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Description: 5 DELICIOUS DINNER RECIPES to support your weight loss: chefaj.com/5-delicious-low-fat-dinner-recipes ----------------------------------------------------------- Dr Rajiv Bajekal (MS, FRCS Orth. MCh Orth. IBLM) is a Consultant Spinal Surgeon practicing in London on the National Health Service at the Royal Free Hospital and privately at multiple central and North London hospitals. He did his undergraduate training at JIPMER (Pondicherry) and his Postgraduate training in Orthopaedics and Trauma at the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi which has a busy Spinal Unit. In the UK since 1991 he had trained in Norwich for his basic surgical training and the at the Royal Free Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore for his Registrar training before starting his Consultant post with an interest in Spinal Surgery in 1998. He is a very experienced Clinician with a surgical practice mainly in the lumbar spine with a keen interest in managing Sciatica, low back pain, Spinal Stenosis, Osteoporotic fractures and infections. He is particularly keen to find simple and often non-surgical solutions for patients in severe pain and practices lifestyle medicine to look at problems more holistically rather than just the presenting problem. Four years ago, he found he was developing diabetes and in fact had some complications of this. He weighed 27 Kg more than he did when he first came to the UK. He chanced upon a documentary called Forks Over Knives and adopted a whole food plant-based diet with the help of his wife who was an ethical vegan. Within a year he had a complete remission of his diabetes and lost 27 kg reaching a healthy weight. He and his wife decided to qualify in lifestyle medicine and have been Diploma holders from the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine since 2018. As a qualified Lifestyle medicine practitioner, he now applies the principles to his day to day practice and feels he can provide a better service to his patients. He is a senior examiner for the FRCS Trauma and Orthopaedic Examination and lectures widely Nationally and Internationally for General Practitioners and is part of a group called Total Orthopaedics which provides High quality patient focussed care. When not working, he loves walking his dogs, exercising, and cycling. He travels widely with his wife of 35 years who is a Consultant Gynaecologist. He loves to discuss his own journey of weight loss (60 lb) in order to put his diabetes into remission. This is featured on his Instagram instagram.com/drrajivbajekal He has a comprehensive website rajivbajekal.com featuring areas of interest and specialisation. Although he is a spinal surgeon, he has a holistic practice looking at integration of lifestyle into day-to-day ailments affecting the back and other areas, with a whole food plant based nutrition being centre stage on it. He will be happy to discuss common conditions affected by lifestyle and diet such as frozen shoulders, anterior knee pain, back and neck pain, sciatica, osteoarthritis of joints, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis and any other musculoskeletal issues. To contact Dr. Bakejal rajivbajekal.com ----------------------------------------------------------- VIDEO CHAPTERS 00:00 Guest introduction and the doctor's plant-based journey 0:09:30 Chef AJ Q & A including a spine model Dr. Bajekal uses to demonstrate 0:20:35 Viewer Q & A including on Osteoporosis and Sciatica 0:52:33 Viewer Q & A on Calcium and exercise/standing vs sitting 1:02:45 Viewer Q & A on Supplements for Bone Health, Rebounding and Spinal Stenosis 1:16:50 Viewer Q & A on how to cook your greens for bone health and more on Osteoporosis 1:23:00 Email Q & A portion 1:35:56 Final thoughts and show wrap