Almost a year after coming into the spotlight for bringing about the dramatic weight loss of Baahubali actor Anushka Shetty, Luke Coutinho, Holistic Lifestyle Coach — Integrative Medicine, opens up to mid-day about his recently released book, The Magic Weight Loss Pill, written in collaboration with the actor.

Following reports of Shetty struggling to shed the 20 kilos she had gained for Size Zero (2015), Coutinho was credited for whipping the actor into shape. "The idea was to bring about a change in her lifestyle, and not just the diet. We assessed [her] medically and then looked into four pillars — nutrition, exercise, sleep and emotional stress. There were some hormonal imbalances that I identified, apart from some deficiencies", he says.