TheLiverDoc calls Times of India yoga inflammation claims pseudoscience
The Liver Doc blasted a Times of India yoga-inflammation story as AI-made pseudoscience, as India’s AYUSH fight with him deepened.
Dr. Cyriac Abby Philips, known online as The Liver Doc, has blasted a recent Times of India yoga story linking the practice to inflammation and immune markers such as NK cells, calling it AI-fabricated pseudoscience written by a non-medical IAS officer. The dispute pushes yoga coverage into a bigger fight over evidence standards, because the paper has recently run multiple pieces tying yoga to reduced inflammation, better blood pressure, cardiovascular fitness, and heart-health gains.
That fight lands in a country where yoga sits at the center of public health messaging every June 21, the International Day of Yoga. The United Nations proclaimed the observance in December 2014 after India proposed the resolution, and in 2026 official promotion again cast yoga as a tool for healthy ageing and lifestyle disease prevention. In that environment, claims about immune markers and inflammation carry extra weight, especially when they move from wellness language into medical certainty.
Philips is already in the middle of a wider clash with India’s AYUSH ecosystem. The Ministry of Ayush issued an official memorandum in June 2026 complaining about his alleged derogatory and defamatory comments about AYUSH medicine on social media, and Philips said the memo was meant to shut down his online presence. In the same month, he alleged that Instagram in India blocked one of his posts criticizing homeopathy.
The pressure on Philips has built over several years. A 2023 Bengaluru court case involving Himalaya Wellness Company led to X account restrictions for TheLiverDoc, later modified by the Karnataka High Court, and RaeBareli police in Uttar Pradesh filed an FIR and summons against him in 2024 over his criticism of AYUSH and homeopathy. Those actions have made him one of the most combative figures in India’s argument over alternative medicine, free speech, and the line between criticism and defamation.
That is why the latest yoga controversy has resonated so widely. It is not just about whether yoga supports inflammation markers or heart health. It is about who gets to make those claims, what counts as evidence, and how quickly a yoga headline can drift into pseudoscience when health language outruns the data.
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