Dr Showkat Hussain Shah Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

07/05/2026

This how we mend hearts without even pausing to consider our own aches ..

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01/05/2026

Life has taught me many things ….

20/02/2026

Listen to your Heart before it breaks ..
Our Heart Doesnot Always Shout …

Read my full writeup in today’s Greater Kashmir

https://m.greaterkashmir.com/article/heart-does-not-always-shout/480088 Heart does not always shout

09/01/2026

People often ask me about diet.

What to eat.
What to avoid.
What suddenly became “dangerous.

Food has long been a mystery, shrouded in myths.
Eggs,Butter, Fat….
And then we wondered why disease followed.

However ,science is quietly correcting itself.

What the body has always known:

• Grains are optional
• Protein and full-fat dairy aren’t the enemy
• Butter and tallow are food, not poison
• Low-carb can heal in chronic disease
• Ultra-processed food does the real damage

It is not about “bad cholesterol.”
It is more of insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, silent inflammation.

Heart disease didn’t rise because of eggs.
It rose because we stopped eating food.

As Rumi wrote:
“Why are you busy with this or that?
Pay attention to how things blend.”

Not excess.
Just biological common sense.

In this context , do read my previously published article( 17 Aug 2021) on Diet and my interpretation of Healthy Diet ..

The field of medicine, with its aura of mystique and importance, holds a great attraction. It is well known that many more people aspire to…

08/01/2026

I have learnt ;

Not every heart that hurts is sick, and not every pain needs treatment.
Many burdens of the heart —loneliness, constant stress, unspoken grief, the tiredness of holding on for too long, cant be seen on tests .
Science shows that these things slowly affect the heart by disturbing its natural rhythm and raising stress hormones, even before disease appears.
Medicines can fix numbers and blockages, but kindness, listening, and presence often heal what tests cannot show.

As Emily Dickinson wrote:

“If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.

The healer is within us.

07/01/2026

Your heart isn’t just a pump — it is a witness to your days.

Science shows most heart disease begins long before pain arrives — in silence, in sugar, in stillness.
But the heart also heals in motion:
• Walk like the earth remembers your feet.
• Eat like the soil gave you life.
• Breathe like every pause is a blessing.
• Sleep like dreams are medicine.

As Rumi wrote,

“Where there is ruin,
there is hope for a treasure.”

Let healing be found not in fear, but in the quiet choices of your day.

Move…
Nourish. …
And find Peace within you !

Your beat is more than rhythm —it is a story .

06/01/2026

I read hearts in two languages—the inked lines of screens and the unwritten margins of people.
Every beat carries a household: wages, children, winter breaths, a cup of noonchai cooling on a table.
Medicine counts the rhythm; compassion recognizes the weight behind it.
I have learned a simple truth—preventing one injury is greater than rescuing thousand fears.
The heart must remain human before it becomes clinical.

Quoting lines by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Psalm of Life”:

“Life is real! Life is earnest,
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.”

Showkat Shah

02/01/2026

How winter takes toll on our heart ..
Read my write up in today’s GK ..

In winter, the heart works harder in silence, don’t mistake endurance for strength

15/06/2025

Read my write up ..

Not all heartaches show up on scans—some live quietly under the weight of unspoken grief and daily stress

20/05/2025

Read my write up in today’s GK ..

https://www.greaterkashmir.com/opinion/what-the-body-forgets-the-meal-remembers/