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HEALTHY LIVING BLOG

Thank you for visiting my Healthy Living blog!

I’m excited to bring you the latest information about research and advancements in modern medicine, as well as practical tips on how to maintain your good health for years to come.

This blog will also be used to post updates about my recent activities and keep in touch with my patients and followers, cultivating an informative and interactive network.

I invite you to share this information with your friends and family. If you have a question about a medical condition or something you’ve seen in the news, simply use the contact form on this page to reach me. -- Dr. Kumar

Taking Vitamins May Not Be That Helpful, Study Finds

Vitamins may not be that helpful. That is the headline that comes from the most recent US Preventative Task Force’s Recommendation Statement published in JAMA on the evidence of benefit to harm of vitamin supplements. As is our wont, we should dig a little deeper… The vitamin industry is big. A Google search will yield…

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Monkeypox

Monkeypox is in the news. If it weren’t for the pandemic, it might not be as scary. Now we are primed to frightened of any spread of infectious disease, especially ones of which we are unfamiliar. Best thing is to familiarize. Monkeypox is a cousin to small pox coming from the same family, Poxviridae, a…

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Stroke Awareness

A stroke is a heart attack of the brain. Just like lack of blood flow to the heart causes muscle loss, chest pain, and arrhythmias, lack of blood flow to the brain causes weakness, slurred speech, and paralysis. This happens to 800,000 Americans a year and causes nearly 140,000 deaths. That is why May is…

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Hepatitis in Children

There are just some things you can’t explain. The rising cases of acute hepatitis in kids is one of them. In the U.S. about 109 cases have been reported as of Friday May 6, 2022. The median age of the children is 2 and none over age 10. They’ve all tested negative for the routine…

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Sleep and Weight

Two of my favorite topics are the benefits of sleep and how to maintain a lower steady state weight. (Notice how I worded that–very technically accurate). So you can imagine my excitement when I ran across this study out of the University of Chicago and Wisconsin published in JAMA Internal Medicine. In a very well…

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Tracking COVID Through Wastewater

Everyone poops. I learned that from children’s books from when my kids were little. I’ve also earned a living learning that lesson (i.e I’m a gastroenterologist). Since COVID is shed in poop, one way to track population experience of the pandemic is by testing wastewater. In communities throughout the country, public and private enterprises have…

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Omicron Coronavirus Variant

The Delta variant of the coronavirus got it’s start in India. Over a billion densely populated humans was good fodder for a SARS-CoV2 mutation that made it more transmissible. We should recall the dark days before vaccination when funeral pyres were burning 24/7 in the Subcontinent. Delta spread quickly and was soon the predominant strain…

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Experimental COVID-19 Drug

MOLNUPIRAVIR–the new Merck drug Merck partnering with Ridgeback Pharma has asked for Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA for it’s oral drug, Molnupiravir (Moll new peer ah veer). If 8 pills a day are taken for 5 days in the early days of an active COVID infection, they claim a 50% reduced risk of hospitalization…

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Dr. Kumar Shares His Journey as an Immigrant With Fox 7

Dr. Kumar was recently featured on Fox 7 News Austin about his journey as an immigrant. You can watch the story here. As lawmakers face pressure to find solutions to U.S. immigration systems, a familiar face to Good Day Austin, shares his journey as an immigrant. Dr. Pradeep Kumar is a regular on Fox 7 Austin, his segment ‘Your…

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Coffee and liver cancer

I get to talk about something I love, coffee! If you haven’t noticed, any decent study about the benefits of coffee, I discuss. I promote. I make people aware. Coffee is awesome! But in some respects, what I am enamored with is the UK Biobank study that gives us this information, moreso than the information…

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COVID in India

A crazy surge of COVID in India is overwhelming their health care system and wreaking havoc across the country. The previous peak of new cases during their summer surge was roughly 90,000 cases/day, now it’s over 300,000 cases/day and the numbers are only going to get worse before it gets any better. It is personally,…

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COVID Variants and Kids with COVID

First, Variants. Why do I feel like I’m on the set of Bladerunner? Cells mutate. They all do. Viruses, while not cells, mutate, too. Coronovirus mutates. When a mutation results in the virus behaving differently or looking differently, let’s call it a variant. There have been 3 variants described in the United States. The B.1.1.7…

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Dr. Kumar’s mission is to educate the public about their health. To that end, he had a call in radio show, The Dr. Kumar Show on TALK Radio 1370 from 2003 to 2009. It received the Anson Jones MD Award for Physician Excellence in Reporting from the Texas Medical Association. Dr. Kumar has also been doing a segment on FOX 7 Austin on Wednesday mornings since 2005. That, too, won an Anson Jones MD Award. He is dedicated to the proposition that people can understand science if it is explained without scientific jargon.

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