My birthday and a very important year for India , my homeland, haven’t been so eager for a well required change in the country since my birth, the country has indeed gone to shreds in all aspects.
Hope when I visit , to step foot in a free thinking land.
I had just started following @CJP_2029...and was about to ask them what their plans were on @moayush. It is a pity that their account has been withheld by the Government. Those is power have no shame, but atleast try.
22 lakh "cockroaches" were swindled in the name of NEET-UG Entrance exam by the BJP Government's education ministry. Students died by suicide. 100s of 1000s of students are now stuck in a limbo. The PM of the country where all of this is happening, is gifting Melody chocolates to a woman in another country.
The GenZ party is only asking for what is really deserving. Remove the so-called Education Minister, Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan. Destruction of student lives in such a massive scale was unheard of in this country, especially upcoming medical careers when healthcare is suffering beyond limits here.
On the AYUSH side, which I wanted to discuss with the CJP, huge public funds that can be used for immense betterment of the country are being wasted on making posters, fund useless research, run BS clinics and send pseudoscience peddlers for foreign trips.
If anyone can help bring this account back, it would help immensely to discuss openly many important matters that are now trivialized by this Government, especially those on healthcare and medical.
I built a little project: https://t.co/oNpiViS1ag
Some interesting finds:
- The richest MLA has declared assets worth over ₹200 Cr (including more than 15 cars and 7 boats)
- There's one non-binary candidate that contested the election
Check out https://t.co/5KBbgOyzJa for more
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".
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PS: we also need a liver emoji
Dear Friends, please help this message reach the makers of the malayalam movie Vazha 2. It is long, but very important.
A recent malayalam movie, called Vazha 2 portrayed a character who keeps consuming ayurvedic medicine -(arishtam, a herbal liquor, with 10-15% alcohol, which Ayurveda practitioners blindly claim to have "health benefits")- and ends with serious fatal liver disease.
The people behind the movie are intelligent and well-informed. For decades, the Ayurveda community has been feeding public and patients the narrative that herbal medicine is safe and effective, even the ones containing toxic botanicals and alcohol. This narrative is now being challenged because there is a large body of peer-reviewed evidence that without reasonable doubt show that Ayurvedic herbals can be extremely toxic to the liver, sometimes even leading to death or liver transplantation. Now the movie format is bringing this to public's notice.
My most impactful publication on this was literally about a 14 year old girl developing severe alcohol-related hepatitis due to long term use of PRESCRIBED ayurvedic herbals (the same category mentioned in the movie) for epilepsy management.
Published paper: https://t.co/m1xklJH4eh and media report: https://t.co/8P6BKsEyLM
There are also other reports that show ayurvedic herbals can cause cirrhosis (https://t.co/bVhEfxm7N6), severe liver injury (https://t.co/DUM6upItUL, https://t.co/7vus6pBDQi), liver failure (https://t.co/XWRkbH9H4q) and death (https://t.co/oJcSFUi2eD).
Analysis of Ayurvedic herbals - classical formulations, proprietary herbals as well as traditionally prepared ones have consistently shown alcohol, liver toxic botanicals, liver toxic heavy metals and organ damaging adulterants (https://t.co/t8EzBeDS9S). Ayurveda is a harmful pseudoscience which which even global experts agree with (https://t.co/maJjdzYffe).
Now, the Ayurveda Medical Association of India (AMAI), which is in fact, a third rate society of Ayurveda practitioners and the herbals manufacturing companies that they are in cahoots with, has served legal notice against the movie writers and producers. They have threatened further action if the specific segment in the movie was not removed.
The same AMAI group sent complaints against me to the police, Courts and also Prime Ministers Office also when I published peer reviewed papers on harms of Ayurvedic herbals. They could not even scratch my epidermis with all of that legal drama, because science wins. Evidence shines.
These so-called Ayurveda Practitioners are losing business because public is realising that their products and services are one, useless (no evidence) and now two, dangerous also (more side effects than beneficial effects). An existential crisis is looming over their quackery business.
I would like to offer my complete and highest level of academic expertise and support to the makers of the movie Vazha Part 2 to fight these cheap, fragile ego suffering so-called alternative medicine practitioners (SCAM) of Ayurveda who think they, and their unscientific businesses are above evidence based medicine and public health.
DO NOT. I REPEAT, DO NOT, modify or remove anything from the movie. It is perfect and a huge needed public health activism. Keep up the good work! Do not bow down to any legalized glorified quacks!
And for everyone here, watch both parts of Vazha movie. It is brilliant and worth your time and money.
- The Liver Doc
abbyphilips(at)theliverinst(dot)in
A Malayalam film made 55 years ago features the lead actor introducing the technicians behind the movie in a unique style, one that’s rare even in modern cinema.
"Christianity is not allowed in India."
"You bring girls for dhandha (s**x trade)." 👹
BJP woman leader Anju Bharvav assaulted and abused blind girls in MP's Jabalpur.
Targeting Christians days before Christmas is pathetic. The world is watching us.
@ZacksJerryRig Scrap contract and build your team ground up, cost effective , will get more insight on changes needed thereby increasing efficiency and productivity.
@anubhavgupta_ji@dhruv_rathee Dubai has zero tolerance to casting your religious views on someone else. So remember, if you want to live there , shut the f up and live or go back to India and taaali bhajao with your Sanghi parivaar
@PTI_News IT cells.Fake News.Spreading hate. Targeting citizens.Dividing people.Weaponizing Religion.sold out News channels have become spokespersons & utterly servile.Scared to ask questions.Non stop taxes.Constant hate mongering & Trolling.People are fed up. There is only interference