As a boy, Dr Rangan Chatterjee saw his dad work day and night as a doctor before succumbing to an auto-immune disease. After his father's death in 2013, Rangan had an epiphany about his own future.

Rangan rew up watching his workaholic father come home from his first job in a hospital, have dinner, shave and leave for his night shift as a home-visiting GP.

It was normal for his dad to only sleep three nights a week, for 30 years.

This sort of lifestyle eventually caught up with Rangan's father, who developed an auto-immune disease and spent the last 15 years of his life being cared for by his son while undergoing dialysis.

Rangan was on a similar path as a doctor himself: working long hours, plus acclimatising to life as a young father and a carer.

He realised that so many health issues for modern people stem from modern life -- racing around, chasing success by any means possible.

And so Rangan started to try to turn his patients' lives around through very simple lifestyle changes.

Ironically, his style of doctoring took him to national television screens and radio airwaves via the BBC, and then to international audiences through his best-selling books and his own podcast, Feel Better, Live More.

Further information

Learn more about Rangan's books and podcast at his website.

Rangan is currently touring Australia, speaking in Sydney on Thursday 17 July and Brisbane on Wednesday 23 July.

This episode of Conversations was produced by Meggie Morris and presented by Sarah Kanowski, the executive producer is Nicola Harrison.

It explores health, doctors, GPs, lifestyle medicine, Gabor Mate, Schwartz, IFS, therapy, stress, anxiety, success, family, overwork, modern life, diet, nutrition, exercise, simple medicine, glucose, lupus, grief.

Find out more about the Conversations Live National Tour on the ABC website.

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