Murty Mandapaka

Nephrologist, Professor of Medicine, Surgeon Commodore ( Retired)

[Adil Gülmez @umradil]

76 yaşında Richard Gere'in söylediği, yalnızca yaşlanmaktan korkanların değil, herkesin duyması gereken sözler…

Yaşlılık sadece kırışıklık değildir.

Sadece beyaz saç da değildir.

Kimlikte yazan bir sayı hiç değildir.

Asıl yaşlılık, hayatın peşinden durmadan koşmak yerine onu yaşamayı öğrendiğiniz andır.

Evet, beden değişir.

Yüz, gençlikteki gibi kalmaz.

Hareketler yavaşlar.

Ayna ise gerçeği her zamankinden daha açık gösterir.

Ama zamanın elinden alamadığı bir şey vardır:

Kalp.

Çünkü kalp, beden gibi yaşlanmaz.

İlk sevgiyi, ilk hayali, ilk acıyı, ilk kaybı ve dünyayı kucaklamak istediğiniz o ilk sevinci hep hatırlar.

Ruhun yaşı yoktur.

Yıllar geçtikçe belki de en önemli gerçeği anlarız:

Her yaş, yaşanması gereken doğru yaştır.

• 20'li yaşlar cesaret verir.
• 30'lu yaşlar inşa etme gücü kazandırır.
• 40'lı yaşlar insanı kendisiyle dürüst olmaya götürür.
• 50'li yaşlar derinlik kazandırır.
• 60'lı yaşlar bilgelik getirir.
• 70'li yaşlar ise artık kimseye bir şey ispat etme ihtiyacı duymayan huzuru sunar.

Her yaşın kendine özgü bir armağanı vardır.

Yaş almak bir yenilgi değil, bir ayrıcalıktır.

Çünkü herkes saçlarının beyazladığını göremez.

Herkes çocuklarının büyüdüğüne tanıklık edemez.

Herkes yeni bir baharı karşılayamaz.

Herkes sabah uyanıp, "Ben hâlâ buradayım." diyemez.

Çoğu zaman zamana karşı savaşırız.

Kırışıklıkları gizleriz.

Yaşımızdan utanırız.

Eski fotoğraflarla kendimizi kıyaslarız.

Oysa gerçek zafer, dışarıdan genç görünmek değil; içten yaşlanmamaktır.

Merakını koruyabilmek…

Nezaketini kaybetmemek…

Hayata hâlâ şaşırabilmek…

İçtenlikle gülebilmek…

Korkmadan sevebilmek…

Küçük şeylere şükredebilmek…

Sessiz günlerde bile güzelliği görebilmek…

Çünkü genç görünmenin değil, son güne kadar canlı bir ruha sahip olmanın sırrı önemlidir.

O zaman geçen her yıl bir kayıp olmaktan çıkar, bir armağana dönüşür.

Yaş almaktan korkmayın. Asıl korkulması gereken, hayatı gerçekten yaşamadan ömrü tüketmektir. Çünkü yaşlanmak solup gitmek değil, bazen insanın içten içe parlamaya başlamasıdır. 🌿✨

@akiluno_a

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1949.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine has just gone to the man who invented the lobotomy. Your doctor suggests one for your sister, who has not been herself since the baby came. It is the most celebrated advance in psychiatry of the age, and he is simply current. By the time the prize curdles into an embarrassment, close to twenty thousand Americans have had the operation, and proportionally more here in Britain.

The year is 1956.

Lay the baby down on his front, the doctor says. So does the most trusted childcare book ever written, the one on every new mother's shelf. On his back he might choke, the reasoning goes. Millions obey. The advice holds for nearly thirty years, long after the evidence has quietly turned, and a generation of cot deaths is counted before anyone thinks to roll the babies over.

The year is 1966.

A bestselling book informs your wife that menopause is a disease, that she is, in the author's word, a castrate, and that a small daily pill will keep her youthful and tolerable to live with. Her doctor agrees. The drug becomes one of the most prescribed in the country. Nobody mentions that the author sat on the payroll of the company that made it. That detail surfaces decades later, in the same year the landmark trial is halted early for raising rates of breast cancer, stroke and clots.

The year is 1979.

Your ulcer is caused by stress and sharp food, the doctor explains. Calm down, drink milk, take the antacid that happens to be the best-selling medicine on earth. Two Australians are about to prove that most ulcers are caused by a bacterium and cured by a fortnight of antibiotics. The profession laughs. One of them eventually drinks a beaker of the stuff to settle the matter. The establishment takes the better part of twenty years to stop laughing. The Nobel lands in 2005.

The year is 1985.

Butter is dangerous, the doctor says. Switch to margarine, it is modern, it is heart-healthy, the experts are united. The spread he nudges you toward is loaded with trans fats, which the next decade will identify as the genuinely dangerous one, and which will eventually be banned outright. The butter goes quietly back in the fridge. No correction is ever printed at the volume of the original warning.

The year is 1992.

There is a pyramid on the surgery wall, and the very same one in your grandchild's classroom. Bread, cereal, rice and pasta form the broad virtuous base, up to eleven servings a day. Fat is exiled to the tiny tip. The chart was reportedly held back a year while the relevant industries had their say. It is wrong at the bottom and wrong at the top.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines, new studies, a fresh consensus, delivered with precisely the steady confidence of every guideline above. He believes it, and he has good reason to. So did every doctor in this thread. None of them were villains. Each was sincere, most were kind, and all were certain, reading from a map that somebody else had drawn and handed them. That is the part worth sitting with.

So when the man in the white coat tells you what to eat, what to fear, and what to swallow every morning for the rest of your life, you are allowed to ask. Who paid for the study. What the evidence says beneath the headline. What he was just as certain about thirty years ago, and where that advice sits now.

Then make up your own mind. Call it scepticism, or call it whatever your grandmother called it when she ignored the advert, kept the butter where it was, and lived to ninety-one.

It has outlasted every consensus on this list. It will outlast this one too.

[Dr. Deepessh Divaakaran (Dr. DD) @md_deepesh]

If bad luck was a person, It was Krishna.
Born in a prison cell.

With chains.
Cold walls.
And fear.

The West writes self-help books after one breakup and a weekend depression.

Krishna was born with a death warrant.

His own uncle wanted him dead.

He never drank his mother's milk.

Hours after birth,
his father carried him across a mad river at midnight.

Rain above.
Death behind.
Darkness ahead.

No burning bush.
No sea parting.
No miracle announcing salvation.
No therapist with scented candles.

Just survival.

Born a prince.
Raised a cowherd.

Before he could speak,
they sent Putana.

Then Shakatasura.
Trinavarta.
Kaliya.

One after another.

As if destiny hated him personally.

And he still smiled.

People today collapse over an unfollow.

He lost everything early.

His parents.
His childhood.
His home.

And Radha.

Ah, Radha.

The part Bollywood never understands.

His closest friend Sudama lived in poverty.
Krishna could not protect everyone he loved.

Shishupala insulted him publicly.
Again and again.
Before assembled kings.

Krishna listened calmly.

Then came Jarasandha.
17 invasions.
Mathura burned again and again.

Then came the greatest tragedy.

The Mahabharata.

Krishna tried to stop it.
He went himself.
He sat before Duryodhana.

Pleaded for peace.
Just 5 villages.
Duryodhana refused.

And humanity walked into hell smiling.

18 days later, rivers carried blood.
1.66 billion dead.

Think about that.

An entire civilisation collapsing into dust.

And Krishna carried that silence.

No lamentation carved into scripture.
No prophet demanding heaven explain itself.

Just silence.

Then Gandhari cursed him.
A grieving mother blamed him for everything.

Krishna accepted it.

That is spiritual strength.

Then came the final collapse.

His own clan destroyed itself.
Drunk. Violent. Mad.

The Yadavas killed each other.
His own son died in that chaos.

Krishna watched.

Because some endings cannot be stopped.

Then Dwarka sank.

His city.
His dream.
His life's work.

Gone beneath the waves.

And finally...

The man who was greatest strategist.
The man kings feared.
The man sages worshipped.

Died alone in a forest.
One arrow.
A hunter's mistake.

No throne.
No army.
No grand farewell.
No Resurrection.

Just silence beneath the trees.

And yet...
He is called the complete being.

Not because life was kind.
But because pain never poisoned him.

That is Krishna's greatness.

Not miracles.
Not powers.
Not mythology.

Life gave him suffering.
He gave life wisdom.

Life gave him betrayal.
He gave humanity the Gita.

Life gave him war.
He gave the world detachment.

And in the middle of chaos,
he left us one terrifying truth:

"You control your actions.
Never the outcome."

Krishna did not teach escapism.
He taught endurance.

He did not teach positivity.
He taught responsibility.

He taught how to stand inside hell,
without becoming hell yourself.

That is why he still smiles.

And maybe...

That is why Bharat still survives.

[Murty Mandapaka @mmandapaka]

The Truth!

[Muskan @Muskan_nnn]

It's just about priorities, No one is really that busy in this world. 🩷🤌

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

Huge congratulations to Bodhana Sivanandan on becoming England’s top female chess player at just 11 years old.

We once played each other in the Downing Street garden. Let’s just say her success has not come as a shock!

[Sougat Chakraborty @sougat18]

8 Reasons why Dhurandhar 2 is a cinematic genius. Listen in 😊
@AdityaDharFilms @jiostudios

[Modern Dad @ModernxDad]

The fastest way to lose a good man..

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Please remember this as you get older - advice from one of the greatest thinkers of all time

[Murty Mandapaka @mmandapaka]

Spot on!

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

People fail because they want:

…a bestseller without writing ten drafts.
…a great body without ten years of grind.
…a viral post without a hundred unnoticed ones.

If necessity is the mother of invention, repetition is the father of success.

[Sameer @BesuraTaansane]

Please identify this man and felicitate him as real brand ambassador of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

He is doing what our useless civic bodies are supposed to do but not doing 😡

cc @narendramodi @SwachhBharatGov

[Murty Mandapaka @mmandapaka]

@theskindoctor13 So true!

[Defence News Of INDIA @DefenceNewsOfIN]

Msg from an eye witness regarding Spicejet & Lt Col controversy

*It is truly disturbing to see how biased and irresponsible certain media platforms can be publishing one sided narratives without any real investigation or attempt to understand the full story.

1/12
@ajaykraina

[Dr. Rajeshwari Iyer @RajeshwariRW]

I used to find it funny when people said —
“The end goal of every Indian is to leave India.”

A few years ago, I left the U.S. and came back driven by hope and a sense of duty.
I genuinely wanted to build a life and contribute.

But the ground reality was different.

People blindly defending poor decisions.
Applauding high taxes, no merit, and unchecked corruption.
It felt like a society rooting for its own collapse.

Eventually, I packed up and left — this time, with clarity.
And honestly, I’ve never felt more at peace.

India will always be in my heart.
But I refuse to raise my kids in an environment of hate, noise, and wilful ignorance.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

It's time the World Health Organization consider classifying hero worship as a type of mental disorder.

[Aviator Anil Chopra @Chopsyturvey]

Superbly articulated by Priyanka Joshi.

"The world doesn’t know what to do with India.
We don’t fit their neat little boxes. We’re not white.
We’re not monotheistic.
We’re not ex-colonizers or submissive ex-colonized.
We are something they can’t decode.

We are too many things at once—ancient and modern, spiritual and scientific, emotional and logical.
We believe in gods and particles, karma and quantum.
We’re chaos that somehow moves forward.
That bothers them.

Because we aren’t supposed to succeed.

We don’t speak with one voice. We speak in thousands.
Our system isn’t clean. It’s noisy. It debates. It screams. But it works—because we’ve lived through worse and survived.
When we rise, they frown.
When we achieve, they doubt.
Because they still see us the way they chose to see us long ago—untrained, uncouth, and scattered.

But we’ve always known how to turn our mess into movement.
They don’t get that a billion people don’t need a single script.
They fear our success because it didn’t come from their textbooks, their aid, or their approval.

We remember being ruled, but we were never truly conquered.
We adapted, absorbed, transformed—but never disappeared.
And that is unsettling for those who thought we would.

India rising doesn’t fit their world order.
Because we didn’t wait for permission.
We didn’t rise from imitation—we rose from memory, from contradiction, from sheer force of will.

And that’s why they don’t celebrate our rise.
They resist it.
Because it wasn’t supposed to happen.”

[BhikuMhatre @MumbaichaDon]

TERR0RI$M HAS A RELIGION!

This is Savage🔥

[Flo Hart @theflohart]

The $43 billion industry built on a medical lie:

STRESS

it isn't what you think it is.

Hans Selye, called the 'Einstein of Medicine' and nominated for 17 Nobel Prizes, discovered the truth decades ago.

Here are his 4 core lessons that transform pressure into peak performance: 🧵👇

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

The Breakfast Myth: How We’ve Been Sold a Deceptive Narrative

- For years, we’ve been conditioned to believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. In reality, this claim was nothing more than a marketing tactic, orchestrated by Edward Bernays to boost sales of bacon and processed foods.

- This myth has led to unhealthy eating habits, fueling obesity and the rise of sugary, processed breakfasts. The truth is, balanced nutrition throughout the day is far more important than buying into a corporate-driven narrative.

[Man’s Bible⚡️ @Man_s_Bible]

4. Embrace unbreakable calm

Stress and panic are visible. People can smell desperation from miles away. When you’re in a tough situation, act like you’ve been there before.

Even if chaos surrounds you, your calm demeanor will make others view you as composed and reliable. Anxiety weakens you, but composure strengthens your aura.

People follow those who are cool under pressure. Learn to breathe, slow down, and never let the world see you sweat.

[Eastern Naval Command 🇮🇳 @IN_HQENC]

🎖️ Veterans' Day Parade & Rally – 18 Jan 2025

🇮🇳 Veterans & Veernaris are cordially invited to join us at RK Beach, #Visakhapatnam for the Veterans Day Parade & Rally, as Eastern Naval Command commemorates the 9th Armed Forces Veterans' Day to honour your valour & sacrifices.

🕖 Assembly Time: 0700 Hrs / 18 Jan 2025 . #SaturdayMotivation
📍 Start: Vishwapriya Hall, Beach Road, #Vizag

📍 End: Naval Coastal Battery, Vizag

🔗 For more details please contact : CRSO(East) (📞 7382331694 / 📧 [email protected])
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