A UK-based Indian origin doctor has released a new book offering a “simple, evidence-based” plan to help improve health parameters. Dr Aseem Malhotra's 'The 21-Day Immunity Plan: How to Rapidly Improve Your Metabolic Health and Resilience to Fight Infection' is touted as a tried and tested method of how in just 21 days people can prevent, improve and even potentially reverse several underlying risk factors that exacerbate how infections can affect humans and improve their ability to recover.
The NHS trained cardiologist was quoted in a report as saying, “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.”
He said he wrote the book in just six weeks because he and his publishers wanted it out as soon as possible to help readers build resilience to infection, given the current coronavirus pandemic. He was also consulted by UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock, seeking evidence linking Covid-19 and obesity.
Malhotra said, “I informed him, as I make the case in the book, that obesity is just the tip of the diet related disease iceberg. In other words, we're all vulnerable.” The book lays out the benefits to global health of highly effective lifestyle changes. “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.”
Malhotra 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.
