About Gurjot
Founder, Gini Advanced Care Hospital, Mohali · Owner, Home Instead White Rock · 13 years in healthcare systems · White Rock, BC and Punjab, India
I'm Gurjot Narwal. I'm an engineer who chose to spend his life in health.
I made that choice in my early twenties, when I lost two friends in the same stretch of years — one to cancer, one to complications from Type 1 diabetes. It was the first time life had been genuinely cruel to me, and I didn't know what to do with the grief. What I eventually did was decide that whatever I built with my own life, it would be on the side of people who were trying to stay alive and live well. I'll write more about my friends in an essay when I'm ready. For now, it's enough to say: this work began because they didn't get to keep theirs.
(I'll keep their names private here, out of respect for their families.)
Where I started — nutrition and genetics
I started in the most unglamorous corner of health: nutrition. From 2013 onward, I worked on how people actually eat — what good food looks like, how to source the best of it from farmers' markets, how to make excellent nutrition a practical part of everyday life. That work led me deeper. If food matters this much, whose food matters this much? The answer was personalization. I spent years on nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics — using genetic data to understand why a diet that works beautifully for one person is wrong for another. I built systems for personalized supplementation, recalibrated every month based on a person's actual needs. I learned, in detail, how individual biology resists population-average advice.
From nutrition to metabolic health
The next step was obvious once I'd seen it. Diet alone wasn't enough — and "lifestyle" as a category was too vague. People were dying, slowly, of metabolic diseases that nobody was measuring properly. Diabetes. Prediabetes. Hypertension. Fatty liver. Cholesterol gone wrong. Hormonal imbalances. Heart disease working its way in quietly. So I went to work on metabolic health as a system — preventive, measured, personalized, outcomes-driven. That work became the foundation of what I'd build next.
2021 — Gini Advanced Care Hospital
In 2021, I founded Gini Advanced Care Hospital in Mohali. I brought together one of Asia's most respected endocrinologists, Dr. Anil Bhansali — the former Head of Endocrinology at PGIMER Chandigarh for 20 years — along with a world-class multidisciplinary team. We built North India's first outcomes-tracked hospital. Every patient outcome is measured, reviewed monthly, and published openly. Our diabetes control rate runs at about 85% versus a national average of around 15%. We publish those numbers because we believe accountability is the precondition for good medicine, not a marketing afterthought.
Gini is not the biggest hospital in North India. It is built to be the most accountable one.
Jiyo100Saal and the 100ers
A hospital can only do so much. The bigger mission is upstream — helping people build the kind of life that doesn't end up in a hospital. That's Jiyo100Saal: a movement built around functional age (how well your body actually works) rather than calendar age (when you were born). It includes a free online assessment anyone can take, a system that runs in 100-day loops, and a community of people choosing to age intentionally.
Inside Jiyo100Saal, there's a more intensive program called the 100ers — for people who want to design a long, capable life on purpose, with measurement, a medical team, and the kind of rigor most of us only apply to our work.
Older adults, BC, and dual lives
I split my time between India and Canada. My work and my hospital are in Punjab. My family and a different part of my work are in White Rock, BC. I care deeply about how older adults are cared for, and a meaningful part of my Canadian work is focused on senior care — helping older people live independently, with dignity, with proper support, for as long as possible. The Indian and Canadian sides of my life inform each other. The problems are different. The patterns are the same.
AI in healthcare — the work that's coming next
I think the most important question in healthcare over the next decade is how AI gets used — not as a chatbot replacing doctors, but as a layer that sits between patients and their care, helping every person get the level of attention, personalization, and follow-through that today only the very privileged receive. Done right, this is the largest equalizing force healthcare will ever see. Done wrong, it will be a disaster. I'm working on the "done right" version. I'll be writing about it on this site.
What this site is
This site is my notebook. It's where I share what I'm learning across nutrition, metabolic health, longevity, hospital medicine, AI, mental health, productivity, parenting, building, traveling, and trying to live each day well. Some pieces will be technical. Some will be personal. The thread is that I'm trying to help — directly, honestly, without overpromising.
If any of this is useful to you, I've done my job.
If you want to work with me directly, the How I can help page lays out the three ways. Otherwise, say hello.