I built Praneya because
I was the patient
who needed it.

In March 2026, I was sitting alone in the transit lounge at Kuala Lumpur airport. Long layover. Flying from India back to New Zealand.

I had visited family in Kerala on a short trip: the kind where you try to squeeze in everyone and everything in a few days. But I had also done something I had been putting off since turning 50. I got routine blood tests done. Nothing dramatic. The basic panel any GP would order for a man my age. Lipids, glucose, liver function, the usual.

In the quiet of the transit lounge, I opened the reports on my phone and went through them properly for the first time.

Sitting in that airport lounge, reading my ownnumbers, I felt something I did not expect. Not alarm. Recognition. With a patient’s results in front of me, I know how the conversation should go. With my own results, in plain sight, I went quiet.

I have a young family, a demanding job, a full life. I had assumed that being a doctor and staying active was, in itself, a plan. Sitting in that lounge, I realised I had a profession’s worth of knowledge and no actual plan I could write down for myself, the way I would for a patient.

The gap I couldn't unsee

Here is what I realised in that transit lounge: if I, someone who has spent their entire career in cardiac medicine, did not have a clear picture of what my own blood tests meant for my daily life — what specific small action to focus on next — then almost nobody does.

In my clinical work, I see the downstream consequences every day. By the time a patient reaches me, the window for prevention has often narrowed. The lifestyle conversation gets compressed into a five-minute chat at the end of a clinic visit, squeezed between medications and procedure planning. Everyday wellness actions can get overlooked. Not because clinicians do not care, but because the system is not built to deliver it.

I had that long layover. I had nowhere to be. So I did what I know how to do: I went deep into the research.

What I did next

Over the following weeks, I built myself a plan. Not a generic wellness guide, but a specific, evidence-based programme grounded in what the clinical literature actually shows. I designed a nutrition framework around the foods I grew up eating in Kerala: sardines, mackerel, red rice, jackfruit, bitter gourd, because sustainable change has to fit your real life, not a template from someone else's culture.

I built a simple routine for myself: structured home blood-pressure logging, wearable tracking, weekly self-check-ins. I worked out what actually mattered for me and why. I built a twelve-week programme, day by day, because I know from years of clinical practice that telling someone to “eat better and exercise more” is useless without specificity.

Why Praneya exists

That plan is what became Praneya.

Clear, plain-English heart-health understanding should not depend on your postcode or your ability to afford the right consultation. Every person who walks out of a clinic holding a stack of numbers deserves to understand what those numbers mean for their life, specifically, in plain language, with real actions attached.

Many people, through no fault of their own, have family history or life circumstances that make organised heart health information especially useful. Others simply want a clearer place to begin.

All of them deserve more than a pamphlet.

Praneya takes the blood reports your doctor orders and the wearable data you are already collecting, and helps you understand what they mean together: an organised baseline, one small wellness action at a time, and a clinician-ready summary for future health conversations.

I built Praneya because I was the patient who needed it. And I suspect you might be too.