Two most important landmarks that Saaol achieved in the recent past are opening of our 100th center in the hill city of Sylhet in North eastern Bangladesh. Saaol, which started as a small one clinic set up in a basement of Lajpat Nagar in Delhi in September,1995 has now a spread across India and abroad. Not only we proved ourselves effective in treating heart patients without bypass surgery or Angioplasty with 98% success – we educated crores of people on how to prevent heart disease. We now have more than 3 lacs successful patients in the last 25 years behind us. We now have three centers in Bangladesh. We have branches now in all major cities of India and it is further spreading. On this occasion let us congratulate all our patients and well wishers. We have crossed a century!
The four Cousin diseases!
Editorial: Four most common diseases can be called close cousins and there are Obesity, High BP, Diabetes and Coronary Heart Disease. There are always good chances that they will occur simultaneously. Sometime back I met one gentleman who was obese. I asked him that his chances of High BP are high – he said his BP is always high.
Then I told him be aware Diabetes can also come – he said It is already there. So, all three were present. I advised him for symptoms of heart disease – he said I feel breathless on walking – ultimately on investigation he was found to have 80-90% blockages in two arteries. All the four diseases are lifestyle related diseases and like close cousins like to stay together. Saaol treats all of them and we find they are treated together with diet, exercise, stress management and Yoga.The main cause of Diabetes is non availability of Insulin or ineffective Insulin. The Job of Insulin is to arrange passage of Glucose (which comes from Carbohydrates that we eat) in each and every cell of the body. Lack of insulin action leads to accumulation of extra glucose in the blood ( which should have been otherwise inside billions of cells across the body and supply energy). The paradox becomes that plenty of Glucose is around and still the cells are starving. This has a potential of damaging most of the important organs of the body.
The most important thing that I want to point out is that for saving the heart (or any other organs for that matter) we should keep the glucose levels at the best level and these are fasting below 100mg/dl and Post Prandial (after food) below 140mg. Since it is not possible to measure these levels on daily basis across the day – we now depend on a new test called HbA1c or Glycosylated Hemoglobin which should be below 6.5%. This is only possible when your blood glucose is mostly kept below 100 and 140 as stated above in the last three months. --Dr. Bimal Chhajer