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Dear Friends,
I never wanted to become a doctor. I always wanted to write and tell stories. And yet, over the years, medicine gave me the most extraordinary stories I could never have imagined - stories that lived in hospital corridors, outpatient rooms and inside terrifying ICUs; in the trembling hands of a father carrying his jaundiced daughter, in the silence between a prognosis spoken and a family's world shattered.
Today, I am proud and deeply moved to announce my first book, The Liver Doctor: Stories of Love, Loss and Regeneration, published by @HarperCollinsIN .
This book is where my two worlds finally collide.
My childhood love for writing and telling stories. And my adultdhood, as a medical doctor.
Through the lives of real patients and their families - their courage, their grief, their impossible choices - I tell the story of the most misunderstood, most indispensable, and only self-regenerating organ in the human body: the liver.
But this is not just a medical book. It is a journey through ancient myth and modern science, through Prometheus and Wilson's disease, through Mesopotamian clay tablets and liver transplant waiting lists, through the history of healing itself.
I wrote it for doctors, so they may remember why they chose this life. I wrote it for patients and families, so they may know when to fight and when to find peace. I wrote it for myself, to make peace with what I have lost and what I will lose.
This book shoulders that one truth I have learned in all my years at the clinical bedside: I did not become a doctor to help people cheat death, but to help them understand it.
This book is my offering - to medicine, to storytelling, and to you. Lose yourself in these pages, as I have.
Pre-orders are open now
The Liver Doctor : Stories of Love, Loss and Regeneration - amzn.in/d/0duTenmW
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Dear friends, I will be in Bangalore next weekend (19-21 of June) and will be speaking at this event. It is going to be a mind-blowing one hour session from me, followed by audience interaction which will also feature book signing (The Liver Doctor: Stories of Love, Loss and Regeneration) at the venue.
If you are around, and would like to hear me speak and get my new non-fiction book personally signed, please come!
Please note that this is a registered event and will be in English: essenseglobal.com/event/rena…
Date: June 21, 2026
Location: ECA Hall, Indiranagar, Bengaluru
P.S: there are other book signing events also in Bangalore, and I will update them in a few days time
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TheLiverDoc™ retweeted
The Liver Doctor: Stories of love, loss and regeneration
an insightful and very engaging book for both medical and non-medical readers, also easy to understand and fascinating to read.
Thank you @theliverdoc !! #booktwitter
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Jun 13
Good morning! Just got to know this!
1/2 A whole government Ministry is unleashed on me - because I speak against unscientific practices and primitive traditional healthcare that can harm, I communicate scientific information for public and patients alike.
This was an official memo released during the Ministry of Ayush meeting on 12-6-2026 fully dedicated towards shutting down my social media presence.
Imagine - the people in this meeting were eating biscuits and drinking tea, paid for by the citizens of the country - to decide how to gag and shutdown a citizen doctor who educates people on medical science via social media.
Yesterday, my Instagram account was briefly hacked, but I got back control and removed unauthorized access within an hour.
The Article 51A(h) of the Indian Constitution outlines the fundamental duty of every citizen to develop a "scientific temper, humanism, and the spirit of inquiry and reform". Added during the 42nd Amendment in 1976, this non-justiciable directive promotes logical reasoning, critical thinking, and rationality.
The Ayush system is not scientific, it kills scientific temper, it does not promote the spirit of inquiry, it lacks logical reasoning, has the deadest version of critical thinking and none of its products and practices are rational.
The only thing that needs to be shut down, is an unscientific body like Ayush that goes against the Indian Constitution and wastes public tax money... and not me.
Also, please look closely at the person at the end, who is copied to, by the Ministry. His name is Vaidya K P Manikandan and he is the owner and founder of CNS Ayurveda Hospital, where children are treated for chronic conditions such as severe mental health disorders, autism and epilepsy (please see an official release from the hospital in the next post). One such victim of his was saved by my team (we reported it: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3629…) and he put a criminal defamation case against me and the authors (for publishing a scientific peer reviewed paper!) which was later "stayed" by the High Court of Kerala.
This has nothing to do with service to patients, but everything to do with protecting the business of alternative medicine (especially Ayurveda). These low life complaintants should be ashamed.
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2/2 Addendum: These are the so-called Ayurveda specialists under Vaidya K P Manikandan claiming to have expertise in treating severe illnesses. For example, they claim on this poster that all psychiatric disorders are digestive disorders and discuss illogical matters such as "gut fire" as the reason (and they claim Ayurveda is not pseudoscientific - please fools, give us a break already). Parents and public are misled into these kind of treatment centers and are endangered. Education against such endangerment of childrens health should be promoted, not gagged.
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TheLiverDoc™ retweeted
Jun 12
Why Non-Alcoholics get Cirrhosis: Role of Metabolic Disorders, poor sleep and genetics explained
#HealthWealth #FattyLiver #Cirrhosis | @Sonal_MK
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Jun 12
Dear friends,
The Liver Doctor: Stories of Love, Loss and Regeneration audiobook is now live. You can find it on Audible, and it's also available on all major audiobook platforms worldwide.
Link: audible.in/pd/The-Liver-Doct…
Published by @HarperCollinsIN
Beautifully read by Abhijit Chanda @berationable
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TheLiverDoc™ retweeted
Jun 11
Think only alcohol causes fatty liver and cirrhosis? Think again! @theliverdoc explains how metabolic issues like diabetes and obesity cause MASLD (formerly NAFLD) in non-alcoholics. Watch the video to protect your liver!
| @Sonal_MK
#GlobalFattyLiverDay #MASLD
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TheLiverDoc™ retweeted
Jun 11
Can popular herbal supplements do more harm than good?
In this explosive conversation, renowned hepatologist Dr Cyriac Abby Philips, popularly known as @theliverdoc, discusses why he has repeatedly raised concerns about products containing Giloy, Ashwagandha and concentrated Turmeric supplements.
He explains the scientific evidence behind supplement-related #liver injury, the regulatory loopholes in the wellness industry, and why #consumers should be cautious about claims marketed as "natural" and "safe."
@kartikeya_1975 #Healthcare
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Jun 11
Dear friends, I was featured at length and spoke about my -
● Debut book - The Liver Doctor: Stories of Love, Loss and Regeneration published by Harper Collins India, as well as
● Liver health and diseases
● Alcohol and health
● Battling health misinformation/pseudoscience
● Dangerous herbs for the liver and...
● Diet and the liver...
...On Point With Kartikeya Sharma for News9
Please watch our interesting conversation here:
youtube.com/live/YzgYyV3hbcw…
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TheLiverDoc™ retweeted
Jun 11
He has taken on #wellness myths, unproven remedies and the business of pseudoscience. Known as The #Liver Doc, Dr Cyriac Abby Philips joins us to discuss misinformation, alternative #medicine, and why evidence must come before belief.
@kartikeya_1975 @theliverdoc
x.com/i/broadcasts/1vJpPPVlo…
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Jun 11
South Indian filter coffee and it's 200MP shot and Tiramisu French Toast and it's beautifully chaotic detail.
Breakfast at 90-Million-Coffee ☕
#cometokochi
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Jun 11
News now: A young 'physician' in his early 40s working as medical officer at an Ayush Primary Health Center and an executive member of one of the leading Association of Homeopathy practitioners, developed infected diabetic ulcer related complications leading to progressive leg infection and sepsis with multiple organ injury. They took him to a proper hospital where, to control the source, they even chopped his infected leg. But it was too late and even that did not help and he eventually died of septic shock and multiple organ failure. He was on Homeopathic management himself, for diabetes. The Homeopathy community is shocked. The Medical science community is not.
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Jun 10
Can anyone guess the number of times Gastroenterology and Hepatology societies in India have condemned the nearly 22 cases against me for promoting scientific temper and calling out unscientific and quack practices, and getting abused for publishing on alternative medicine related liver damages? - including police FIRs, criminal defamation, civil defamation, AYUSH Ministry legal harassment, police interrogations and various Ayurveda company and Ayurveda and Homeopathy-related groups/association frivolous lawsuits and police harassments?
Take a wild guess.
Reminder: The soldier is the army.
It's a huge to loss to every Indian young parent, and their child.
Dr Sivaranjani Santosh had resigned from the Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) ater an eight-year long fight against fruit-based, non-carbonated beverages marketing themselves as Oral Rehydration Solution
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TheLiverDoc™ retweeted
Jun 9
COMING SOON!
@theliverdoc has built one of India’s most fearless voices in scientific medicine.
Catch him in conversation with @AbhinandanSekhr where pulls no punches.
Subscribe now and stay tuned: rzp.io/rzp/prerel
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Jun 9
Don't call Homeopathy quacks ok. Don't call them quacks. Make note of it...the word not to use, is quacks.
See here, check the comments:
instagram.com/p/DZW3PR4jy9l/…
#mustread via @newslaundry
newslaundry.com/2026/06/09/d…
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Jun 9
The alternative medicine industry and its practitioners in India have been given immunity against criticims from the medical science community by the Government of India and AYUSH Ministry, through the recently amended Information Technology rules via the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of India, that include gagging, silencing and automated deletion of content which they feel will make the Govt "look bad". The rules were extended to include independent content creators, podcasters, and influencers, bringing news-related online posts under the same "code of ethics" used for traditional media.
They have now started using this against medical science communicators and doctors online. My post on Instagram went into automated removal (those in India cannot see it) after they found it was critical of Homeopathy practice.
This essentially means that science communicators are not allowed to call out unscientific practices and practitioners for their pseudoscientific, fradulent and quackery filled practices, but they are allowed to post images and videos of such practices online without any accountability or repurcussions.
This has come after my work and interviews in the last few weeks have throughly dismantled the Homeopathy community in India followed by large body of written and video content that supported the fact that Homeopathy is not medical care, but a pre-scientific era artefact that survives because of State support, legal protection and stakes in business of medical care.
The Homeopathy community sees this as a win. All the others, see them as cowards. Banning people from talking about unscientific practices, does not make unscientific practices, scientific. It just makes it more evident that "criminals need paid policmen and protected ghettos to hide from the real police".
Jun 8
The government of India is blocking my posts on Instagram that criticizes Homeopathy based on a directive from the Homeopathy Council. This is very shameful of the government...protecting pseudoscience and it's practitioners from scientific scrutiny.
This is the post: instagram.com/p/DZVLii3AdTQ/…
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The government of India is blocking my posts on Instagram that criticizes Homeopathy based on a directive from the Homeopathy Council. This is very shameful of the government...protecting pseudoscience and it's practitioners from scientific scrutiny.
This is the post: instagram.com/p/DZVLii3AdTQ/…
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Add-on: This is utter nonsense. This is proof that the Homeopathy community can survive only if it has protection from it's so called regulators and the government. Absolutely pathetic move!
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Jun 8
I dont know how you are going to do it...
...but MAKE SURE you watch this freaking brilliant crime thriller.
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