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An evening with Dr Khadar Valli

On Friday, March 18, we had a very impactful session by Dr. Khadar Valli who has dedicated his life to building a healthy society. Dr Khadar Valli believes that the right kind of food, a simple lifestyle and the right agricultural practices are all that society needs to mend its ways and get itself into top health.

About Dr Khadar Valli

Based in Mysore, Dr Khadar Valli is a doctor, scientist, change agent and social activist rolled into one. His message is simple: When the food is wrong, medicine is of no use. When the food is right, medicine is not needed.

Dr Khadar Valli has proved that millets can cure almost every conceivable disease, including cancer. Millets are also environment friendly as they consume little water. He is known as the Millet Man of India and is the recipient of the Krushiratna Award.

Dr. Khadar Valli suggests small changes in food choices and minimal medication to his patients and ends up delivering miracles. He treats at least 100 patients a day at his residence from Tuesday to Saturday. There are thousands of diabetics who consider him a Messiah for saving their limbs after they were advised to go for amputation. There are epileptics who had lost all hope but who have been cured by him.

Dr. Khadar Valli also wants to save the soil for posterity. This can happen only with the right kind of agricultural practices. He is indeed worried that with the kind of crop practices farmers are currently adopting, the soil may become unfit to grow anything in the next 30 years. He grows as many as 38 to 40 crop varieties, in his eight acres of dry land in Karnataka. He even gives a live demonstration of the right agricultural practices at his farm: practices which do not disturb any part of the nature and rather replenish nature.

The looming health crisis

The present generation, (the last 15-20 years) is far from healthy, for all the claims we make about advances in healthcare. It has been experiencing various kinds of diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, HIV, diabetes, hypertension, rheumatism arthritis and Chronic Kidney Disease. About 75 to 80% of people have some disease or the other. By 2030 the number of patients with cardiovascular disease will grow to more than 23.6 million.

The allopathic system has completely failed the human race in the last 20 years and Corona is one of the prime examples. We have understood chemistry, biochemistry and biology and have various digital technologies at our disposal. But still we are encountering more and more disease conditions.

The problem with milk

One intriguing problem which has received Dr Khadar Valli’s special attention is that about 30 to 40% of women are menstruating before the age of ten. In 1987 when he visited the USA, he saw a six-year-old girl who had started menstruating. The doctors didn't have an answer. Dr Khadar Valli dug deeper. The answer was simple. Children were consuming the milk produced by genetically modified cows. The human body can digest only mother's milk and not the milk of animals. That is why children are given breast milk till the age of 2--2.5. But the concept of breast feeding has largely gone away, and children are increasingly consuming animal milk. Dr Khadar Valli did an experiment in which he gave some girls coconut milk. They did not develop any medical problems in contrast to those who took ordinary milk. There is a wrong notion that milk is good for health, that it is a complete food, gives you calcium, and so on. In reality, the commercialisation of milk and the use of genetically modified milk suit the interests of large companies and businesses.

Milk consumption also creates autoimmune diseases which are dangerous because the antibodies that we are developing are trying to attack our own system, thinking that it is a foreign body. This happens because of the animal proteins and the steroids entering our body.

Growing use of pesticides and fertilizers

The use of unnatural foods and the pesticides and fertilizers to increase the production of wheat, rice and sugar has thrown the world into a serious health crisis. The food and fertilizer companies are making tons of money. We have also started feeding cows and pigs and other animals with the excess food to increase meat production and consumption. In short, all kinds of wrong ingredients are entering the human body. No wonder, diseases including cancer are spreading.

Maintaining glucose, hormonal and microbial balance

Many of our health problems are the result of a glucose imbalance. If we eat 100 grams of rice, we are injecting into our blood a minimum of 50 grams of glucose. For a healthy body, there should not be more than 5- 6 grams of glucose at any given point of time. And we have started pumping in steroids into the human body through milk, sugar, rice, and wheat.

These foods also have a protein called gluten, which sticks to our colon and epithelial cells. So the functioning of the digestive tract gets impaired slowly and steadily. These chemicals are also killing symbiotic microbes in our body. In short, wrong choices of food have led to microbial imbalance, hormonal imbalance and glucose imbalance. If we can remove these imbalances by the right food practices, we can eliminate all the diseases.

The problem with glucose imbalance

Why is glucose imbalance bad? The more glucose there is in the blood, the more our endocrine glands have to work, creating extra cholesterol and uric acid. Excess glucose is converted to glycogen and fat. Then the extra glucose binds itself to the haemoglobin. That is called glycosylated haemoglobin. And then we become diabetic. And then the glycogen and the cholesterol accumulate. When these fatty materials start accumulating in the blood vessels around the heart, we have heart blockages. Then the pressure increases.

Our kidneys remove wastes and extra fluid from the body. The kidneys also remove acid that is produced by the cells of our body and maintain a healthy balance of water, salts, and minerals in the blood. The kidney’s filtering system stops functioning slowly and steadily over a period of four or five years. And in correcting these imbalances, doctors use more and more chemicals which start putting more pressure on kidneys. The result is the growing incidence of chronic kidney disease.

Dealing with the problem: Start eating millets

Doctors never look at the cause of diseases. Instead, they are trying to cure the diseases by pumping chemicals, using invasive techniques, medical interventions, tablets, injections, supplements, etc. In the process, we are only disturbing the immune system. That is how even a small thing like Corona, has become such a big problem for the human race. We have started losing immunity rapidly because of the food that we are eating.

If we take food that releases glucose slowly and steadily into our blood, then within six to eight months we can correct all the imbalances that are created. Many doctors are aware of this but their advice is wrong. They tell us to eat less, and more frequently. But that's not the right way to do it. We must eat something that can keep us engaged for eight to 10 hours. Our food travels from mouth to anus and needs 7-8 hours for digestion. If we keep consuming food every two to 3 hours, our digestive system will get confused and then we will be in more trouble.

We need to eat food that releases glucose slowly and steadily. God has made the necessary arrangements for mankind in this regard. For thousands of the years, the human race has eaten locally produced millet grains that meet this requirement. To revive the tradition of eating millets, Dr Khadar Valli has identified five millet grains which can go a long way in improving our health. These grains are relatively high on fibre and low on carbohydrate.

Foxtail Millet has a sweet, bitter taste. It’s a good food for diabetic patients. It reduces the cholesterol content in the body. It is rich in antioxidants.

Kodo Millet is sweet, bitter and acrid in taste. It helps in purifying blood, improving resistance power and overcoming anaemia and diabetes, constipation and is good for sound sleep. It can get rid of asthma and kidney problems and problems related to prostate, blood cancer and the cancers of intestine, thyroid, throat, pancreas or liver.

Little Millet is sweet in taste. It can help in curing the diseases of the reproductive systems in both males and females.

Barnyard Millet is sweet in taste and is good for the thyroid and the pancreas. This grain helps in getting rid of diabetes and constipation as there is lot of fiber in this millet. It cleans up the liver, kidney, gall bladder and is good for the endocrinal glands. This millet also helps in reducing jaundice and strengthening the liver. It is also helpful in reducing the cancer of ovaries, uterus.

Browntop millet is one of the traditional crops. These grains have to be soaked in water for 6 to 8 hours before cooking. These are useful for the solving problems of ovaries, stomach, arthritis, B.P, thyroid, eye problems and obesity. When we divide the carbohydrate by the fiber in each grain, a single digit means the grain releases glucose slowly and steadily into our bloodstream. The five grains mentioned above, clearly fall in this category. img

Dr Khadar Valli has given the twelve grains in the table above to diabetic patients. He collects the urine after one and a half hours, and if there is glucose, that means the grain is not effective. But if the urine has glucose only after 3-4 hours, that means it is releasing the glucose slowly. This is a simple experiment which we can do for anyone anywhere on the planet. We will find that rice and wheat release glucose very fast whereas these five millet grains do so slowly. By consuming millets, diabetes patients get cured within weeks. People who could not walk earlier, can now walk 10 km without any problems. All kinds of complicated problems created by diabetic conditions are reversed once the patients start using these grains.

Dr Khadar Valli and his team have now listed 108 medical conditions that the human race is facing. They have tabulated what to eat, how to eat and what not to eat. Cancer patients, HIV patients, people with muscular dystrophy, etc all start feeling much better in a matter of six months to one year. In some cases, like mental illnesses and kidney problems, it takes more time. This is because the neurons and nephrons take more time to get replenished in our body.

Q&A

On how specific diseases like, asthma, heart disease, diabetes, are caused and how they can be cured

Blood brings oxygen and nutrients to all the parts of the body so that they can keep working. Blood carries carbon dioxide and other waste materials to the lungs, kidneys, and digestive system for their removal from the body. Blood also carries hormones around the body. When there is glucose imbalance, the blood is thick and does not flow properly, and the exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen becomes inefficient. And that's how we start getting asthma. Doctors give blood thinners and steroids to make the process of breathing easy. This aggravates the problem. A related problem which comes down the line is the loss of eyesight.

Millets can clean up the deposits that are present in our blood vessels. So when we clean the blood and make it thin and free of all these toxic substances, we achieve success. With the right food, this can happen in a matter of three to four weeks. There are particular vegetables and green leaf decorations that can hasten the process. Dr Khadar Valli has tabulated all the conditions in the form of protocols for asthma, blood pressure and heart conditions. Even a 95% heart block for which open heart surgery is recommended, can be cured when by taking the right vegetable juices early in the morning on empty stomach. In a matter of three to nine weeks, we will start seeing the relief. Over a period of six months we will be completely healed and we don't need any medication at all subsequently.

On allopathy vs other medicines

With allopathic medicines, we start having side effects. With homeopathy and Ayurveda if managed well, we will have no side effects. But in both cases, we will keep taking medicines because we have not changed the basic food. If we keep eating rice, wheat and sugar, the disease conditions will persist due to glucose imbalance. If we want to stop medicines, we must change the food.

On millet cultivation and sustainability

The planet is in danger because of our food choices. By producing rice, wheat, sugar cane and meat in large quantities in centralized facilities, we are fighting with nature and creating an imbalance and global warming is the result.

Millet cultivation practices are simple and aligned with nature. Millets have been designed by God to consume the least amount of resources. So, by embracing millets as the staple food, we can reduce the stress on the soil. We can regenerate soil in a matter of three to four years. Thanks to Dr Khadar Valli’s efforts, Karnataka is now the leader in the world in growing millets. Otherwise, the millet tradition would have been lost, as indeed it has happened all over the planet. In fact, these wonderful grains exist only in India.

Wheat and rice use huge amounts of fertilizers and need specific climatic conditions. If the temperature increases by two more degrees, we will not be able to produce rice or wheat. On the other hand, millets can grow everywhere from Dubai to cold places where the temperature can be as low as ten degrees. The human population will balloon in the next 10-15 years to reach 10 billion or so. Millets can solve the world’s looming food crisis. If we start using millets as the staple food, we can start eliminating sickness, prevent soil degradation and solve the problem of food shortages.

Note: With a current annual global output of 25 million tonnes, millet has been one of the basic nutrients of humans for 4000 years in Africa and Asia and for Europe until the end of the middle age.  However, the global millet consumption has declined at the rate of 0.9% and is expected to witness a positive movement during 2019 to 2024. The millets market is set to grow from its current market value of over $9 billion to over $12 billion by 2025. One problem with millets is high product prices in comparison with the popularly consumed. Due to the lower production volume, the millet supply chain is weak compared to that for rice and wheat.

Millet flour, flakes, cookies etc are increasingly visible in the consumer markets. Millet based infant foods such as porridge are ideal for infant growth and can lower the occurrence of malnutrition in infants and babies. Millet beer is a traditional part of African culture. img

On driving change

The key is to consistently and persistently, reach out to all people. It is awareness and knowledge sharing that brings about the change. So for the last 25 years, Dr Khadar Valli has been at it, going from village to village. In fact in Karnataka he has visited more than 2000 villages. A few days ago, Dr Khadar Valli and his team went to meet rice farmers in Miryalguda, near Hyderabad. They spent 4 hours discussing all the parameters and issues. At the end of the discussion, out of 150 farmers, ten agreed to switch to millets.

Dr Khadar Valli has been trying to communicate the science behind of many of our traditional practices such as doing Surya Namaskar (good for getting Vitamin D) and eating Ambali (which corrects microbial imbalance). Dr Khadar Valli narrated the story of a diabetic who had lost his eyesight. He followed Dr Khadar Valli’s protocols strictly for three months. His eyesight began to improve and he started to walk around in his house. After another three months, he could venture out. Now after nine months, he has started traveling. He has left insulin and indeed all other medicines he has been consuming for years. He is experiencing a new life, by following Dr Khadar Valli’s protocols.

It is important to have an open mindset. People who are not educated are very easy to convince because they understand it in a simple fashion, and they follow it. It is the so-called half-educated people, that do not get it immediately. They learn more slowly by trial and error.

On publishing his findings

The world runs on the economic considerations of some powerful entities. The scientific establishment is presently controlled by these people. It is not easy for Dr Khadar Valli to publish his findings in journals. But he has published protocols and documents which are now available with thousands of people. Dr Khadar Valli is accomplishing his objectives even without publishing his findings in the mainstream journals.

On the farmers who cultivate millets: How does it work out for them in terms of the economics?

Millet cultivation is quite remunerative for famers compared to most other crops. There are so many sick people. So the demand for millets is increasing. A farmer who has five acres of dry land, can grow 50 quintals at a price of Rs 2500-3000 per quintal. The cost of cultivation of millets is very low. Millets can also be stored for three to four years without having to add any chemicals or preservatives. So if the farmer is not happy with

the price, he can just hold on, eat it and survive for a year and can sell when the price increases. In fact, in case of brown top millet, when demand soared, as people started taking interest in wellness, the price crossed Rs 500 per kilo. (But now many people have started growing these millets and the price has come down.)

On the role of the government

The government is driven by the need to win the next election. In any case, the government cannot solve the problem of people eating the wrong food. What we do in our kitchens is our choice. The government has no role to play here. It will take some time to build awareness. Hopefully, with increasing awareness, we will be able to solve the problem.

On what advice he would give to the government

Create a Ministry for non-irrigated farming communities in India. 60% of Indian farmers are still dependent on rain.

On surviving by eating only millets

We can survive for about 40-50 days, if we eat millets alone. We also need supplements like greens, vegetables now and then. But in terms of nutrition value, no other food can compare with millets. Vegetables and fruits are watery substances. We cannot dry them. So, we have to consume them in large quantities for the required nutritional value. They can work on a temporary basis. So, if we have some sickness, we can be on fruits for some time. We will start seeing good results. But they are not sustainable. For sustainable healthy living, we need to consume millets.

We cannot produce fruits and vegetables as the primary diet for the entire population. They can only be a supplementary diet. Vegetables and fruits have the wonderful advantage of filling the microbes in our stomach. But Ambali can also create the same benefit. (Ambali or ragi malt is a vegetarian summer drink or porridge that is prepared in Karnataka. The drink is prepared by cooking ragi flour in water and then cooling it down and then adding diluted beaten curd or buttermilk to it, along with cumin powder, salt and chopped onions.) We should also not consume fruits grown with chemicals. If we eat such fruits, we are going to become more sick.

On malnutrition

Dr Khadar Valli has discovered five millets but there are many more millets that can fit the required characteristics. That will take time to identify. But it is clear that we need millets because malnutrition is still a problem in the half of the globe. Even very rich countries have malnutrition because they are eating the wrong food. Malnutrition is the result of eating wrong foods. It is as simple as that. Millets can completely wipe out malnutrition from this planet

Concluding remarks

Millets help us to reduce the carbohydrates and increase the content of fiber in whatever we consume. Protein is dangerous for kidneys and leads to chronic kidney disease. Milk does a lot of harm. Milk is difficult to digest and can also cause autoimmune diseases. We have moved away from the food God wants us to consume and embraced unhealthy foods like rice, wheat and sugar. This phenomenal change in food habits has been driven by the greed and commercial needs of some entities, like the large corporations and the medical profession. Today, 80-90% of the human race is sick. Every day it must strike us that if we consume the right kinds of foods, we can be healthy. If we consume the wrong foods, no medicine can cure us.

Dr Khadar Valli’s Tips for a healthy lifestyle

  • Wake up before sunrise and brush the teeth with activated charcoal powder and occasionally with Neem stem or with Pongamia stem.
  • After finishing your morning rituals, watch the orange color Sun during sunrise for 10 mins and meditate for another 10 mins.
  • Walk for a minimum of 75 minutes per day. The duration of the walk is more important than the speed.
  • Use normal or warm water for bath. Hot water is not good.
  • Prepare Kashaya with structured water (use palm jaggery if required), drink when it is warm. Drink 2-3 spoons of oil as per the protocol (as suggested for disease) with a 30 mins gap after Kashaya is taken.
  • Stop consuming paddy rice, wheat, non-vegetarian food, maida (all-purpose flour), tea, coffee, sugar, milk, refined oils, dry fruits. completely.
  • Having two meals a day is ideal after we are 40. One can consume fruits or buttermilk prepared from Desi cow milk or buttermilk prepared from plant-based milk (sesame, groundnut, coconut, pearl- millet, etc..).
  • If time permits, walk for 30 to 45 mins in the evening and watch the orange color Sun for 10 mins before sunset.
  • Consume the same Kashaya in the evening 30 mins before dinner. Go to sleep 90 mins after finishing dinner.
  • Make the bed room as dark as possible. If we are using fan or AC, keep a bucket of water in the room for balancing moisture level. Do not allow any electronic gadgets like mobile, computer etc. in your sleeping room.
  • Spend some time with nature daily. Make it a habit for your children too.
  • Talk with your co-passenger while travelling.
  • Learn a new subject.
  • Share the knowledge which you have.
  • Reserve at least 30 minutes a day for helping others.


We thank Dr. Vedpuriswar for bringing out the highlights in the form of this note