At BrilliantRead Media, we always strive to bring meaningful and powerful stories from India and around the world to empower and motivate our growing community. As part of this endeavour, we invited Karishmma Chawla for an exclusive interview with us. Karishmma is a Functional Medicine Nutritionist, Lifestyle Educator and an Influencer. Let’s learn more about her background, journey and her advice for our community!
Excerpts from our exclusive interview with Karishmma:
We are aware of your contributions to the health industry. Talk us through your background and your journey, please.
The journey began after my lung surgery, a moment that left not just a physical scar but a deep mark on my soul. It’s often said that every scar tells a story, and this one penned mine that very day. It was in that vulnerable moment that I realised something profound: I needed to take my life into my own hands. The will to be empowered at any moment became my driving force.
That’s when I made the life-changing decision to pursue something that could make me stronger, not just on the outside, but from within. Nutrition and life coaching called to me, and I answered. It was like stepping onto a path I had always been meant to walk a healing space where I could not only transform my life but also help others do the same.
This drive to heal and empower myself has been my fuel, propelling me forward each and every day. I’ve come a long way since that pivotal moment, and along the way, I’ve embraced my true mission: to look and feel my best, not for anyone else, but for me to embody strength, confidence, and empowerment.
Through it all, I’ve embraced the “circle of life” philosophy. I believe that our health isn’t just about what we eat or how much we move; it’s a delicate balance of career, relationships, stress, and sleep. That’s why I don’t just offer diet plans or fitness advice; together, we create holistic, personalised lifestyle strategies. Strategies that align with your body’s natural rhythms and healing processes, helping you thrive in every area of your life.
This journey isn’t just mine, it’s for anyone who’s ready to take control and step into a life of true empowerment. And with every step, I am reminded: it’s all about healing, growing, and living the life you truly deserve.
What different things are you working on currently?
My simple answer to this question is I am working on “GUT”, my motto is to heal the world the gut way, and I have a functional medicine torch by my side to help find the root cause of the problems.
A perspective of functional medicine helps me to dig deep into my client’s health issues and find them the resolutions. In here we don’t go halfway through we tend to hold our client’s hands uphill the end of the healing process.
This approach is more patient oriented what they feel, what they want, what they preach we just don’t simply work on smaller goals like resolving acidity and bloating, or if you want to run the marathon or you want to look the best bride we resolve the problem from the base and hence facilitate healing from the core. We help create the best version of themselves by working on their gut.
Because we believe, better gut, better gut feelings, better gut means better confidence, better gut means better decision-making capacity, the whole point beings you are empowered. Yes, I’m working on a bigger picture!
What is your core when you talk about your journey are there any key tips you follow?
To become the person I am today, I’ve relied on seven key principles:
1) Intuition: Trust your gut. Your inner voice knows the way.
2) Compassion: Believe with your heart. Compassion connects us to others and to ourselves.
3) Infinite Viewpoint: Abundance exists in the world. There is enough for everyone.
4) Purpose: Serve with intention. Life is an expression of the divine, and we are all connected.
5) Dharma: Success follows when you honour your dharma. By living in alignment with your true purpose, you cultivate an indestructible state of life.
6) Shreyas: As described in the Bhagavad Gita, shreyas is about adopting the right methods for permanent solutions. It’s not about quick fixes but about understanding the bigger picture and implementing strategies that lead to lasting results.
7) Empowerment: Give your mind and soul wholeheartedly. The more Vidyavan one is, the more Dhanvan one will be!
How did you discover your passion?
As I narrated before, after my lung surgery a scar that didn’t just mark my body but ignited a life-changing realisation: I needed to take control. That moment sparked a desire for empowerment, and I knew I had to grow stronger from within. So, I chose a path that would fuel that strength, nutrition and life coaching.
This wasn’t just a career shift; it was the start of a deep commitment to healing—my own and others’. Every day, this drive pushes me to strive for something bigger, to feel empowered, and to help others do the same. I believe in the “circle of life” philosophy: health isn’t just food or fitness, it’s career, relationships, stress, and sleep. I don’t just offer plans; I help create holistic lifestyle strategies that align with your body’s natural rhythms, allowing you to heal and thrive.
My mission? To empower people to take control of their health, transform from the inside out, and live their fullest, most balanced life. It’s about embracing strength, healing, and the relentless pursuit of becoming the best version of yourself.
With so much going on, how do you start the day to keep your passion alive?
When I wake up, I get ready for the day not physically but mentally too! Because that’s where the entire being is! We feel before we give in, in anything or any day. I help myself to increase my entire being and frequency by doing simple deep breathing, I set an intention, do my small prayer to almighty, and say out loud the positive affirmation so that my smaller cells can also listen to what exactly my plans are for the day and they can keep up with the good deeds for me to keep going.
These might be very small things, but they go a long way, a way full of abundance and opportunities running towards you. Before I go to bed I also do journaling, chanting and again a small prayer to the universe just to remind myself that we do not want to stop in this fruitful helping healing journey rather we have to seize in the day welcome the good stuff and acknowledge the hard work before we get the good night sleep.
What are your views on weight loss and diets?
In the pool of fitness, nutrition and diets weight loss is look upon as a quick fix for momentarily period, but under the lens of functional medicine approach we tend to dive deep into the root cause and try to find the reason behind the constant weight gain, or resistant weight that usually points fingers at inflammation stemming out of gut, hormones, liver not so healthy lifestyle, poor sleep quality and most importantly the will power.
What we do in functional medicine approach is we look at the “entire circle of life” recognizing the factors like career, relationships, stress, sexual desires, financial, mental health and sleep are that essential components of health together and we check the missing linkage in between and then we connect the dots to give a final resolution that helps client with sustainable weight loss with fulfilled healing in all the spectrum of life.
What advice would you give the young generation on health matters?
I would deeply want to give the socially woke generation a simple advice that “Health Matters” so today how much ever you party all night, never mind if you have pack scheduled and sleep only for few hours to complete any task or just to finish the trendy series and say that we work hard or we party hard is absolute bullshit!!
The whole idea is to take care of your health today which not just about you choosing fruits over a bag of chips, or you choosing quinoa salad over high sugar salad, you choose healthy to stay full of life when you will be 35yrs old and enjoy life with no threatening medical conditions.
Now I see the newer blood mostly men think sleep is just a waste of time, rather they keep their extra work for night and females, anyways, love to multitask so they do some or the other work at night time, it’s strange! I would definitely want to preach them that sleep isn’t your time it’s your body’s vital healing and repairing rest time it’s body’s own self-care time where it heals itself and helps correct the dysbiosis (gut health), control your blood sugar levels also its time to balance out the hormonal levels.
Most importantly, it helps relief all the emotional stress in the night and helps increase the productivity in the day. How much ever I too believe in YOLO I still want to live my life without regrets of not helping myself to stay healthy and fit when I had time.
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