Dr Neel Reddy — Ancient wisdom in conversation with modern medicine
Dr Neel Reddy walking in the City of London

Today

Dr Neel Reddy

Emergency Medicine Consultant · Educator · Health Investigator

Ancient wisdom in conversation with modern medicine.

Understanding the person through science, lived experience and useful data.

The question I’m exploringWhat can breath change?

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Where would you like to start?

How may I help you?

Choose what sounds most like you. Nothing is sent, and this is not a diagnosis.

Start small: one minute of breath, then one change you can keep.

Take one minute

A considered look at where you are now: your story first, then useful measurements. This is the thinking behind Health 360, Neel’s developing framework.

How one to one works

New or worrying symptoms need your GP or NHS 111 first. In an emergency, call 999. Neel’s work runs alongside that care, never instead of it.

Additional support works best alongside your specialist team, who stay in charge of your care.

How one to one works

Feeling unwell matters, even when results are normal. Start with your story, and keep your GP involved.

Risk is a direction of travel, not a fixed outcome. Neel writes about what can be measured, and what cannot.

The Sick Century

One habit at a time, then an honest review. Small and repeatable beats big and brief.

General education, not medical advice. Works alongside your GP and specialists, never instead of them. If you are unwell, contact your GP or call NHS 111. In an emergency, call 999.

Today

Dr Neel Reddy, portrait

01Meet Neel

I am a doctor whose work begins with the person, not the problem.

Emergency medicine taught me careful assessment and calm judgement when people are at their most vulnerable. It also made me curious about everything that comes before the emergency: the everyday conditions that help people live well.

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05Experience it

A short talk, a guided experience, sound, and a simple before-and-after self-rating of how you feel. You leave having noticed something, not just learned something.

Events and experiences
Dr Neel Reddy teaching on retreat

02Where this begins

How do you know when you are stressed?

Tap anything that sounds familiar. Nothing is sent anywhere; this is just for you.

In your body

In your mind

In your day

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Tap one or more. Most people recognise at least one.

Stress is not the enemy. It is a system designed to protect you. The trouble starts when it never switches off, and nobody has shown you how it works.

These are common signals, not a diagnosis. If you are worried about your health, please speak to your GP.

03The approach

Four stages. The tools serve the person.

Tests, measurements and traditions are only useful if they answer a real question for you. Some people need a simpler path, not more data.

  1. 01

    Understand

    What stress is doing in your body, explained plainly.

  2. 02

    Observe

    Notice your own patterns and, where useful, measure them.

  3. 03

    Regulate

    Simple, practical ways to change your state.

  4. 04

    Integrate

    Build what works into ordinary life.

Dr Neel Reddy on a train, looking out of the window

Before the emergency

We have become extraordinary at managing sickness. Have we become as good at understanding health?

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The Sick Century by Dr Neel Reddy, book cover

07The book

Dr Neel ReddyThe Sick
Century

We have become extraordinary at managing sickness. Have we become as good at understanding health?

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