How Niraj Naik Became The Renegade Pharmacist
Niraj Naik is a qualified pharmacist turned holistic health expert.
Qualified at just 24-years-old, Niraj was eager to bring health to his local community as a pharmacist. However, he was a firsthand witness to patients going home with shopping bags full of pharmaceutical drugs, but never getting better. In fact, he saw regular patients were often prescribed even more medication to counteract the negative side effects of the initial medication! These people were staying sick, and some were actually developing even more sickness and disease. Something didn’t seem right.
Curious to learn how he could improve his own health, Niraj began attending regular health seminars. He discovered an in-depth approach to health and vitality that requires understanding the origin of sickness and learning how to prevent it, rather than suppress it. Niraj saw so many improvements in his own health that he knew he needed to bring this to his suffering patients.
He set to work and created detailed lifestyle plans called “Healthy Shopping Lists”, providing clients with simple food swaps, tools, and websites to support their specific condition(s). Incredibly, within two weeks Niraj was receiving testimonials from patients who were starting to see improvements in their health, and within a few months, some were advised by their Doctor that they could lower the dose of their medications or even stop taking it completely!
Niraj desperately wanted to tell everyone about this. There could be a total revolution to the health industry if enough people knew the possibilities! His message was halted by corporate management who prioritised profits over health, and they saw him as a threat.
So, he left the pharmacy and started working for one of the largest companies in the world, distributing his Healthy Shopping Lists in supermarkets across the UK. When the managers saw profits drop in convenience food and carbonated drinks, they weren’t so happy with the Health Shopping Lists anymore.
In 2010, the stress and overwhelm of Niraj’s corporate lifestyle combined with the fear of losing his job and going back to the pharmacy, combined even further with his desperate desire to help people improve their health led Niraj to become a patient himself.
Diagnosed with stress-related depression and ulcerative colitis, Niraj was housebound with his debilitating illness. He was told by doctors that his condition was incurable and that he would have to take medication for the rest of his life. Just like his pharmacy patients, Niraj suffered the awful side effects of his medication, leaving him completely hopeless – even suicidal.
It was here that Niraj was presented with the choice that would mark the turning point in his life: act as a guinea pig for a new and untested drug, or undergo a colectomy (surgical removal of the colon).
Niraj chose neither, and took the option unknown to conventional medicine and even to himself.
Niraj embarked upon a journey of profound healing. He learnt from people who had great success in curing themselves or others from chronic illness. He studied and learned to implement natural treatments including Ayurvedic practices and dietary advice from Paleo and SCD (Specific Carbohydrate Diet) branches. He studied spiritual healing methods like meditation and Yoga. He also studied mind power techniques like self hypnosis and NLP. He even discovered the powerful techniques of sound and music therapy as tools for reducing stress and promoting physical and emotional healing.
Niraj broke totally free from the burdens of his illness, without medication.
Experiencing this illness provoked and even greater empathy for the pharmacy patients of his past. Niraj’s struggle with severe illness forced Niraj to completely reinvent his life and rethink how he wanted to help people do the same.
Niraj can truly connect with so many individuals who are leading busy, high-stress lives and those who are suffering from stress-related chronic illness. He has truly walked the same path as them.
Niraj no longer practices as a pharmacist: his entire perception of disease and how to cure it changed through his experience. He believes that the stress of modern living is the root cause of disease and poor health, and that treatment and prevention begins with self-belief.
Niraj’s speciality is helping people prevent, recover, or reduce dependency on long-term medication for metabolic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and autoimmune diseases where stress is an underlying factor or cause.
Today, Niraj is known internationally as The Renegade Pharmacist and founder of SOMA Breath. He is an exceptional entrepreneur and has created several successful websites, services, and thriving communities that help people who suffer from stress-related, chronic diseases.
Niraj’s journey doesn’t end here.
He is continuously improving and updating his knowledge, working and learning with the best people in their field. Niraj has studied extensively with some of the best names in their field, such as Swami Ambikananda of the Traditional Yoga Association, Dr. Prakash Malshe who scientifically validated many Yoga practices, Wim Hof the superhuman Yogi and breathwork expert who holds 20+ world records, and Marisa Peer the UK’s number 1 hypnotherapist.
As a pharmacist Niraj Naik gained an extensive knowledge in the scientific underpinnings of the use of medicines, including human anatomy and physiology, the effects of medication on the human body, and how medicine is designed. Combined with his years of experience in holistic health and Yoga, Niraj has an incredibly extensive and well-rounded knowledge in health and optimal human functioning.
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Combining all of the ancient Yogic wisdom of Pranayama with modern day science, Niraj founded this internationally acclaimed breathwork school after discovering the healing power of our breath while seeking solace in his local sauna.
Niraj revamped the brainwave entrainment industry by creating his own music that is now used by spas, healing centres, and therapists worldwide.
Peak Power Hypnosis was created in collaboration with John Vincent – one of the UK’s top hypnotherapists and NLP trainers. The programme is powered by Trypnosis, a pyramid-structured audio technology which uses three of the best techniques for mind transformation and hypnosis that you can find.
Combining these three techniques into one single solution, this programme can help you to reach peak performance states of mind, boosting your wellbeing, and giving you some of the most restful nights of sleep you’ve ever had.
Created by Marisa Peer (The UK’s No 1 Therapist), this programme uses Niraj’s powerful brainwave entrainment music. This weight loss programme, when compared to others, was the only programme that showed to stop cravings for unhealthy junk food and trigger people to enjoy healthy, nourishing food instead.