About The Founder
About Me
Dr. Sameer Kauchali (MB ChB DOH DMH)
Dr Sameer Kauchali is an occupational medical practitioner who is currently an associate at Dr Brauer & Associates, Cape Town. He graduated from the University of Cape Town in 2001 and completed his internship & community service at Chris Hani Baragwanath, and Polokwane Hospital respectively. He then spent 2 years in the UK working at different emergency units as well as spending some time in Forensic Psychiatry. He currently consults with organizations and companies in assisting in the provision of Comprehensive Organisational Workplace Programmes.
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He has background experience in mental health, which is often not addressed sufficiently at the workplace. His special interests include uncovering hidden causes of common chronic medical conditions and addressing common, but undiscovered deficiency states that in the background, slowly contribute in the manifestation of mental and physical disease if not addressed early. His aim is to assist companies, individuals and organizations in reducing their burden of disease and by extension slash the huge economic costs associated with these conditions.
His recently established educational and preventative medicine Wellness Company, The Vitamin D - Hormone Foundation of South Africa has the objective of disseminating the latest research on the role vitamin D plays in many chronic diseases including heart disease, cancers, autoimmune conditions, chronic pain and mental illnesses and addiction. He conducts educational Wellness Workshops on multiple health topics. His other special interests include the use of ear acupuncture in the management of smoking cessation and drug & alcohol addictions, as well as the management of multiple physical conditions with ear acupuncture. He also has certification as a travel medicine and maritime medicine practitioner.
Ankylosing Spondylitis - a real life success of vitamin D optimisation
Dr Kauchali was first convinced about the efficacy of using Vitamin D at the workplace when he experienced an amazing response to treatment on treating a young 35 year old employee who had Ankylosing Spondylitis – it was so severe that it typically took him a full 10 minutes in the morning to get out of bed due to stiffness and pain in his neck and back. His rheumatologist was about to start him on costly Biological’s due to poor response to conventional treatment. He was on daily long acting multiple analgesics. After a few weeks of treatment with high doses of vitamin D, he was not only able to get out of bed easily for the first time in months, but he was very grateful that he could now play with his young children.
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His response to treatment was so robust that he could come off his pain killers, and the rheumatologist deemed it now unnecessary to start him on stronger Biological’s! Dr Kauchali shudders to think how many more such people there are who suffer in silence… Dr Kauchali himself uses high doses vitamin D and encourages his family to take it too.
