Kashmir's Hormone Crisis

Something is breaking inside young Kashmiris, and the warning signs are everywhere.

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In Srinagar hospitals, doctors now see what once seemed rare: twenty-somethings arriving with exhaustion that sleep won't fix, weight from nowhere, chaotic cycles, and climbing blood sugar.

They feel old in young skin, and their lab reports tell the same story repeatedly. The body's command system is crashing.

Hormones run everything that keeps us functioning. They guide metabolism, sleep, mood, and the ability to create life. When that guidance falters, the whole body stumbles into disorder.

That failure is becoming impossible to ignore in Kashmir now.

At Sheri-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, physicians track a disturbing surge in metabolic disease among young adults. They trace it to hormonal chaos born from daily habits. Research from the Indian Council of Medical Research confirms what clinics witness: obesity, diabetes, and hypertension are spreading through Jammu and Kashmir.