Dadhood | Doc Duties | Social Media | How He Does It @dr.mananvora

0:00 I actually had hate from the medical community saying that he is the first dad and a very young one you look very intimidating but you look Kinder in person you come across this is angry doctor on Instagram have you got that before I have not actually angry is the wrong word I feel you're very restless I would agree to that I would agree to that I think it has its pros as well as its cons as well

0:23 I can't meditate I can't do that at all I don't know how people just sit and meditate how did the Instagram Journey happen like you a doctor and then why did you decide to be on Instagram so there's a funny angle to that in the first month I hit 10K within 6 to 8 months I hit 50k within a year I hit 100K so I was like now this is serious that was how my journey kind of started

0:43 you've killed it now I mean I've gone all out I don't care of so I keep saying this everywhere sport is my passion medicine is my profession why they need to write a book the motivation was only because when I was scrolling reels I was like come on you can't be serious you can't be serious what's the next thing I haven't found it are we going to switch places hello and welcome to the kidstop Press podcast today on season 4 we welcoming

1:05 our first dad of the Season he's all of five months old in the parenting Journey he's a debutant author he's also a health Creator and an orthopedic surgeon we're talking of none other than Dr Manan Bora who's also Health educator co-founder of the Nutri bide Wellness he is also a PhD scholar in regenera ative Orthopedics and has been recognized with multiple Awards including the prestigious Edinburg surgery Global

1:37 scholar award when he's not treating joint pains he's seen as creating some really informative and educational content on his Instagram handle which boasts of followers of upwards of 400k so let's welcome Dr Manan Bora welcome Manan I've seen you on uh Instagram and you look very intimidating but you look Kinder if person I don't know if that's a compliment but you look much much younger in real life so is that like the blue uniform that is intimidating or

2:10 like I don't know what you come across this is angry doctor on Instagram have you got that before I have not I actually haven't so you're the first one but I'll still take that as I just D My Grave before this podcast he's not going to be nice no no not at all I'll I'll it's now my job to kind of change this opinion that you have of me I've honestly never got this before I'd be

2:29 happy to admit if I did I don't know why that's coming across in fact I've actually got the opposite that I come across as someone who's pretty approachable and friendly so maybe I need to go back and check my recording style and see maybe is it coming across that way just just pardon my ignorance and that's very unlike of a guati deling Gujarati so it's really a strange case but but um but love to know about your

2:54 childhood and you know I truly believe that who we are in our adult avar is somewhere very deeply sown in our childhood and the growing up years uh I know you lost your mom very early on and and your father raised you guys so tell me about Early Childhood I know that your extended family and everybody in your family is a doctor you've married into a married one as well so tell me about early years yes so uh I would not

3:21 say I lost my mom that early on I think my mom played a huge role in my upbringing cuz I lost you when I was 22 which is not that early on in the sense of my upbringing of course early on in life uh but since both my parents were actively working and uh you know trying to build their careers uh a huge part of my upbringing was on my D dad so I think a lot of uh the values a lot of the

3:44 principles a lot of things that uh you know they taught me have stayed with me throughout and uh they've had a huge role you know when it comes to that so some of my earliest memories would still be going with my granddad so my my my Daddy D both were extremely active in uh you know Temple activities and a lot of Social Service so I used to be a part of that you know just actually going to the

4:07 H in juu and you know doing a bit of help and service over there so I've actively been involved in those side of things so I have a little bit angle towards Faith as well when it comes to that because of that even though I don't think I'm overly religious or spiritual in that sense uh but huge amount of my childhood spent with them while my parents were of course focused on you know building their careers uh but of

4:31 course when it came to academics when it came to you know getting things done when it came to things like you know always be punctual uh principles of hard work I think this is these are things that I think I really invited from my parents and hopefully can pass them on to my child as well yeah also I must tell for everyone who is watching he is the first dad and a very young one on season 4 so I'm very very excited

4:56 because here is a I don't want to call myself a veteran but Lea seasoned little bit of seasoning uh to the parent which is 16 years and yours is how 5 months old oh my God how we could just switch switch places I saw one real the other day on Instagram where somebody said that they were so overwhelmed with something going wrong with a two-month-old baby and it was just Logistics or paperwork or something and I was

5:23 like do you even know what it is to come to the other side like I could have I could handle hundred of those problems if you just take my teen going to Coldplay alone forget the rest of it but obviously not to not to um you know play play Under the the the the you know the very Milestones that come along um but I think it's it's it's a very sweet phase uh of parenting that you are in and uh

5:52 how anyone any teen parent would kind of swap places with that yeah I think I mean I haven't uh discussed this with too many teen parents but but I've discussed it with a lot of toddler parents who are also saying that you're in the best phas enjoy that phas because once they start obviously talking running around obviously they have a lot more questions you you get constantly yeah so I'll take that as a silver lining for sure but yeah I haven't even

6:15 thought about the teen aspect so that's a whole different ball game but yeah happy to okay and how did the Instagram Journey happen like you you're you're a doctor and then why did you decide to be on Instagram so there's a funny angle to that uh since I'm a orthopedic surgeon my sales for that matter happen when people fall they have accidents they have sports injuries they slep at home in the bathroom these are usually the

6:41 histories that they come with yeah now during covid this had reduced significantly cuz if you don't get out of your house how will you fall and get hurt very few times you'll fall at home right so I found myself having a lot more time than usual the First Co wave I did uh Duty I got Co twice within 12 months I was admitted once so second covid wave I took a backseat I said I'm not doing Co duty this time and I had

7:05 some more time on my hands yeah now uh I was also not a very heavy consumer of social media content up till then to be very honest uh but when I found myself with more time I was like Chell let's see what's happening I think reals were also relatively new and I saw so many influencers creating covid related videos because obviously they had already built Their audience and distribution they had realized that this is topical in the news and a lot of them

7:30 were creating videos some of them were pretty accurate cuz they had done their homework some of them were a little iffy some of them were just random remedies blah blah blah so when I saw this I'm like what is going on like why is a makeup influencer making a video on this yeah why are doctors not making videos like no one has said that doctors can't make videos and there were a couple who had I think started even

7:53 before that so I was like Chell let's try this I've always been pretty comfortable speaking or facing audiences being on a stage I'm very natural in that sense so I just picked up the tripod ordered a very basic one uh picked up my phone started the video I mean when I look back at those videos the quality was so poor because te would call it's so cringe I didn't know only how the lighting has to come and all so

8:16 it's actually very funny when you see my first few videos but I was like CH let's let's do it and uh just 5 days after I had started I put out two or three videos in 5 days there was a huge news about these doctors getting beaten up because some relatives passed away due to covid uh sorry some patient passed away due to covid and the relatives beat up the doctors blaming them so I made a

8:39 video on violence against doctors and why this should not happen yeah that video which was probably my fourth or fifth video on my 7eventh or eighth day went absolutely viral vun davan shared it on his Instagram story huh that's how viral it went yeah uh few hours later my phone rang and it was vun davan on the line who contact conted me and said that I really like this video and I want to speak up about it now whether he did

9:04 this for his own PR or he genuinely wanted to I'll leave that for him to dode but I was like yeah sure I mean if you want to speak about it please do I was so happy he's like no no we'll get on an Instagram live and speak about it yeah I said what like you have 38 million followers I still remember that time you had 38 million followers and I was on like 2,000 something I'm like you

9:20 want to get on an Instagram live with me I did not even know how to get on an Instagram live because I never done that on on the eighth day of making my profile private to public yeah and uh I was like chello let's do it and it became a big thing we did an Instagram live the next day I was on the front page of times of India all over the country my photo vun davan's photo

9:39 thanks to his PR of course and over the next 48 hours I think there were about 96 Publications 7 pages of Google were filled if you Google my name thanks to that and after that there was no turning back because I went from 2,000 followers to 8,000 followers which is also not a lot when you think about how big his following is but obviously if you get 6,000 followers in 2 days your really motivated that this is something

10:00 interesting So within my first month I hit 10 K exactly within the first month I hit 10K within 6 to 8 months I hit 50k within a year I ate 100K so I was like now this is serious that was how my journey kind of started because of covid lack of work a V video of violence against doctors Varun Tan's push and then I was like no this is interesting and obviously you get the validation and

10:24 you feel so happy you're like let's keep building let's keep building and 3 years later here I am and you know I and to your defense if I may add I think sometimes and I can say this in the parenting space I feel sometimes like you got irritated with wrong content or anybody talking about not their domain knowledge not like I want to say parenting is my domain and I'm the ultimate expert over there but yes I

10:50 have a fair sense of what is right what is wrong and when you're bullshitting I most definitely know that you're bullshitting so I think sometimes it is also passion and love for what we doing and what is our domain expertise that when you rubbish that out I think it's also that you know that itch that you can't on this platform like people are taking absolute rubbish and putting it out there and sometimes you want to say please stop like this is not

11:16 what it's supposed to be so I'm sure that must have been also a big driver for you creating that no absolutely so I am not that against anyone making videos because at the end of the day any one is going to do it irrespective yeah sometimes it IRS because I'm like you're doing more harm to the child which is going to be irreversible no correct so so the part I was getting to was fine The credibility angle is definitely

11:40 there but it's the misinformation I would much rather a non- doctor make a right video about health then a doctor make a wrong one that that is the misinformation is what irritates me more rather than who's doing it uh it's practically impossible to ask every influencer to say show me a medical degree only then make a health video that's not going to happen so it's the Mis information that in fact a lot of people are giving Health advice without

12:02 being doctors or practitioners in the space most of them yeah so most of them are giving Health advice without that did you read about that lady who got arrested and she now lands a Netflix show where she faked that she had cancer and she followed a particular diet and she now has a Netflix show on it wow I'm not aware of this and I was completely blown that what is going on like really what is going on did you ever feel that

12:29 people will question that why does a doctor need to be on this and will it lose your credibility oh I've had so in the first couple of years it was so funny not couple of years maybe the first year to 18 months I actually had hate from the medical community yeah so for two reasons one is I had hate from some saying actually saying that that was quite funny because I thought hey health is health information

12:52 is supposed to be free or uh should be passed on to as many people as possible and this is also our service to you've killed it now I mean I've gone all out I don't care only like in the book guys and I'm going to hold it out for you guys I I am struggling because you will not know which chapter to prioritize because literally if you're someone who's looking for anything right from apple cider V vinegar to where you know

13:18 the impact of vaping he's covered it all so you've really put a lot of people out of business yeah I mean I I genuinely feel good information should be out there because see information is anywhere out there you might as well get an idea of what is the correct information it's not like I have written something that's not online in fact the book is literally a culmination or a curation of over, 1400 research papers compiled in an easy to

13:42 understand conversational style format all in one 300 Page book for you so it's not that I've come out with something absolutely creative yes I've used my creativity to put my point across but at the end of the day I've told you what science says about these 101 topics so it's out there so you might as well hear it from someone who's at least qualified credible and telling you this with the correct intention rather than just any

14:05 other 90-second video creator who's interested in a very captivating first 3se second hook which will generally be a negative statement if you do this you will die of cancer and then flows the video which has millions of views because they found a way to trick you into doing that and uh you know that sort of unnecessary fear-mongering that also comes or on the other side selling of products that otherwise don't really have an impact on your well-being so

14:31 that was the idea behind uh creating something that outlives me rather than a video that lasts for 3 to 5 days and is just dead for the next video to pick up yeah but you were telling me all the hate that you got when you launched correct so that was so one angle was of course doctors saying that uh if you're going to share everything on social media why will people consult us or this is not something that should be shared

14:53 on social media I've never I've never named medicines or named dosages or something that would anyway tell someone put prescriptions out there like it was never the aim to you can't take my reel and go to a chemist and say it's not possible I'm just giving you information secondly I started getting messages from even doctors from some of the as institutes who could not understand why someone is doing this this is I'm talking about like late 2021 early 22

15:19 where I had statements saying obviously correct like it's just an automatic understanding that if you have time to make videos you're spending time in the hospital and cut now move to 2025 if you see the number of doctors on social media forget the ones who are Educators or content creators which is like the category I'd like to put myself in general doctors who are giving information about their neede to increase their patient flow I mean they're kind of just doing it as a

15:47 business angle on it but everyone is now facing the camera and speaking so now it's I don't get any of those videos because the ones who are abusing me have probably understood this is the way to put myself out there and get more people to come to me so that that part has been completely solved now but yeah I had to face a lot of that uh you know hate and I used to just take a

16:06 screenshot of it and put on my story that this is what I'm getting I used to just laugh about it and embrace it once it had bothered me but beyond that you have to you just get thick skinned I think with each passing month I became very thick skinned now I think nothing bothers me but n you're making it sound very easy and and very um you know like you were just born to do this but but

16:26 the fact is that you have a day job and this is I mean it's I don't think it's a side Hustle but it's not your primary bread and butter so how do you compartmentalize your day to saying I need to spend so much time reading and especially in your space things are evolving so much more research is being done new tools are being implemented technology is kind of taking uh you know shaping um things so how do you how do

16:52 you compartmentalize your head into saying this is how much time I'm going to give myself and my profession and this is how much time I'm going to give to social media so uh two takes on this one is that uh because of social media and the distribution that I've built with which I did not have an aim to do I when I started it was genuinely to spread information but obviously there are multiple monetary angles that have

17:18 come in for example my book for example any master class that I mon yeah I mean that's a different thing that's two what two authors can joke about but okay yeah so I mean is monitary for me or a publisher is a different thing but my point is we're not getting a second book deal this has to be edited that's okay they'll come they'll come for me the second time I have faith but uh Jokes Aside it's a product whether where

17:42 the money goes is a different thing it's a product similarly I've had a chance to uh co-found my Nutrition Company because I was putting out so much information about nutrition and weight loss I have a nutrition company and a team that helps clients reach their health and fitness goals so it's reached a point where I don't really call it oh my profession is separate content creation is separate because this obviously is an alternate or an added source of Revenue now for me

18:05 which I have to take very very seriously similarly this also drives people uh to come to my clinic and see me for as patients as well so it's not like they're completely separate that I need to you know put them aside so I don't see it as two separate things secondly when it comes from an area of genuine interest which it does in my case I am any way spending my free time or time while I'm traveling any any way reading

18:29 up more about health and fitness because I am so interested in it so if you go through my Twitter timeline I'll have some of the best researchers and scientists uh on my page who are talking about certain things that are new the moment I see something there I'll be like oh there's a link let me go to This research paper let me quickly read it oh there's a podcast link let me quickly go there on 2x while working out I listen

18:48 to the podcast like oh this is an interesting real let me quickly make a real for my Indian audience yeah so it's it's all kind of part of the thing it's not that oh my God I need to remove two hours now let me think is no it's just kind of popping up to me because I'm reading up about it on so many different platforms from so many different people I look up to as well yeah so again the thing with health is

19:09 it's it's how you kind of package it and how you kind of creatively put it across that is the creativity angle at the end of the day it is a Content curation more than a creation because a science and health information is out there or you're coming across it on a day-to-day basis so again it's part of your day-to-day life it's not like I need to put two hours out of my life for this so just and tell me from

19:31 2021 when you were doing Al loan and you ordered your first tripod to today 2025 in January how big is this part of manan's team I don't have a team so it's all you it's just me and an editor okay I have no team I'm the only one who has access to my account I upload all my posts I write my captions uh and I do my own quality checks I have twice in the past tried to get a couple of people who

19:58 could think like me and do like me do it like me uh maybe I am not the easiest person for them to work with so I I kind of accept that as well but my level of micromanaging was so high that I realized I'm wasting more time and I'm wasting money and I'm not so happy with them uh that i' rather just do it myself so I don't have absolutely anyone apart from an editor uh I do have someone who

20:21 helps me with my LinkedIn copies so I send voice notes we select the topics they kind of do it we do a quick edit and they manage the LinkedIn account but Instagram video content creation just me and an editor and I'm just happy with that that's amazing that has its pros and cons for example I haven't uploaded for the last 7 days because I had a rough seven days if I had a team they would have ensured things were

20:42 moving and I would have just spent 5 minutes to record and that's it so it has its pros and cons uh but I'm pretty okay up to a point to continue like this let's see where it takes me amazing and tell me in all of this where is the five-month old fit in like how are you consciously making time to have that work life balance I'm so happy to be asking her dad about work life balance because I'm always asked

21:07 this question and I want to go like spank on the interviewers so when I say that over the last 7 days I haven't had time to record videos because it's been Mayhem it includes time spent with loved ones right so the last s days we have been uh at 5:00 p.m. uh to Beach on a weekday uh 2 days later we were in joggers Park and 2 days later we were at my wife's home with the baby as well so

21:37 when I say that it's not because of other work it's also because of family time I took a conscious uh decision to work only Thrice a week in the evenings instead of 5 days a week uh till my baby's 3 months old which has been extended to 6 months old uh so today is the off day which is why I'm also here cuz it's still afternoon time and I'm going to be head back and doing something with my baby and my wife as

22:00 well so I found a way to enjoy the moment uh rather than be one of those I mean nothing against those who had to do it for other reasons but like 10 years later I don't want to say because I've been there throughout each and every month yeah so I'm enjoying this journey as well and it's it's going pretty nice so I like I like seeing each and every phase myself that's so amazing and trust me like I

22:27 said um you know I was just you know yesterday when I took my teenager to the Coldplay concert and um you know I was I was outside because I was just the Uber driver okay just escorting to the concert and back so escorting like 10 16 year olds and when the fireworks happened as the concert ended in a moment I realized that now I'm not part of her core memories right maybe this is this is it I'm not unless

22:58 she needs a a trip to a foreign destination which she's not going to do with her friends um I know that this is it like it's done right like my time and my experiences with her are going to only get lesser from here and it it literally like you know when people say that it literally felt like I'm like why am I sounding like this 80-year old woman but it actually felt like that and you know the those memories from the

23:25 childhood seemed so sacred right now but but um tell me when you when you said that you grew up with your grandparents what are the parts of your childhood that you feel like these experiences I want to do with my kid for sure and these values and the way my grandparents taught me this this this or they took me like example in your case to the hav and you know I did that sa and I want to

23:51 come back and do like they form part of your core memories so and and I know we always see this as well I don't know if you and your wife ever felt that if I'm half as good as my parents I feel like I've done a decent job so what part of your childhood would you want to plug and play back so I think uh since my situation was a little different I think I am in a position today to say that

24:17 twice a week I will only work and not five times a week is because my parents kind of hustled their way through that because uh my grandparents don't really come from a time of wealth or a certain level of Lifestyle which my parents have been able to provide for me because they have worked 12 to 16 hours relentlessly both of them uh throughout my childhood so uh which is why I'm possibly in a position where I can say hey I'll work

24:44 thce a week which is something that other dads may not be in a position to do so I'm not trying to play oh my God I'm caring only about my child kind of card I'm understanding the privilege I'm now coming from and that I'm able to make this uh sacrifice to uh you know make a little less of money every month but enjoying the moment so yeah that kind of sacrifice is something that I'm not in a position where I need to make

25:07 but I still value that so much right because at the end of the day they did that for my sister and me it's not that their lifestyle significantly changed just and it's not like they went traveling the world without us with the money they made at that stage or anything so that comes from an understanding of the hard work dedication uh you know Devotion to actually upgrade from a certain level of lifestyle or you know life that you're living to the

25:31 life you see for your kids or the education you want to give them or the life you want to give them so I think so much to learn from you know that and then we kind of take that at our end like how can I take it a step further as well so that is something that I think uh you know for example I'm right now already thinking about my child my so my child is 5 months old and he's already

25:50 got a you know dmat account and sip started so just an example right so from my thought process I'm like I want to have my child at the age of 18 in a position where technically he is his entire marriage expense his entire education expense Masters wherever he wants to go for will already be sorted by the time he's 18 because I'm going to be a disciplined investor from the age of 5 months to 18 he has a separate

26:18 demat account yeah so in my mind I've got that as okay I'm sure he'll have everything else to deal with but he won't have to worry about where he wants to study and okay marriage in an IND context means it has to be lavish not that I believe it needs to be a way to spend money but it's his wish what he wants to do at 18 here's a birthday gift for you which will again be not

26:37 something he can blow up obviously but something he can do so I took that as a inspiration that my parents did this for me to a point where I am able to control my time I'm the reason I'm here today on a Monday afternoon is because at the age of 32 I'm not stuck in a government Hospital job working 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. for a certain amount of money because I have that sort of of backing

26:58 and of course the other sources of revenue that I've built for myself over the last few years but I'm able to do that and control my time because of the hard work and sacrifice of my parents so I want to take that forward and give my child that freedom of time from an even earlier age because I probably got that at 28 or 29 I want him to have that at 80 so that is the thought process that I

27:17 have of course that is a little monetary Financial angle but when it comes to obviously all the all the principles uh you know how Gujarati households are and how we're brought up and uh you know the kind of things that we generally have uh but I would very much like the family environment or the homely environment spending time in terms of you know festivals happier moments with extended families uh whether it is you know making good friends being in good

27:43 company and things like that which is something uh it just happens naturally as you grow up I would definitely like for my child to cultivate those habits hopefully and take them forward at the end of the day of course they can live their own lives as well you were somebody who played Sports and you loved medicine but I also think you might be very good in art or something because this creative angle that you have I

28:03 don't know where is that coming from but I like have you've combined uh passion for both because I've heard so many parents tell their kids um that you know Sports you know unless you are not competing at National or state or International level what's the use of playing sports and I know you're very passionate about it so tell me what what role did Sports play in your life to make you and shape you the person you

28:31 are today so I uh it didn't play a role it still continues to play a role yeah so I'm playing uh I play at least four sessions of sports a week apart from lifting weights five times a week so that's the other thing that I very I'm I'm fortunate enough to again be in a position where I cut back on a few hours of work because that is what keeps me sane I I live breathe and eat sport

28:53 whether it's watching whether it's live experiences in stadiums whether it is playing myself so uh very interesting point you brought up because Indian sporting culture is still very less uh especially from the Metro cities that we come from and the uh kind of socioeconomic strata that may be listening to this podcast it's very very low right which is why when we see all these Olympic athletes they're generally from harana and those kind of states and they're not coming from very influential

29:20 backgrounds uh when it comes to sports especially in Metro cities the focus is more on education classes entrance exams and parents often say that enging what people don't understand and what parents need to know is that sport teaches you so many different things about life that will help you excel in various stages of life you don't really need to be an excellent Sports person

29:50 you need to be understanding what sport brings to you so if it's a team sport you're going to be learning about actually working with people in a group now this is obviously a skill that will help you at any point in life if you're working on a work project also if you're trying to have people in your team as well you're going to learn about competitiveness you're going to learn about the hard work and the hustle to

30:10 actually you know excel at it you're going to learn about the entire preparation phase to take part even in the smallest of tournaments you're going to learn about how to actually be not very overconfident and not have a lot of attitude in Victory as well as how to be humble even if you lose and accept that as well so you're going to learn about the positives and negatives depending on the outcome that take place in the sport as well as the

30:34 entire Journey that that goes with it we've not even got to discussing how great it is for your physical and mental health which is a completely separate thing yeah so to actually keep you in a stage of mental health and the release of really happy hormones release of endorphins and otherwise also being in physical shape where in know of course childhood obesity is not as big a deal as it is in USA when it comes to India

30:56 but with each passing here the amount of people and kids being overweight or in the obese category is also going up so keeping all these things in mind why would you not dedicate a certain amount of hours for your kid to play sport whether it's in school or even after school so I think it's it's it's shaped my entire personality and my entire being and it is does it spark a level of self-confidence because you are fit

31:22 because you play sport and because you love sports yeah I mean uh of course you can be fit and self-confident without playing sport as well but it it's just uh it just gives me that kind of feel that says that this is what I have you know something to look forward to so for example I've start I picked up pickle ball which is a fairly new sport uh every Monday Wednesday Friday 7:30 I have pickle ball I wake up on Monday

31:49 with a bigger smile than Tuesdays because I'm like AR sh and my entire day goes with a different mood or a different smile on my face because this is how I see that as my reward for the entire day's work so uh for me that is what passion is so I keep saying this everywhere sport is my passion medicine is my profession I'm actually not that passionate about medicine yeah I am passionate about being healthy or putting the word out

32:16 for everyone to be healthy and living longer that's a different thing but uh sport is my passion medicine is my profession amazing and you said a very important part of lifting weights and um you know doing muscle and uh resistance training and I've I've read in the book and we obviously have close to about 80% women uh on our platform between the ages of 28 to 45 um and Instagram can be so deceiving

32:46 when you are seeing skinny women not doing resistance training when that's what's going to hold us for later absolutely so so talk to me about resistance training especially for women correct uh I think women need it way more than men because men have a lot more testosterone that gives them that protection as well uh but women and in that age group if they incorporate weight training and resistance training uh your body will only thank you in your

33:17 50s 60s and ' 70s postmenopause due to the hormonal changes bone density goes down osteoporosis is a very uh you know common thing that can happen to women with their bone density going down their fracture risk increasing they get a lot of joint pains bone issues uh all of this very simple to prevent just lift weights as soon as possible start lifting weights as soon as possible people need to understand that muscle is the currency of your body so just how

33:44 you're constantly worried that what is my uh portfolio looking like in the bank whether it's your bank balance or your mutual fund or stocks portfolio everyone keeps talking about these things in their 20s and 30s muscle is that amount in your body that you compound that's only going to compound if you show up in the gym or you lift at home or you add some resistance it's only going to compound over time and give you those

34:08 benefits as you age at the end of the day you need muscle to do any function in life so when those who are skinny they think that oh my God why do I need to Lo uh you know why do I need to go to the gym I'll become bulky you really won't it's not possible for you to become bulky unless you're on ban substances that's a different thing it's it's not possible for you to become

34:29 actually bulky you'll just be putting on healthier weight in the form of muscle instead of fat similarly we have women who are overweight or even in the obese category who are just busy doing you know the elliptical and cardio thinking cardio Ki please understand that cardio is cardio for your heart it's for cardiovascular health you need to lift weight to actually burn that fat and preserve your muscle mass because you can go from 80 kgs to 20 kgs but if

34:58 you've lost majority muscle that's not a healthy weight loss right so you need to preserve your muscle mass and lose the fat so whether you're skinny whether you're even ideal body weight whether you are at the other end as well lifting weights is non-negotiable and it will be lifechanging once you start right we've also had you know when we when we shared that we're going to have uh you on the podcast we also had a lot of women who

35:22 said that you're now seeing women hit menopause was in their early 30s right um and they're saying that if they're already there with their bone health to that of a 60-year-old in their 30s what can be their cause of action again weights right so it's it's as simple as that we can't keep consuming calcium supplements that's not a solution right so maintaining bone density is directly proportional to the amount of resistance

35:55 you give your muscles and the amount of muscle mass mass that you have in your body on the other end obviously being overweight or obese is a direct uh inversely proportional correlation with your bone density so try and come in an ideal body weight as possible is it possible absolutely just with stren training just with strength training it's absolutely possible to actually mitigate all the risks and complications of lower bone density and osteoporosis only by starting weight training as

36:25 early as possible everything else is osteoporosis management and it starts from a simple calcium vitamin D supplementation to a calcium nasal spray to different types of medicines and drugs but they all come later once your bone density is already lowered these are things you need to keep in mind to ensure your bone density doesn't get low in the first place so Four Points would be weight training second would be ideal body weight third would be avoiding any

36:50 steroid use of any uh any type and fourth is no smoking all of these four if not followed takes your bone down right away right and the other common one which I'm sure you must have got a lot of it and I'm sure and you've covered it in your book which is about vitamin D3 both for children and for adults we've never heard of vitamin D3 deficiency before the last 10 years correct what went wrong in these 10

37:18 years so two points that come to my mind the first is I think we're all spending way lesser sunlight than what we were 10 years ago now whether you call that because hey we don't walk as much as we used to Outdoors right all of us go straight from home to cars or even public transport straight to work back we're not really spending that ideal 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. time in the sun that's one thing uh second is the amount

37:45 of pollution in the Metro cities is so high that the penetration of those rays and then the absorption into the skin is much lower which is why in in Mumbai in Delhi in bangaluru in most cities where the levels of pollution is higher these people are far more deficient but if you go to Goa and you soak in the sun you'll be far better off but you're going to do that for 2 days a year you're not going

38:07 to do that for 360 days in the year so these are two main reasons why we're finding people having a lot more uh deficiencies in vitamin D compared to 10 15 20 years ago uh but again solving these two may not be in our hands you may not get a chance to go out in the sun at 10:00 a.m. or 11:00 a.m. you may not you can't solve pollution issue yourself so those are of course things

38:29 which are not in your control uh and that's where vitamin D supplementation has become a very effective tool you know I mean I don't I still see a lot of people who are very anti- supplements and we can discuss that as well but I think a supplement can be really useful if taken in the right dose at the right time and taken when it's absolutely needed I mean I supplement with a lot of them and I I'm very happy with them uh

38:50 and that's where vitamin D is something that people need to just Embrace because this is our lifestyle we're not really going to be out in the sun and we are going to continue living in the city so why not right you you said a very important thing about supplementation and I feel sometimes it's very tricky because your doctor doesn't know what your goals for yourself are so how are they going to guide you for supplementation like they will do the

39:14 blood routine and be like okay D3 is okay B12 okay this routine seems okay but they don't know what your goals are corre and I see so many people mentioning oh you must take crin for this and you know your if your aim is this this this tell me what's on your supplement stash okay so you mentioned doctor and I'm going to go out uh you know openly and even say this I think very few doctors know enough about all

39:39 the supplements that are out there right and I think we need to accept this as uh you know a flaw or or a limitation that's a better word to use because while we are taught about vitamin and mineral uh deficiencies in our Medical School we're not we're not talking too much about protein supplementation creatine supplementation and all the other nutritional ones that come in which probably the nutritionists are also very good at now uh so unless a

40:06 doctor is in the knowhow or has read beyond what medical school taught us and is actually up to date with everything they will most likely not have a good opinion on this I have come across so many patients who tell me that a 55 or a 60-year-old doctor and there's nothing against senior doctors have told me that protein supplement artificial now protein supplements are absolutely natural the protein powder that you consume is absolutely natural breast milk has way protein if breast milk has

40:38 way protein why are you telling a patient not to have protein powder because it's way so doctors many of them don't even know the entire filtration process how way protein is done because it's not something that we're taught I don't blame them but they'll have a standard line because somewhere they've heard from someone and they are also following the myth that protein supplementation is harmful creatin creatin are you a professional athlete so many doctors actually think that

41:03 creatine is a ban substance yeah they don't even know that creatine supplementation is excellent for mental cognitive Health it is excellent for your brain health also and excellent for athletic performance and output absolutely safe to take so actually in fact I've covered at least 10 supplements in my book and I hope doctors read this also because even though the book is completely addressed to the Common Man there is so much information out there that even doctors

41:26 may not have known in fact I'll be open and say that out of 101 there were five or six myths that even I it's not that I thought they were myths but I got to learn so much more when I did research about them even I didn't have answers to all 101 so that's how uh vast the topics are but coming to my supplement stash way protein for sure I'm a veg plus egg eater it's very difficult for me to hit

41:46 my protein goals if I'm not eating meat but it's not impossible but I choose to consume way protein because there's only so much paner tofu that I can consume there's only so much I can have throughout the day and based on my weight and the and the goals that I want to hit I need we protein second creatine monohydrate I do not go without 5 G of creatin monohydrate and this is the most researched supplement in the world and I

42:12 know doctors or health content creators sometimes leave a disclaimer that consult your doctor or nutritionist before taking this supplement I can say with confidence every human listening to this irrespective of your age uh adults should be on 5 G of creatine monohydrate every day till the day they die mhm even if you are 85 even if you are 45 even if you are 25 even if you are a man even if you are a woman anyone even if you

42:41 exercising even if you're not exercising and it is not an expensive supplement 5 G creatine monohydrate every day I'll say this for this one supplement please consume it so that's creatine monohydrate when it comes third I think Omega 3 100% big yes for me uh and again something everyone can consume because it's very difficult even for a non-w eater to say that I'm having it Seafood that I'm getting all the omega-3 that my body requires in a day so these are

43:08 three that I think are non-negotiable and you don't really require a doctor's prescription for apart from them based on my dietary preferences my goals I also take magnesium uh I also take a vitamin D3 and K2 uh but yeah these are probably the five common ones sometimes maybe a vitamin B I'll add because again again with vegetarians your vitamin B B12 B6 not going to be that high but I'm not that regular with it but these are the

43:33 five that I consume uh personally uh the first three definitely everyone can consume the others based on your requirements based on if it's if it's something you need to take right and any recommended timing that you would recommend I feel like everybody talks about the supplement nobody talks about the right time to take it correct correct so when it comes to way protein and creatine these are more about your body's daily intake you can take them

43:55 any time there's a huge Fitness thing that oh my Godin sh like there's actually people who will not even wait to go home and have their protein powder because so they'll carry the Shaker they'll add the water outside the gym and have it because someone's told them that for maximum efficiency within 10 to 15 minutes have your protein powder there's no such thing as long as you're getting the amount of proteins during the day yes I do agree there is some logic to

44:21 having it after a workout because your body needs a good source of protein post your workout but whether you have four eggs or whether you have paneer or whether you have way protein your body is still getting the protein you don't need to have it just 10 to 15 minutes lat so protein and creatine throughout the day whenever you want uh when it comes to omega-3 you should generally have it with a meal that has a decent

44:40 amount of fat so generally your lunch or dinner will have some fats obviously you will not have only a protein and carbage thing so post lunch or postner usually post lunch is when people have omega-3 when it comes to your fat soluble vitamins like vitamin D generally had after a good breakfast and when it comes to Vitamin B and those are water soluble you have it before food so this is roughly the time when you'll consume

45:01 them right another massive confusion especially with parents because children are constantly hurt and it barely gives you a moment to think hot and cold compression when's the right time for what so uh I'm sure you get a lot of that absolutely that's in fact one of my most viral videos as well is hot and cold hot and cold so uh always whenever anyone is hurt injured fallen down it's always ice so anything acute acute is if

45:33 it has happened within the last 48 hours we call it acute you have to put ice what ice will do is it will obviously decrease the inflammation and decrease all the swelling that is localized it will make the area feel numb which will give an additional pain relief yeah uh anything that is chronic chronic I know it's tough to say chronic is more than 48 hours usually chronic is used for more than 7 Days pain so it's usually

45:57 your muscular pains in your back or for arthritis patients it's knee pain which is just chronic it's there it's not happened because of any incident that is where heat heating pads or anything else hot water bags can be used uh what they will do is it will increase the circulation in that area and cause relaxation of those muscles which will make the patient feel good o with a significant social following a nutrition company a practice which is you know uh

46:27 doing very well for a 31 32 32 years old um why they need to write a book like what did you think would be different yeah so I think the book is more of an extension to my social media kind of line of work because it stems from the misinformation that I found on social media right so uh the motivation was only because when I was scrolling res I was like come on you can't be serious

46:52 you can't be serious and at times I really don't think the person creating the video is just not in the knowhow I think they're purposely doing it because they know this is what will get millions of views right so have you cracked the code on there I'm trying I'm trying to crack it come on I'm sure you'll be surprised how it changes every 6 months I've had a very slow six months in terms of growth but I'm also realizing that

47:15 the kind of statements people start their videos with is often misleading but then they come to a point so they're finding ways to get people's attention at the end of the day we're all fighting for everyone's attention so it stemmed from that misinformation so it it's kind of like an extension I wanted to create something that doesn't die down with virality yeah because while science does get updated most of these things will be relevant even 30 40 years from now

47:43 whether the book is relevant I won't know but the idea is to create something that outlives virality and that was the motivation behind putting it in print U I'm also a sucker for new challenges and uh it gives me that of adrenaline rush that can I do this let's test myself so that is the motivation for me that so I'm looking for now the next thing let's see what Happ what's the next thing I haven't found it are we

48:10 going to switch places are you starting off I have had a few ask me that but I've realized it's it's quite a time consuming and difficult thing maybe someday when the time is right uh currently the next thing is my five-month old baby and I want to make him you know a mini project in terms of you know no please as a parenting coach I'm telling you please do not make your children your project do not fair I

48:35 should not use that word use that word but I'm looking at it from a point of time investment right if I start something new it takes a significant amount of my time out of somewhere which I feel I've already you know alloted to in terms of me being there for my child and also enjoying my journey of father I'm not trying to play a very selfless card that oh my God I'm probably doing it out of

48:56 selfishness also that because when I watch him smile it makes me happy so I'm doing it from a probably a selfish angle as well uh but that's the focus for a while I I I don't want to diversify more and more I want to now be a little more concentrated and try and Excel at each of the three four things that I'm into right and tell me with kids playing a lot less today do you see as an arthor

49:17 do you see different problems that parents come with with related to um bone health and children do you see different like maybe like curved structures not not necessarily no that's not something that would happen uh you say kids are playing lesser the issue is they're just playing on their iPads that's the issue they're not going out and playing as much as possible and what the impact uh so again uh it is just about trying to make them aware that

49:47 please take these screens away right the the screens again this is not an anti-c screen thing because it's practically impossible not to give a child a screen forever it's more about controlling the amount of time they get or controlling what they watch because everything is going to be on their mind uh they're going to be discussing those things with other kids they're going to be asking you questions about it but it's more about the screen dependency I I do know

50:11 of a few uh parents whose kids will not eat unless the screen is in front of them or they will cry or they will make a scene and you will be so fed up or embarrassed in a social setting like screen and suddenly that is okay so that is the bigger issue it's about finding that thing that gives them the dopamine kick is it the screen or is it is it a board game is it a story book is it a

50:37 sport is it going out and playing yeah so for me I started lawn tennis coaching when I was 3 years old I started football coaching when I was 4 and A2 so I was introduced to sports so early of course we we were in a separate era where screens were not as as thing but TV was there when I was a kid so I could have watched TV instead of iPad but for me I could not wait to go out and play I

51:01 was one of the only kids in my school of friend Circle who never owned a PlayStation or a Game Boy so I never got into that and that was a big thing when I was growing up that oh do you have a PlayStation do you play FIFA all day I I never got those things fact when I was in college a lot of people used to Bunk classes and go to those uh cyber cafes and play Counter Strike for hours I

51:19 never got into that because I had coaching to get to and play tournaments so just because I was put into it at that young ande AG that go out and play whether it is with your Society people Road people staying around your house whether it is in school whether it is Sport it just became a part of my life and it gave me a certain feeling of satisfaction which exists even till today i' I'd much rather go and play a

51:42 sport then go for a movie yeah so it it just became a part of my routine and something that I'm forever thankful to my parents and grandparents for to be very honest yeah but you still didn't answer my question that how are you seeing parents come up with different concern so that not say there is any direct implication to bone health because of lack of physical activity like posture or neck or it's too early it's too early you'll be surprised how

52:09 uh how age plays a huge role in that so whether it's a 5-year-old kid or a 12-year-old kid the body is very forgiving so even if they watch 7 hours of screen time I will not see them come with neck pain but if you and me are 8 hours on the screen or constantly with our neck flexed or constantly on a bad posture and are not working on our muscle flexibility Mobility we will face these problems so I do not see any

52:33 direct implication to bone and joint health because of all these habits but that's not because it's okay to do it's just because the human body is very forgiving for the first 18 to 25 years of your life when it comes to Bone and Joint heal the issues will generally pile on later on right okay before we conclude uh what are the words or adjectives that are commonly associated with Dr Manan oh both on screen and off screen on

52:59 screen and offs screen okay uh I'd like to believe they're very similar because uh even though you started this podcast by saying you looked angry on screen but you don't look angry on off screen so I'd like to believe that they're very similar because I don't think I'm putting on a show online I'm being very much myself uh even though you've given me more things to think about uh okay we're going to edit that intro no no

53:20 please don't so uh I think uh very good question because usually there's others giving me those words and here I'm put on the spot uh and that wasn't part of the Q yeah absolutely so I think the few are you saying what what is it already Associated or what would I like the words to be Associated already asso so I think uh definitely in terms of uh hard work okay I think people

53:52 associate me with hard work whereas I personally associate myself as a smart worker not a hard worker I don't think I'm the most hardworking person but I definitely feel I'm very smart uh secondly when it comes to personal time I think I'm definitely associated with being someone who's pretty family oriented and spends a lot of time with family more than friends maybe and I think that's very true I think uh I would genuinely spend my friends

54:16 watching this would be funny but I would genuinely spend more time with family than with friends I think that also stems with my likes and dislikes being a lot more family oriented because I don't smoke I don't drink I don't not a huge fan of clubbing or dancing or being in crowded places which is generally what people between the age of are you only 32 I am only 32 I am not uh I did go for

54:37 cold playay though just two days ago that was also because my wife is a lot into music it's not something that I would have otherwise done so because of that my likes and dislikes are also a lot more like you know family kind of why that let's have a nice games night at home or just everyone be at home have a nice quiet dinner or go to a place which is not very noisy most places nowadays have that so family or ented

54:56 definitely hard work which I don't fully agree with smart work uh but I think one thing is discipline which is something that I think is true to a point uh I am pretty disciplined in the sense of sticking to a particular routine and doing things that are monotonous even though they may come across as cre of habit sorry are you a creature of habit I'm absolutely a creature of habit having said that it's also that I'm not

55:21 the most successful at changing things up so sometimes the change takes longer for me as well it so doesn't HK me I don't think it HKS me but you go off mode when things don't go as for schedule no yeah I don't that way I don't uh but uh I like a certain so for example I swear by my Google Calendar okay like my Google Calendar my team by the end of this four episode podcast is

55:47 going to say just the previous episode we were talking about Google Calendar and my obsession my Google Calendar decides my day and my routine and I love it that way I and there are times I'm not the only one that that there are times I don't even know what I've written over there cuz I've blocked it some other time but if it's written in the calendar it will be followed so I think that discipline is there that's a good uh

56:11 thing that that people who are worthy enough to make it on this couch are following that common thing that they have that level of discipline and I think the last thing would be a kind of a go-getting attitude because I think I do have that and I think my audience online has also perceived that I've I've got a lot of messages from even other influencers and creators saying that constantly chasing the yeah I I see you

56:35 as very actually angry is the wrong word I feel you're very restless I would agree to that I would agree to that and that has I think it has its pros as well as its cons as well right I can't meditate huh I can't do that at all I don't know how people just sit and meditate I I can't do journaling I can't do meditation this is the opening line this opening edit and I've taken corporate Wellness webinars where I've

56:58 spoken about the importance of because I believe in the importance it's just that I can't do it so I am preaching there which I can't follow and I am very restless but it doesn't my go getting attitude or thing does not come from a oh my God I feel I have not achieved enough I want to achieve more it's just that when I see a go that to cannot happen because you won't cut down 3 days of work I will add

57:23 three days of work so it comes from I like having a goal in sight and then strategizing or navigating a way to reaching there so that is the purpose or the happiness that I get in doing that it's not from oh my God I'm very much happy to live in the present reach there give myself a pat on the back then find the next thing I want to work towards so I think these are the few words that I would like to uh

57:47 associate with myself okay last few rapid fire questions sure describe Manan as a father I would say present okay as a husband emotionally available he's giving all the freaking right answers no wonder he's got this insane following you're giving all picture perfect answers but I I believe in those answers I would be I I'll be vulnerable as well wherever my failures I'll be happy to share those as well

58:19 what would you like to work on in 2025 I would like to uh work on and I shared this with my followers as well very openly I I failed at three things last year one is I was uh supposed to set up my Orthopedic practice and kind of launch it which I was supposed to do and I wasn't able to find time to do it and because of all the other things I took up I I failed at that second was I'm

58:44 also pursuing my PhD uh at this time as well I was supposed to submit my PhD progress and I've completely missed that by 6 months so I failed at that as well third is I had a Personal Fitness goal of getting to 16% body fat which would mean I have to lose at least 8 to 10 kgs of fat and I challenged myself openly to a 60-day cut which would mean having a huge calorie deficit for 60 days I

59:09 failed on day 21 Diwali and all came I started eating and enjoying so these three things I really failed at in 24 and I want to not have new goals but get back to these three in 25 so let's see where I am in 25 okay super thank you so much for this conversation thank you for having parenting tips celebrity interviews recipes conversations with experts DIYs and lots more subscribe to kidstop press now