Shantanu Srivastava on Breaking Free From Pharmaceutical Dependency

About this episode

Shantanu Srivastava discusses his journey in transforming healthcare approaches to wellness and addressing chronic diseases.

Shantanu Srivastava's journey from leading global consumer health brands to founding Health Verse represents a fundamental shift in how we approach wellness in the modern world. His lived experience with type 2 diabetes since his mid-twenties became the catalyst for reimagining an entire healthcare ecosystem. After over two decades of managing his condition through medication alone, reaching a point where insulin was recommended, Shantanu realized that the healthcare systems across multiple countries—India, France, and the United Kingdom—shared a critical gap: they treated symptoms rather than addressing the underlying causes of chronic disease.

People in this episode

Host: Anika Jackson

Guest: Shantanu Srivastava

Topics covered

• healthcare
• wellness
• chronic disease
• pharmaceutical dependency
• consumer health
• type 2 diabetes

Keywords

• healthcare systems
• chronic disease
• type 2 diabetes
• wellness
• pharmaceutical dependency
• consumer health brands

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Health Verse

Places: India, France, United Kingdom

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