Dr Aseem Malhotra, a UK-based Indian-origin doctor, has released a new book titled ‘The 21-Day Immunity Plan: How to Rapidly Improve Your Metabolic Health and Resilience to Fight Infection’ . The book offers “simple, evidence-based” plan to help improve health parameters.
The author claims that the book has many tried and tested method of how in just 21 days people can prevent, improve and even potentially reverse many of the underlying risk factors that exacerbate how infections, including coronavirus, affect humans and improve their ability to recover.
In the book, the author starts with “What was missing from the mainstream media discussion and public health messaging surrounding the virus, was that the underlying root cause of these conditions is related to lifestyle”.
The author has provided many simple, evidence-based solutions that can go a log way in making our immune system strong.
He also talks about the governments’’ response to the pandemic , and what went wrong with such approaches.
Poor metabolic health equals poor immune health. The good news is that within weeks of making simple changes to what we eat, how we move and reducing stress through meditation, we can rapidly improve both making us healthier and more resilient to infection, said Malhotra, a National Health Service (NHS) trained cardiologist.
He claims that he finished the book in just six weeks, because he wanted to help readers build resilience to infection as soon as possible.
The 21-Day Immunity Plan’, published by Hodder & Stoughton, explains the benefits of the highly effective lifestyle changes, that the author himself has been practising and prescribing to many of his patients for many years.
I follow my own advice and I prescribe this to my patients who see rapid improvements in their health. My metabolic parameters are all normal despite having a strong family history of high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes and a recent body composition scan revealed my metabolic age is 29 even though my actual age is 42, he said.
While talking about commodities, the author said that India is particularly vulnerable to Covid, having a very high prevalence of lifestyle-related diseases.
He also warns that the medications that are used for type 2 diabetes and many of the other conditions have “very, very marginal effects” in terms of improving lifespan or reducing risk of death and they also come with side effects.