I was Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at one of India's leading hospitals. Nearly three decades of clinical practice across India, the UK, and Australia. Fellowships from London and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. My entire clinical foundation is rooted in NHS training and UK academic medicine — one of the world's most rigorous evidence-based healthcare systems. And I was exhausted.
Not burned out in the dramatic sense — hollowed out in the quiet way that happens to doctors who are very good at their jobs for a very long time. So I picked up a barbell.
That decision — to start lifting weights, to learn nutrition properly, to treat sleep as a drug rather than a luxury — changed everything. Not just my body, but my entire clinical philosophy. My deadlift is now 120 kilograms. I encouraged my son and my mother to train alongside me. I started connecting the dots that modern medicine keeps in separate filing cabinets: fertility, hormones, metabolism, bone density, brain health, cardiovascular risk. One woman. One lifespan. One continuous biological story.
When I came across David Sinclair's Lifespan, I was impressed and frustrated in equal measure. The science was compelling — but women were missing. The longevity field, its protocols, its research, its prescriptions, was built around men and extrapolated to women as an afterthought. I decided to build the female-specific framework myself. I became menopausal. I enrolled in a Masters in Longevity Medicine. I kept lifting.
I am now Brisbane's only fertility specialist and longevity physician — consulting at Monash IVF Brisbane, Spring Hill, with visiting clinics in Gurgaon, India. The Longevity Shift is my specialised medical approach: combining IVF & reproductive medicine, operative gynaecological surgery, and longevity medicine across the full female lifespan — something no other specialist in Queensland is doing.
My Brisbane home tells you what I believe. Tatami mats and low seating — I sit on the floor deliberately, loading my hips and ankles in ways most people stopped doing in their forties. Plants everywhere, because cortisol responds to living things. Warm light in the evenings, because melatonin is a hormone you protect, not a supplement you take.
I follow what I prescribe. Every single day.
Lift heavy. Eat protein. Sleep like it is medicine. Know your numbers.
There is no other doctor in Brisbane saying this. There is no other doctor in Brisbane living this.
