I am Sylvia, married for 10 years and mother of two beautiful healthy kids aged 6 and 4. For 20 years, I have been in the aviation field, which gave me lots of satisfaction and many achievements.

However, I had to stop flying to cure myself and get back the health I had lost due to a wrong lifestyle. In 2019 I got diagnosed with hydatid disease during a follow-up of an abdominal surgery of an advanced umbilical hernia. These two problems caused a lot of other issues like pre-diabetes, high cholesterol and BP, digestive problems, anaemia and depression. I was an airline pilot then, but I was grounded as I was not medically fit.

I discovered Dr Nandita Shah and SHARAN thanks to a recommendation from a friend. I was told that “she advocates a whole food plant-based lifestyle and she is famous for her diabetes reversal program. She is a very special doctor as she cures patients only with food and no medication”. These words struck me straight away. I immediately started reading her book (Reversing Diabetes in 21 Days) and joined her online ‘Diabetes Reversal’ programme, followed the advice therein and began seeing the results within just 2 weeks!

I managed to quit all medications gradually within 3 months. And today I can confirm with lab tests that I am in perfect health! Due to this wonderful experience, I encouraged my family members and friends to do the same. With just small changes in their diet, they started seeing improvements and some even reversed certain health conditions.

To stay on track, I attended several SHARAN cooking classes, and now I am a very good cook too! I also enrolled in the ‘2 months Personalised Weight Loss’ programme as I wanted to shed a few kilos. This was another fantastic experience thanks to the constant support of the SHARAN Nutritionist Rashi Tiwari.

Right now, my lab reports are perfect and my local doctor asked me how I did it because he knew that with the medicines and supplements he prescribed I would not have shown such an improvement in such a short time. I was happy to tell him that it was thanks to the guidance of SHARAN and the meal plans from Rashi, who had been in contact with me daily, motivating and directing me to where I am now.

I am enjoying life to the full now. I hope my story will be of help to anyone who is looking to have a wonderful healthy lifestyle; like the whole food plant-based one has to offer, made better with the help of SHARAN! – Silvia Pusceddu, Jun 2021