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Meet Mugdha
The story of how I pulled myself out of rock bottom, healed my illnesses, and now run India’s Leading Functional Nutrition Platform – A journey from self-hatred to self-love.
“I redefined my relationship with food, and in doing so, redefined my relationship with life itself.”
- Mugdha Pradhan
From being obese, unhealthy, broke, and depressed, I transformed myself into a determined and successful solopreneur. I healed my chronic illness, abandoned the expectations society had planned for me, and paved my own path through the world. I now stand a top India’s Leading Functional Nutrition Company, as we continue to heal people by the thousands.
As I once did, you can change your life and evolve into your best self – all it takes is a little courage, and atop of rebellion.
You see, For a long time, i had led my life being anxious, depressed, fat, exhausted, and financially broke as an autoimmune condition called Hashimoto’s took its toll on my health. Socially and emotionally, I felt inadequate. Physically, I hated my body and myself. These issues would seep into adulthood as I attempted to make up for these feelings by forcing myself to be an extrovert and to go with the flow.
But forcing myself to pretend only created more problems for my health. Life itself had begun to feel monotonous and meaningless as I navigated my way through the corporate world and tried to lead my life the way society expected me to.
As a coping mechanism, my food addiction continued its rampage unchecked, and my health kept worsening.
I had the worst possible relationship with food despite having a master’s degree in Nutrition, and didn’t realize how this toxic dynamic was impacting my life. I began trying to fix things within the mold of conventional wisdom – keto diets, starving myself, fat burning pills, gym workouts – you name it! But nothing worked. My hatred for my body was going nowhere, my health was in disarray, and it felt like all hope was lost. I turned to cannabis to numb the pain I was feeling.
I was trying hard to live up to society’s expectations of getting married and devoting myself to a family. But eventually, the impact of being in a loveless marriage, with no support as a young mother would take a toll on my health, too. I grew to be obese, permanently fatigued, and relied on caffeine to battle my brain fog and daytime drowsiness.
I suffered from frequent energy crashes. Once, my daughter had to wake me up for food because I had crashed, despite having copious amounts of coffee and tea to stay awake. It was then that I realized something was terribly wrong, and decided to quit all stimulants cold turkey. This led to some of the worst days of my life as I hit rock bottom and couldn’t get out of bed for 2 days.
I looked to conventional medicine for help with my health, but despite spending a fortune on “treatments”, I was let down at every stage.
I discovered Functional Medicine and taught myself how to use advanced blood data analysis protocols and deep diagnostics to heal the human body’s afflictions. It was when I learned the ins and outs of Functional Nutrition that I was able to scientifically transform my health – I lost 37kgs, reversed my autoimmune condition, and recovered. My mental health, too, began making an upward curve.
But going from the people-pleasing, socially anxious, obese person I had been to a strong, independent, healthy, and determined solopreneur didn’t come easy.
I had to make huge changes in every part of myself. From breaking out of the conventional – and fruitless – molds I had grown up learning and believing, to leaving behind the life I’d known. I had been married for 14 years and was settled abroad, but I decided to take the warrior’s path: I returned to India, walked out of my marriage, and began working on my personal transformation.
I had to make huge changes in every part of myself. From breaking out of the conventional – and fruitless – molds I had grown up learning and believing, to leaving behind the life I’d known. I had been married for 14 years and was settled abroad, but I decided to take the warrior’s path: I walked out of my marriage, returned to India, and began working on my personal transformation.
Seeing the changes in my body and behavior, people around me reached out for help with their own health concerns, too. I showed them how I radically transformed myself and soon, I found myself creating a platform to heal people functionally and holistically. 2 years later, I founded India’s first Functional Nutrition Company – iThrive.
Going against the flow was not easy. I received virtually no support, not even from the friends and family I considered closest to me. I was on my own. But I never gave up on my ambition. With help from the COO, I waded through mountains of paperwork, challenged problematic norms, and succeeded in setting up a company to fulfill my vision to help people
Now, I focus not only on helping people solve physical health concerns, but also run a program called Embracing The Human Experience to provide support for complex mental, emotional, and spiritual health issues. To care for the future healers that are created through iThrive Academy, I established the 'Heal The Healers' program exclusively for iThrive’s students.
It isn’t easy to break out of the comfortable walls society forces onto you – but the fruits of radical liberation are worth the sacrifices.
I can now proudly say to you and anyone who reads this knowing that they are fettered by the shackles of chronic diseases and poor health: My team and I are here for you.
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