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Namah Perspective

ChatGPT serving as a magic eight ball, the
true magic of self-reflection, hope, and faith
is being artificially replaced with fragments
of information and many a times falsehood
so easily spread and consumed by users.
These consumptions can be much worse for
a diabetic than that chocolate cake he or she
refused! It is best to avoid YouTube shots
that induce fear, induce anxiety and to be
accustomed to the glucose release constantly very careful which links, studies one uses.
throughout the day and exhibit symptoms of Sometimes it is best to avoid this altogether, if
withdrawal when this is stopped. Going a bit one cannot discern with a medical background
deeper, the mind is also accustomed after a or right guidance to filter the truth from
certain point of years of a certain lifestyle false. The other most important thing, is to
to reach for a sweet, or look forward to a remember that Western medicine cannot be
hearty dinner when the day carries so much applied to populations with a completely
pressure. Still deeper, even if the body and different make-up not just genetically and
mind reject, the vital nature is not so quiet physically but culturally and spiritually.
and sometimes not obedient to the initial What applies and works for the average
resistance and discipline. white British, may not fully work for the
relatively recently arrived Indian in Britain.
The solution is rather a paradox. For a
seemingly complicated matter, the solution The Veda of natural remedies — Ayurveda
is simple. Diabetes control goes far beyond
just saying ’No’ to the extra spatula of rice
or chocolate to addressing the deep, hidden
drivers underneath of pleasure, greed and
stress management. One has to be frank
and honest with oneself going beyond the
sweet tooth to the roots of the cravings. Is
it a coping mechanism? Is the attitude to
work not aligned properly causing stress?
Is one lacking sources of natural joy and
compensating with food? If these underlying Growing up with my family in the most rural
issues aren’t tackled, then simply shunning places of south India, where snakebites were
sugar will cause a dramatised effect on all the norm and so was healing from them with
parts of the being, worsening the problem. no allopathic antidotes, I was exposed to a
lot of natural remedies and treatments. First
Still more important is the vigilance of which -hand I witnessed the effect of faith on the
resources, studies and Google searches one human body now given the pseudonym,
opens oneself to. With the ever-increasing ‘placebo’ by ignorant scientists. One such
prevalence of Artificial Intelligence and medicine used by the community was Paneer

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