Dr. Nandi: Be Your Own Health Hero
Dr. Nandi has partnered with the Ministry of Health in multiple countries, including Jamaica and India, and collaborated with The World Health Organization; in multiple arenas throughout the globe, Dr. Nandi delivers passionate and inspiring talks to diverse audiences. He continues to travel to international conferences and symposia, meeting with global health leaders on his quest to improve health care quality, access, and advocacy; to empower the world in his mission, “To Be Your Own Health Hero.”
OMTImes is thrilled to share this interview with Shawne Duperon and Dr. Nandi.
Exclusive Interview with Dr. Nandi
Shawne Duperon: One thing I’ve noticed about you is your level of authenticity as a doctor. No wonder you attract more than 85 million to your show. You talk about the real deal, the things people really want to talk about. Is that one of your missions?
Dr. Nandi: It is. Here is the reason why. I feel a lot of medicine and a lot of medical care is dependent on those factors. For example, we did a show on happiness. People say what the heck does happiness have to do with medicine? It has everything to do with it because you will notice there are certain people, like yourself, that are upbeat and they have a positive outlook. It doesn’t mean you never have any downtime. Absolutely not. But what you do is you are always in a mind that’s uplifting. So I said what is it about that?
Because people that are not in those moods, the people that we call Debbie Downers, when something is always wrong, they tend to be sicker. They tend to not be compliant with their medications. They tend not to believe that whatever we are doing for them is helpful. So that’s why we talk about happiness. It is topics like that, like forgiveness, which are unconventional, yet to me is the key to being able to solve a lot of medical problems. Yeah, we have great medicine. I will never discount that. We have great advances in technology, but what we are missing is the link between the medical care and good outcomes. That is all of the stuff that needs to be better defined. Like forgiveness, happiness, intuition, those things are really the critical key that’s missing today.
