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Tell me about your vision. My vision is to influence people's lifestyles with eating and,

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you know, having helping people lead the best quality of life they can. I feel like being with

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and associated with people who are happy and are feeling good and feeling healthy are just so much

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more fulfilling to be with. And so just creating that community and increasing everybody's quality

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of life and vibration is my vision. That's awesome. Tell me more about that. Where did this all

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started come from and what gets you out of bed every morning? Yeah, so this all started with my

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youngest child being diagnosed on the autism spectrum. And as a scientist, you know, I was

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kind of definitely trying to solve the problem. And when I was observing her symptoms, it just

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seemed like she was chronically in pain, you know, like there was something that was really

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disturbing her ability to lead kind of a happy and just have a quality of life that one would

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associate at the two and a half, three years old of life. I did try the medical world and really

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wasn't finding a lot of answers at that point. And this is back in 2009, really kind of just

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being turned down about this or this test and such. And so I kind of took matters into my own hands

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and started to really look into gut brain connection, gut brain connection, especially

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when it came to food and started to experiment on my daughter as well as myself and changing our

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foods. And when I came across like taking out gluten and casein, which is a significant class

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of proteins, you know, one class of proteins found in wheat, gluten and casein found in dairy,

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I saw some improvements and it got me kind of just going down this rabbit hole of why are these

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proteins contributing to her symptoms? What about the other proteins? And I'm a protein chemist by

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trade. And so I went down the rabbit hole. And that's when I came to this association of the

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processing of proteins in the diet, in the American modern commercial world is creating glutamate

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through the processing of proteins. So we have gluten proteins being processed, the casein

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proteins being processed, like creating cheese. But then you have whey protein and soy protein and

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all of these various protein concentrates, isolates, hydrolysis sites that are breaking

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up the protein and contributing to, you know, an amino acid being freed called glutamate. So

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glutamic acid is one type of amino acid, but that is, you know, what leads to MSG monosodium

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glutamate. You just have a sodium ion in there and it becomes very addicting. It hijacks our

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taste receptors. It's associated with inflammation. And I found when I came across that clue and

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really went through, okay, I'm going down Google patents and food patents and such, and really

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went through the diet, my daughter's symptoms were, I mean, she changed. It was complete

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radical change in her demeanor from faceless, no expressions to just like this vibrant, you know,

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exuberant child, you know, happy on life, you know, literally waking up and saying, this is

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the best day ever, where before she would be crying and screaming for hours at a time, as if she was

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in pain or she was looping. So it was a complete dramatic change. So I started talking to other

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parents and parents helping parents, you know, local communities here in California. And people

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like, you've got to get this word out. Like, this is amazing. And so I decided to start

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unblindmymind.org, which was a nonprofit, and started to research the book, which was just

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published last year, which is Fat, Stressed and Sick, MSG Processed Foods and America's Health

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Crisis, and really just trying to get the word out there that these are things that we can take in

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control, you know, rather than looking for the medical, you know, world for answers, it really

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is a huge lifestyle change. Doctors are not trained with what's going on with the food

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processing right now. They're rarely asking patients what they eat. And so this is a whole

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other niche that I call myself the food doctor. It's an unmet need here in, you know, improving

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the health of our societies. But that's really where my passion and vision started. And, you

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know, I get out of bed in the morning thinking, Okay, you know, who can I influence today? What

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can I do for myself to continuously be on this journey?

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Wow, that's awesome. Wow, there is so much you said in that, that I have no clue what it is.

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I got the gist behind it. So what would you say with all the research and things that you

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accomplished? Like, where are you at with, with your business side of things with unblind my mind?

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And where do you see it going?

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You know, I, I, you know, just a very small operation here where I'm just looking to

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influence, you know, whether it's one bite at a time, one person at a time, one, you know,

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conference at a time, so getting invited to health conferences or autism conferences or chronic,

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you know, ailments, you know, I did work with a medical center for a number of years where I like

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to influence the medical world to be looking at these chronic inflammatory conditions from a

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variety of different lenses, not just throwing prescription drugs at it, but what can we do to

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really help, you know, sustainable approaches for improving patients' lives. And then the research

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is constantly out there with, you know, pharmaceutical companies with their glutamate

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blocker drugs that are just like mega, mega, you know, billions of dollars here where why take a

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glutamate blocker drug and not have a person look at how to reduce the consumption of glutamate in

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the foods first and foremost, see how well that goes. Now, of course, that approach is not a lot

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of money, right? So this is all about eating healthy. There's not a lot of money in that. And

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so, but I feel really passionate and feeling very authentic about spreading this word. And like I

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said, the book is also kind of part of how to spread the word. And that's my vision is just,

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you know, one bite at a time, improving people's health.

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Thank you for sharing that. And thank you for being bold to go that route because not a lot of

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people are. And we found like how many people have been bold in some times and they haven't had the

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best results because this billion dollar industry you're going against and they're not happy about

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that at all. Yeah, so it's big pharma and big food. I mean, they are not happy about, yeah, eat

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healthy. Yeah. And more and more people when they wake up to this reality that they realize like

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there's so much you can do on your side. And I think I've been saying this to myself and my family

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for I want to say at least four or five years now that I'm born and raised in India. Like,

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I don't think you can tell, but like I'm born and raised in India. And when I came to United States

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when I was 18 and I think a few years down the road, I was in college. I think I injured my low

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back. And I went to chiropractors and went to doctors and all those things. And they would just

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manage my symptoms and will not heal me. And I'm like, like years and years worth of money spent,

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years and years worth of therapy, this and that, none of them, none of them, not a single one of

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them was like, you can do these, these, these things that will actually improve your health.

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Your condition, you have issues in these areas that you destabilize your muscle so you can release

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your low back so that they can start healing it. No, they would just give me drugs or adjust me here,

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adjust me there, like chiropractors do. And so I was like, I don't think American medicine right

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now is meant to cure you. I think it's supposed to maybe treat your symptoms sometimes. Yeah,

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it's a bandaid approach. It is an expensive approach. And I think the American, you know,

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the amount of money that we spent percentage wise, you know, our percent GDP spent on health care,

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the outcomes are not reflected there. We are not a healthy nation relative to how much money we

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spend. And you know, I do think significantly it's our lifestyle. And food is a big part of that.

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Yeah. The, there's so many approaches to this. And I, yeah, thank you for sharing that. And

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I hope more and more people hear about this. I think more and more people know to no need to

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take in charge of their own life. And so relying on some doctor and going, getting a test once a

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year, telling them, Hey, you're healthy, but are you really healthy? Are you slowly dying or slowly

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killing yourself because you don't know any better? Yeah. Yeah. No. And I do think that, you know, a

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lot, you know, the test is only, you know, as good as what the projected, you know, ailment might be

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or whatever your ailment might be. And I worked with a really chronically ill patient population

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for about five years with a medical center called chronic fatigue syndrome or ME CFS. And I mean,

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honestly, I don't think I've ever worked with a sicker population. I mean, just chronic

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inflammatory conditions where the medical world is just not understanding what's going on there.

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And we would do all these tests and there really wouldn't be anything that was just very crystal

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clear or showing up in, you know, all across the population of explaining, you know, what's really

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going on here, you know? So I think a lot of our various illnesses, diseases, you know, are rooted

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in chronic inflammation. And so it's, you know, my, when I work with one-on-one people, you know,

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through the unblindmymind.org website, you know, it really is like, okay, let's identify your root

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cause of inflammation. That might be very different from this person and this person. And so, you know,

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everybody's journey is different. Everybody's microbiome is extremely different, you know,

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and our neurological wiring is so different, genetics. And so really kind of helping people

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understand what their chronic inflammatory root cause is and seeing if we can improve that,

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you know, and that really helps improve quality of life quite a bit.

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Thank you for being here today. I'm really happy that you tuned into Vision Pros Live.

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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward. This is

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going to get more and more fun. We'll have more and more engagement as well. We'll invite people

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to participate in the show and thank you for giving us your time and attention. Have an

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excellent time building out your vision and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.