बच्चों की इम्यूनिटी बढ़ाने के लिए अपनाएं ये बेहतरीन आयुर्वेदिक उपाय

एक्सपर्ट्स के मुताबिक कोरोना की तीसरी लहर बच्चों के लिए ज्यादा खतरनाक हो सकती है। इससे बचाव के लिए इन आयुर्वेदिक उपायों से बच्चों की इम्यूनिटी बढ़ाई जा सकती है।

देश भर में कोविड-19 का प्रकोप है। आशंका जताई जा रही है कि कोरोना की तीसरी लहर बच्चों के लिए ज्यादा खतरनाक साबित हो सकती है। कोरोनावायरस के कारण कमजोर इम्यूनिटी वाले लोगों को ज्यादा दिक्कतों का सामना करना पड़ सकता है। कुछ आयुर्वेदिक उपायों की मदद से बच्चों की इम्यूनिटी बढ़ाई जा सकती है। ताकि वह किसी भी आने वाले इंफेक्शन या रोग से लड़ने के लिए पहले से तैयार हो जाएं। आइए बच्चों की इम्यूनिटी बढ़ाने वाले आयुर्वेदिक उपायों के बारे में जानते हैं।

1. हल्दी

हल्दी को आयुर्वेद में काफी फायदेमंद माना जाता है। इसमें एंटीऑक्सीडेंट और एंटी-इंफ्लमेटरी गुण होते हैं, जो बच्चों के इम्यून सिस्टम को मजबूत बना सकते हैं। साथ ही संक्रमण व रोगों से लड़ने में मजबूती प्रदान कर सकते हैं।

2. आंवला

आंवला विटामिन सी का एक बेहतरीन स्त्रोत है। विटामिन सी शरीर की रोग प्रतिरोधक क्षमता को बढ़ाने के लिए काफी लाभदायक होता है। इससे सर्दी-जुकाम जैसे इंफेक्शन से लड़ने में सहायता मिल सकती है। इसके अलावा आंवला स्किन, हेयर व मधुमेह के रोगियों के लिए काफी लाभकारी होता है।

3. तुलसी

तुलसी में औषधीय गुणों का खजाना छिपा हुआ है। इसके अंदर विटामिन ए और विटामिन सी मौजूद होता है। यह इम्यूनिटी बढ़ाने के साथ-साथ गले व सांस संबंधी इंफेक्शन से लड़ने में मदद कर सकती है।

4. शहद

शहद के अंदर काफी मात्रा में एंटी-बैक्टीरियल, एंटी-माइक्रोबियल और एंटीऑक्सीडेंट्स गुण होते हैं। जो किसी भी संक्रमण की वजह से होने वाली खांसी, गले की खराश में राहत प्रदान कर सकते हैं।

यहां दी गई जानकारी सामान्य मान्यताओं पर आधारित है। यह किसी भी चिकित्सीय सलाह का विकल्प नहीं है।

The Healthiest People in the World Don’t Go to the Gym

Go ahead and cancel your membership, you already have the tools you need

If you want to be as healthy as possible, there are no treadmills or weight machines required.

Don’t just take my word for it — look to the longest-lived people in the world for proof.

People in the world’s Blue Zones— the places around the world with the highest life expectancy — don’t pump iron, run marathons or join gyms.

Instead, they live in environments that constantly nudge them into moving without even thinking about it. This means that they grow gardens, walk throughout the day, and minimize mechanical conveniences for house and yard work.

In fact, Blue Zones researchers determined that routine natural movement is one of the most impactful ways to increase your life span, and a common habit among the world’s longest-lived populations.

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Of course this might not seem realistic in our current knowledge economy, where we’re often tied to a desk and in front of a computer screen all day.

Moving naturally throughout the day might sound pleasant and romantic, but the reality is that 100 years ago only 10% of us had sedentary jobs, whereas today it’s 90%.

However, there are still easy ways to add more movement into your busy lifestyle.

One of the best ways to do this is to use an active mode of transportation. This could mean walking your kids to school, walking or biking to the grocery store, to a friend’s house, or out to dinner.

Ideally you could walk or bike to work as well (or walk/bike to the bus or train station, if that’s more feasible).

Research shows that the best work commute you can have is a 15-minute walk each way, but any physical activity built in along your commute is a plus. On the flip side, the daily car commute is the number two thing Americans hate the most on a daily basis, behind only housework (but maybe housework would be more enjoyable if you reminded yourself of the life-extending natural movement involved!).

If active transportation isn’t possible in your community, you can still find time to go out for a walk.

A recent study from the American Cancer Society revealed that walking for six hours per week resulted in a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and cancer than not being active at all. But the research also showed that walking even as little as two hours per week could reduce the risk of disease and help you live longer.

Walking is also great medicine for your mind. A daily walk could reduce the risk of dementia by 40%, according to Anders Hansen, a physician and psychiatry specialist from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

If long walks aren’t your thing, break it up by taking several smaller walks per day instead (five minutes per hour).

Make it a point to stand at your desk, or at least get up and move around regularly throughout the day. Get outside at lunch for some fresh air.

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The bottom line is that our bodies were designed to move.

And that doesn’t necessarily mean going to the gym.

You don’t need to lift heavy weights or grind through high intensity interval workouts to live a long and healthy life.

Simple, natural movement can be even more impactful.

Do as the world’s centenarians do — move naturally.

How Positive Thoughts Build Skills, Boost Health, and Improve Work

Positive thinking sounds useful on the surface. (Most of us would prefer to be positive rather than negative.) But “positive thinking” is also a soft and fluffy term that's easy to dismiss. In the real world, it rarely carries the same weight as words like “work ethic” or “persistence.” But those views may be changing.

Research is beginning to reveal that positive thinking is about much more than just being happy or displaying an upbeat attitude. Positive thoughts can actually create real value in your life and help you build skills that last much longer than a smile. The impact of positive thinking on your work, your health, and your life is being studied by people who are much smarter than me. One of these people is Barbara Fredrickson.

Fredrickson is a positive psychology researcher at the University of North Carolina and she published a landmark paper that provides surprising insights about positive thinking and it’s impact on your skills. Her work is among the most referenced and cited in her field and it is surprisingly useful in everyday life. Let’s talk about Fredrickson’s discovery and what it means for you…

What Negative Thoughts Do to Your Brain

Play along with me for a moment. Let’s say that you’re walking through the forest and suddenly a tiger steps onto the path ahead of you. When this happens, your brain registers a negative emotion—in this case, fear. Researchers have long known that negative emotions program your brain to do a specific action. When that tiger crosses your path, for example, you run. The rest of the world doesn’t matter. You are focused entirely on the tiger, the fear it creates, and how you can get away from it.

In other words, negative emotions narrow your mind and focus your thoughts. At that same moment, you might have the option to climb a tree, pick up a leaf, or grab a stick—but your brain ignores all of those options because they seem irrelevant when a tiger is standing in front of you. This is a useful instinct if you’re trying to save life and limb, but in our modern society we don’t have to worry about stumbling across tigers in the wilderness. The problem is that your brain is still programmed to respond to negative emotions in the same way—by shutting off the outside world and limiting the options you see around you.

For example, when you’re in a fight with someone, your anger and emotion might consume you to the point where you can’t think about anything else. Or, when you are stressed out about everything you have to get done today, you may find it hard to actual start anything because you’re paralyzed by how long your to–do list has become. Or, if you feel bad about not exercising or not eating healthy, all you think about is how little willpower you have, how you’re lazy, and how you don’t have any motivation.

In each case, your brain closes off from the outside world and focuses on the negative emotions of fear, anger, and stress—just like it did with the tiger. Negative emotions prevent your brain from seeing the other options and choices that surround you. It’s your survival instinct.

Now, let’s compare this to what positive emotions do to your brain. This is where Barbara Fredrickson returns to the story.

What Positive Thoughts Do to Your Brain

Fredrickson tested the impact of positive emotions on the brain by setting up a little experiment. During this experiment, she divided her research subjects into 5 groups and showed each group different film clips. The first two groups were shown clips that created positive emotions. Group 1 saw images that created feelings of joy. Group 2 saw images that created feelings of contentment. Group 3 was the control group. They saw images that were neutral and produced no significant emotion. The last two groups were shown clips that created negative emotions. Group 4 saw images that created feelings of fear. Group 5 saw images that created feelings of anger.

Afterward, each participant was asked to imagine themselves in a situation where similar feelings would arise and to write down what they would do. Each participant was handed a piece of paper with 20 blank lines that started with the phrase, “I would like to…” Participants who saw images of fear and anger wrote down the fewest responses. Meanwhile, the participants who saw images of joy and contentment, wrote down a significantly higher number of actions that they would take, even when compared to the neutral group.

In other words, when you are experiencing positive emotions like joy, contentment, and love, you will see more possibilities in your life. These findings were among the first that proved that positive emotions broaden your sense of possibility and open your mind up to more options. But that was just the beginning. The really interesting impact of positive thinking happens later…

How Positive Thinking Builds Your Skill Set

The benefits of positive emotions don’t stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide is an enhanced ability to build skills and develop resources for use later in life. Let’s consider a real world example.

A child who runs around outside, swinging on branches and playing with friends, develops the ability to move athletically (physical skills), the ability to play with others and communicate with a team (social skills), and the ability to explore and examine the world around them (creative skills). In this way, the positive emotions of play and joy prompt the child to build skills that are useful and valuable in everyday life.

These skills last much longer than the emotions that initiated them. Years later, that foundation of athletic movement might develop into a scholarship as a college athlete or the communication skills may blossom into a job offer as a business manager. The happiness that promoted the exploration and creation of new skills has long since ended, but the skills themselves live on. Fredrickson refers to this as the “broaden and build” theory because positive emotions broaden your sense of possibilities and open your mind, which in turn allows you to build new skills and resources that can provide value in other areas of your life.

As we discussed earlier, negative emotions do the opposite. Why? Because building skills for future use is irrelevant when there is immediate threat or danger (like the tiger on the path). All of this research begs the most important question of all: if positive thinking is so useful for developing valuable skills and appreciating the Big Picture of life, how do you actually get yourself to be positive?

How to Increase Positive Thinking in Your Life

What you can do to increase positive emotions and take advantage of the “broaden and build” theory in your life? Well, anything that sparks feelings of joy, contentment, and love will do the trick. You probably know what things work well for you. Maybe it’s playing the guitar. Maybe it’s spending time with a certain person. Maybe it’s carving tiny wooden lawn gnomes.

That said, here are three ideas for you to consider…

1. Meditation: Recent research by Fredrickson and her colleagues has revealed that people who meditate daily display more positive emotions that those who do not. As expected, people who meditated also built valuable long–term skills. For example, three months after the experiment was over, the people who meditated daily continued to display increased mindfulness, purpose in life, social support, and decreased illness symptoms.

Note: If you’re looking for an easy way to start meditation, here is a 10–minute guided meditation that was recently sent to me. Just close your eyes, breathe, and follow along.

2. Writing: This study, published in the Journal of Research in Personality, examined a group of 90 undergraduate students who were split into two groups. The first group wrote about an intensely positive experience each day for three consecutive days. The second group wrote about a control topic. Three months later, the students who wrote about positive experiences had better mood levels, fewer visits to the health center, and experienced fewer illnesses. (This blew me away. Better health after just three days of writing about positive things!)

3. Play: Schedule time to play into your life. We schedule meetings, conference calls, weekly events, and other responsibilities into our daily calendars… why not schedule time to play?

When was the last time you blocked out an hour on your calendar just to explore and experiment? When was the last time you intentionally carved out time to have fun? You can’t tell me that being happy is less important than your Wednesday meeting, and yet, we act like it is because we never give it a time and space to live on our calendars. Give yourself permission to smile and enjoy the benefits of positive emotion. Schedule time for play and adventure so that you can experience contentment and joy, and explore and build new skills.

Happiness vs. Success: Which Comes First?

There’s no doubt that happiness is the result of achievement. Winning a championship, landing a better job, finding someone you love — these things will bring joy and contentment to your life. But so often, we wrongly assume that this means happiness always follows success.

How often have you thought, “If I just get ___, then I’ll be set.”

Or, “Once I achieve ___, I’ll be satisfied.”

I know I’m guilty of putting off happiness until I achieve some arbitrary goal. But as Fredrickson’s “broaden and build” theory proves, happiness is essential to building the skills that allow for success. In other words, happiness is both the precursor to success and the result of it.

In fact, researchers have often noticed a compounding effect or an “upward spiral” that occurs with happy people. They are happy, so they develop new skills, those skills lead to new success, which results in more happiness, and the process repeats itself.

Where to Go From Here

Positive thinking isn’t just a soft and fluffy feel–good term. Yes, it’s great to simply “be happy,” but those moments of happiness are also critical for opening your mind to explore and build the skills that become so valuable in other areas of your life. Finding ways to build happiness and positive emotions into your life—whether it is through meditation, writing, playing a pickup basketball game, or anything else—provides more than just a momentary decrease in stress and a few smiles.

Periods of positive emotion and unhindered exploration are when you see the possibilities for how your past experiences fit into your future life, when you begin to develop skills that blossom into useful talents later on, and when you spark the urge for further exploration and adventure. To put it simply: seek joy, play often, and pursue adventure. Your brain will do the rest.

Daily Mind Breaks To Boost Focus

Daily Mind Breaks To Boost Focus
Your mind is your body's most powerful asset. Dedicate time to mindfulness daily to give it the break it deserves.


With the holiday season in full swing, end of the year reports quickly approaching, and deadlines coming from every direction, stress is at its yearly high. While the holiday season brings joy and cheer, it also brings stress and fatigue. Stress can take a huge toll on your body both physically and mentally. It is important to take time out of each day to clear your mind and relax. Though seemingly easier said than done, taking just five minutes out of your day to clear your mind helps improve your overall productivity and focus. If there are times during the day where you feel yourself lacking focus and "hitting a wall" try one or two of these steps.

Meditation

Meditation brings an abundance of health benefits such as stress reduction, anxiety control, improved emotional health, increased attention span, improved sleep,  pain management, and reduced blood pressure. Effective meditation, like anything, comes with practice. There are steps you can take to help you start meditating that over time will build your skills to where you can meditate anywhere. If you are new to meditation, try a guided meditation app to give you the help you need to successfully meditate.  Apps such as Mindfulness, Calm, and Headspace provide guided meditation for beginners, tips for mindfulness, and resources to help you understand the art of meditation.

Visualizing /Guided Imagery

Taking five minutes to practice visualization helps some people de-stress at work and take a quick break from pressing deadlines or distractions. Visualizing, or guided imagery, is the process of imagining a calm and peaceful place to help clear your mind of stressors and worrying thoughts. If you are a beginner, there are guided tutorials and audio resources on YouTube to help you get started.

Stretching /Walking

Taking time to stretch and be active can boost your focus for the rest of the day. Taking as few as five minutes a day to stretch your legs or take a quick walk around the office can relieve your body of built-up tension, and in turn, boost your focus and productivity.

Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Sitting for long periods of time can cause strain on your neck, back, and shoulders. Practising progressive muscle relaxation each day can help relieve the tension and provide your mind with a needed break from work-induced stressors. Psychotherapist, Amy Morin says "Focus on slowly tensing and then relaxing your muscles, one group at a time. Start with your toes and work your way up to your neck. With practice, you'll increase your awareness of when you're tensing your muscles and you'll learn to let go of that tension."

Your mind is your body's most powerful asset, and just like your body, it needs rest and recovery to work at its highest level. Dedicate a few daily minutes to mindfulness to give it the break it deserves.

4 Signs You Might Be Depressed and 6 Ways to Improve Your Mental Health

4 Signs You Might Be Depressed and 6 Ways to Improve Your Mental Health

There is a price to pay to climb the ladder to success. Whether you're the founder of a startup racking up 70 hours of work per week or the exec in the corner office tasked with turning the company around, anxiety, burnout, and depression may come with the territory. 

Yet no successful person or those on the path to success want to be labelled or perceived as having "mental health" issues. There is an unwanted stigma that comes with it. 

Shame is usually attached and people often isolate and fly below the radar and prevent themselves from seeking the help they need to cope with their troubles.

This is a serious issue. A study by Dr. Michael Freeman, a clinical professor at University of California, San Francisco, reports that nearly half of all entrepreneurs surveyed suffered from things like anxiety and depression.

The signs. Is this you?

Tim Ferris, of all people, once blogged candidly about his battle with depression and how he almost killed himself while a student at Princeton. The signs are pretty clear that you're depressed if things like this happen. For example:

• You sleep too much. Depression strips you of your energy and makes you feel lethargic. You stop doing things you enjoy because you feel exhausted, and begin sleeping excessively, or not sleeping at all (insomnia).
• You're emotional. Depression can swing your moods radically. You go from feeling irritable and going off on someone to crying uncontrollably.
• You feel hopeless. Having a hopeless or helpless outlook on life is the most common symptom of depression. Your outlook on life has done a 180 and you have commonly-associated feelings of worthlessness, self-hate, or inappropriate guilt.
• You've lost interest in the things you enjoy. Depression can rob you of the things you love, making you withdraw from the very activities you once looked forward to -- sports, socializing with friends, hobbies, etc.

The solution

If depression has crept in, don't despair. Here's what you can do:

1. Don't isolate.

First off, you have to believe that you are not alone in this, and have all the support you need to go into battle--resources, support groups, counselors and coaches, fellow peers, family members, friends. Then it's up to you to make the first move: reach out and seek help.

2. Journal to release your emotions.

Cancel that meeting, put the "Do not disturb" sign on your door, and journal about your fears and worries. Then process what you wrote, and put an action plan together about how you will cope with these emotions.

3. Focus on positive thinking.

If you're feeling down, depressed or anxious, move. Literally move by going outside and getting some fresh air. Put on your earbuds and start listening to your favourite relaxing music while going for a brisk walk. Take your mind away from what's bothering you by focusing on positive thoughts that will make you feel safe, accepted, loved, and honored. When you're at homeostasis, reflect on how fortunate and blessed you actually are.

4. Unplug from your job responsibilities. 

Relieve your stress and incorporate more balance on a regular basis by doing something that is completely unrelated to your job. That could mean having more "me time" every day to help decompress and disconnect from the pressures of work.

5. Pursue activities that bring you peace and joy.

Along the same lines as the last point, get involved in an activity that's enjoyable; something that will bring back that bounce in your step. What is it that you love to do? What brings you peace? Take the lunch hour to do what you love and release those feel-good hormones, whether it's taking laps at the local pool or a nature walk in the woods.

6. Practice mindfulness.

A growing body of research in neuroscience suggest that mindfulness is one of the best-kept secrets to help manage anxiety. You can practice it by intentionally putting the focus on your emotions, accepting in a nonjudgmental way whatever thoughts and sensations you're experiencing in the moment. This Harvard Business Review article shows you some excellent techniques.

17 Things That Happen When You Have An Anxious Mind But A Laid Back Personality

There’s really no such thing as having an “anxious mind.” There is only having your anxiety fueled by your thoughts (which is something that everyone experiences now and again). But the people who tend to feel it most intensely are those whose rapid thinking is in constant contrast to their super chill, laid back personalities. They never know when to fight or flight, everything seems like an over-reaction, and their self-angst is maxed out, because their hearts are calm and their heads are crazed, more often than they will ever admit. Here, all the things that happen when you have an anxious mind and a laid back personality

1. You epitomize leading a life of “quiet desperation.” Half of the reason you’re anxious all the time is because you don’t naturally act or, therefore, process your emotions, and while that’s positive in some ways, it’s debilitating in others.

2. You’re naturally zen in that you observe your emotions objectively. Which is fantastic in that you’re not controlled by them, but harmful because you then start to believe that you only have to process or truly feel the ones you want.

3. You’re highly indecisive; your head and heart are a paradox all within themselves. You feel as though you’re always going back and forth between preparing for the worst and hoping for the best, and rarely in-between.

4. You’re laid back because you know how to quiet your mind. Most of your #chill lifestyle was developed out of necessity. Your brain starts to short circuit when you overload it with any more drama or worry, so you actively go out of your way to create a life where the only problems you have are the ones you make up in your mind.

5. You’re intelligent enough to know what could possibly happen, but grounded enough to know that worrying about it won’t prevent it. You’re aware that ultimately, an infinity of unfortunate fates are to fall on us all. You often think that the whole problem with humans is that we’re animals that don’t want to be animals… beings who do everything in their power to make their collective eventuality (death) more palatable in any way.

6. Yet, you’re most comfortable with your life when you feel prepared for the worst. Your mind constantly goes back to what you’d do if you were to lose a job, lose a relationship, etc., and when you realize that your savings account will support you or that you won’t be emotionally wrecked by losing one particular person, you feel free to happily go about your life.

7. You seek solitude and relaxing environments so your brain can process and deprogram and let off steam. You’re not one of those people that needs any more external stimuli to keep them entertained or wondering or interested – you’ve got that all covered, perhaps to an unhealthy degree.

8. You are your own locus of control. And perhaps this is the most positive characteristic you have: you do not assume that anybody else is responsible for your emotions, and you know this because thinking otherwise places you in a minefield of suffering for the rest of your life.

9. You’re very casual about your self-development. You’re one of those people who reads Deepak Chopra on the beach.

10. You’re non-confrontational to a fault. You’ll do anything to avoid not having to upset anybody and that often results in you not communicating how you really feel, when doing so would eliminate the problem altogether.

11. You often wonder if it is your resistance to action that creates your anxiety-thoughts. That maybe feeling jealous or anxious or upset is just an internal call to do better, one that’s being avoided.

12. You’re fascinated by personality types and the ways humans function.You’re probably into astrology or psychology or Myers Briggs personalities, and your classifications of people within these systems infiltrates your daily conversation about them. Ultimately, it helps you understand yourself better.

13. You keep a tight social circle. You feel like you can only really have fun when you’re in the presence of people you’re truly comfortable with. Otherwise, you’re trying to mentally place yourself enough to be comfortable.

14. You’re particular about what you want, yet super chill about what you have. You probably need to keep a gratitude journal if you don’t have one already, one, because that’s something you’d be into, and two, because you have a hard time being completely “in the moment.”

15. You’re all but convinced that the smartest people on Earth have somehow transcended their neurological hardwiring, and know how to just enjoy life. You know that “ignorance is bliss” may be a misquote and a generally terrible way to approach life, and yet you often fantasize about how lovely it would be to just not worry at all. Side note: you also probably love dogs.

16. You’ll argue that over-thinking and your apprehension to immediately trust someone is, in fact, what preserves your peace of mind. While not always the healthiest frame of experience, you can also acknowledge that it’s people who are too trusting and too shallow in their assumptions that end up getting hurt and manipulated and so on.

18. Your entire life struggle can be summed up as not having “the wisdom to know the difference.” You’re very good at letting go. You’re even better at trying harder. But knowing when each is appropriate is completely lost on you. 

9 Tips to Stop And Reduce Hair Fall

9 Things To Know to Stop And Reduce Hair Fall - Really Works

Who hasn’t had a hair loss scare? All of us, at some point, start to fear that we might be losing too much hair. While most of the time it’s just a false alarm, and our hair’s routine shedding, in some cases, it is more than that. But what could be causing the unexpected hair loss?

If you have been experiencing hair fall, and have reason to believe that it’s not just your shedding cycle, the first thing to do would be to find out what’s causing the problem. But first, let’s dismiss some common myths concerning hair fall, discuss how hair growth works, and why hair fall occurs.

1. Use The Right Comb

 Combing your hair can be a nightmare when you are dealing with hair loss. This can be made easier by using the right comb. Use a wooden wide-tooth comb to untangle your hair; you can use your regular brush after this. This will reduce breakage and hair loss from pulling. It is also crucial to remember not to comb your hair while it is wet. Your hair is at its most vulnerable when wet, which increases the chances of breakage. You should also clean your combs and brushes every week. You can do this while you’re in the shower or while shampooing each week. Cleaning your combs is a necessary precaution to take for hair fall control.

2. Towel Dry The Right Way

While rubbing your hair with a towel seems like the quickest way to dry it, it is also the worst thing that you could do to your hair. Drying your hair vigorously with a towel will lead to hair breakage, tangles, and pulling. Instead, gently squeeze out the excess moisture from your hair with your towel and then let it dry naturally.

3. Choose Your Products Wisely

Try to switch to shampoos that are sulfate, silicone, and paraben-free to avoid loading your scalp and hair with harsh chemicals that cause damage, making your hair brittle and more prone to breakage.

Controlling the chemical damage is certainly a sure shot way to ensure hair loss prevention.

A lot of brands like The Body Shop, Soul Tree, Rustic Art, Organic Surge, and The Nature’s Co. have some really good shampoo options that you can choose from.

Wash Your Hair Thrice A Week

Wash your hair at least once every three days with a gentle hair cleanser or shampoo to remove all the accumulated dust, dirt, oil, and bacteria build up. Keep it clean at all times to avoid hair fall from clogged follicles.

It is also important not to wash your hair more than thrice a week. Overwashing will strip your scalp and hair of the natural oils that are essential for healthy hair growth.

4. Style It Right

Do not subject your hair to frequent chemical treatments, excessive blow drying, ironing, and coloring, as it can lead to hair loss. If you color your hair and have been facing hair fall issues, it would be a good idea to take a short break before you put any more chemicals in your hair. Avoid hairstyles like tight ponytails, pigtails or braids on a daily basis. Using hair elastics to pull back hair tightly can cause hair fall.

5. Keep Your Scalp Healthy

If you have issues like dandruff or an oily/dry scalp, you need to tackle these issues immediately. Scalp health is vital to healthy hair growth and for avoiding hair fall.

6. Yoga And Exercise

You’d be surprised at how much stress can contribute towards hair fall. And nothing relieves stress as well as physical activity does. Regular exercise like yoga can go a long way in reducing stress and helping curb hair fall. In fact, there are certain yoga exercises that specially target reducing hair fall.

7. Take Supplements

There are many hair growth supplements in the market that help thicken hair and curb hair fall. Even certain vitamin supplements go a long way in improving the health and volume of your hair. However, do not start taking any supplements without consulting a healthcare professional first. Minoxidil (Rogaine) is one of the most effective, FDA-approved and commonly prescribed medications from doctors worldwide for arresting hair fall and treating alopecia-related problems.

8. Diet

When it comes to hair health, what you put in your body is just as important as what you put on your hair. Maintaining a healthy and balanced diet becomes crucial as soon as you notice hair fall. Foods that are rich in Zinc, Iron, Vitamins A, B complex, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, omega-3 fatty acids, and proteins should be consumed. These foods by themselves may go a long way in curbing hair fall as more often than not, hair fall is directly related to a vitamin/mineral deficiency. A healthy diet will also help keep your hair moisturized and nourished, leading to lesser hair fall, fewer split ends, and curbed breakage.

Consider adding more of these to your diet – carrots, oats, whole grains, brown rice, green leafy vegetables, citrus fruits, lentils, sweet potatoes, pumpkin seeds, oysters, nuts such as walnuts and almonds, flaxseed oil (Linseed oil) or ground flaxseeds, seafood like salmon and tuna that are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, eggs, beans, yogurt, and low-fat cheese.

What we eat can majorly influence hair health. Increased intake of fruits and vegetables, and most importantly, water, is bound to result in healthier hair.

Avoid fatty foods and fizzy drinks while also cutting down on your intake of carbs.

A protein rich diet is needed for increased hair growth, and a diet which is high in Vitamin E and Omega 3, as well as Omega 6 fatty acids, can stop excessive hair fall. These are some things you might keep in mind before you bite into your next hamburger.

Do not forget to drink plenty of water throughout the day to flush out all the harmful toxins from your body.