About Dr Tevin Naidu

I am a medical doctor and philosopher exploring what makes life worth living.

Medicine came first. I qualified as a Medical Doctor at Stellenbosch University, interned at King Edward VIII Hospital and served as a medical officer in the South African Military Health Services. Treating patients across those settings taught me that health is shaped by more than biology: by thought, relationship, values and choice. That realisation sent me to philosophy, and to a Master’s in the Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health at the University of Pretoria.

Somewhere in between came more than a decade in television presenting and public communication, including two seasons as a castaway on Survivor South Africa. Then the podcast, Mind-Body Solution. Each of those, in its own way, was training in the same skill: taking a complicated idea and making it clear without making it small. What began as separate interests turned out to be one enquiry.

It now shows up in the consulting room: I take your bloods seriously and I take your life seriously, and I do not treat the second as an afterthought. Whether at the bedside, behind a microphone or in front of an audience, the aim has not changed: help people live longer, live better and live with meaning.