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‘It’s a crime if you are an unhealthy parent’
Updated On: 03 March, 2024 08:50 AM IST | Mumbai | Manik Sharma
In his enlightening new book, Dr Shiv Kumar Sarin discusses what Indian families won’t: How adults who abuse their body are contributing to a diseased next generation via defective genes. And that the young are dying of cardiac arrests not only because of the exhausted heart, but also the burdened liver
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From fatty liver, to obesity through genetic impediments, Dr Sarin’s book argues for preventive as opposed to correctional healthcare,
Hepatologist and gastroenterologist Dr Shiv Kumar Sarin has observed, studied and corrected countless liver-related problems over a career spanning four decades. But it’s matters of the heart that our conversation begins with. The country is witnessing an abnormal surge in cardiac episodes among young Indians aged 20 and 40—a problem, that Dr Sarin argues is connected to the human liver. “Yes, the numbers are abnormal. Because people with fatty livers don’t die of liver diseases. They die of cardiac events,” he says. The way to a man’s heart, is through his stomach, after all.
The Director of Delhi’s Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences and Padma Bhushan awardee, Dr Sarin has recently authored the book Own Your Body: A Doctor’s Life-saving Tips, with which he tries to package scientific rigour to produce a cultural manual for life and longevity. The title, tells us, is the gist.
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