✓ Reviewed for medical safety by Dr J Jyothi, MS (Obstetrics and Gynaecology), Reg. No. 2025/08/09913, Maharashtra Medical Council, on 21 October 2026.
This is one person's experience, shared with their consent. Every body is different. It is not medical advice, so please keep working with your doctor, and never change or stop medication without them.
Poornima's story at a glance
- Who: K Poornima, 22, yoga therapy student from Kannur, Kerala
- Condition: PCOD for about 1.5 years, with missed periods and heavy hair fall, plus sleepless nights and anxiety
- Program: the Satvic lifestyle, learned from Satvic Movement's videos
- What she changed: 16-hour fasting, ash gourd juice, fruit breakfasts, a Satvic grain meal, salad dinners, sunbathing, pranayama, yoga, and enemas and wet packs for 21 days
- What she noticed: in her words, her periods returned a short while after she began and have come each month without pain, and she felt light and alive again
Kerala, labelled as one of the ten paradises of the world by National Geographic, would be a dream place to be for anyone. And yet, life was anything but beautiful for this 22 year old, crumbled in her own pain, college student, Ms Poornima. After losing hundreds of hair strands in the shower, thousands of rupees at shuffling among various doctors, and millions of moments worrying about how to fix her now detected illness, Ms Poornima did not have much joy left in her to be able to appreciate the paradise she lived in. If anything, she felt hell had resided on earth, and she was given the master bedroom and special detention in it. Until one day, while doing her daily YouTube research on PCOD, she landed on a “3 ways to detox your body” video. After 1.5 years of struggle, she felt she had finally found something worth trying. However, the answer was definitely not what she had anticipated. Why was she taken aback? Come, let's find out! “Having never really had junk food, a total health freak, and studying yoga therapy as my masters education, can you imagine my frustration when I was told I too had PCOD? How was that even possible?”
Life after PCOD
A hair on the head is worth two on the brush. But what happens when there are no hair on the head and all on the brush? No end could be more horrifying for a 22 year old with her whole life ahead. Every time I entered the shower, I felt like crying looking at the hair that fell off.
Periods had mysteriously gone on vacation without any prior notice. And after 4 months of sitting by the window waiting for them, I finally decided to visit a doctor and get a flyer printed “Period Missing. If seen please contact Ms. Poornima.”
Turns out, the solution wasn't as simple. One doctor led to the other. Ayurveda led to homeopathy. Homeopathy led to Allopathy. None of it seemed to work for me, and I was left with sleepless nights, anxiety filled days and no energy to do anything. I couldn't help but ask the same question again, and again - WHY? WHY ME?
Never eating junk food, what did I do to get PCOD? I felt so unfair. I even caught myself thinking “Might as well have had those chips.” Until one day I landed on a video that made me look at my whole routine differently.
An Epiphany
The video by Satvic Movement made me realize it wasn't just about eating right, but a lot more to do with how we are built as human beings. If we keep watering a plant relentlessly each morning and each night, its sure to survive. Right? But here’s a catch - it isn't kept out in the open, but instead put inside a closet, enclosed without any air, sunlight or space. Isn't it bound to die? And here I was wondering what did I do wrong to get PCOD. I too, like that plant, was watering myself, but all that while confining myself to the closest, always staying indoors, never bothering to get sunlight, or fresh air. And some of what I thought of as “good” was, in my experience, not working for my body: dairy, processed grains, eating all through the day from 7:30am to 9:30pm, and tea and coffee.
Poornima practicing yoga on her terrace (December 2020)
If I had to change how my life was, I had to change my ways of living too.
And that is where my journey of coming out of that enclosed closet, right into the arms of nature, began.
Life without PCOD
October 2020, I got inspired and made a few changes. I started my days with ash gourd juice, had fruits for breakfast, satvic grain meal in the afternoon, and ended the day with a salad, making sure I follow the principle of 16 hour fasting. At first I was filled with doubt that how would I overcome my habit of constant snacking, but to my surprise, in less than a week, my hunger patterns changed. I could easily go to 10 am in the morning without really feeling hungry. Maybe it was all the sunrays and pranayama that I had started doing early morning which was filling my body and giving me all kinds of energy. Enema however was a strict no-no by my parents. They were too scared to let me try it, and so was I. So the whole of October I had not tried the enema, and the wet pack too was done only for a week in the middle. However, when I started seeing my body change, and feeling alive again, I wanted to try the enema too. I was completely taken aback when I did the enema for the first time. Not only was it so easy to do, but I felt like I had been carrying something tucked around my stomach for a long time, and suddenly it's now gone. I felt so light. I did it for 21 days, along with a daily wet pack, and I felt lighter each day. (Enemas are not for pregnant or breastfeeding women, children under 14 or anyone severely underweight, and the healing plan is followed for a maximum of 3 months.)
Poornima, sunbathing while meditating on her terrace
And a short while after I began the Satvic way of life, I got my periods. It was the first period in a long time that came without medication. Since then my periods have been coming each month. While I was only hoping for the video to give me an answer on ‘why me’, what it ended up doing was turning this hell into a beautiful heaven on earth again.
I can't help but feel blessed!
Author's note
Ms Poornima was detected with PCOD in early 2019. While medications did induce periods in her, it ended up taking away all the spark from her life. Finally she decided to change things and came across our video in October. From October until today, she has been following the lifestyle and says her periods have been coming each month, without pain.She has also gotten her family to experience the joy of this lifestyle. Yoga with her brother, and a satvic meal with her parents, are a few small steps that she's currently taking towards it. If Poornima's story speaks to you, we invite you to experience the Satvic way of living in our Health Transformation Workshop, alongside the care of your doctor.
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