In a conversation with ABHI SINGHAL, Dr Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury reveals how nature and nutrition hold the key to reversing chronic illnesses

You’ve developed the D.I.P. (Disciplined & Intelligent Person’s) Diet. Could you elaborate on its core principles and how it differs from conventional dietary guidelines?

The diet is called D.I.P. — Disciplined and Intelligent Person. V.I.P. vs. D.I.P. In our country, we know V.I.P. in India, those who can violate all the laws, those who cannot follow the traffic signal, those who can ignore the red light of their caravan. So, people consider that person a V.I.P. — above the law, right? The second type of people is D.I.P. — Disciplined and Intelligent People. For example, like us, if the traffic signal is red, we will stop. If it is green, we will move ahead carefully. So, there are two types of cultures, two types of people.

Similarly, there are two kinds of diet. One is called the V.I.P. diet. Whatever you eat, it goes up to your stomach. There are some rules of the stomach they don’t follow, and directly they go into the blood, ignoring the fact of how much sugar, potassium and cholesterol is there in the blood. They just stream and bump into the bloodstream, increasing the blood sugar, blood pressure, and increasing the cholesterol level, potassium level — everything.

The other kind of diet, when you eat it — for example, all kinds of fruits, all kinds of vegetables in raw form, all kinds of nuts and soaked nuts, all kinds of plant-based raw food, coconut water included — when you eat or drink it, it will go to the stomach. It follows the rules of the stomach. If there is more sugar in the blood, more cholesterol, more potassium, then in D.I.P. diet — fruits and vegetables in that stomach will wait. And appropriately, drip by drip, it will enter the bloodstream, depending on how much sugar is there in the blood, how much cholesterol is there, how much potassium is there. If it is not required, it will wait in the stomach, or it will hide in the liver, or it will be thrown out of the colon. The D.I.P. diet has three steps: Step 1: You have to eat fruits till 12 o’clock — three to four kinds, of three to four different colours preferably. It can be red like apple, yellow like mango, white like bananas. In the same way, three to four chikoo, because different coloured fruits have different combinations of nutrients and according to the weight.

Breakfast is between 8 to 12 in the morning. You don’t have to eat anything else in the morning. Your breakfast is fruit breakfast only.

In lunch, whatever conventional lunch you do — vegetarian diet — before that, you have to eat Plate 1: cooked vegetarian standard Indian diet. But Plate 1, you have to eat raw first. Raw vegetables — three to four kinds again, similar to the fruit: tomato, cucumber, carrot, peas, salad leaves, red, and yellow, green capsicum, onion, etc.

You have to take three to four kinds of vegetables which you can eat in raw form. My body weight is 70 kg, for example. Multiply it by five — that becomes 350 gram. This means I have to eat 350 gram of vegetables first. Then I am allowed to eat cooked food — Plate 2. And dinner, you have to finish by, at the most, 8 pm. In dinner, you have to do what I told you for lunch. So, this becomes Step For Step 3, you have to avoid certain things — anything which comes out of a factory, like packed and refined food: biscuit, bread. Anything which comes out of an animal, like meat, egg, fish, or wet dairy products — you have to leave.

You can add some things as snacks. All kinds of dry fruits are allowed — can be eaten between 8 am to 8 pm anytime. All kinds of fruits are allowed  —  even after 12 noon, can be eaten till 8 pm and every day, sunlight for 15-20 minutes.

So, this is called the D.I.P diet. It does not include dairy products. And the biggest thing in this — after taking this, all kinds of conventional lifestyle diseases, in all, and the patient sees the difference, to start with.

In your experience, how has the D.I.P. Diet impacted chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension? Are there specific case studies that demonstrate its effectiveness?

In diabetes, with the above same process if followed, within two days blood sugar decreases. Insulin and medicines have to be stopped. By the third day, blood pressure decreases, medicines have to be stopped. Within three to seven days, cholesterol starts to normalise. Medicines have to be stopped.

All kinds of intestinal problems, like constipation, indigestion, etc., within three to seven days disappear. In the same way, joint pain disappears within three to fifteen days.

The fat people — 10% weight reduction in the first one month. In heart disease, in one month, the enzymes disappear and if we do it long-term like three months — then the functioning of the kidney improves. If we do it for six months, then asthma and the symptoms of cancer — there is relief in that. What I have told — on this, there are many trials done by the Government of Nepal, National Health Ministry, and Lincoln University, Malaysia.

A 7-day randomised control trial was done by the Nepal Government on BP patients, sugar patients, and obesity patients. The Government of India has done a two-year trial on bone disease.

So, all these trials have been proven and if you type in Google “DiApetite”, you will find —  in lakhs, testimonials from all over the globe, where people adopted it and they got freedom from the diseases.

You’ve developed the P.O.E.M. .How does it integrate wisdom with emergency response?

The P.O.E.M. — Protocol of Emergency Medicine is based on integrated medicine. For example, if a person is unconscious, then we may apply acupressure points to help them recover very, very fast. Similarly, if a person is having sudden high blood pressure, we use the same protocol of the 42-degree hot water bucket method which I just explained.

Here, we integrate acupressure, Ayurvedic Panchakarma therapy, and even changes in posture — we call it postural medicine. For example, if a person is suffering from breathlessness, we ask them to lie down in a prone ventilation posture. In this posture, within a few minutes, the SpO2 — that is, the oxygen saturation — increases, and the need for any oxygen cylinder goes away.

That means posture can become medicine. That means Panchakarma therapy can become emergency medicine. Sometimes acupressure can become emergency medicine. Sometimes a combination of all of them can become emergency medicine. That is what the POEM protocol is about.

During COVID-19, you introduced the N.I.C.E. (Network of Influenza Care Experts) protocol. What inspired its development, and how was it received?

COVID-19 was completely fake. It was a media-generated virus. There was no virus in reality. It was a common flu, which happens every year. In 2020, it was named as COVID-19. If you see the past data from across the world, even in India, every year more than 1 million people die due to flu, which is technically called influenza-like illness (ILI). But in 2020, the flu was named COVID-19, and the deaths were labelled as COVID-19 deaths. At that time, we had the N.I.C.E. — Network of Influenza Care Experts — comprising about 750 to 800 experts from all over the country, almost one expert per district. They were directly trained by me online. They were trained and told to consider this as flu, as it happens every year. We asked patients with symptoms of flu — fever, cough, cold, body ache — to simply follow a regimen. These symptoms have been consistent for hundreds of years. Any person suffering from flu or influenza-like illness, if they consume only citrus fruit juice — like orange, mosambi — along with coconut water for three days and refrain from eating anything else, the illness resolves in three days. That’s what we did. Officially, we have data on more than 50,000 patients who recovered without a single fatality — not one death. This was even acknowledged by the Ministry of Ayush when they conducted an observational study at our COVID centre — we called it a flu centre — in Ahmedabad. We asked patients to avoid all masks.

What challenges have you encountered in promoting dietary interventions as primary treatments over pharmaceutical solutions?

Very important. See, as such, the first challenge is from the Allopathy lobby itself. They try to discourage their patient from having this diet, and that is one challenge. Second challenge is from the patient itself. That is faith. But now, it is already 14 years since Diabetes Diet I have been promoting. Now, the substantial faith people have gained because they have seen themselves, they have seen their loved ones getting cured with the Diabetes Diet. But initially, the faith was less. Initially, the resistance from the Pharma Lobby was too much, and now also the resistance is there from the Pharma Lobby, whether we call it Indian Medical Association.