The person behind The Dietary Doctor.

At seventeen, I stopped getting my period. Eight, nine months went by. I gained twenty kilos. Nobody could tell me why.

The diagnosis, when it came, was PCOD. The treatment offered was oral contraceptive pills — and that was the whole plan. Take the pills, and a bleed will arrive on schedule.

What nobody explained is that the bleed you get on OCPs is a withdrawal bleed, not a restored cycle. It is not ovulation returning. The pill was managing the calendar while the insulin resistance, the androgens and the weight gain underneath carried on untouched. I was seventeen and being handed a way to stop noticing the problem.

A decade later, it is still the default answer for most girls who walk into that appointment.

So I went the other way. I changed how I ate, how I slept, how I moved — not a detox, not a crash, but the slow structural work of getting insulin down and giving my body enough to run a cycle on. The periods came back. The twenty kilos came off. It held.

That is when this stopped being a personal problem and became a career. I did my Bachelor's, then my Master's in Foods & Human Nutrition — the university gold medal at both. I worked at PGIMER Chandigarh and in clinical dietetics across multi-speciality hospitals, where I saw the same pattern arriving in women twice my age — years of symptoms, no mechanism ever explained. I am now a PhD Researcher in Nutrition, because the questions I had at seventeen turned out to be research questions.

Every plan I write starts from that appointment I sat in. You should leave knowing what is actually happening in your body — and what to do about it.