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Long jumper Ancy unlocks key to consistency after battle with hormonal issues

Long jumper Ancy unlocks key to consistency after battle with hormonal issues

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3 min readMay 23, 2026 05:19 PM IST Asian Games silver medallist Ancy Sojan needed to better the long jump national record of 6.83 metres to qualify for the Commonwealth Games 2026 at Federation Cup. While she couldn’t breach the qualification mark for CWG, she did produce the third best jump ever by an Indian with a new personal best of 6.75m. Her mark is the third best by an Indian after Anju Bobby George’s 6.83m and Shaili Singh’s 6.76m. Ancy, 25, who didn’t have a great year in 2025 due to hormonal issues and her struggle with losing weight, recorded five jumps over the 6.50m mark. “It was good and the graph of my jumps was going upwards. The first target for me was to complete the event without a foul jump and I did that,” Ancy told reporters after her event. The consistency was remarkable because she crossed the 6.50m mark just once last year. James Hillier, head coach of Reliance Athletics program, was particularly impressed with her consistency. “I know she missed …

Tanishaa Mukerji reveals Aditya Chopra asked her to lose ‘love handles’ for Neal ‘n’ Nikki: ‘Led to hormonal imbalance’

Tanishaa Mukerji reveals Aditya Chopra asked her to lose ‘love handles’ for Neal ‘n’ Nikki: ‘Led to hormonal imbalance’

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Actor Tanishaa Mukerji recently opened up about the intense physical transformation she underwent for Neal ‘n’ Nikki, revealing that filmmaker Aditya Chopra had pointed out her “love handles” and asked her to tone her body for the role. The actor shared that she then followed a strict fitness and diet routine to achieve the desired look, but the demanding regimen eventually resulted in a hormonal imbalance. Neal ‘n’ Nikki also featured Uday Chopra. Tanishaa gets candid Recently, Tanishaa looked back at working on Neal ‘n’ Nikki during a conversation with Mamaraazzi. She revealed that Aditya Chopra had asked her to undergo a major body transformation for the role, and the intense diet and workout routine eventually led to a hormonal imbalance. During the conversation, Tanishaa mentioned that Aditya Chopra had called her in for a screen test for the film. She confessed that he had earlier given her career advice, which she did not follow at the time, but during this project, she promised to follow his guidance “blindly.” Tanishaa shared that during the film’s …

‘Aditya Chopra asked me to tone my body, faced hormonal imbalance’: Tanishaa Mukerji | Bollywood News

‘Aditya Chopra asked me to tone my body, faced hormonal imbalance’: Tanishaa Mukerji | Bollywood News

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4 min readNew DelhiMay 8, 2026 09:07 PM IST Tanishaa Mukerji, who is the daughter of veteran actor Tanuja and the sister of film star Kajol, tried to make her mark in the movies in the 2000s but did not get the kind of success that other members of her family had previously gotten. The biggest moment of Tanishaa’s career happened when she landed a YRF film, produced by Aditya Chopra, titled Neal ‘n’ Nikki. She starred alongside Aditya’s brother Uday Chopra in that film. In a new interview, Tanishaa recalled that she was asked to transform her body for the role by Aditya Chopra, and once she achieved that, she eventually had a hormonal imbalance due to the strict diet and exercise. ‘Aditya Chopra said you can’t look like this’ Tanishaa, in a chat with Mamaraazzi, said that she was called in for a screen test for the film by Aditya, even though she had appeared in a few films by then. She shared that he had previously shared some career advice for her …

‘Harmful contents in cosmetics, herbicide lead to endocrine disruption, hormonal imbalance’

‘Harmful contents in cosmetics, herbicide lead to endocrine disruption, hormonal imbalance’

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Prof. B D Vishwajit and Mahesh Tanwade at work in the animal house in Sharnbasva University, Kalaburagi. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI An advanced laboratory studies on rats and mice on reproductive toxicity and endocrine disruptive compounds by two scientists of Sharnbasva University has revealed disturbing facts of how harmful contents in some cosmetics and herbicides lead to hormonal imbalance leading to disrupting reproductive process, infertility, irregular menstrual cycle and finally cancer in a few cases. Scientists B. D. Vishwajit and Mahesh Tanwade attached to the Faculty of Science and Technology in Sharnbasva University are in the final stages of their research and development project as part of their doctoral studies. The full-fledged Animal House established in the university has come in handy for their research work and helped in conducting the tests on the mice and rats on the harmful effects of cosmetics and herbicides leading to hormonal imbalance. On February 25, they told mediapersons in Kalaburagi that the chemical compounds ‘Isobutyal Parabal’ found in some cosmetics and Phenyl Mercuric Acetate found in herbicides are …

Experts give a thumbs up to ‘DOSE’ activities for good hormonal health; find out what they are | Health News

Experts give a thumbs up to ‘DOSE’ activities for good hormonal health; find out what they are | Health News

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Ever heard of ‘DOSE’ activities? Yes, they are those tasks that help rejuvenate the body by triggering the hormones. Wondering why we are talking about them today? That’s because we got interested when neuro coach and author Saloni Suri told actor Debina Bonnerjee about the DOSE — Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins — hormones that, she said, get activated in the body only through certain activities. “This is the daily dose our body needs within 20 minutes of waking up early in the morning. D is for dopamine. Dopamine is only released in our body when we wake up and know the goals for the day. O for Oxytocin is also known as the love hormone. It is produced in the body when we hug. So, you need about seven hugs in a day,” Suri told Bonnerjee on her podcast. S stand for serotonin, which is released when we selflessly do something for others. “E is for endorphins that released in the body when you walk for 20 minutes or jog in the sun. They …

Vidya Balan Reveals This Childhood Incident Was The Cause Of Her Hormonal Issues: “I Was So Angry”

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Image was Instagrammed by Vidya Balan. (Courtesy: balanvidya ) New Delhi: Vidya Balan, who is gearing up for her theatrical release Neeyat alongside Rahul Bose, recently revealed in a podcast that she owes the hormonal issues in her body to a scarring event from her younger days. In an appearance in Ranveer Allahbadia’s podcast, the Parineeta actress spoke about a conversation that took place many years ago between her father and uncle, which became the root cause of her hormonal issues and also marked the beginning of her denying her femininity. Recalling the incident, Vidya Balan said “I remember a conversation between my uncle and my father, when my uncle told my father, ‘Don’t worry, my son will be there for you until…’ I was so angry because we were sitting there, both of us, my sister and me. And we were like, ‘We don’t need anyone else’s son to be there for our father’. We are both, by God’s grace, able-bodied and able-minded, we don’t need anyone else.” Vidya Balan also acknowledged that in …

Hansika Motwani addresses rumours that her mother gave her hormonal injections | Bollywood

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On the latest episode of Hansika’s Love Shaadi Drama, actor Hansika Motwani has addressed old rumours about her getting hormonal injections. In the second episode of the reality show, that documents Hansika’s wedding with Sohael Khaturiya, the actor and her mother addressed the wild rumours. (Also read: Hansika Motwani addresses getting blamed for breaking her husband’s first marriage) Hansika began her career in acting as a child actor. She was seen in Shaka Laka Boom Boom and then Koi Mil Gaya. However, many were surprised by how quickly she had grown over just a couple of years and made her acting debut in South film industry in lead roles, soon after. Many wondered if Hansika’s mother was giving her hormonal injections to make her grow faster. On the show, Hansika addressed the same and said, “This is the expense of being a celebrity. They wrote such crap when I was 21, you know what I am talking about… If I could have taken it that time, I can take it this time. This time is …

Lionel Messi Called “Sewer Rat”, “Hormonal Dwarf” By Ex-Barcelona Director In WhatsApp Chats: Reports

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Lionel Messi was reportedly called a “sewer rat” and “a hormonal dwarf” in WhatsApp messages by a former member of the ex-FC Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu-led board. Bartomeu was at the helm of the Spanish football club from 2014 to 2020. The derogatory comments, according to several reports by European media outlets, were made by Roman Gomez Ponti, FC Barcelona’s head of legal services during Bartomeu’s time at the club. The comments were reportedly made in a WhatsApp group which had Bartomeu, former general director Oscar Grau and other ex-board members including financial director Pancho Schroder and directory of Strategy and Innovation Javier Sobrino. All these board members resigned from the club after Bartomeu quit. Forbes, in its report, quoted the Spanish daily El Periodico, and said that the group ‘fumed’ about the source of the leak of Messi’s contract which had its details published by El Mundo. Ponti’s comments regarding Messi were directed to Bartomeu and had several unsubstantiated allegations. The comments were reportedly made as the board members discussed the contract extensions of …