Live Better

Living Better, Longer

We started 'Pathya' as a movement in preventive healthcare as we saw a fundamental gap. While life expectancy has been improving, so is the rise of chronic diseases and people are not necessarily living better. Pathya aims at making people live better as they live longer.

'Pathya' does this by empowering you with with smart insights about your health so that you can act proactively and make simple changes which will help you live not just longer but better. For those dealing with chronic ailments, Pathya helps monitor and detect critical health conditions early so that timely intervention can help prevent further damage

Worldwide, 60-65 million people die each year. Of this, nearly 70-80% of deaths each year are attributable to chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, neurodegenerative disorders, diabetes and related metabolic dysfunction. At least 80-90% of adults aged above 60 worldwide, live with at least one chronic condition.

These chronic ailments don’t happen overnight but accumulate over decades of neglect. Every time you eat unhealthy, experience high stress, live in an unhealthy environment or lead a sedentary lifestyle, your body produces inflammation. In your 20s, the body clears that inflammation quickly. In your 40s, the inflammation clearing needs a systematic and deliberate intervention as inherent repair mechanisms of our body slow down.

Most of these chronic diseases are avoidable only if we make a small effort to understand the signals that our body gives us in time and if we track our health a bit more thoughtfully before the chronic diseases get entrenched. Done right, as per experts, one can add upto a couple of decades to their ‘healthspan’, while adding a decade to their lifespan. What this means is having the energy levels of an average 40 year old today, even when you turn 60 and energy levels of a 60 year old when you turn 80.

However, in our normal life, we tend to wait until we fall sick to get help and medical interventions are designed to intervene once damage has happened and a disease has taken hold. At ‘Pathya’, we believe that fundamentally this needs to change. So, we are making a modest attempt to uncover the science of longevity. We believe it is important to scientifically track the lead indicators and signs and markers that tell us how well we are aging and make simple lifestyle changes which can help us live better as we live longer.

Sources

• World Health Organisation