Irina and Dr Nas make a dynamic duo, ready to engage with leading thinkers, culture changers, and industry disruptors about shifting old paradigms and starting new conversations
Irina Sharma
Dr Nasr Al-Jafari
Irina Sharma is an individual who follows the philosophy of ‘you are what you digest’, not ‘we are what we eat’. As a Health & Wellness Cultivator she works on fundamental tools that assist in the task of protecting people from threats to health, preventing disease, and striving for healthy populations.
What is your food philosophy?
Balance, chew & enjoy
What’s your go-to breakfast?
Nourishment
What’s your favourite place to travel to?
Dream is to go to Machu Picchu, would love to go back to Pontedara
What’s your favourite thing to do in your off hours?
THE ART OF NOTHING
What good habits do you want to cultivate?
To provide fundamental platforms like Wellevate Life that help build a healthier community
Dr Nas is originally from the UK where he trained as an allopathic doctor. Having moved over the UAE in 2015 and based now in Dubai, he is the Medical Director of DNA Health Clinic. Dr Nas’s particular focus is in modifying lifestyle factors, optimising long-term health and prevention of chronic disease.
What is your food philosophy?
Eat intuitively and regular fasting
What’s your go-to breakfast?
I tend to ‘Break Fast’ at lunch time. Whatever I feel like on the day!
What’s your favourite place to travel to?
Right now, with my family to The Maldives. The calmness, beauty and complete isolation from the stresses of the modern world, yet connection to nature is Wellevating.
What’s your favourite thing to do in your off hours?
Engaging with my children. Observing their naivety and nurturing their inquisitiveness and boundless joy is truly fulfilling.
What good habits do you want to cultivate?
To give the tools to people help achieve a balance between health, wealth and time.
Meet The Hosts
Irina Sharma
A communications practitioner, educator, and advocate of healthy longevity lifestyle; Irina Sharma is in constant search and exploration to be a voice of reason.
Driven to find a new humanity that thinks positively and has respect for each other and the planet; Irina continues her quest to learn the meaning in “The leaves of the trees are for the healing of nations”.
Being the daughter of a Diplomat, she got the opportunity to live in many countries; allowing her to learn, understand, and support a variety of cultures. Her family pretty much became a ‘hypsy’ family – a combination of hippy and gypsy.
Irina planted yoga and meditation in 1992 but started a discipline practice 7 years ago when she started facing personal health challenges.
With her years of knowledge & being a Reflective Practitioner on food, complementary medicine, and sports – a wholesome integrated form of movement; she recovered.
Some of her proudest moments started as a radio broadcaster at the age of 19. Her 25 years of experience in Media, Marketing, Broadcasting & Former Health Restaurateur gave opportunities to work with multinationals in Wellness & Health. She is a national athlete and an acclaimed dancer. As a Health & Wellness Cultivator, since 1995 she has been the voice and an advocate on important matters such as Environment, HIV AIDS & Breast Cancer.
She continues to be a speaker on health, wellness & public relations on some of the most notable forums: Young Presidents Organisation (YPO), Girtin College – Cambridge, Marquette & Whitewater University- Wisconsin, Gulf Food, US PR Society. She has also been a Faculty @ Higher College of Technology (HCT) Dubai – Bachelor students – Business & Entrepreneurship. She is the Founder of ekadaa PR & Co Founder of Wellevate Life.
Dr Nasr Al- Jafari
Dr Nas is originally form the UK where he trained as an allopathic doctor. Having moved over the UAE in 2015 and based now in Dubai, he is the Medical Director of DNA Health Clinic.
Dr Nas is a proud husband and father of twins.
Dr Nas’s particular focus is in modifying lifestyle factors, optimizing long-term health and prevention of chronic disease.
He offers a broad scope of cutting-edge treatment strategies for both adults and children, ranging from diabetes and obesity through to autism and dementia.
In my 17 years working as a doctor, it’s become obvious to me that health has become over-complicated and people are needlessly suffering, when staying ‘Well’ should be accessible to everybody.
Wellness has become far too confusing and we’re up against bad information. How to take best care of yourself seems to change all of the time and the professionals never seem to agree.
Fortunately, It’s my belief that we are under-going a transformational shift.
I have learnt that the use of Lifestyle Medicine - a whole food dietary lifestyle, regular physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, and positive social connection - as a primary therapeutic modality can optimize lifespan through the prevention, reversal and modification of chronic disease.
I’ve dedicated my career, spending thousands of hours studying science-based practices from all over the world to get to the bottom of what keeps us healthy. I want to use this platform to share what I’ve learnt.
It’s my mission to help people reclaim power over their own health and Wellevate Life.
