**Know your local vegetable : Ridge gourd**

This is must vegetables for people with

- pre diabetes and diabetes
- cholesterol
- strained liver and gland functions
- Improves eye vision

How to lead a healthy lifestyle as prescribed in Ayurveda?

-Per Ayurveda, overall bio rhythm are determined by a unique balance of three dosha's (Vata, pitta & kapha) present in your own body.

So what are the various factors influences your overall good health?

A Thread.

Your overall good health is sum of

- Proper and Adequate Rest
- Excercise
- Meditation / Prayer
- Strong mind /Emotional resilience
- Nutritious Food

If you watch the order of the above food comes last in the list! Yes food become insignificant if all other are sorted!

Per Ayurveda, good health is taking control of your life routine and helps to makes you wise and capable of decision making – ranging from your food, your habits and your lifestyle

In short, good health means good lifestyle!

In Ayurveda, perfect health is defined as "a balance between body, mind, spirit, and social wellbeing"

Ayurveda emphasises balance and connecting towards your inner self than anything else when it comes to healthy life

-Per Ayurveda ,
All things in the universe, both living and nonliving, are connected.
-We are all initially connected within ourselves, to people surrounding us, to our immediate environment, and to the universe.

-Balanced connectivity ensures good health.

Thorpikaranam : A simple but powerful yogic practice for physical and mental wellbeing

Do this daily if you want to

- Sharpen your mind ,
attentiveness & decisiveness
-Reduce weight and belly fat
- Strengthen your vision
- Overall flexibility of your joints and muscles

Most often given as punishment for mischievous kids at school and done as prayer before Bhagwan Ganesha It's actually a superb physical exercise which benefits both physical and cognitive functions of your body

Per astrology, Ganesha is ruling diety for planet Ketu (Gnanakaraka) who is meant for blessings with wisdom (Gnana) /intelligence Per psychology,it is given as cognitive therapy to minimize their sadistic thoughts ..no wonder it's help to discipline mischievous kids at school

Another name for Ganapathi is Vigneshwara / Vinayagar he is considered to remove the vignam / obstacle by bestowing intelligence To be successful in your personal & professional life you need to tide over many obstacles in your path only through your intelligence & hardwork

Looking scientifically, We hold earlobes between thumb and forefinger with hands crossed in front of chest and perform repetitive squats. This is done 18 or 108 times as prarthana mostly for success in anything It's a kind of auricular vagus nerve stimulation

Why should we wear Bindi / Kumkum / Tilak ??

- Wearing Bindi / Kumkum /Tilak on our forehead is not just symbol of religion or culture

- it's has profound impact on your health and wellbeing

- Why this is practiced even for new born babes

- It's a ancient health hack

- As per ayurveda forehead is a key biological region which has major role to play both over your mind , body and spirit

- Forehead has sensory nerves which helps to detect the earths magnetic field by our brain

- it has deep connect towards your subconscious mind

Per Ayurvedic texts our forehead is gateway for our energy/ kundalini

Marma chikitsa a branch of Ayurveda which is similar to reiki or pranic healing starts the therapy from the muka / face especially with herbal paste being applied over the forehead

Same references are found in accupressure and traditional Chinese medicine

- Applying gentle pressure over forehead by wearing bindi / kumkum/ Tilak helps to keep key pineal gland hale and healthy

As per Hindu culture, sadashiva holds the sacred and fierce third eye over this region

For normal man, it's a key technique to activate your key chakra - the Ajna chakra

This is soul reason any hindu Pooja or vedic procedure emphasizes wearing a Tilak over this region

Gayatri Mantra : Maha mantra for healthy and happy life

- Gayatri mantra is sacred of all mantras, it's chanted to seek blessings of "veda mata " Gayatri devi

- Gayatri sadhana can do wonders in terms of health, wealth and mainly to lead peaceful and meaningful life

-Mindset and our mind plays vital role in every aspects of our decision, strong mind is forte of good luck ,health and prosperity

- Gayatri mantra greatly influence improves our concentration

- Sound waves generated during chanting of gayatri mantra affects beneficial way

Gayatri mantra helps to achieve subuddhi , supreme consciousness/ wisdom at least a sense of inner divine guidance at each & every aspect of life

Adhi Shankaracharya says gayatri to be destroyer of our sins coz she destructs the mere thoughts of evil

A Divine motherly shield

Why it's supreme , why so sacred

- Krishna in gita describes himself as "Gayatri" in mantras "

- Gayatri mantra is the only mantra which impact all chakras of our body

- Sound energy invokes the divine energetic reverberation in our nerves in turn our mind

Gayatri activates all our nadis focussing Inner consciousness towards physical, mental and emotional well-being

Gayatri sadhak doesn't care about external events much as their inner state is on absolute bliss , unwavered clarity ,strong body mind and soul

Diet to reduce Anxiety :

-Prolonged Anxiety hinders your normal body and brain function - makes you more lethargic and reduces your reasoning capacity

Anxiety arises from depressive negative event, visuals / thoughts even news/ messages

It’s impact is silent but deep

- Drink enough water every two hours
- Avoid nerve stimulants like coffee, alcohol and tobacco
- Avoid refined sugar and Table salt (Alternate with Jaggery powder and non Iodized rock salt or Himalayan pink salt)

- Consume more gut friendly Pro biotic fermented foods like sour buttermilk, naturally fermented idli / dosa batter

- Include more green leafy vegetables as soup, Sabji and salad. Magnesium in these help greatly to manage the mood swings due to anxiety

-Reduce and limit your complex carbohydrates consumption like bread, polished rice, pasta

- Avoid spicy and deep fried fast food of any sort

- Lookout for a seed based or nut based healthy snacks like lotus seeds, peanuts, Kulith, local bean

- Include powdered omega 3 rich seeds as toppings or ingredients in your roti or salad

- Include all local vegetable on rotation basis in your diet

- Minimise your grain intake and maximise your vegetables intake

- Beet and carrot are great Anti depressant

Masks. A short thread. In June last year my GP advised me that wearing a mask even for a short space of time would be harmful for me on two fronts. One - I have painful rosacea on my face. It’s a horrible condition and it’s lifelong. I can at times look scary!

Putting on a mask simply makes it worse. Two - I have hypertension. Manageable and controlled. GP also advises that mask wearing even for short periods can raise cortisol levels and make them dangerous to me.

On that basis and given the dreadful treatment us non-maskers have to suffer and to appease the abusers I have three times asked my GP to issue me with a letter relating to my conditions.

On each occasion she has said that there is no need. Whilst she won’t admit it straight up, all conversations suggest she’s been told not to. I happen to agree that no-one should need to reveal their medical history to anyone other than medical professionals responsible for me.

I’ve researched mask wearing in relation to what they are supposed to be used for ref *Covid* - I’m no thicko - I prepare risk assessments (and I’m qualified to do so) every day (or did) - and the evidence *for* is weak. Very weak.

I gave masks the benefit of the doubt in the spring/summer of 2020. I have since changed my mind and see no scenario where it makes sense to wear them in public.

Even if they provided 100% protection, I believe masks to be harmful. An explanation below 👇👇👇

Let's say masks provide 100% protection to both the wearer and others (perhaps non-masked individuals) in close proximity. This is perhaps the worst scenario.

The immune system requires a consistent influx of both microbes and viruses to remain trained.

Halting the exposure to microbes and viruses is extremely harmful in the long run and leaves you exposed to enormous risk in the future.

Without training, you will become susceptible to even weaker microbes that your immune system would have normally handled with ease.

This is no different than laying in bed for a prolonged period of time. Walking up stairs, an activity that normally would not be a challenge, would all of a sudden become difficult.

Your immune system would slowly degrade similarly not able to complete previous tasks.

This is particularly harmful to children who's immune systems do not have the training of adults and would leave them more vulnerable. Children have the most life to lose so it harms them the most.

I think that, in the face of an ongoing global health emergency and a pressing need to reopen safely, some form of health pass is a reasonable option to consider. But debate is a good thing, so here are some brief thoughts on various concerns I've heard about them... [thread]

"A health pass discriminates against people who have refused the vaccine." No. A health pass should also support proof of test result for people who haven't been vaccinated, and exemptions for people who cannot be vaccinated (get vaccinated if you can though, for heaven's sake).

"A health pass is an invasion of privacy." No. A health pass should be privacy preserving, allowing you to prove your status to third parties without giving away personal data or letting them track you without your permission.

"A health pass is unfair to people without smartphones." No. A health pass should accommodate people without a smartphone, e.g. with a printable option as a fall-back (though for most of us, carrying a digital pass on our phone will be much more convenient).

"A health pass will become obsolete as the virus mutates." No. A health pass should actually give us more insight and flexibility to adjust our response as our knowledge of the virus, and the ways we test / treat / vaccinate for it, increases.

APL Apollo conducted their earnings con-call today at 2:00 pm

"Vision of capacity of 4 Million Tone till 2025"

@hiddengemsindia @gvkreddi

Here are the key highlights 😀👇

Business Updates:

• Net Working Capital Remains under 10 days which is best in the building material
• Continue expanding rural region.
• Added 15 new distributors.
• Value added products contributed 50-60% of the topline.

Revenue breakup

• EBIDTA Margin Improvement: This was mainly because of cost structarize and better operational

• Working Capital Cycle as per mgmt should remain sustainable

• Blue Ocean: Company owns 100% subsidiary which contributes nothing but own property where corporate office is there

Improvement in Net Selling Realization:
• With expanding capacities at 2.6Million Tones and utlization of 75%, scalability has been affected.
• While the prices of steel has gone by by around 35%, due to shortage of steel.

• Apl Apollo being the dominant player past connection with steel companies worked well.
• Steel tubes supply from China is shrinking.
• Hence the discounting factor while selling the products has went away.