A 14-year-old girl walks into his ward with severe liver damage. The culprit? Traditional herbal medicine sold freely at your local pharmacy. Dr Cyriac Abby Philips, known online as the Liver Doc, has built one of India’s most fearless voices in scientific medicine. He debunks wellness myths, challenges dangerous supplements, and takes on billion-dollar industries armed with nothing but data and relentless conviction. And unlike most doctors, he does it publicly. At personal cost.

In this conversation with Abhinandan Sekhri, the Kerala-based hepatologist pulls no punches. From harassment that drove his colleagues out of the country, he speaks about what it truly costs to fight medical misinformation in India. He breaks down why a glass of wine for better circulation is a lie your brain literally can’t afford, how food supplements escape drug regulation through legal loopholes, and why not every registered doctor is actually qualified to treat you.

He dismantles the mythology layered onto yoga while defending the real physical benefits underneath it. He explains how the wellness industry legally sidesteps regulation – not by lying outright, but by choosing words like “good for” and “effective for” instead of “cures”. And he talks about why Indian doctors are now scared to put their own names on scientific papers.

He also talks about his new book, The Liver Doctor: Stories of Love, Loss and Regeneration.

His accounts have been suspended before. But he keeps going. Asked why he keeps fighting, he has a simple answer.

“If not me, then who? If not now, then when?”

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