Prevention

A diet high in antioxidants can have a protective effect on long tern hearing. So eat seedy fruit like pomegranate. Better for your ears than seedy nightclubs.

What Causes Hair Loss In Women?

It could be due to such factors as childbirth, menopause and other hormonal changes, illness, a poor diet and stress.

Any Solution? Are They Safe?

Not all women respond positively to over-the-counter hair-loss treatments or prescribed oral medication. In fact, some topical lotions may cause more hair loss as they sting or burn the scalp, resulting in itchiness and sensitized skin.

Some professional hair care salon is a clinically-proven solution that’s been documented in over 20~30 years of clinical studies to prevent hair loss and promote hair re-growth.

What Is Laser Hair Therapy?

Each half-hour session starts by placing a rotating hood on the scalp area. This stimulates the follicles while reducing the distance between the scalp and the 3o individual lasers, which operate at 67o nanometers, the optimal range for penetration to stimulate dormant hair follicles into re-growth and increase blood flow to scalp cells.

A twice-weekly treatment is recommended for the first three months, followed by a once-a-week session over the next three months.

How Effective Is It?

This FDA-approved treatment has shown visible improvement in about 85 per cent of users, who see healthier, thicker and fuller-looking hair within 15~18 weeks. This treatment is painless, safe and has no side effects.

Way 11: Aromatherapy

Essential oils affect hormone secretion and your thoughts. For inner calm, choose chamomile, pine, lavender or marjoram.

Way 12 : Green Day

Exposing yourself to a natural environment is perfect for inducing calm. No time to get out of the city? Then potter around in the garden. No garden? Then tend to your houseplants. It’s the interaction with nature that is the key.

Way 13 : Chinese Qi Gong

Related to tai chi, qi gong (“energy breathing”) is an ancient Chinese exercise, combining rhythmic breathing with gentle movements, mental focus and inner stillness. Very little physical activity is involved-meaning you need little space, time or strength to reap the benefits.

Way 14 : Tea Break

Shun the stimulus of high doses of caffeine and try a chamomile flower brew instead, believed by many herbalists to help generate inner calm.

Way 15 : Live For The Moment

Living in the present brings inner calm because it stops you from dwelling on past negatives and fearing the future. A good way of waking yourself up to the present is to change your routines. Take a different route to work so that you’ll pay attention to what’s going on

Way 6: Let There Be Light

Daylight regulates our bio-rhythm, and is responsible for our psychological equilibrium. If you spend all day in an office and finish late, you could be denying yourself calming, healing light. Get out at lunchtime, and take long walks on weekends to increase your light quota.

Way 7: Balancing Your Brain

Developing your intuition helps you achieve inner harmony by balancing the right and left sides of your brain, using it productively is essential in keeping you rooted and bringing you a sense of calm.

Make creative ideas work, follows your hunches, and actively use visualization and meditation methods —these will all help you connect with your intuitive source.

Way 8 : Herbal Tonics

Look for calming herbal formulas which contain skullcap and passionflower compounds in tincture form, which you can drink. For long-term calm, use herbal tonics with essential oils.

Way 9: Animal

Studies have suggested that over 90 per cent of cat owners find their pet a vital aid to relaxation, while interaction with a dog is known to induce a deep state of calm by slowing heart rate and lowering your blood pressure.

Way 10 : Transcendental

Practiced by five million people worldwide, the easy­-to-master technique of transcendental meditation is renowned for its inner-balancing capabilities. It calms the body, can be learned in days, and removes all stress — replacing it with clarity and a sense of perspective.

Way 1 : Expand Your Vision

Find a point opposite you, just above eye-level, and keeping your eyes on that point, begin to slowly broaden your field of vision to notice more of what’s on either side of that point, so that, eventually, you’re paying attention to what’s visible in the corners of your eyes.

You should begin to feel your breathing moving lower in your chest, slowing down, becoming deeper. You’ll also feel your facial muscles relaxing. This “peripheral vision” technique activates a part of the nervous system that restores inner calm.

Way 2: Healthy Meal

Complex carbohydrates — whole-wheat, cereals and rye — produce serotonin in the body, which has a effect on the brain’s chemistry. Vitamin B6 is also essential in serotonin production, so eat B6-rich foods — bananas, raisins and sweet potatoes — regularly to give your body the necessary fuel to help soothe you the nutritional way.

Way 3 : Music

Never underestimate the magic of music. “Classical music is extremely calming, Baroque classical is particularly effective — it’s very powerful and has been shown to lower the incidence of road rage in drivers.

Way 4 : Take a Short Rest / Nap

Suggest you taking regular “time-outs” when you feel overwhelmed. An easy way is to just shut your eyes. Then, allow your eyes to drift upwards and imagine you’re viewing the sky through your closed eyes. The technique mimics eye behavior when you sleep and tricks the mind into inducing calm.

Way 5 : Off Your 21^st Century Life

Switch off your mobile. Don’t read e-mail. Ignore text messages. Do this regularly to restore equilibrium. New technologies were supposed to help us but, instead, they’ve overloaded us indiscriminately. The mobile and internet revolution makes people constantly accessible, leaving them no ‘down-time’ to relax, reflect and be calm. It’s crazy—and unhealthy.

On Your Hot Seat

• Sit with your feet comfortably flat on the floor and elbows level with the keyboard.
• Keep your arms parallel to the floor.
• Recline chair slightly to reduce pressure on the lower back.
• Push your hips very close to the back of the chair.
• De-clutter the area below your desk so you have room to stretch your legs.

On the phone

• Avoid holding the receiver between the shoulder and the ear as it strains the neck.
• Use a headset if you use the phone frequently.
• Make sure the phone is within easy reach to avoid over-stretching.
• Use both thumbs to type messages on your mobile phone to minimize the strain on one thumb.

Using the keyboard

• Type lightly. Heavy pounding stresses the fingers and may result in elbow pain.
• Adjust the keyboard so it’s in the middle of your body.
• Type with straight wrists; adjust the height of the keyboard if your wrists are bent when typing.
• Use a desktop rather than a laptop for prolonged typing — it has a bigger and higher screen and more well-spaced keys.

Monitor safety

• Make sure your monitor is placed at least an arm’s length away.
• Keep the top of the screen at or slightly below eye level.
• Tilt the screen slightly so the base is closer to you than the top.
• Place the monitor perpendicular to the window if you are relying on natural light.
• Keep your head straight when working — tilting it causes neck strain.

Take a time out

• Follow the 20/20/20 rule — work for 20 minutes, take a break for 20 seconds and look 20 feet (6 meters) away.
• Mix sedentary and mobile tasks. Sitting still for long periods inhibits blood circulation.
• Stretch your neck, shoulders, wrists, arms and back occasionally.
• Make it a habit to blink every two to four seconds — this ensures your eyes are constantly lubricated, and prevents strain.