“I don’t believe in incurable”, says Dr Rachna Chhachhi, PhD, who has been treating patients given up by medical science across the world via epigenetics healing. She treats chronic lifestyle diseases, autoimmune and cancer successfully, getting clinical outcomes that surprise doctors. Doctors refer their patients to her, and many patients of hers or doctors themselves. She gets invited to international medical & health conferences across the globe to share her case studies.

Recognized for both her healing powers and her outspoken advocacy on mental health connected to a better earth, Rachna has been featured in publications such as Business World, India Today, The Economic Times, The Hindu, The Week, Femina, The Mint, Conde Nast and many more. She has authored five best selling health books with top publishers.

Not surprisingly, she herself has a back story.

In 2006, Rachna was bedridden with an incurable condition called rheumatoid arthritis (RA). RA impacts the small joints with synovial fluid and slowly spreads. It is an autoimmune condition and incurable in medical science. Treatments include chemotherapy drugs in the form of methotrexate, steroids and immunosuppressants which can damage the internal organs. As per her scans, her left ankle, both her knees, one hip, knuckles, wrists and right elbow demonstrate complete damage and need surgical intervention is like joint replacements or putting metal implants.

“Orthopaedics first get amazed when they see my scans,” she laughs and says. “I remember at the launch of my fifth book, Dr Jawahar Panjwani, senior orthopaedic surgeon said on stage, “When I saw Rachna’s scans, I asked her – are you sure these are yours? The scans say 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 should be bedridden, but you look fine.”

Nineteen years after being proclaimed to be bedridden, Rachna has an extremely active life. She re-studied and launched her clinical practice for epigenetic healing across 27 countries in 2009. She runs her non profit foundation which connects human health to the health of the planet in reducing disease rate and carbon footprint.

“I have an RA gene, my mom had it, her grand mom had it. There is a way to switch the tunes off,” she shares. And after she healed herself in 2008, she realised the power of epigenetic healing. She changed her nutrition, exercise patterns, breathing patterns and thereby reduced her inflammation and response to stress. After eight months of doing this, reports for RA came back negative. It was then that she decided to re-study.

“I was Vice President, Business Development with GE Money, a corporate life I cherished but then when the disease was triggered, it was a sign that I need to change my path,” she shares. Studying when her daughter Aradhna was in grade VII was both challenging and enjoyable. “She would deride me when she saw me struggling with my exam papers and say – now you understand what exam pressure is? And I would reply saying, of course, I am a Post Graduate without taking any exams! And both of us would laugh.”

Her new path led her to get qualified as a Nutritional Therapist, Certified Cancer Metastasis Expert from Johns Hopkins University, Mental Health Therapist from University of Sydney, Master of Arts, Yoga and PhD Ayur-Yoga. A strange mix of qualifications, many people say. But she refutes it by saying, “The mind and body are connected. When you use only nutrition, you don’t heal completely. When use only medicines, you don’t heal, diseases and even cancer come back. When you use only exercise or yoga, you don’t heal. But when you combine all these, the epigenetic changes switch off the bad genes and help you recover. And suddenly, your reports are better, your energy is higher, your quality of life becomes great.”

Nineteen years ago when she healed herself, Rachna’s path changed. She could have easily gone back to the corporate world after healing herself. But she chose to help others and every single day, when she sees the amazing impact of epigenetic healing, she whispers a small prayer. “I suffered so I could be the path for others. And I say this openly, heal from whatever they say you can’t.”