FOOD IS MEDICINE

Eat Like You Prescribe, Live Like You Heal by Dr. Abhishek Gilara Most people eat to fit in. The wise eat to heal. In this sharp, practical, and deeply personal book, Dr. Abhishek Gilara shows how to treat every meal like a medical prescription with timing, dosage, and source, all while protecting your health from social pressure and trend-driven confusion. Drawing on insights from his bestselling works (Free But Forgotten, Glow Like a Gentleman, The Silent Professor, The Peace Equation) and the rigorous coaching of his fitness mentor Megha, Dr. Gilara offers a system that is simple enough to start today and strong enough to last a lifetime. Inside, you’ll learn:
• The Medicine Model of Eating: a 5-part framework—Timing, Dosage, Source, Review, Boundaries to turn food into daily therapy.
• Circadian Eating: why when you eat is as critical as what you eat—and how to align meals with your body’s clock.
• Precision Portions: the 75% rule to avoid the twin poisons of overeating and undereating without counting every calorie.
• Source as Certification: a clear method to choose food like you would choose a drug—trusted, clean, and right for you.
• Social Immunity: scripts and strategies to navigate parties, travel, and peer pressure—without derailing your health.
• Personalisation over Popularisation: how to stop copying other people’s diets and start honouring your own body’s prescription.