India’s leading Integrative & Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner, Luke Coutinho is all set to launch his much-anticipated new book, The Calm Prescription.
The Wellness Champion for Hon. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Fit India Movement has created this science-backed guide that invites readers to cultivate inner calm as a biological, emotional, and healing practice, not as a luxury but a necessity. It has officially launched yesterday on June 30, 2025, this book explores ways to cultivate more calm within ourselves. In a world that is riddled with stress, anxiety, uncertainty, and fear, The Calm Prescription offers a timely message in a world where chronic stress, sleep deprivation, and emotional burnout are silently sabotaging health, even among those eating right and exercising regularly.
When he first started out, Luke’s lens was trained on nutrition—that’s where his education lay, and naturally, it shaped how he supported clients in the beginning. But it didn’t take long—just 10 to 15 client journeys—before he noticed a pattern. The meal plans were solid, the macros were right, but the results weren’t always there. It made Luke pause and ask: What’s really getting in the way?
Again and again, the answer circled back to emotional health. Whether it was weight issues, gut dysfunction, autoimmune flares, or even cancer, there was often an invisible thread of chronic stress, unresolved emotions, and a nervous system caught in survival mode. It wasn’t just ‘in the mind’, it was showing up in their biology: through disease and other physical symptoms.
That insight changed everything. Over the next 14 years, his approach grew into something far more layered. Nutrition is still a core pillar—but it’s no longer the whole picture. Healing, as we’ve seen, is a multi-dimensional process.
“We cannot simply treat symptoms. We must understand the root cause. Emotional health is not a luxury—it’s a biological non-negotiable,” says Luke Coutinho.
This book is the culmination of over 14 years of Luke’s real-world experience with clients across the globe—from those navigating cancer and autoimmune conditions to individuals facing everyday lifestyle-related challenges. What he’s seen, again and again, is this: true health demands homeostasis—that delicate internal balance where the body can heal, regulate, and thrive. The moment we fall out of it—whether from chronic stress, poor sleep, or emotional overwhelm—imbalances begin to surface, from the seemingly minor (like acne) to the deeply complex (like metabolic disorders or cancer).
Life will always bring stress, but the real question is: what are we doing to recalibrate? How are we building calm within the body and mind—because our health needs it. Drawing from scientific research, ancient wisdom, and lived patient experience, The Calm Prescription offers a powerful invitation to create that balance intentionally, making it a truly compelling and timely guide for sustainable well-being.
“While we have medicine and we have nutrition, we’re still missing one of the biggest pieces: calm. Calm of the human body and mind. Medical science has long emphasized the importance of homeostasis, and that’s exactly why we wrote this book. We use medicine, we use nutrition, we rely on sleep—but we should never forget about the importance of building calm as a medicine for our body. When we learn to build it, we nurture the body’s innate ability to heal.”