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Some more interesting facts I found while researching this reel
A truck full of whey powder is worth almost half a million dollars today. Three years ago, the same truck was worth a third of that. And for decades, whey was literally a waste productā¦ farmers used to dump it or feed it to pigs.
Some brands are handling this with rare honesty. The Whole Truth runs a page called āWhy Prices Changeā showing the actual rates they buy whey at. Nutrabox published their full cost sheet and admitted selling at a 10% loss. No affiliationā¦ this is just what respect for the customer looks like.
Now the wilder stuff.
A Starbucks latte in America now comes with up to 36 grams of protein. More than a scoop of whey. When coffee chains buy protein powder by the tonne, gym people are no longer the main customer for whey companies
Small brands are hit worst. One US founder said the substitute powder she got instead of whey was ācomplete sawdust.ā Big companies have locked supply till 2027. Small ones stand in queue.
The one that worries meā¦ whey also goes into baby formula. Experts are watching whether this crisis touches formula prices too.
In March, Delhi Police busted a racket selling fake Optimum Nutrition tubs, fake hologramsetc The fakes were priced like the real thing. A high price proves nothing. A very low one tells you everything.
And the biggest reason demand exploded? Weight loss injections. People on them lose muscle with the fat, so doctors prescribe high protein diets. 1 in 8 American adults is on these drugs.And the wave of this hasnāt even started in India properly so the crises will intensify here
If whey doesnāt fit your budget, 30g of protein costs: soy chunks Rs 6-9, dal Rs 12-18, eggs Rs 25, soy isolate Rs 38.
Sources: pinned comment. Live whey price tracker: Lab Report, link in bio.
#indiahealth #health #nutrition #wheyprotein #wheyisolate
18 Aug 2026
Reel mein jo baatein reh gayi, woh yeh hain š
Pehli baat, is school ka naam ek asli rajkumari ke naam pe hai. Rajkumari Ratnavati, Jaisalmer ke Maharawal Ratan Singh ki beti. Aur jis zameen pe yeh khada hai, woh Jaisalmer ke raj gharane ne daan mein di thi.
Building oval kyun hai? Yeh sirf dikhaawe ke liye nahi hai. New York ki architect Diana Kellogg ne jaan-boojh kar elliptical shape chuni, kyunki yeh naari shakti ka nishaan hai, aur aas-paas ke purane kilon ki gol banawat se milti-julti hai. Aur poori building hawa ke rukh pe tedhi khadi hai, taaki registaan ki hawa isse takraaye nahi, iske andar se guzar jaaye.
Yeh sirf ek school bhi nahi hai. Yeh teen imaraton ke ek complex ka hissa hai jise GYAAN Center kehte hain, CITTA Foundation ka project, jise artist Michael Daube chalate hain. School ke bilkul bagal mein ek mahila cooperative hai, jahan yahan ki auratein bunai aur kadhai se kamaati hain. Matlab betiyan andar padhti hain, aur unki maayein saath waali chhat ke neeche kamaati hain.
Uniforms Sabyasachi ne banaayi, woh bhi Ajrakh mein, ek purani local chhapai ki kala. Toh ladkiyan apne hi ilaake ka craft pehen kar school aati hain.
Deewaarein wahi peela Jaisalmer sandstone hain, jinhe yahin ke kaarigaron ne haathon se taraasha. Andar lime plaster laga hai, ek kudrati cheez jo garmi ko kheench leti hai. Aur registaan ke beech, aangan baarish ka paani jama karta hai. Kuch bhi barbaad nahi.
KG se dasvi tak kareeb 400 ladkiyan yahan padhti hain. Aur jis saal yeh bana, usne Architectural Digest ka AD100 award jeeta.
Aur jo baat dil mein reh jaati hai. Jin haathon ne ek-ek patthar rakha, woh inhi betiyon ke pita the. Girl dads, internet pe yeh shabd aane se bahut pehle.
#architecture #rajasthanculture #jaisalmer #incredibleindia #indianwomen
15 Jul 2026
What just happened? Hereās everything else we know about the rete ovarii so far, and where research is headed.
1. The name is Latin for ānet of the ovaryā. Itās a tiny bunch of tubes shaped like a horseshoe, with one part inside the ovary, one part outside, and a bridge between them.
2. It was missed for so long partly because of how it was studied. Scientists used to cut the ovary into thin slices, so a long coiled tube just looked like random dots. It took 3D imaging of the whole ovary to see it as one thing.
3. It isnāt just a human thing. Cows, cats, monkeys and camels have it too. Evolution kept it in all of them, which usually means itās doing a job.
4. In mice, itās wrapped in muscle that can squeeze. So the idea is that it pumps fluid into the ovary.
5. In mice, it also seems to get more active when estrogen is at its highest. Thatās why the researchers call it an antenna. It may be how the ovary listens to the rest of your body.
6. Somebody asked about this 50 years ago. A paper in 1974 wondered if it helps switch on egg development, and the question was left hanging.
7. Doctors who study tissue under a microscope never fully forgot it, because it can form cysts. So medicine looked at it when it was sick, and not when it was healthy.
8. Where itās headed: one lab is removing it in mice to see what happens to their eggs and fertility. Another early study, not yet reviewed, is asking whether some ovarian cancers start here. Neither has an answer yet.
9. All of this is in mice so far. Nobody has shown what it does in women. So Iām reading it as a reason to be curious, and Iāll update you when the results come.
#womenshealth #womenscientists #fertilility #sciencenews
07 Oct 2026
IMPORTANT: this does NOT mean we are helpless and canāt change it. Infact the opposite. This is epigenetics - and epigenetics responds to lifestyle factors! Diet and exercise and low stress.
Thereās a scientist in Pune who has spent decades on this exact question. Dr. Chittaranjan Yajnik. And his research changed how I think about my own body.
In 2003 he compared Indian newborns to UK newborns. Same birth weight. But Indian babies had thinner limbs and relatively more central fat before their first meal. Before any life choice.
Then other researchers took his question further. They studied Indian families living outside India for four and five generations. Different country. Different diet. Different lifestyle. Everything different.
Same phenotype. Same distribution.
Indian bodies are born with less muscle mass and more central fat. The fix is not to lose fat. Itās to build muscle. More protein at every meal. Strength training over cardio.
And before you say dal counts dal alone is not enough protein. Iām sorry. The research says so.
Send this to every Indian who thinks cardio will fix the belly. And maybe some protein with that.
I cite peer-reviewed research for everything I say here. Always.
Sources:
1) Yajnik CS et al. 2003. Neonatal anthropometry: the thin-fat Indian baby. The Pune Maternal Nutrition Study. International Journal of Obesity. PMID: 12586996
2) van Steijn L et al. 2009. Thin-fat phenotype in fourth to fifth generation South Asian neonates in Surinam. International Journal of Obesity. PMID: 19636321
ā Wells JC et al. 2019. Ancient origins of low lean mass among South Asians. Scientific Reports.
#indiahealth #indianhealth #health #nutrition womenshealth
02 Apr 2026
I had to cut 9 facts from this reel in the interest of time that are honestly soo interestingā¦starting with who actually filed it š:
1. The two people who filed the haldi patent were themselves Indian-origin researchers in the US. This was never India vs Americans. It was traditional knowledge vs a patent system that lets anyone privatise what a whole culture already knew.
2. Haldi wasnāt alone. The West also went after Basmati (Texas company RiceTec, 1997) and Neem. India fought all three and won all three.
3. Neem took TEN years. The European Patent Office finally revoked a neem fungicide patent in 2000 : one of the longest biopiracy battles ever.
4. Then Colgate tried it. They filed a patent in Europe for a mouthwash using nutmeg (jaiphal): something India has used for oral health for centuries. TKDL pulled up the ancient proof and the patent was thrown out.
5. The haldi win is officially the worldās FIRST successful biopiracy challenge. The word ābiopiracyā was basically coined for exactly this.
6. Why TKDL is genius: itās written in 5 languages so a patent examiner in any country can actually read our texts. Itās already helped block 200+ patents worldwide.
7. Curcumin .. the compound in haldi .. is now one of the most patented natural substances on earth. They couldnāt own the useā¦ so they moved to patenting the extraction. (Full reel soon š)
8. The flex: TKDL worked so well that other countries including China and South Africa started building their own versions to protect their knowledge. India wrote the playbook the world copied.
9. Mashelkar called this āintellectual colonialismā
#haldi #foodscience #ayurveda #indianhistoryandculture #indiahealth
09 Jun 2026
Things I couldnāt fit in the reel:
1. Nothing got worse. The economists looked for a backlash in the villages that got cable and didnāt find one. Every answer either improved or stayed where it was.
2. The biggest change inside the house was about money. More women said they had a say when the family bought something big, and more said they could keep money of their own.
3. Girls between 6 and 10 were more likely to be in school once cable came. For boys the same age, there was no effect.
4. The villages that changed the most were the ones where things were worst for women at the start.
5. It was fast. An earlier draft of the paper says the villages had cable for only six or seven months, on average, before the women were surveyed again.
6. You didnāt need to own a TV. People watched at a neighbourās or a relativeās house, so one connection reached a lot more women than the ones paying for it.
7. Cable was usually one local guy with a dish. Some of them picked a village because the woman they bought vegetables from lived there.
8. A man in his 50s told an anthropologist that TV was āthe biggest thing to happen in our village, ever.ā He learned about fans from TV and went and bought one. Another village went from 2 toilets to 25 in four years.
9. Brazil has a study like this too. Areas that got telenovelas had fewer births, and parents started naming their babies after the main characters.
10. Tamil Nadu later planned free colour TVs for 75 lakh homes. One stated reason was to help women in villages learn more.
11. Before cable, women in these villages answered very differently from women in Delhi. Cable closed about half of that gap, and for wanting a son it closed even more.
Study: Jensen and Oster, āThe Power of TVā, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009.
#ektakapoor #smritiirani #indiantelevision #economics #womeninindia
30 Sep 2026
hereās the post-diwali protocol iām following ā¦thought iād share it here with you ā¤ļø
my approach to health has never been to eliminate 100 things from my diet. itās always been to enjoy the festivities, enjoy the good things, and do it smartly, backed by science. i hope this helps you do that too.
save it. you donāt have to do all of it. pick the two or three things youāre struggling with the most.
sources: buffey 2022, sports medicine (post-meal walking). gao 2024, scandinavian journal of medicine and science in sports (10 squats every 45 minutes). hamilton 2022, iscience (calf raises). kitamura 2016, scientific reports (sleep debt). bannai 2012 (glycine). gordji-nejad 2024 (creatine). lin 2019, jacc (omega-3 and pollution). herman and polivyās restraint research (why restriction after overeating backfires).
Important: none of this replaces your doctor and their advice.
#postdiwali #selfcarechecklist #womenshealth #sciencebacked #secondbody
09 Nov 2026
Iāve partnered with the AI powered emotional wellness app: nsepia to bring you guys your emotional orbs. the plan: each one of us makes an emotional orb this week and we find out how often a machine guesses a feeling right. šTo create your own emotional orb, download the nSepia app from my bio. Youāll get a 7 day trial which is free. A bunch of more interesting facts I couldnāt fit in the reel:
The Natyashastra is about 6,000 verses long and covers everything: dance, acting, music, stage design, even what to do if the audience gets bored. Rasa literally means juice or taste. The text compares an emotion to a cooked dish, where many ingredients mix into one flavour you canāt separate on your tongue.
The original list had eight core emotions: love, laughter, sorrow, anger, courage, fear, disgust and wonder. Peace was added centuries later, so ānavarasaā is a nine that started as an eight.
Each rasa has an assigned colour. Love is green, anger is red, fear is black, disgust is blue, wonder is yellow. A dancerās costume and lighting were supposed to match the emotion holding the piece.
T
he 33 passing emotions include shame, envy, intoxication, sleep, dreaming, madness and even death. The text calls the main emotion the king and the passing ones its courtiers. They enter, bow and leave.
The text also lists eight things your body does without permission when an emotion is real: sweating, trembling, goosebumps, tears, a cracked voice, going pale, freezing and fainting. A dancer who can produce those on cue is considered the top of the craft.
This is why I like nSEPIA. It doesnāt ask you to pick a word. It watches about seventy points on your face for thirty seconds and gives you a mix, which is closer to how a face actually works than any mood tracker Iāve tried.
Your orb shifts through the day for a boring reason: your face does. Morning you and 11pm you carry different courtiers. Scan twice and compare.
The game: before you scan, write the two emotions you think are running you. Tell me how many you got right.
#psychology #neuroscience #monalisa #emotionalintelligence #bharatnatyam
05 Nov 2026
things I couldnāt fit in the reel:
1. The two teenagers in the dark are real. Barbara Demick interviewed people from Chongjin for seven years for her book. The couple took three years to hold hands and six more to kiss, and she called it a Victorian romance without the letters.
2. The defence secretary was Donald Rumsfeld. The day a reporter asked him if the war was worth it, he had visited the Korean War memorial, where his high school friendās name is carved. In 2006 he said that after his wife and family, it was his favourite photo.
3. The power hours double as inspection hours. People inside the country told a Japanese outlet that the censorship squads come round when the electricity is on, because thatās when youād be watching a South Korean drama. The maximum punishment for that is death.
4. The ālights donāt lieā study is Luis Martinez, Journal of Political Economy, 2022. He compared official GDP with satellite light across 184 countries from 1992 to 2013 and found dictatorships overstate growth by about 35%. A true 2% gets reported as 2.7%.
5. Even central Pyongyang averaged about three hours of power a day in January 2025. Families send their batteries to the office to charge, because workplaces get power, and carry them home at night.
6. In Pyongyang the poor get the penthouses. Nobody wants the top of the new 80-storey towers because the lifts barely run and water only reaches about the 15th floor.
7. About half of households now own a small Chinese solar panel. In 2023 state TV started calling them ugly and inefficient and asked people to hand them over for community solar farms.
8. The regime replied to the photo. In 2015 the party newspaper wrote that the essence of their society is not flashy lights, and that America was the one headed for a dark future.
9. The electricity meter trick has a name. In 2007 Li Keqiang, later Chinaās premier, told the US ambassador over dinner that GDP figures were man-made and he watched power use, rail cargo and bank loans instead. WikiLeaks published the cable, and economists still call it the Li Keqiang inde
#korea #psychology #economics
03 Nov 2026
Ladies, drink like a girl this Diwali. Say it proudly. Boys, thereās a tip for you towards the end ;)
1. Beer was invented by women. For most of history brewing was housework. In ancient Mesopotamia the goddess of beer was a woman, Ninkasi, and the oldest recipe we have is a hymn to her. Men took it over when it became profitable. Classic.
2. The pointy hat, the cauldron, the cat, the broomstick outside the door. One popular theory says thatās not a witch, thatās a medieval alewife, a woman selling beer, and the image got turned on her when men wanted the trade. Historians argue about it, I choose to believe it.
3. Women clear alcohol faster than men once itās in the blood. We just let more of it in. So we get drunk harder and sober up quicker. Efficient at both ends.
4. In the 1990 study, the women who were heavy drinkers had basically zero stomach defence left. The enzyme was gone. So āIāve built a toleranceā means something very different for us.
5. Hangovers are more genetic in women than in men. 45% versus 40% in a study of 4,500 twins. If you always get one, call your mother and thank her.
6. The one hangover pill that only helped women, NAC, was found by accident when a āfailedā trial got split by sex. Nobodyās followed it up. Iām testing it on myself this week.
7. The crime lab has used a different alcohol number for women since the 1930s. The police figured out weāre different a century before the party did.
8. Only about 1% of Indian women tell the government survey they drink. We all know that number is a lie. The lie is the interesting part.
9. The women who fought for prohibition in America were also the women who got it repealed. Both times, their argument was the same: men canāt handle their
28 Oct 2026
hereās how to get it free for 3 months, and what I figured out using it that nobody tells you.
This is a partnership with @wisprflowindia which allows me to get you this deal :)
HOW TO GET IT
1. comment CURIOUS RAT below
2. Iāll DM you the link
3. click the link and claim your spot
HOW I ACTUALLY USE IT - tips from 7 months of using it
1. itās extremely fast. the moment Iām done talking, the text is on the screen. Iāve tried the dictation in ChatGPT and Claude and nothing comes close, thereās always that wait where Iām wondering if it even heard me. for an impatient person this is a huge win. I now only use Wispr, across my emails, ChatGPT, Claude, whatsapp, everything.
2. Iāve set it to drop my filler words. my ums, my āhonestlyā, my ālike, basicallyā, all gone. what comes out is the clean sentence with punctuation, like I actually meant to say it that way.
3. it gets my accent. I speak half English half Hindi in my very Bombay way, and it just types it.
4. I never open the app. you set a shortcut, mine is double-tapping the command key, and wherever my cursor is, thatās where it types. tap tap, talk, done. this caption was written like that.
5. I say the question the second it shows up. mid-call, mid-gym, lying on the floor. and then the next 5 after it, because the first question is never the good one.
a question you have to type is a question youāll decide isnāt worth asking. a question you can just say gets asked. thatās the trick.
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#research #psychology #curiosity #productivity
29 Oct 2026
I thought Iād have to look at my childhood to understand why I am the way I am. I wasnāt expecting anyone to ask what my ancestors grew.
But thatās what makes this research interesting. Could the work that kept your family alive generations ago have something to do with how you think today?
Thomas Talhelm, a behavioural scientist at the University of Chicago, asks whether the way a region made a living left habits that outlived the work. Paddy rice needed shared irrigation and about twice the labour of wheat, so neighbours worked each otherās fields. Wheat you could grow alone. Those demands, he thinks, became social rules that stayed after people left the fields.
Nobody has to remember where a family rule came from to keep teaching it. You move to a city, get an office job, and still carry rules that made sense around a shared canal.
What he measured is sharper than forgiveness: how hard you punish a friend who lied to you, versus a stranger who did the same. In his 2014 study of 1,162 people across China (Science), people from rice regions let the friend off easier. It also linked rice regions with lower divorce rates after accounting for income, though economists reran that on other data and the link got weaker.
What makes me take it seriously is that he keeps trying to break it. In 2024 he found two state farms in Ningxia, 56 km apart, where China had assigned people to rice or wheat almost at random. 234 farmers later, the rice farm still favoured friends more. Two farms canāt settle it, but itās harder to explain away than a map. And the differences showed up within one generation. The farm didnāt need my great-grandfather. It just needed someone.
A crop canāt tell you someoneās personality. But I had never once thought to look at a field. I spent years looking at my childhood. Maybe some of it is in a plac Iāve never seen.
#indiahealth #psychology #forgiveness #ancestors #culturepsychology
21 Oct 2026
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