Dear
Reader,
(now we have made a blog that is devoted to THAC: you can visit: www.thaclinks.blogspot.com)
(now we have made a blog that is devoted to THAC: you can visit: www.thaclinks.blogspot.com)
Me
& my family and many friends have been greatly benefitted by THAC (The Health
Awareness Center) advice, in specially helping our home become medicine free.
My fear of death by illness has also disappeared. I also learnt that wellness
from inside is quite different from fitness outside.
Many
people keep asking us about THAC. Since THAC has a limited digital presence. I
thought it would be worthwhile to collate some useful links:
1.
THAC facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thacmumbai/
2. Some
blogs written by me on THAC experience:
a. Nutrition
and Wellness - sharing a new awareness journey (this is my own journey on curing
skin allergy (Urticaria) in 5 days & learning difference in fitness outside
and wellness inside
b. Nutrition
and Wellness - part 2 : This has some concepts that I learnt from THAC
c. Time
to take that leap of faith - my personal experience : This is my family
journey – From Dad’s paralytic stroke and mom’s depression – with 10 tablets
each to zero medicine since last 36 months
3. An
apt eulogy for Dr. Vijaya Venkat (THAC founder) by Archana Pai Kulkarni (ex
editor of New Woman magazine) –
Here
are some stories by some of my buddies who have personally experienced these
benefits.
4.
Vineet khandelwal’s story on Diabetes
1st
Feb 2017 - 11:30 AM - Random Blood sugar testing in office
Sugar
reading: 416
Medical
Technician:
Sir, this is too high, please get it checked
V: Really! But
I feel fine
Medical
Technician: Please get it checked properly it should be around 100
4th
Feb 2017 - Lab blood test
Fasting
Blood Sugar: 235 | HBA1C: 12.1
Still
cannot believe the test. Let us get another done. Maybe the report is
incorrect
10th
Feb 2017 - Lab blood test
Fasting:
210 | Post: 257
Time
to take this seriously
13th
Feb 2017 - Visit the doctor
Doctor: hmmm. Mom
has sugar?
V: Yes
Doctor: hmmm
V: Doctor,
what does this mean?
Doctor: Simple, you
have type 2 diabetes and your cholesterol is also high. Here are some
medicines. You have to take them for life (lifetime!). Brisk walk for 45
minutes daily and eat this low fat diet (a standard printout is provided)
Back
home
K: But V, look
at all these medicines! they have a ton of side effects! there is no way you
are taking these medicines. Diabetes is a lifestyle disease, we must treat it
with a diet. Let us talk to a dietician
20th
Feb - Dietician
Eat
every two hours. Eat one walnuts, one almonds in the morning with oats. Eat
roasted channa, makhana, diet khakhadas, salted lassi, multi grain roti.
Avoid Mangos/Bananas
7th
March Follow up - Dietician
Dietician: How are you
feeling?
V: I feel low
in energy, bloated all the time, sleepy, thirsty in spite of drinking 7 to 8
glasses of water as prescribed
Dietician: Ok. Let us
change the diet a bit. Add sprouts to the breakfast and eat two almonds and
two walnuts. Drink skimmed milk. Eat two diet khakhadas at 4 PM. Take 10 to
12 glasses of water a day and drink butter milk in the night. Continue to eat
every 2 hours
I
feel :(
...
Kavita
attends 3 day workshop at THAC in April 2017
K: V, I think
you should start eating the THAC way. It will help
V: Sure
The
next day starts with fruits and all the goodness that THAC teaches. Mangos,
bananas were eaten with no fear. Milk and milk products were dropped, wheat
was dropped, refined Sugar was dropped, single grain, salads were adopted.
Oil was reduced amongst other things like deactivating etc
19th
May 2017 - blood report
Fasting
Sugar: 104 :) | Post: 123 :) | HBA1C: 6.9 :)
21st
July 2017 - blood report
Fasting
Sugar: 88 | Post: 108 | HBA1C: 5.5
Diabetes
free!!!!
That
status has remained that way until now. I am confident that this will stay
like this for life.
There
is something to be said about this body of ours. More than 50 years of abuse
or ‘eating right’ was fixed in just 3 months. In fact, my weight started coming
down within two weeks after THAC and the energy level shot up.
I
felt alive once again. Not only was
Diabetes and Cholesterol back at normal levels, my headaches that I used to
have frequently is gone. There are various other improvements that I feel
internally.
It
has been a great journey. I subsequently attended the workshop and learned
first hand the workings of this magnificent body and the way to maintain it. I
learned that death and disease are not related and that we become what we
eat. Proper input is very important to live a medicine free life.
I
Don't need to have medicine with food. Food is the medicine my body needs.
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5.
Amit Mittal – On diabetes and other
things…
What
a journey its has been:
Nudging
someone usually gets irritating. My journey towards Thac started with a
friend of mine Nudging to come & take a session at Thac way back in 2007.
That
time (2007) i considered myself as very healthy though was very over weight
& a diabetic (insulin, medicines for diabetes). Still no complaints with
life.
After
repeated persuasion from my friend, i took an appointment & visited Thac
just for time pass sake n more so for my friend. I had visited several diet
planners before (nudged by several frnds n relatives) but none of the diet
plan made sense to me - most of the diet plans were starving me so did not
follow any of them as i am a big foodie.
I
was counselled by Anju, heard her, had a few questions regarding diet plan
which were answered. I found the diet that Anju gave to be very practical
& there was no bar of quantity. (I am saying diet plan coz that time i
did not know THAC - neither its principles nor what it stands for).
I
followed Thac diet & surprisingly within 20-25 days i had to stop My
insulin. I followed this Thac plan for 2 months n odd & just stopped
following & was back to my old lifestyle & never turned back to Thac.
My life was good & thought how can diet make so much of difference.
In
January 2015, I fell ill, my Sugar was high (by now i was taking Insulin 2
times a day & 5 tablets for sugar), was diagnosed with High BP. Just
within a week i started feeling paralytic - could not feel sensation on my
left side if face, could not move my left side hand n legs, no energy, could
see my end coming near. I was in regular touch with the best doctors &
was on high medications. Sometimes my BP used to shoot up inspite of heavy
medicines which made me feel very un-easy & doctors use to suggest day
care hospitalisation & sometimes my BP use to drop considerably again
landing me in hospitals.
This
went on for a month or so. I had given up hopes & thought that i have
very limited life left. I was on total bed rest. Just when things were going
out of control, dont know how, Anju Venkat came in my mind & i thought
let me try this as a last alternative. Somehow manged to get an appt with
Anju in bout 10 days time.
Had
to take physical support of two person who cud make me get up & take me
to Thac. Reached Thac & Anju fired the hell out of me. I cried in front
of her & begged her to take charge of me. That was The Day for me. I was
asked to stop all medicines (except for diabetes), a detailed plan was given
to me for diet, de-activation n more.
I
was so scared & requested Anju that i will need their support for me to
come out of it.
I
started following Thacs advice to the ‘T’. I faced numerous problems in
coping up but Thac made me walk through the Journey by holding me &
making me cross all the hurdles step by step.
It
took 4 months for me to recover & get back to my feet & about 6-7
months for total recovery. For every small thing i use to approach Thac - be
it on phone call or on Mail. I was guided like a child by them. From here on
there was no looking behind.
I
was out of all medicines in sometime (except my sugar ones - offcourse no
Insulin). Post my recovery i did my 3 days workshop in 2016 which opened up a
new world to me & i realised the true meaning of being healthy,
understood my body & the incredible powers of our body.
Never
realized or it never occurred that we are embedded with 75 trillion cells
apart from organs, blood, etc. Was
fortunate to have attended this workshop with Dr. Vijaya Venkat (Amma) being
a part of the same.
In
2016 end, i tore my right leg toe little finger in an accident. My toe
fingers were plastered with 7 stitches. This was an emergency measure taken.
Post this surgery, doctors gave me a list of medicines right from antibiotics,
pain killers, fast healers, etc etc. I wrote to Thac & as usual - No
Medicines-
My
medicines were substituted by Haldi, Tulsi ginger lemon shots, Onion shots,
no cooked meal, more on raw. My family got paranoid saying i being a diabetic
my wounds will not heal & specially my toe being injured, i have to take
medicines, bla bla bla.
By
now i was confident on Thac principles & to a certain extent on my body
too. Doc had asked me to go to him after 20 days for follow up & remove
stitches. The Doc was surprised seeing my progress & told me see my
medicines have worked. I did not tell him that i had not popped a single
pill.
Post
this incidence, i started trusting my body totally & further understood
that when body is given Time, Space & Energy - body can n will do its
best to make a Human life Healthy. We just need to Nurture our body &
rest will be taken care off.
The
above incidents made me realise the power of our body - Mother Natures &
Mother Earths best gift to us. Incredible body which works 24x7x365 even
without we realising the same. We take our body for granted all the time
without understanding our body.
BODY
- A Masterpiece creation !!!
I
thus always Thank My Body ! Trust My Body !! Love My Body !!!
🙏Self care is
Health Care is Earth care🙏
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6.
Megha – on asthama, fertility, PCOD,
Obesity…
I
would like to talk about my personal journey with THAC. It started in 2012
and I was fortunate to start my journey with Dr. Venkat. I came to THAC
battling with asthma, pcod, obesity. Apart from that I was also trying to
conceive and the “experts” were pushing me in the direction of various
interventions like IUI, IVF. All Dr. Venkat said was, “Trust Me”. And so I
did. And it has been a fantastic ride since then.
I
don’t want to go in the principles around which THAC works because all of us
have gone through the workshops and discussed it to no end.
All
I want to focus is on the positives that came about because I trusted the
system; learnt to listen to my body and thoughts. The two phrases that have
stuck with me are “It is ok” and “Let it go”.
I
hope my journey inspires you and helps in your own. I am work in progress and
will forever be. I leave this with heartfelt gratitude to THAC and its team;
to all of you here who are my support and guide.
My
challenges came when my daughter was born. Convincing my family to agree to
not give vaccinations, milk, sugar and wheat to her was a struggle.
The
biggest challenge was though to overcome my own fear when she fell sick at 2
years. Her fever touched 103+ and she would just wanted to be held through
the night. Today I don’t even remember very clearly what I did and how I got
through the night. It took a lot of faith in what I had learnt and
experienced myself with THAC; and instincts as a mother to let her to heal on
her own. It was only couple of hours; the fever gave way and she slept
peacefully. Next day she slept a lot, ate/ drank a little and was completely
recovered by evening.
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7.
Ruchi Maheshwari (my wife) story – Freedom
from 20 year pain
When
I first visited THAC 3 years ago, I thought I was just tagging along with my
husband & his parents who were having specific dis-ease. How could eating
fruits and not having dairy disappear the mild pain and soreness I lived with
for last 20+ years & the tail bone pain of last 10 years. Those were
structural and posture issues…
But
I went along anyway – what’s the harm in eating healthier??
In
3 weeks of following all that Dr. Venkat told me, my pain disappeared! I
started sleeping throughout the night, every night. My unpredictable
menstrual cycle, which had disrupted my life since the age of 13 eased out
into a predictable pattern over the next few months.
Waking
up every morning with the energy, raring to go was new to me – all my life, I
had trouble getting out of bed because I had tossed and turned most of the
night. I didn’t know my “normal” health could become so much better. Food
becomes structure, Thac tells us – That is so obvious, why didn’t I ever
think about it?
Last
week, just as I finished my dinner, I started to hiccup. Every 10 seconds,
very uncomfortable on a full stomach! I tried holding my breath. I tried
sipping exactly 8 sips of water. I tried a cold pack on tummy. I tried deep
breathing.
The
more I tried to control the spasm in my diaphragm, the more the hiccups
continued. Then I remembered a recent discussion with a group of Thac friends
on ‘letting go’. So I just lay down and relaxed those stomach muscles I had
been clenching. “I surrender to my body” I thought, and the hiccups were
gone! This small event taught me to get out of my own way and let my body do
what it needs to.
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8.
Shabana – from medical emergencies to freedom
My
journey from illness to wellness.
My
childhood was a series of medical emergencies. My dad had rheumatic heart
disease and my mom had kidney problems. There was a constant worry about
health and also the worry that these health issues would be passed onto us.
So
life was always dont eat this or you may get heart disease dont do that or
your kidneys might get affected. Drinking eight glasses of water to eating
salt free food all was practiced.
The
relationship with my body was of fear and distrust. My self esteem was low.
When
i met Dr Vijaya Venkat she explained that all the "issues" i had
with my body were actually the body's mechanisms aimed at preservation and
management of health. Anju helped me change my position from having no
control to being in charge of my health.
I
was about to have my first baby. Around this time i picked up Neale Donald
Walsh's book Conversations With God. Also for my pregnancy i read a lot of
Sheila Kitzinger's books.
These
three influences helped me cope with a lot of my challenges. I have come to
realise that life will change its routes and frequencies and all i have to do
is be prepared to adapt to it to the best of my ability.
I
have simplified my life to make work-life balance, i have made awareness my
compass and dispensed external compulsions. Awareness demands independence in
thought and action to follow it. Dr Vijaya helped me establish this. I cannot explain the impact this has had on
my experiences. This is what i want to hold on to till the end of my days.
All is well.
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