
I chanced upon getting to know Colonel Gautam Guha a few years back in 2020 when he was at his best sharing his learnings and impacting lives.
Col Gautam Guha is an Infantry Officer from the Indian Army of the 1990 NDA batch. Like any other military man, Gautam had served in varied operational locations throughout his service including the lofty heights of Siachen Glacier, and also served on deputation with the elite NSG (Black Cats). His health deteriorated after a spinal injury in 2013. He started to put on weight after that and was diagnosed with Diabetes (T2) in Dec 2015 at Military Hospital Trivandrum. As part of the Army's routine medical procedures, he later became a permanent medical category (P3) for Metabolic Syndrome in 2016 with ailments like Hypertension, Dyslipidemia, early onset of Hypothyroidism and Obesity (besides Diabetes T2).
In the year 2018, the officer reversed his Diabetes and other ailments with diet, exercise and lifestyle corrections and officially got upgraded in his medical board in 2019. Besides getting rid of all his medications, he also lost 37 kg in this process. For the past two years, after his story was made public by ADGPI ( Additional Directorate General of Public Information), Integrated Headquarters, Ministry of Defence (IHQ of MoD) on its social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, because of which more people started approaching him, Colonel Gautam Guha embarked upon a journey with a social cause to spread the awareness of ‘Diabetes & Obesity Reversal’ and has helped hundreds of people from all walks of life reverse their lifestyle diseases including Hypertension, Dyslipidemia, Hypothyroidism and PCOS besides Diabetes.
Colonel Guha is a living example that Diabetes can be reversed and this podcast captures his experience and views in his own words!
He is a motivational health speaker and has spoken at numerous forums including platforms like Health Care Product Summit (HCPS) 2020 at Hyderabad in Jan 2020. He has his own YouTube channel and also made health groups on WhatsApp and telegram app where he guides people through their reversal journey and helps them to lead a medicine-free life.