In this video, the Kaul family—parents Sanjay and Anjaniya and their son Anjaneya—share their journey from a health crisis to remarkable recovery through a Satvik lifestyle. Before the COVID‑19 lockdown, Sanjay struggled with 20‑year‑long diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity (78.5 kg), while Anjaniya dealt with PCOD and weighed 120 kg. Their son, who gained weight during lockdown, became the catalyst for change. After watching a Satvik video, the family collectively adopted a holistic regimen that included plant‑based, home‑grown Satvik meals cooked in earthenware, regular yoga and weight‑lifting, sunbathing, daily wet packs, and colon enema. Within weeks, Sanjay’s diabetes medication frequency dropped, his blood pressure meds vanished, and he lost 13 kg, feeling younger and more energetic. Anjaniya lost significant weight, saw her PCOD symptoms reverse—hair regrowth, reduced pigmentation, and a slimmer frame. Their son also shed weight, improved flexibility, and became the household “food police.” The family emphasizes that genetic predisposition does not doom one to disease, labeling the belief that diabetes is irreversible as a "medical lie". Their story underscores the power of family support, disciplined lifestyle changes, and myth‑busting attitudes toward chronic disease.
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Hi, this is Sanjay Kaul, my husband, and she is Jyoti, and I am Anjaniya Kaul, and we are a happy, healthy family.
But the things were not always like that. When our son was born, we were worried that whether we will be able to manage to stay alive for him. I was 36 already when I conceived. I was 37. And he was 40. So we already had our share of health problems which had begun. I was a PCOD patient, and at one point in time I weighed 120 kilos.
I was 78.5 kgs. I had been diabetic for 20-odd years. My mother is also diabetic, father was also diabetic, and that's what we don't want to pass on to our son. I used to have blood pressure, so that used to be around 140 by 100. And even the sugar levels fasting would be almost around 200, and post-food used to be almost 300 also. This fear was always there. Anjaneya is very young and he has to grow up. What will happen to him? Who will take care if something happens to us?
And obviously the lifestyle that we were following, Anjaneya was also following. So I could see him also going our way, which was a big concern for me. And during lockdown, particularly sitting in one place playing games, even the online classes, lack of exercise, he started putting on a lot of weight, and that was a turning point in our life.
So lockdown से पहले तो सब कुछ normal चल रहा था, ठीक चल रहा था. I was fit and fine. जब मैं finally खेलने गया lockdown के बाद तो मेरे friends ने मुझे देखा तो वो कह रहे थे ये तो मोटा हो गया he's got obese and लोग started teasing me like a मोटे a हाथी तू यहाँ क्या कर रहा है and all that so one day I came back home and मैंने मम्मा को complain किया कि they were teasing me a lot हाँ तो I told him they will tease you they are not wrong I told him कि आपको weight कम करना ही होगा there is no other option That's when I showed them this video.
I had come across this Satwik video almost a year ago. I had sent it to Sanjay, but he had ignored it initially.
This time we thought this will definitely help Anjaniya also, and we watched it together.
पहले भी पापा मुझे exercise करने के लिए बोलते थे, लेकिन जब मम्मा ने पूरे lifestyle के बारे में मेरे को convey किया, तो it was like ये तो सही है। So let's do it together. I'm in.
I'm in too.
All the credit goes to mom.
I must tell you that she has been a mentor, a guide, and the initiator.
Oh, we used to look forward to mornings. We would come up together as a family. We would exercise some body movements here and there, yoga. I used to do weightlifting and all.
I really loved sunbathing. क्योंकि मम्मा ने मुझे कहा था कि if you go to sunbathe Then she'll give me a massage. क्या माँ थोड़ा pressure तो apply करो. I love those sunbathing times and massages together.
And I love my wet packs. It's like having a spa at home. I would just go about doing my work, and sometimes the neighbors would ask me, "भाभी क्या हो गया? बुखार बुखार हो गया?" But I would just keep Doing my things.
माउस देखा क्या? अंजने, I need the mouse यार। क्या बाबा भी मैं कुछ कर रहा हूँ अभी बाद में आके ले लूँ। I have some important office work to do। क्या करना है तुमको माउस का सुबह-सुबह?
अभी तो wet pack लगाया है थोड़ा सा relax कर लो। After exercises we used to drink our ash gourd juice.
Ashgard had also started growing on our house.
The compost from my kitchen waste, so the seeds have grown on their own and they came from the compost.
So at around 10 a.m., we break our fast and we have seasonal fruit. This almost completes 16 hours or so.
And my favorite is though the chocolate smoothie bowl.
Hmm, अच्छा बना हुआ. You like it?
Yeah.
So we open the YouTube videos and start cooking looking at the video. It was a lot of fun learning the Satvik recipes. And especially cooking in mitti ke bartan was a real change. It was nice, very earthy feel to the whole thing. Initially, it was a little bit of challenge because you know we were used to eating grains and heavy food, and हमें ऐसा लगता था कि हमें नींद ही नहीं आएगी अगर हम कुछ खाए भी खाना नहीं खा लेंगे। What I realized, all this is in the mind only.
In my opinion, satvik food is so tasty, so awesome, and so nice.
In fact, after some time, Anjana became the food police in the house.
Oh yes! आज बारिश का मौसम हो रहा है। पकोड़े मंगा लेते हैं। नहीं बाबा, no cheating. एक दिन से क्या होता है?
नहीं बाबा, no cheating तो no cheating.
Okay.
अरे बाबा थोड़ी और सब्जी तो लो। ले तो ली और कितनी लूँ?
But this is only one point five cut.
ना आपको तो दो कटोरी खाना है। ओहो, देना यार। Initially enema was difficult, but later on when I tried it, then I felt it easily doable.
Yeah, after the enema he would start just singing and being very happy and merry.
I want you to be happier. I want you to be happier.
Initially, I felt that there's no need of enema. I had no bowel issues, but it really made a lot of difference. It had a lot of benefit.
Oh yeah, he hacked my enema kit also. Has anybody seen my enema kit? La la la la la la la la la la la! तुमने मेरा ही use कर लिया। I changed the catheter, Baba.
See, when we started following all the elements of the lifestyle, the new lifestyle, be it food, be it exercise, be it enema, so that made the change. That is how we saw that things are changing in a big way. See, I have been diabetic for more than 20 years now. As soon as we started doing this, the things started changing drastically.
He was taking medication 3 times a day, but within the first week, his morning medication had Within a week, yes. Never ever in the last 23 years has it happened that the medication has even decreased, and even his BP medications were surprisingly gone in the next 3 weeks.
The level of energy I see now is unbelievable. I find a total change. I was 78.5 kgs. Now I am sixty-five. I am fifty-five years old. My colleagues, they keep on saying, "You look very young.
How did you do that?" उसके बाद से इनके शीशे वाला time बहुत बढ़ गया है। जैसे ही कोई इनको praise करता है, he just comes home, stands in front of the mirror and just looks at himself. And he hasn't been happier in years. Actually, घर का माहौल बहुत बदल गया है because of his temper being in his control. Earlier, he used to be very short-tempered. Now, he is very balanced. It makes a lot of difference in our daily lives also.
People say that if the disease is genetic, then you can't do anything. But that is not true. What I see is that change can happen. With this process, I could see the change.
It is a myth. I would like to say that it is a myth that diabetes cannot be reversed. I would say it is a medical lie. I have seen it in my family with great satisfaction that if you are determined and if you follow the right lifestyle, diabetes is a completely reversible disease.
She dedicated her life to see that we all are healthy. मुझे और अंजनिया को ठीक करने के चक्कर में she also got benefited. We all in fact got benefited. Out of this.
Yeah, that's right. Actually, I was not even looking at my health and my body. My PCOD was not my concern. These benefits started coming on their own. चार महीने पहले आप यहाँ ये jawbones नहीं देख सकते थे। My my face was similar to my neck, but after following the lifestyle, my weight came down and now I am at seventy five and going south. I was five XL earlier and I have come down five sizes almost. Too large, extra large, and some brands even medium size. Another classic sign of PCOD was that I had very less hair here. My beautician used to say, "बहुत फर्क पड़ गया।" At least now can I can feel hair here on your scalp, and she can think of making hairstyles for me. The hair growth on on my face was so thick that I had to shave every morning. But now, as you can see, there is no hair. There was a lot of pigment. pigmentation here on my neck, and after I lost weight, this whole pigmentation has gone. Now there is no pigmentation, as you can see. I can't even explain how I feel looking in the mirror now. It has completely turned my life around. It's gone from here to here.
But what brings us most of the joy is the change that we found in Anjiniya.
He dropped a lot of weight also.
Before the lifestyle, I was seventy to seventy-one kgs and I almost dropped down to sixty-eight, sixty-seven.
So we had a weight challenge both Anjana and myself. Who is going to bring down the weight first?
And finally he won the challenge.
Till now, till now.
Yeah, I asked for what.
The best part is कि वो जो PT exercise है जिसमें hand को ऐसे clutch करना होता है that पहले मैं बिल्कुल नहीं कर पाता था and now अभी इतना easily पकड़ पा रहा हूँ मैं दो आसन जो बहुत ही डिफिकल्ट लगते थे, वो थे नौकासन और धनुरासन। और अब आसानी से वो आसन कर पाता हूँ, बहुत इजीली। Other kids of my age, they fall for the advertisements which are promoted by the famous superstars and the famous sports stars. But the fact is that the celebs, they just do it for money and they actually do not consume because they themselves know that it is not good for health. When I got thinner, many people recognized it and they started asking me, "इसके पीछे का रास्ता क्या है?" So I said, "It's nothing. It's just food habits and what I call is diet, satvik dieting." But they say, "अरे बच्चों को dieting थोड़ी ना करनी चाहिए. बच्चे तो अभी खाने पीने की age है. खाओ पियो मस्त रहो." The wrong idea of the society is that dieting is something where you Skip food, but dieting is actually something where you eat good natural food given by the Mother Nature.
We are actually very happy and satisfied parents today, and we are sure that we are going to pass on the legacy of a happy and a healthy lifestyle for our son. The other day I saw him fiddling with his phone, so I thought he's इतने कोई नई game खेलना शुरू कर दिया है फिर से। I was just about to shout at him, you know, and then I realized that, you know, he's rolling his eyes up and down. I realized that वो video देखके अपनी eye exercise कर रहा है। इसके लिए उसने खुद से ही शुरू कर दिया and we didn't even know he took the initiative of his own. I was very satisfied. To see that he has taken responsibility to take the right steps and take care of his own health.
