EP 75: South Asians Are Facing A Modern Day Health Crisis
Brown History Podcast · Brown History Podcast
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Show Notes
This episode could save your life!
Across the world, South Asian communities are facing an alarming rise in heart disease, heart attacks, diabetes, and high blood pressure. And it's not just affecting older people. Young people who are fit, thin, and have no family history are showing no symptoms until it's too late.
But this crisis runs deeper than diet or lifestyle. Our health risks are rooted in the very history our ancestors endured.
In today's episode, we sit down with Dr. Mubin Syed (@desidoc.md), author of Healing from Our History: How Colonial-Era Famines Led to a Modern South Asian Health Crisis. Together, we trace how the trauma of the past still shapes our bodies and what we can do now to reclaim our health.
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