I did not start in healthcare.
For more than 25 years, I built businesses across financial services, automobiles, fleet operations, and vehicle servicing. Medical devices were never part of the plan.
Then everything changed.
I was diagnosed with Type-2 diabetes. My blood glucose levels were above 350 mg/dL.
Like many people, I started searching for answers.
During that search, I came across an unusual public challenge. The claim was simple: traditional tailors who operated pedal sewing machines rarely developed diabetes.
The claim itself wasn't what caught my attention.
The question behind it did.
"What if the movement itself mattered?"
Curious, I bought the pedal mechanism of a traditional sewing machine and began experimenting on myself.
I wore a Continuous Glucose Monitor. I kept my diet unchanged. I kept my routine unchanged. The only variable I added was regular foot-pedaling sessions.
The results surprised me.
My glucose readings repeatedly dropped by approximately 15–20 mg/dL compared with baseline days.
I wasn't looking for a business. I was looking for an explanation.
That search led me to the research of Dr. Marc Hamilton and the science of the soleus muscle — a small muscle that plays a remarkable role in circulation and metabolism during low-intensity activity.
The deeper I went, the more one question refused to leave me alone:
"Can movement become part of sitting?"
I searched for products designed specifically around that idea.
I could not find one.
So I made a decision that many people considered irrational.
I stepped away from a running business, left Delhi, and relocated to AMTZ — India's largest medical technology manufacturing and innovation ecosystem in Visakhapatnam.
I had no medical degree. No engineering degree. No formal training in biomechanics.
What I did have was conviction that the question was worth pursuing.
Over the following months, I immersed myself in research, biomechanics, sensing technologies, regulatory pathways, and medical device development.
Not because I was an expert. Because I was willing to become a student.
That journey became 2HEART.
We were not trying to build a company. We were trying to understand whether a different kind of seated movement could matter.
Today, 2HEART is helping define a new category called Soleus Health — the idea that the hours we spend sitting may matter just as much as the hours we spend exercising.
The product is still being built. The science continues to evolve.
But the question that started this journey remains the same:
"Can movement become part of sitting?"