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Pushing hard, Overcoming Limitations, Finding Spirituality and Intention

If you never push yourself to an extreme in anything (I mean anything at all) all throughout your life, you will never know who you really are and you will never know the kind of stuff you are made of. More than anything you will miss out on realizing the power within you. Basically you go through life with regrets and confessions.

Why do I wake up early in the morning and workout? When I workout in the gym daily, I feel the power of my mind and I can experience my physical strength. It allows me to do some deep work on myself. I can test how far I can go and how long can I take the pain without giving up. It helps me to break my own limitations. It allows me to self-discover because willfully I am suffering and going through discomfort. It lets me know my insecurities, my patience and strength to do all the stuff that is necessary all throughout the day like diet, nutrition, sleep etc.

Sticking to good habits, leading a life with intention and purpose brings positivity and wellness not only to you but people around you. Falling for bad habits and instant gratifications could lead you to discomfort, disease, negativity and unfulfillment at the end.

It is completely left to us to take the right and hard path or take short cuts that are easy but destructive at the long run. Humans feel rewarded and significant when they are tested or overcome an obstacle or go through struggle to advance.

By avoiding the challenges, struggle and painful process of succeeding at something we get nowhere. If we are consciously avoiding all the discomfort of growth and improvement and then choose all the easy options, at some point in life it is going catch up with us. Physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually – we need to willfully put ourselves to test and struggle to advance or else we suffer.

Spirituality to me means being myself and feeling myself giving everything to something that I believe in. Spirituality is feeling oneness with something, that something that I can get inspired by and inspire others. For some it is religious practices like prayer, for some it is social work, for some it is yoga, for some it is service to the poor and weak, for some it is fighting for human rights, for me it is health and fitness. For me it is reaching higher standards of well being in life. In my journey of self-improvement, my spirituality lies in helping and supporting others to change their own lives for better.

If we DO NOT REPLACE OUR NEGATIVE PATTERNS AND HABITS in life like eating unhealthy food, smoking or drinking alcohol, arbitrarily watching TV or videos, spending time on social media indefinitely, watching negative news, discussing and talking on subjects that does not matter to us – WITH POSITIVE, BENEFITING AND INSPIRATIONAL ACTIVITIES like working out, eating healthy, sleeping on time, spending time with family, pursuing passions, helping and serving others, adding some value to others, THEN we are driving ourselves into a road full of thorns and rocks (issues and problems). Once we drive ourselves in to that path we need to constantly work on to remove those obstacles from your path instead of working on your goals and passions.

~Praveen Jada

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Training Volume vs Intensity

In weight training, volume is the term used to describe how much work you do, such as the number of repetitions (reps) you perform of an exercise. Intensity describes the difficulty of an exercise, typically based on the amount of weight you lift or the pace in which you perform an exercise (such as sprints, burpees).

Broadly speaking, increasing your exercise volume improves fitness and endurance. Increasing intensity builds lean muscle mass and strength. Many researches proved that low load, high volume training as your base and intermix it with high load, low volume training to support active rest for your muscles and increase your strength to allow for progression.

In this case of deadlifts, for example, a higher volume forces your heart and lungs to work harder. As you adapt to the changes in volume, your cardiovascular fitness and endurance will improve. On the other hand, if you increase the weight of the lift and keep the reps the same, you will build muscle faster . This combination of volume (measured by duration) and intensity (measured by pace) that can help you achieve muscle growth and cardiovascular health all at the same time.

Any exercise you do will improve your fitness, endurance, muscle mass, and strength to varying degrees. Ultimately, your heart’s response to the intensity and volume of a workout will establish your fitness level.

As a general rule, the intensity of a workout is described as a percentage of your maximum heart rate (MHR). The MHR is the maximum number of heartbeats you experience during one minute of intense effort.

For a more accurate assessment, you can take a treadmill stress test under the supervision of doctor or sports physiologist. The same test can also ascertain your VO2 max (the maximum amount of oxygen your body can utilize during intense exercise). Increases in VO2 max confer to increase in lung capacity and endurance.

To improve your cardiovascular fitness, you should aim for 65% to 75% of your MHR. At this level, you are improving your aerobic fitness (your body’s ability to use oxygen to fuel workouts).

If you are exceptionally fit, you can train to between 80% and 90% of your MHR. This will place you in an anaerobic state in which your body utilizes glycogen stored in your muscles rather than oxygen to fuel exercise. While in an anaerobic state, you not only improve your heart and lung function, but you also stimulate muscle growth better than aerobic exercise alone.

~Praveen Jada

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References:

https://www.verywellfit.com/understanding-volume-and-intensity-in-weight-training-3498252#:~:text=In%20weight%20training%2C%20volume%20is,amount%20of%20weight%20you%20lift.

https://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/volume-vs-high-intensity-which-style-training-best-growth.html

https://www.t-nation.com/training/high-intensity-versus-high-volume

For Optimum Muscle Gains- Remember These Basic Rules

  1. Implement progressive resistance training. Progressively overload . Keep increasing intensity (weigh or load) or Keep increasing volume (sets and reps).
  2. Don’t overstrain. Don’t do more than 4 to 8 sets. Muscle glycogen can go down by 25% in the first 3 sets. When glycogen is depleted, we cannot lift heavier. Keep the sets, reps at optimum level that meet your body type.
  3. Keep the muscle under tension by implementing different strategies. Do not drop the weights because eccentric movements contribute close to 90% of muscle growth.
  4. Train to Muscular Failure periodically. Do not train to failure in every set, but keep a set or two to take your muscles to failure.
  5. Keep frequency consistent. Taking too much of rest between sets and not being focused. Like Watching videos or talking to others.
  6. Get enough rest or sleep for recovery and muscle growth.
  7. Have good nutrition. Get 2 grams of protein per KG of body weight. Sometimes healthy and wholesome diet may compensate (to an extent) for overtraining or not getting enough sleep.
  8. Supplement well. Must have – a good quality protein powder, Creatine, a multivitamin capsule, an Omega 3 fish oil supplement, Maintenance dosage of vitamin D3 and B12.

~Praveen Jada

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Discipline Leads to Freedom

As stated by Jocko Willink

  • Freedom without discipline and responsibility leads to slavery.
  • Everybody wants freedom to do whatever they want but they do not do what it takes to have that freedom.
  • You need a structure and system to be disciplined. Discipline leads to having habits that are in your best interest.
  • You cannot directly jump to freedom without having discipline. Freedom without discipline is short lived and leads to disappointment.
  • You can squander money to have the freedom but later you go broke and go through a painful process. This is not financial freedom.  But when you have discipline to plan your finances properly, you can have the freedom to spend and enjoy the money when you need and when it is required.
  • Many people think that drinking alcohol, smoking or doing drugs would give them freedom and take them to a different world but it is just substance abuse and an addiction. This is slavery.

Discipline –

  • Is doing the right thing.
  • Is doing the right thing when you don’t want to do.
  • Is doing the right thing when you are in pain.
  • Is doing the right thing even though it is uncomfortable.
  • Is doing the right thing when you want to give up.
  • Is doing the right thing in spite of negativity self-talk.
  • Is sticking with the decision and being consistent.
  • Is doing the right thing no matter what.

~Praveen Jada

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Basic Principles that define Functional Medicine

1) Functional Medicine views us all as being different; genetically and biochemically unique. This personalized health care treats the individual, not the disease. It supports the normal healing mechanisms of the body, naturally, rather than attacking disease directly.

2) Functional Medicine is deeply science based. The latest research shows us that what happens within us is connected in a complicated network or web of relationships. Understanding those relationships allows us to see deep into the functioning of the body.

3) Your body is intelligent and has the capacity for self-regulation, which expresses itself through a dynamic balance of all your body systems.

4) Your body has the ability to heal and prevent nearly all the diseases of aging.

5) Health is not just the absence of disease, but a state of immense vitality.

~Praveen Jada

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Reference:

What is functional medicine?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4712869/

Acute vs Chronic diseases

Acute Diseases

  • Conditions are severe and sudden in onset. This could describe anything from a broken bone to an asthma attack. Acute illnesses generally develop suddenly and last a short time, often only a few days or weeks.
  • These diseases occur suddenly and last for a shorter period.
  • Acute conditions are often caused by a virus or an infection, but can also be caused by an injury resulting from a fall or an automobile accident, or by the misuse of drugs or medications.

Few Examples

  • Injury or wound
  • Broken bone
  • Bronchitis
  • Burn
  • Common cold
  • Flu
  • Pneumonia
  • Respiratory infection
  • Strep throat

Chronic Diseases

  • A chronic condition, is a long-developing syndrome. Chronic conditions develop slowly and may worsen over an extended period of time , months to years.
  • They last longer, sometimes lifetime.
  • Most of the times chronic diseases are a result of improper lifestyle choices.
  • Chronic conditions are often caused by unhealthy behaviors that increase the risk of disease—poor nutrition, inadequate physical activity, overuse of alcohol, or smoking. Social, emotional, environmental, and genetic factors also play a role. As people age, they are more likely to develop one or more chronic conditions.

Few Examples

  • Alzheimer’s disease
  • Arthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • Osteoporosis
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
  • Depression, anxiety, panic disorder
  • Insulin resistance
  • Type 2 Diabetes
  • High blood pressure
  • Imbalanced blood lipid profile (Cholesterol and Triglycerides)
  • Chronic inflammation
  • Obesity and related diseases
  • Osteoporosis
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Non alcoholic fatty liver disease
  • Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
  • Most Common Auto-Immune Diseases
  • Hypothyroidism
  • Sexual disorders
  • PCOD
  • Hair loss

~Praveen Jada

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How to Build Good Habits

  • Just keep at it and keep going — exercise, eat healthy food, planning and spending time constructively etc., — and the desired habit will eventually stick. Be consistent and do something about it instead of nothing at all.
  • Forming habits is a matter of simply repeating the desired behavior until it sticks, no matter how little pleasure you derive from it. Discipline is doing the right thing even when you don’t feel like doing it.
  • Determined habits form when a neural pathway activated by some action you’ve taken becomes reinforced through repetition. This is often applicable to both good and bad habits/. It’s why we often find ourselves making the same bad choice over and over: We’re not really choosing at all, but just traveling automatically down a familiar default behavioral pathways.
  • Habit beats reward. Habits themselves are a product of our previous actions, but in certain situations those habits can be replaced by our desire to get the best outcome.

~Praveen Jada

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Reference:

https://bigthink.com/mind-brain/how-to-build-good-habits

List of Top Nutrition Myths

Everything is contextual and based on perception. Nothing is completely black or white.

We have heard a lot of information and misinformation on nutrition/diet especially form so called experts on Instagram, Facebook, Youtube.

We need to be aware that anything in excess is not recommended, this is true not only with food but any other aspect in life. Moderation and balance is key.

However, there are many people out there who promote a specific diet or exercise or lifestyle. Most of them are biased in their views. They show us all the reports and research papers which support their claim and beliefs. Most of the social media experts endorse their ideology as the best approach and scientifically proven way of achieving a healthy life. This is not entirely true.

Below are some of the frequently made statements by many , which are not entirely true.

~Praveen Jada

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Reference:

https://examine.com/nutrition/awful-nutrition-myths/?fbclid=IwAR3deeT6drk8nMvBCdOuv6JFn6ZwnP53s-ewSxU6sNYunoVsKCDOqHm4oBU

Benefits of Cold Showers or Cold Water Baths

Cold water bathing or immersion activates the body’s natural healing powers that can relieve the symptoms of some medical conditions and promotes a sense of well being. When practiced on a regular basis cold water immersion can even strengthen our body’s immune, lymphatic, circulatory and digestive systems that enhance the overall quality of our life.

HOW TO TAKE A COLD SHOWER

When you first get started with reaping the health benefits of cold showers, you may want to begin slowly. You can slowly decrease the amount of hot water you use and ease yourself into cooler showers. Of course, you can also jump right into it by not using hot water at all, but this could be a bit of a shock to the system. Once you’ve got the temperature that’s right for you, enter the shower slowly and take a few deep breaths. Then start getting wet slowly with your hands, then feet, then the rest of your body. Progress through your normal routine of hair and body washing, getting out as soon as you feel you’re getting too chilled. As time progresses and you get used to cold showers, you’ll be able to spend more time in the shower and lower the temperature of the water even more.

THE BENEFITS OF COLD SHOWERS

1. IMPROVES LYMPHATIC CIRCULATION

The lymphatic system is a network of vessels that run throughout the body, clearing out waste, bacteria and microbes from your cells. The lymphatic system essentially helps your body cleanse itself.

Lymphatic system relies on muscle contraction to pump the lymph fluid through the vessels. So if you don’t exercise or your lymphatic system itself becomes slow or inefficient, the fluid stagnates and toxins build up, manifesting in colds, joint pain, infection and even disease.

Cold water immersion causes your lymph vessels to contract, forcing your lymphatic system to pump lymph fluids throughout your body, flushing the waste out of the area. It’s sort of a domino effect – the cold water affects the lymphatic system, which in turn affects the immune system, which ultimately keeps you feeling happy and healthy.

2. IMPROVES CARDIOVASCULAR CIRCULATION

Poor cardiovascular circulation compromises blood flow, thus stressing the heart. This can ultimately lead to health problems like fatigue, headaches, high blood pressure, muscle cramping or even heart attack and stroke.

With improved circulation, on the other hand, we can improve heart health, enhance mental performance, boost the immune system and the body’s metabolism, and simply give ourselves more strength and energy to live our lives the way we want.

Exercise and diet are two well-known factors in better cardiovascular circulation. But among the health benefits of cold showers is the stimulation of blood flow. When you immerse your body in cold water, the blood rushes to surround your vital organs. Your heart is then forced to pump more efficiently, pushing blood through all your vessels and supplying every part of your body with the oxygen and nutrients it needs.

3. REDUCES MUSCLE INFLAMMATION

Have you ever participated in a high-intensity workout and woken up sore the next morning? How about trying a new type of physical activity that left your muscles throbbing? This physical discomfort is known as delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS).

The pain of DOMS can be explained this way: any activity that pushes your muscles beyond the limits they are accustomed to – even common household chores, if you’re largely sedentary – can lead to microscopic tears in the fibers and inflammation in the tissue. The tears and inflammation are the cause of the pain you’re feeling.

But cold water immersion – along with an alkaline-based diet – has been scientifically proven to help counteract these side effects. One of the top cold shower or cold bath benefits is the fact that they lower the damaged tissue’s temperature and constricts the blood vessels.

By incorporating cold water immersion into your daily routine and reaping the benefits of cold showers, you may find that you don’t need to reach for the pills, because you’ve found an easy, natural way of expediting recovery and comfort.

4. BOOSTS HAPPINESS LEVELS

Benefits of cold showers actually run deeper than you think when it comes to boosting your mood. A 2007 research study found that cold showers can help treat depression symptoms, and if used on a routine basis, may be more beneficial than prescription medications in lifting moods.

The cold water triggers a flood of mood-boosting neurotransmitters, which make you feel happy. A separate study that analyzed the effects of regular winter swimming on the mood of swimmers showed that after four months of routine cold water swimming, the subjects felt more energetic and active than the control group.

5. AIDS WEIGHT LOSS EFFORTS

When practiced routinely, cold water immersion can boost your metabolism. Not only does cold water force your body to work harder to keep you warm – burning calories in the process – it also has an unexpected impact on the type of fat we produce.

According to a 2009 study, researchers found that cold water can promote healthy brown fat, which is the good fat our bodies generate to keep us warm. Brown fat is activated when exposed to extreme cold, and helps eliminate white fat, which is the body fat that piles up around our waistlines and thighs when we consume too many calories.

6. IMPROVES HAIR AND SKIN

Cold water helps to reduce the size of your pores and tightens your skin. You’ll retain those oils to keep your skin adequately moisturized, leaving skin and hair balanced and healthy. The cold water also stimulates hair follicles, increasing its thickness and length.

~Praveen Jada

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References:

https://www.healthline.com/health/cold-shower-benefits

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325725

9 benefits of Cold Showers

Biohacking Basics

You’ve heard of hacking computers, hacking smartphones, hacking email. You’ve even heard of hacking elections. But what about hacking your body? The concept is called biohacking.

To simplify Biohacking we can call it ‘Self-improvement’. We can use a lifestyle, food, supplements, exercise, meditation, breathing, even some advanced technologies to hack into our body to optimize it.

WHAT IS BIOHACKING?

Fundamentally Biohacking is essentially the practice of changing our body chemistry and our physiology through science and self-experimentation to energize and enhance the body. There is no standard definition to Biohacking but it is broadly a concept for human optimization physically and mentally. The methods used for this purpose could be as simple as simple lifestyle changes or going to an extreme level of experimenting with genetic engineering.

The possibilities are endless, but they are all rooted in the idea that we can change our bodies and our brains, and that by doing so we can ultimately become smarter, faster and better as human beings.

SOME EXAMPLES OF BIOHACKING

  • Deep Breathing practices from basic breathing techniques to Holotropic breathwork.
  • Meditation and mindfulness .
  • Lifestyle practices like Intermittent Fasting.
  • Usage of nutritional supplements like vitamins, amino acids, herbs and minerals at a certain dosage to trigger biological effectiveness.
  • Usage of herbal products and supplements .
  • Practicing different kinds of workouts to become physically strong and high performant.
  • Offering oneself for clinical trials to experiment with latest advancements in science and technology like genetic engineering etc.,
  • Using different mental and physical optimization tools.

~Praveen Jada

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Difference between Cartilage, Ligament and Tendon

A tendon is a band of tissue that connects muscle to bone.

A ligament is an elastic band of tissue that connects bone to bone and provides stability to the joint. 

Cartilage is a soft, gel-like padding between bones that protects joints and facilitates movement

Ligaments and tendons are both made up of fibrous connective tissue, but that’s about where the similarity ends.

Ligaments appear as crisscross bands that attach bone to bone and help stabilize joints. For example, the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) attaches the thighbone to the shinbone, stabilizing the knee joint.

Tendons, located at each end of a muscle, attach muscle to bone. Tendons are found throughout the body, from the head and neck all the way down to the feet. The Achilles tendon is the largest tendon in the body. It attaches the calf muscle to the heel bone. The rotator cuff tendons help your shoulder rotate forward and backward.

~Praveen Jada

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Our Thoughts are not Ours

Your thoughts are not your thoughts. Why?

Our life is run by our subconscious brain which is our feeling brain. Our lives are destined by our thoughts, feelings, emotions, choices, decisions, behaviours and attitudes. All these attributes are influenced by everything around us. Like who we interact, what we talk and discuss, what we watch, what we listen to, what we read and even what we eat.

Many researches have proven time and again that effect of the kind of information we are exposed to, would have impact our decision making and critical thinking. The quality of food we eat also could have a huge impact on the how we react and behave for next few hours.

In the current world where we are continuously bombarded with information from different forms of media, the content we access has a huge impact on our ideologies and perception of this world.

As someone said, if we do not program our mind, we will be programmed. If we do not have our own agenda, we will run the agenda of others. In this world of excess and relentless information, our mind can be influenced by anything and anyone if we are not critical in our thinking. Sometimes we need to check ourselves and see if we are running in this world or the world is running in our mind.

There is a saying ‘Garbage in, garbage out’, but a better way of saying is ‘Garbage in, garbage stays in there’ and it is very difficult to get it out. If we access negativity and be with negative people, we perceive the world to be negative. You tend to lose hope and do not try hard to raise to a higher standard.

Hence, we need to consciously feed our mind with positivity and we need to watch, listen, read stuff that matters to us and serves our best interests. We need to spend time with people who propel us to do be better and do more.

How easily our brain could be manipulated and hypnotized has been demonstrated by many illusionists and mentalists. Magic is an art of distraction. You get distracted for a moment and magic happens.

Below videos beautifully demonstrate how our subconscious mind catches all that we watch, listen to and feel without we consciously do it. Later Loir Suchard also demonstrates how thoughts can be planted in our mind and the other person (if crafty enough) can make you do things that they want you to do.

This is crazy and too true to believe. But the fact is our mind is so powerful yet vulnerable.

~Praveen Jada

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Intermittent Fasting may Not be for Everyone

If you have a medical condition, you should consult with a medical professional or lifestyle expert before trying intermittent fasting.

This is particularly important if you:

  • Have diabetes.
  • Have problems with blood sugar regulation.
  • Have low blood pressure.
  • Take medications.
  • Are underweight (BMI < 18).
  • Have a history of eating disorders.
  • Are a woman who is trying to conceive.
  • Are a woman with a history of amenorrhea.
  • Are pregnant or breastfeeding
  • Growing youngsters below 18 years
  • If you have gout or high uric acid
  • If you have serious kidney or liver disorders.

Take an expert advise if you have above health issues before doing fasting of any kind.

~Praveen Jada

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Huge Muscles are not Needed to Build Strength

Many of us want to flaunt big heavy muscles assuming that bigger muscles give better strength. Yes, this is true to an extent.

But did you keenly observe Olympic weightlifters, wrestlers, MMA fighters, gymnasts, or athletes who use their own body weight as their primary resistance, they are lean and have amazing show of strength. Most of them do not prefer to have a bulk of muscle as it might act against their athleticism and qualification into certain weight category.

Your body increases its strength by

  • Recruiting more muscle fibers in a particular muscle group and
  • Increasing the firing frequency of your motor neurons (neurons and muscle fibers). 

Here are few strategies to improve strength with not much focus on muscle building

Lift Heavy and Explosively

Lifting heavy (> 90% 1RM) will improve strength by recruiting what are called high-threshold motor units. Even though the weight is heavy, your intent should be to move the weight as fast as possible. This will ensure you’re recruiting as many fast-twitch muscle fibers as possible. Focus on multi joint compound movements like squat, deadlifts, bench press, overhead press etc.,

Explosive exercises that should come to mind are the Olympic lifts (e.g., clean & jerk and the snatch) however, medicine ball throws and kettlebell swings also fit into this category as well. Accommodating resistance (e.g., bands and chains) can be applied to further challenge your ability to accelerate the load.

Plyometrics

Plyometric training involves hop- and jump-type exercises that train and develop what’s called the stretch shortening cycle. This also develops muscle joint tendon strength and reduces stiffness. Body-weight or weighted plyometric exercises can be utilized such as consecutive body-weight jumps over hurdles or continuous dumbbell jump squats.

Reduce the volume

Lowering the volume and focusing on bar speed will have a better training effect for improving strength and explosive power rather than muscle growth. Average number of set could be 2 to 3 and training frequency would be 2 to 3 days per week.

Sprints and Drills

Performing sprint intervals or hill sprints (linear) or agility drills (multi-directional) will help develop strength and power specific to running and cutting.

Rest Longer

When bodybuilding or training for muscle growth, short rest periods are recommended between sets, such as 30-60 seconds. When training for strength, increase your rest to 2-5 minutes depending on the exercise. Your mental strength and ability to focus on the heavy set will also appreciate the longer break.

Strengthen Weak Muscles

Commonly, your weakest link will be the muscles behind the scene (e.g., rotator cuff, middle and lower trapezius, serratus anterior gluteus medius, abdominals, etc.). The better able you are at recruiting these muscles, the more potential you have of increasing the strength in your prime movers.

~Praveen Jada

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References:

www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/10-ways-to-build-strength-without-the-size/

Facts: How COVID-19 Spreads

  1. COVID-19 spreads very easily from person to person . COVID-19 most commonly spreads during close contact.
  2. People who are physically near (within 6 feet) a person with COVID-19 or have direct contact with that person are at greatest risk of infection.
  3. When people with COVID-19 cough, sneeze, sing, talk, or breathe they produce respiratory droplets. These droplets can range in size from larger droplets (some of which are visible) to smaller droplets. Small droplets can also form particles when they dry very quickly in the airstream.
  4. Infections occur mainly through exposure to respiratory droplets when a person is in close contact with someone who has COVID-19.
  5. Respiratory droplets cause infection when they are inhaled or deposited on mucous membranes, such as those that line the inside of the nose and mouth.
  6. As the respiratory droplets travel further from the person with COVID-19, the concentration of these droplets decreases. Larger droplets fall out of the air due to gravity. Smaller droplets and particles spread apart in the air.
  7. With passing time, the amount of infectious virus in respiratory droplets also decreases.
  8. COVID-19 can sometimes be spread by airborne transmission. Available data indicate that it is much more common for the virus that causes COVID-19 to spread through close contact with a person who has COVID-19 than through airborne transmission
  9. COVID-19 rarely spreads between people and animals
  10. COVID-19 spreads less commonly through contact with contaminated surfaces.‘Only if you touch the contaminated surface and touch your face’. Even if you touch surfaces, it should not be a problem if you wash hands properly or use sanitizer/disinfectant.
  11. Respiratory droplets can also land on surfaces and objects. It is possible that a person could get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or eyes.

Precautions that could probably protect from getting infected. As of not nothing is 100% effective in prevention of Covid-19, but these practices would help us to be less susceptible:

  • Maintain physical distance between people when you go outside.
  • Wear an approved mask when you are outside. Do not touch the mask with your hands once you wear it. Though effectiveness of wearing masks is debatable, it at least stops droplets from our mouth and nose to an extent.
  • Wash your hands with a good quality soap or use a alcohol based sanitizer / disinfectant when.
  • Clean frequently touched surfaces with a disinfectant.

~Praveen Jada

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References:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/how-covid-spreads.html

https://www.epa.gov/coronavirus/can-i-use-fogging-fumigation-or-electrostatic-spraying-or-drones-help-control-covid-19

https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/spraying-disinfectants-can-be-harmful-says-who/article31605891.ece

https://www.oneindia.com/india/fact-check-does-spraying-on-disinfectant-on-streets-kill-coronavirus-3089828.html

https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/modes-of-transmission-of-virus-causing-covid-19-implications-for-ipc-precaution-recommendations

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters