A HEARTFELT ADVICE-Our grandmother's treasure of knowledge to keep our heart healthy....

 

YOUR BRAIN IS YOUR MASTER AND YOUR HEART IS YOUR SLAVE!!

As far as our intellectual level and emotions are concerned, this is true! But in such   a crisis, during the post COVID-19, do we have to take any special care of our heart? Yes…Some patients who has only mild symptoms of Coronavirus infection and recovered now do suffer from certain other concerns. Gregory Poland the vaccine Research Group in U.S has recorded COVID19 as a disease with a lot of mysteries and not mere usual respiratory virus. Diminution of immunity, fatigue, vertigo, cardiorespiratory fitness, headache and more. Can we conclude that this is a wicked virus in certain cases? Even asymptomatic cases are not immune or healthy as before, so since reinfection can occur, the only safe and effective method is to achieve immunity.

Corona virus would most likely affect the heart, lungs, brain and blood in a human body. Damage to the muscles of heart, even in asymptomatic patients or in those with mild symptoms increases the risk of heart failure. Long lasting damages to the air sacs inside the lungs which may lead to a longterm breathing difficulties. The chances of developing strokes, seizures, temporary paralysis, parkinsonism and Alzheimer’s disease is not rare, if it affects our brains. Blood cells are likely to clump and form clots.

Depression and distress caused to the generation of sixty plus now have led to lot of heart diseases. Their attempts to escape from the loneliness, landed  up in consumption of alcohol and smoking in innumerable cases .Lack of love and care from the loved ones made them isolated and fear stricken which has badly hampered their health and made them vulnerable to many diseases. A pandemic like COVID 19 found such sorrow- stricken, ailing bodies to be then safe abode. Surviving COVID 19 has only been a part of triumph in such cases.

      A heartfelt advice to all is -Just go back to the lifestyle that our predecessors had routined and continued till last fifty years. Starting from breakfast till dinner every movement is important. Technology took a turn in its development almost before four or five decades and the present youth felt proud of their acquiring skills,where their parents failed. This was the first step, where the discrimination started. Technology and traditions then came face to face…processed foods replaced the old staple diets, Fast foods replaced slow cooked homely food as they began to entertain our tastebuds. On adapting to easy living we knowingly risked our health. When we started realizing the burden of our food habits we did starve to be fit. Thus unhealthy eating and eating less  made us prone to viral infections around us including COVID 19.Washing hands and legs before entering a house was a routine for our ancestors which we didn’t inherit, but everything changed because of this uninvited guest(COVID 19).

      Now the question is how to take care of all these and protect us and even our heart?? Eat ,exercise and Rest-Eating a balanced diet, exercising in regular intervals and getting adequate sleep would help us to cope up with this virus .A good communication with our near and dear ones on a regular basis would keep ourselves and others happy.  Avoid using coping strategies like alcohol and drugs. Receive information’s only from reliable sources. Let us consider this pandemic as nature’s device to take us back to a natural life full of nutrition’s and goodness of regional sources. Though technology states the development of a country its excessive impact hampers the humans physically and mentally. Each one of us should extend the hands of help and care for other, well   aware of the germs hiding anywhere and everywhere ready to attack a weak body and engulf it to a pitiable condition.

Solace, peace, compassion and a healthy attitude towards the planet and the life on earth is much needed.