How Lifestyle Can Affect Our Genes?

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How Lifestyle Can Affect Our Genes
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• Trying to achieve a better lifestyle? Seems like
  a like a long difficult Journey? As the new
  year just rolled in, it has never been a better
  time. Make the year 2020 count, make it the year
  of attaining the lifestyle that you always
  wanted.
• Lifestyle is all about maintaining physical,
  mental and emotional health. making them work in
  harmony.
• There are five core elements to take care of.
  Managing and optimizing these elements help in
  leading a healthier life. As complicated as it
  sounds, this article tells you how bringing
  simplicity is the key to realizing your Lifestyle
  milestones

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• Socialization
• Being social creatures, humans thrive to
  interact. Its the concept of society and
  community that makes us dream, learn, work and
  excel. In modern terms socialization has gotten
  limited to Chats, social media, emails, and video
  calls, which are truly convenient modes to stay
  connected, but in true sense, it lacks all
  goodness you can gain from just a physical high
  five.
• According to studies a handshake releases enough
  Oxytocin to reduce stress, increase trust, even
  reduce cholesterol level. Social contact can
  protect brain from neurodegenerative diseases.
  Researchers have also confirmed older people with
  closer friends have more mental agility in
  comparison to the ones without friends.
• Thus Meet your family often, hangout with your
  friends, take out some time to spend with your
  community. Just like older times. When festivals
  were celebrated together Dinner time was the
  family time. What a fun and easy way of staying
  fit motivated.

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• 2. Mental Stimulation
• Mental stimulation can be internal or external,
  through our thought or environment. It is vital
  for healthy life as it increases the flow of
  blood, oxygen, and nutrients to the brain. With
  our busy schedule and hectic lifestyle, mental
  health always take a back seat. We find time for
  physical workout but nobody talks about keeping
  the brain agile. Longer hours at work, repeated
  chores, and high level of stress makes our brain
  lose its inherent luster. It needs some
  stimulation time and again.
• There were techniques in ancient times that would
  help keep our brain alert through unconventional
  ways. One of it is Katapayadi Sankhya. An ancient
  (689 BCE), Indian way of learning of learning
  complicated formulas through verses. This method
  would assign Sanskrit letters to numbers. One
  number can be assigned to many letters (similar
  to our old mobile phone keypads, where digit 2
  could be A,B,C and 3 could be D,E,F)

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• For example the following verse
• gopi bhagya madhuvrata
• srngiso dadhi sandhiga
• khala jivita khatava
• gala hala rasandara
• Which translates to
• O lord anointed with the yoghurt of the
  milkmaids worship (Krishna), O savior of the
  fallen, O master of Shiva, Please protect me.
• When used in Katapayadi Sankhya it derives
  3.14159226535897932384626433832792
• You ask whats this?
• Its the value of Pi to 31 decimal places.
  Wow!!!!!!!

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• Such techniques are found in most ancient
  civilisation, and were the used to pass on
  culture and heritage, before the documentation of
  history began.
• Lets tantalise our brain with such techniques to
  make it sharp and alert
• 3. Nutrition
• You are what you Eat. According to a recent
  study, nutrition accounts for about 80 of our
  overall health. Nutrition is fundamental for
  leading a sustainable and healthy lifestyle. This
  is due to the fact that the food you are
  consuming fuels your body and mind for the whole
  day.
• Following a well rounded diet can do wonders to
  our body, one with low in flare and high in
  goodness. Such was the diet in older times ,
  Sattvic diet (Indian diet from forgotten times)
  included fruits, dark leafy greens, vegetables,
  nuts, legumes, whole grains, spices, and herbs.
  It used to be cooked in in earthenware as it adds
  calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, sulfur and
  several other minerals to food. Clay pots are
  also alkaline in nature. Therefore, they mix well
  with acidic food and bring a balance in its pH
  level. Furthermore, deadly diseases like cancer
  do not develop in an alkaline atmosphere.

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• Getting back to simpler food from simpler times,
  and incorporating sustainable cook wares can be
  instrumental in improving our nutrition. Easy way
  to stay healthy
• 4. Physical Activity
• Exercise is a crucial aspect of living a longer
  and healthier life. Our body is designed to move
  around for a minimum of 14 hours every day.
  Regular exercising and participating in physical
  activities ensures that we receive this amount of
  movement. Additionally, staying fit helps not
  only in performing physical tasks better but
  reducing mental stress.
• There is a lot happening in the health and
  fitness industry with new techniques, new workout
  formats. Fun and effective but sometimes time
  consuming. With gym membership fee personal
  trainers, sometimes physical activity costs more
  than just the motivation to stay fit. But not
  necessarily.

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• For most of us with shortage of time and being
  smart with our money, there are other ways to
  give our body the shake it needs. Routine chores,
  bring multiple benefits and purpose to each task.
  Walk to your local store, leave your car at home.
  Take 4 flights of staircases every day at work.
  Use mortar pestle to make the paste for cooking,
• Keeping your body active doesnt have to be a
  task, it can be a habit.
• 5. Spirituality
• Spirituality. Connecting to ones self. Vital to
  hold body, mind and spirit together. Brings us
  inner peace with so much chaos around us. A peace
  that makes us think better, act better and live
  better.
• So, what can we do to improve spiritual wellness?
  
• Yoga helps enhance your spiritual wellness by
  reducing emotional and physical strains on your
  mind and body. Yoga can help in lowering stress,
  boosts the immune system, and lowers blood
  pressure, reducing anxiety, depression, fatigue,
  and insomnia.

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• When you wake up early in the morning, during
  your lunch break, or before you go to sleep,
  devote 5-10 minutes for meditation every day.
  Incorporating meditation as a part of your
  lifestyle will relax your mind fostering a
  stronger relationship with your spiritual
  wellness.
• Uncovering spirituality may also take some
  self-discovery. Some questions to ask yourself to
  discover what defines you are
• What are your important relationships?
• What do you value most in your life?
• What people give you a sense of community?
• What inspires you and gives you hope?
• What brings you joy?
• The answers to these questions help you identify
  the most important people and experiences in your
  life.

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• Health is a natural facet of liveliness. Ancient
  India held the secret of Jivet Sharad Shatam
  meaning a hundred years of vigorous, happy and
  healthy life to the total harmony of the mode of
  living with nature and the spiritual inheritance
  of life. For a healthy lifestyle, Take steps to
  maintain a balance spiritually, physically,
  emotionally, socially, and mentally. Its a
  better way, for a better lifestyle.

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