on my book, The Liver Doctor: Stories of Love, Loss and Regeneration.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Please read this. This is from my recently concluded interview/ debate on India Today. One of the segments that went deep into a topic. I call upon my doctor friends to find ways to take care of your own health and mental well-being. Pamper yourself.
https://t.co/Fhqs40k1m5

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Today is World Liver Day 2026.
Here are 8 things your liver actually wants you to know.

1
There is no such thing as a "liver detox."
Your liver runs phase I and II detoxification 24/7 on its own.
No juice cleanse, no milk thistle, no herbal detox speeds this up.

In fact several have caused liver injury - the opposite of the claim.

2
Alcohol has no safe dose.
Liver harm begins from the first drink.
The old "moderate drinking is protective" myth came from flawed studies contaminated by abstainer bias - now debunked by Mendelian randomization.

Zero ml is best.

3
"Natural" supplements are now a leading cause of acute liver failure.
Ashwagandha. Green tea extract. Garcinia. Kratom. High-dose turmeric. Giloy/Tinospora.
They dominate drug-induced liver injury registries across India, the US, and Europe.

Natural ≠ safe.

4
Coffee is genuinely liver-protective.
2–3 cups/day (caffeinated or decaf) lowers the risk of fibrosis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer.

One of the very few dietary interventions with real, replicated evidence.

5
Fatty liver (MASLD) now affects ~1 in 3 adults worldwide.
A 7–10% body-weight loss:
• clears Liver fat
• reduces inflammation
• can regress early fibrosis

No approved drug currently beats this. Your plate and feet are the first-line therapy.

6
Sugar-sweetened drinks independently cause fatty liver.
Fructose is metabolized almost entirely by the liver - straight into fat.
One daily soda raises MASLD risk even after adjusting for total calories.
Lesser is better.

7
Get vaccinated against hepatitis B. Get screened for HBV and HCV at least once in your lifetime.
HBV vaccine prevents >95% of chronic infection, cirrhosis, and liver cancer.
Hepatitis C is curable in 8-12 weeks with >95% success - but most carriers don't know they have it.

8
Exercise protects the liver independent of weight loss.
150 min/week moderate OR 75 min vigorous activity reduces liver fat and stiffness - even when the scale doesn't move.

Movement is "medicine".

🫂

PS: we also need a liver emoji

[Chronos Intelligence @ChronosIntelX]

Lab grown kidney tissue is advancing rapidly.
But a fully transplant ready human kidney with complete vascular integration and long term stability has not yet been clinically achieved.
Researchers can grow organoids and bioengineered scaffolds that demonstrate filtration functions under controlled conditions.
Scaling that to a durable, implantable organ with full blood supply, immune compatibility and regulatory approval remains a major challenge.
Progress is real.
Clinical replacement is still in development.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

Seeing President Macron running on the streets of Mumbai, two things stand out:
1. No visible convoy, minimal security, just blending into the city and doing his thing.
2. The fitness level. Leadership needs stamina as public life is demanding.
And think of our politicians 🙈!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

HiP-CT is a new technique that can hierarchically image whole human organs, beginning with the resolution of a human hair (25μm/voxel) down to a resolution where we can see single cells (1.5μm/voxel)

[📹 Paul Tafforeau]

[Dr. Nikhil @DrNikhilMD]

Must watch

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

₹3.5 crores was allotted by the govt to find cure to cancer using cow dung and urine at Nanaji Deshmukh Veterinary Science University. The officials spent ₹1.92 crores on cow dung, urine and other raw material. Rest was used for 23-24 Goa trips.

[MALANG @Malang097]

@Benarasiyaa https://t.co/mLJQZr09ka

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

My message today on #DrManmohanSingh :

[Dr. Avinash Ignatius @dr_ignatius]

Painkillers may help in the short term, however- long term unmonitored use and in certain high risk people can cause acute or chronic kidney injury…

[Dr. Avinash Ignatius @dr_ignatius]

Protein in the right amount and right quality is important in CKD.. Excessive protein restriction can be detrimental, especially in south asian countries where normal dietary content of protein is already low. Remember! its Low protein NOT! No Protein…