My Six Year Old Asked Why I'm Always Tired
She was eating her cornflakes at our kitchen table in Bengaluru. I was across from her. She looked up with that matter-of-fact tone kids get when they ask something they have actually been wondering about for months.
"Papa. Why are you tired all the time?"
She was six. I was thirty four. I had been in the kitchen for nine minutes and I had already yawned three times.
I gave her some bullshit answer about work. She nodded and went back to her cornflakes. I sat there looking at the top of her head and felt something inside me break, quietly.
Here is the thing about a question like that from a six year old. She did not ask once. She had been watching. She had put together a pattern that spanned months. She had decided "Papa is tired all the time" was a fact about me, the way "Papa drives the grey car" is a fact about me. And she had concluded I had accepted it.
Because I had.
That broke me. Not the coffee. Not the bloating. Not the brain fog. Not the 3pm crash that had become the office joke. Her.
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What "tired" actually meant for a 34 year old at a desk
I was not tired from parenting. I had one kid who mostly put herself to sleep with a story. I was tired from the thing every urban Indian professional is quietly tired from and has stopped noticing.
Ten hour desk days in fluorescent light. Chai at 11. Coffee at 2. Chai at 4. A plate of biryani inhaled in seven minutes between two meetings. Home by 9, asleep by 11. Forty minutes of Instagram scrolling woven in between all of it.
I was not sick. I was depleted. Silently, slowly, for three years. My body had quietly adapted to running at about 70 percent and I had forgotten what 100 felt like.
My wife is a doctor. That night I asked her to run my labs.
She is an endocrinologist. She does not say things calmly when it is not good news.
Four deficiencies. Vitamin D3. B12. Magnesium. Ferritin.
I had seven bottles of supplements on my kitchen counter. I had spent nearly ₹60,000 on them over the previous year. The stack looked impressive. The bloodwork said it was not working. My daughter said I was tired all the time. The numbers and the six year old were saying the same thing from different directions.
Why supplements alone did not fix it
I had been solving the wrong problem for three years. I thought low energy was about how much I put in. It is actually about how much my body absorbs and uses.
Chronic work stress crushes stomach acid. Without it, B12 and minerals do not absorb, no matter how many pills you swallow. Ten plus hours indoors means near zero skin exposure to sunlight. Constant chai and coffee blocks iron absorption at the gut wall. Skipping lunch then stuffing a plate of biryani at 4pm inflames the gut lining.
My stack was fighting a system that was already broken.
How I simplified seven bottles into one sachet
I spent two years on this. ISSA Sports Nutritionist certification. Precision Nutrition Level 1. Forty functional medicine doctors interviewed. Eight "daily greens" products tested. Most were powdered kale pretending to be science.
The one that fit the brief was Somras360 Nutrition. Plant based. FSSAI certified. Formulated with therapeutic doses of probiotics, prebiotic fibre, digestive enzymes, B6, B12, folate, vitamin D3, magnesium, zinc, vitamin C, and adaptogens.
What's actually in every sachet
Therapeutic doses, bioavailable forms, designed to work together. Not powdered kale pretending to be science.
What my daughter said three months later
She is a six year old. She does not know what Somras360 is. She knows what tired looks like. She said three things over the course of about six weeks, none of them prompted by me.
Week 4. "Papa you are not yawning."
Week 7. "Papa you are being funny."
Week 10. "Papa can we go to Cubbon on Sunday? You always say you are too tired."
That last one nearly finished me.
| What | Cost per month |
|---|---|
| Old stack (7 bottles, 40% compliance, still deficient) | ₹5,000 |
| Somras360 ritual on subscription (98% compliance) | ₹1,799 |
| Saved | ₹3,201 |
What other Indian professionals are saying
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I used to spend ₹5,000 a month on supplements I never actually finished. Somras360 replaced six of my bottles and I actually take it every day. That is the real magic.
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The bloating I had been living with for three years eased in about two weeks. I did not even realise how heavy I had been feeling until it went away.
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Cut my second coffee by 3pm within a month. The afternoon fog I used to power through with filter coffee is just gone. Work output is higher, crash is lower.
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Questions I get asked
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