My Story - Dr Prabath

By Dr. Prabath, Founder of Millionaire Health Habits & Owner of Unique Medical Cranbourne, Australia

Live Richer in Every Way

By Dr prabath

The Road To Hell

When I analyse my life leading up to the critical juncture that destroyed all five of its pillars, I now understand that my life before that was a runaway train hurtling towards a disaster. The incident saved me from permanently going over the edge.

I was riding the typical middle-class train spiralling towards the Chronic disease station. By chronic diseases, I am referring to Type 2 Diabetes, obesity, hypertension, Ischemic heart disease and dyslipidemia, etc. We all get on this train and either get off the train before the end or ride along helplessly, either being aware of impending doom or blissfully unaware

I got into this Chronic disease middle-class train around the age of thirty, right after I got my first mortgage and got married. Looking back upon my life, I realise the fantasy we were sold as middle-class kids from the very beginning of our early adulthood. We are told to do well at school, study well and get our degrees as doctors, lawyers, plumbers, electricians, etc. Then we are told to buy our houses and cars and get married, and for the rest of twenty to thirty years of adulthood life, be good middle-class citizens and work till you retire. You can either ride this middle-class train through the tunnel and emerge from the other side as a sixty-year-old full of vitality without any chronic diseases, or emerge from the other end of the tunnel saddled with chronic diseases and end up fighting the last few years of life at the doctors and hospitals. The choice is totally up to you

I am not saying that you can avoid riding this Middle class train, but you can ride this middle-class train two ways. You can either ride the train, prioritising your physical, mental, social and time wealth and emerge at the end of the tunnel as a year-old without chronic diseases, or you can pursue only financial health and disregard your physical and mental health etc and emerge from the other side as a year-old riddled with chronic diseases

In my infinite wisdom, sadly, now I understand I took the pathway to chronic diseases as I only valued my financial wealth by buying expensive cars, big homes and disregarded my physical, mental, and time wealth. At the age of late thirty, I looked like a fifty-year-old with a big belly, fading vitality, and extremely unfit; for example, I couldn’t run a hundred meters without panting. I have never done a single day of exercise in my whole life, and never done any sports at school

I had no passion in life, no sense of direction, and was an atheist without any spirituality. I worked hard to make more money and accumulated more materialistic wealth, which made me time poor as I had to work harder to keep up with my expenses. I had no time to visit my ageing parents back in Sri Lanka, and hardly went out with my friends as I was too busy. As I was on the busy bandwagon, I was time poor and forever stressed out.

Reading this, my dear readers, you will think, do I deserve to advise anyone? Honestly speaking, at that stage, I had no right to advise anyone, including my patients, who were seeing me in the hope of getting better. So, how did I turn my miserable life, which was doomed to end up with multiple chronic diseases? I changed my lifestyle through habits and routines, and have done them gradually over the past few years

My Story - Dr Prabath

Live Richer in Every Way

The Road To Hell

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