Dr Shabnam Daskar,Canada - PCOS & Mental Health MHC-2

Guest Speaker Dr Shabnam Daskar at MHC - II

The session started with Dr. Shabnam talking about her journey into metabolic health practice from a practicing OBGY to a functional medicine expert, as raised by Host Priyanka Matanhelia. She started discussing the start of her career as Doctor working with OBGY, Obesity, PCOS for over a decade to a functional medicine expert. She in brief discussed about this journey which started with activities like taking care of pregnant ladies to delivery of babies, PCOS, etc. As she opted specialized qualification, started focusing on PCOS and Mental Health, also relates based on her experience that women with PCOS are prone to mental problem like Anxiety, Frequent Mood Swings, Depression, etc. She went on to say that it is not necessary that every patient needs a prescription medicine for some of the mental health challenge as first line of treatment. She does express mental health as she related with brain health can be diagnosed with functional medicine where broader study of the patients needs to be done, as against the prescription medicines. AS PCOS was one of the topics of the session, Dr Shabnam went on to explain in detail about PCOS as again this was raised by the Host Priyanka Matanhelia. Dr Shabnam discussed ab why people with PCOS are much prone to mental health challenges. To know all details that Dr Shabnam discussed in her session of the conference preview the recorded video.

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About Dr Shabnam Daskar

Dr. Shabnam is a consultant in Functional and Metabolic Medicine. She works as Director Medical Education, Better Medical Centre, Calgary, Canada. Her medical practice is in India. She is the co-founder of Metabolic Dietary Solutions Program. She is also a guest faculty at Maryland University of Integrative Health, USA. She worked as an OBGY in Mumbai, India for more than 20 years before her transition to Functional Medicine. Dr. Shabnam brings a unique perspective to Functional Medicine because of her experience in living and working in Canada and India.

She has an Indepth knowledge and to share her knowledge she was invited to various countries, to speak on various topics and medical health. As an international speaker. She has spoken for A4M in Indonesia, UAE and Thailand, also an invited speaker at Malaysia, India and Canada.

Some of her topics of Dr Shabnam as speaker were:

• Autoimmunity
• Time Restricted Eating and Intermittent Fasting.
• Women and Hormones
• Brain Fitness
• Hypothyroidism
• Developmental Origin of Health and Disease
• PCOS
• Chronic Inflammation in Psychiatry
• Functional Medicine Approach to Psychiatry
• Gut, the Second Brain
• Women and CVD