Nikhil Kamath - WTF is Health? : Health and fitness fundas from multi-millionaires

 

This is a fairly new podcast that started earlier this year where Nikhil Kamath hosts a bunch of his friends to talk about topics that are buzzing on the internet. 

The last episode was on "Health" and the best so far in my opinion. This one had very interesting panel - Suniel Shetty (the actor), Nithin Kamath (Zerodha's co-founder) and Mukesh Bansal (serial entrepreneur best known for Myntra and Cure.fit). 

In the podcast, all of the panelists provided their take on health, fitness and their own journeys. This podcast was particularly interesting for me as a listener because it provided a sneak peak into the world of the super rich and super successful multi-millionaires of urban India and how they lead their lives. 

Here are a few interesting thoughts I harvested from this 2 hour long podcast.

1. Sleep, food and exercise are the fundamentals for good health.
2. The panelists all spoke about experimenting with food, supplements, different exercise routines and other habits in their quest to get better at their health journey.
3. There is a very logical, business-like approach that they took to the health. Everything that they did or do - like trying intermittent fasting, quitting drinking, taking supplements, all of it is dictated by risk-reward ratios. 
4. Health is also very personal - though sleep, food and exercise are the fundamentals, the details of they play with these 3 primary factors are all different.
5. There was also a lot of importance given to recovery - from massages to cold plunges to sauna -- all seem to be staples for these folks. This is one topic that is not often discussed and is quite an intriguing topic for me to dig more into.
6. There is also a common habit of experimenting with new ideas when it comes to health and they are constantly learning from how their body responds and what new information comes out from medical research. 
7. Another concept that was new to me was the talk about men's health and how there is hormonal imbalance even in men after a particular age and how it's important to get that checked.

Overall, it was a very informative and insightful podcast that I would recommend everyone to watch and not just listen to. On a side note, the banter between with the Kamath brothers was quite fun to watch and showed the strength of their sibling bond.

Also, a request to Nikhil Kamath to bring in more such interesting panels - add some female panelists, bring sportsmen like Rahul Dravid, MS Dhoni (if possible).