India, Nov. 24 -- Actor Sonali Bendre has faced some backlash from medical professionals after she shared a post crediting naturopathy in her fight against cancer. On Friday, Sonali took to Twitter (now X) and shared a post about Autophagy, an alternative treatment therapy for healing, saying it helped her in her fight against cancer. While Sonali did not dismiss the contribution of modern medicine in her treatment, medical professionals called her out for promoting 'quackery', saying that naturopathy and autophagy are unproven in curing cancer.

Sonali shared a post about autophagy on her Twitter account and wrote, "In 2018, when I was diagnosed with cancer, this study really helped me. My naturopath introduced me to it, I researched it,...