The magical language or is it really magical !!!

It's a pleasant Sunday morning and my one and half year old son is roaming around the house looking to do any mischiefs, playing around. He just finished his breakfast. He is happy because he loves the company of his mom and dad, and we are happily watching him roaming pleasantly while having our breakfast.

All this understanding is perfect, there is no doubt about it. Yet to understand it neither of us have spoken a single word. Isn't it amazing!!! Isn't it magical!!!

As usual my mind started wandering,
How can this happen? A perfect understanding without a word?
To understand this phenomenon let's try to find out any similar examples-
1) Yesterday I called my cars service centre to know about my cars maintenance plan. The telephone operator picked up my phone and said, "Good morning, Concord motors..."

In just four words what I understood is much more than what these words meant. From her tone of voice I understood that, this lady liked me calling her office, this lady thinks I am important, this lady had respect for her job, she really wants to help me out, she is confident that she will help me out. Apart from those four words wishing me good morning, confirming to me that I have dialled the right number, she said five more sentences just through her tone of voice. It was a pleasant conversation and I got the required information.

2) A few days back I have called an office whose telephone operator have said the exact same words, that is, good morning, ------ office, but from this telephone operators tone I understood that, I have bothered her, she is annoyed, she is not interested in listening me, she would have been glad if I haven't called. Turning our conversation in more like a war situation.

In both the examples, same words have been said but entirely different message is transferred.

3) There is one more example everyone just have seen, in the school or college days everyone have seen someone who never said that he or she loves a particular person but every one knows that he or she loves that person.

What is this magical language? How and when did we learn it? Can it be used to improve our day to day life?

We can see this language at work predominantly in the case of animals. Animals understand each others attitudes or even our attitude through this language. I always loved animals and my wife always hated animals. She always wonders how a neighbourhood cats always comes to me whenever hungry despite she is being the kitchen in charge!

This is called body language. We don't learn it. Or rather we don't need to learn it because we are bourn prewired with it. In computer language terms this language software is a default part of our operating system. That is why human baby can understand when his or her parents are angry, before learning any language. Or the baby's mother understands when her baby is hungry or angry or happy or what are her baby's likes.

Every animal uses this language. We too used it from ancient times. We have evolved from animals to human just recently. And we have invented the languages more recently. If we consider the lifetime of the whole life form on earth then after a long night we have invented languages just this morning and the morning is yet to finish. I hope you have understood how recent the invention of language is. Before that our ancestors were totally dependent on body language only. They used to convey the message only through gestures or some basic sounds like groan, moan, crying may be, hissing, humping etc. So this became a default and universal language of communication.

This body language is still a predominant language. 80% of the information we convey is still through the body language when we communicate face to face and that is why face to face communication is a very effective way of communication.

Who knows thousands of years from now human baby may bourn prewired with English or other languages too..😊

So now the most important question remains-
How we can use it to improve our day to day life?
As I said I love animals, there are always 3-4 cats living in my house, every cat had a different personality or rather every animal, just like we humans have, these cats are living with me since my birth, so I had a lot of time watching their activities, how they grow, how they behave, how do they communicate with each other or with humans or with other animals etc. And let me tell you, observing them is a kind of my hobby, it's a fun activity, especially when kittens are involved. Through observation I came to know that like us cats can also make faces, you just need to have a proper look at their face. So the fact is we live together happily despite having very different personalities our the language barrier.

Now you must be thinking why I am telling you all this instead of telling you how to improve our day to day life, so I am coming to it.

When I grow up naturally I got attracted towards girls, but as I approached I came to know girls speak something else and they want something else, or rather they don't even know what they want, and if I am saying something directly, then the girl is ignoring all what I said and concentrating on what is the hidden meaning of what I said. I always speak directly, I am a straight forward person and I was getting mad at what was happening.

If you are a man then you must have experienced it, that it is very difficult to understand a woman, you must have pondered over questions like what a girl wants? Or what a woman wants? Same thing for woman as they try to find out the hidden meaning.

So, a very difficult problem. I was thinking about it, laying on the bed, obviously cats around me, one licking herself clean, one asleep, one just starting at me lovingly simultaneously making the love sound.(those who have pet cats and who allow them to sit on the lap or close to our body can only understand this love voice, a kind of soft grrr grrr like breathing sound) I was thinking it I'd much easier to understand the cats, they are much simpler than humans, but what if humans are also simple to understand? If there is noise which is making the understanding unclear? What if the language we speak itself is the noise? It can be because despite knowing the language,I couldn't understood a girl. So I thought about giving it a try. And to my surprise,I was right, the next day was just amazing. There was no misunderstanding between me and any girl, I just blew up their mind. It is just that simple, trust me. Just remove the noise.

Now you must be thinking am I only thinking about girls? No, but yes at the beginning, then there was not that much need. And trust me, getting a life partner is a part of the happy life. All living organisms are here on earth to reproduce and keep their race alive and growing. It gives us an internal feeling of completeness, achievement, happiness, content if we find a right partner and have a healthy offspring. That's the reason that old folks always want to see their grandsons our grand daughters, three want to make certain that their genes are transmitted to next and then to the next generation. That is the reason we give best facilities to our children, we want them to succeed more than we did.

This is the main part of life and happiness, then again these are side effects of knowing and using this language. For example- this is the universal language, you can speak it with anyone, any gender, any country, even any animal. And you can convey your message quickly and efficiently, clearly.

There are many books written on the subject of body language, they claim to teach you the body language, they claim to give you highly effective tips, but none of them points that you already know the language. You just need to be aware about your capability. Every human or even every animal on earth comes prewired with this language.

Just remove the noise and everything becomes crystal clear. But watch out from those who are faking, who are lying in this language.

Try using this language and tell me your experiences..

See you soon..

Till then have a nice day..

Sumit
The POWER is when,
You use ODDS,
To get EVEN.

What do I do when I get ill?

Two days ago, I fell ill, cough, cold, fever etc. The usual combination. Friends, relatives who knew I am not well, keep asking me whether I went to a doctor or taking medicines? Also wishing me to get well soon etc. I was irritated every time to explain how I handle my illness. To avoid loving arguments I even lie to them that yes I went to doctor and taking the prescribed medicines. This have happened several times in the past.

This post is inspired by those well-wishers.

So to cut the suspense, let me tell you clearly, I don't visit doctor if I fell ill. I use some common sense to treat myself. I am doing this for more than 15 years. In those 15 years I must have fallen ill more than 10 times. My process of treating the illness worked every time. And trust me there is no painful treatment, rather a much pleasurable treatment. It doesn't involve eating bitter medicines, getting a bitter mouth, feeling of weakness etc.

To understand how do I do it, let's first understand some basics about our body-

We are complex biological organisms. (you must have heard it several times in this blog that our body is a complex adaptive system 😊) We already have everything built in our body required to survive. It also have the mechanism to fight with any biological attacks.

If you have ever observed how you or anyone falls ill, you must have seen, 3 distinct phases-

Phase #1 - The person first goes through some kind of physical hyperactivity, or sleep deprivation or drastic change in climate or food intake, may be cycles of these, resulting in to he or she experiencing fatigue. (In short the person does something extra than normally does or gets less sleep than normal or both.)

Phase #2 - The person starts coughing and/or sneezing, his or her nose starts running, headache, he or she feels irritated.

Phase #3 - Increased body temperature or fever, muscle pain, other symptoms associated with fever.

Ever observed these three phases? Identification of these phases is important in treatment. Questions still arise, why these three phases? What happens in the body during these phases?

To answers these two questions we must know how our IMMUNE SYSTEM works?

Scientifically we are classified as JAWED VERTEBRATES. Which means we belong to the class of organisms having jaws and vertebral column to support our back.

One of the other characteristics of these jawed vertebrates is they have very sophisticated IMMUNE SYSTEM. This immune system protects them from the attacks of any pathogens.(Pathogens are any organisms which infect our body, including viruses.)

Their immune system works in the form of layered defence. One can easily understand the nature of this layered defence by comparing it with defence forces of any developed nation.

Our immune system has 3 layers of defence. The force and specificity of counterattacks increases with each layer.

1st layer of defence - PHYSICAL BARRIERS

This is our first line of defence. We have our skin covering all of our body, which performs the function of a physical barrier, just like any nation have it's border, a fencing of barbed wire etc. preventing any unauthorised entry physically.

Our whole body can't be completely sealed from it's environment, it must have openings for different purposes, just like any nation has airways or railways or roads or ports so that people and goods can pass through. But any nation employees guards to keep check against any unauthorised entry of person or goods. Similarly we have mucus in our nose which traps any incoming pathogens or any foreign particles thereby preventing them from entering into lungs, where they can do much more damage but at the same time it allows air to pass through, moisten it, adjust the temperature of incoming air to body temperature. Our stomach has gastric acids and protease (protease is an enzyme used in the digestion of proteins, this enzyme breaks down complex protein molecules into smaller basic units) which kills any incoming pathogens. Our eyes gets flushed with tears containing antibacterial our antifungal enzymes. Our genitourinary tract is also flushed with acidic liquids, which prevents the growth of any pathogens by creating a harsh environment.

2nd layer of defence - INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM-

This is the second line of defence, whenever the first line of defence is successfully breached by any pathogen, the innate immune system comes in to action.

Just like any alert citizen of a nation raises an alarm when he sees any crime in action or recognises any criminal, there are some receptor cells spread all over our body which recognise any pathogen roughly or recognise any bruise or damage and sends out distress signal, thereby activating the innate immune system. (this is just like a citizen recognising a thief in general or a terrorist in general, the citizen can't recognise him by name and his abilities etc.) These receptor cells do it by identifying an antigen(a specific molecule), which are generic to a group of pathogens.

This is followed by release of histamine, which increases the blood flow in the affected area, resulting in some swelling along with permeability of membrane of blood capillaries to white blood cells. (white blood cells are our soldiers, basic units of our immune system, we will learn more about them soon) These white blood cells eat or kill the pathogens. The distress signal also causes some generic response, this response is a quick response and it is non specific response. Just like police responding to an alarm and visiting the scene of crime to assess the situation setting up roadblocks to prevent escape of criminals.

For example when there is an infection through nose, as the cells in the mucus membrane(inner lining of nose) send out distress signal it immediately responded with coughing or sneezing to force the pathogen or foreign particles out of the body, if that doesn't work then the mucus membrane starts secreting much more quantity of mucus to keep the pathogen or foreign particles trapped, preventing it from reaching the lungs where it can cause much more damage. (Our respiratory tract is the most vulnerable to infections, because we are constantly breathing in air and this respiratory tract is always in moist state. Therefore mostly the symptoms of infections starts with runny nose, throat pain, cough, sneezing, these are the responses of our innate immune system. Though we eat food many times a day, our gastric acids and protease enzymes are very effective in killing any incoming pathogens.)

Some pathogens also use this response of our body to spread themselves in the air through coughing and sneezing so as to find a new host.

3rd layer of defence - ADAPTIVE IMMUNE SYSTEM

If the pathogen attacking our body successfully breaches our first two layers of defence then the ADAPTIVE IMMUNE SYSTEM comes in to action.

This works in a specialised manner. It mounts specialised attacks on the pathogens, specifically tailored for a particular pathogen.

This layer of immune system is made up of white blood cells (Leukocytes). They are the soldiers of our body. They are expert in different kind of killing techniques, they can distinguish between our own cells and the pathogens, they can even locate compromised cells, they can remember any pathogen (how to recognise him, tactics used by the pathogen, easiest way to kill them, how to find them etc.), they are deadly, they are intelligent, they are loyal.

There are different types of leukocytes, some are killers (they kill the pathogen by engulfing them and digesting then, in short they eat them or after engulfing they inject free radicals formed as an intermediate in the process of oxidation in to the pathogen, thereby killing it).

There are marker cells which produce some compounds, which are recognised by killer cells, which gets attached to the pathogen thereby marking it for destruction by killer cells. Just like a spotter illuminating the target with laser to guide a laser guided missile towards the target.

Some create antibodies which kills the pathogens.

Some are memory cells which remembers the pathogens and helps in tailoring the attacks for a particular pathogen. Because of these cells it is possible for adaptive immune system to mount a faster and stronger attacks each time when attacked by the same pathogen again. These memory cells are the basis for vaccination. These memory cells make our immune system adaptive. That is why we can cope up with the adaptations of the pathogens.

Then some are natural killer cells, they kills the compromised cells of our own.(when viruses attack our body, they get into our cells and transform it into a photocopying machine, to make copies of themselves. Just like a computer virus. Therefore our cells which are infected by viruses don't remain ours anymore, they became a production facility for the viruses, therefore they must be killed to stop the viruses from multiplying. These are called compromised cells.)

Whenever need arises these leukocytes multiply themselves, they grow their number as per the requirement. All the nutrients available in the body are diverted to the immune system so that required number of leukocytes can be produced and keep them in working condition. Just like soldiers need food to remain alive and operational. This results in less or almost no nutrients for normal muscle maintenance. This causes muscle pain, as any damage to the muscles because of our day to day activities is not repaired.

Some leukocytes keeps patrolling the whole body in search of any remaining pathogen or foreign bodies and destroy them.

You must have noticed that this is a form of chemical warfare. The obvious thing is that, the rate of chemical reactions is proportional to the temperature. Therefore some cells of our immune system sends out chemical signals to our hypothalamus (lower part of our brain, just above our inner part of mouth, this part is responsible for various hormonal control mechanisms and temperature control of our body). These chemical signals prompts the hypothalamus to raise the temperature set point of our body.(hypothalamus acts just like a thermostat of the air conditioner)

When this set point is raised, all our body starts preserving heat by contracting the blood vessels near the skin, making us shiver thereby producing heat by muscle movement and thereby achieving the new set point temperature. We recognise this condition as FEVER. The third phase of illness.

When all the pathogens are neutralised, the set point is again set to normal, then we lose the excess heat by sweating and become normal.

This is how our immune system works.

Now what happens when we visit a doctor?

We tell him about the symptoms like running nose, cough. The doctor never tells the patient that, just bear with it, and you will be fine soon. Because he is afraid of losing his customer also as Warren Buffett's says, "Never ask a barber, if you need a hair cut."

So he gives you medication to suppress the innate immune system response.

If a patient goes to doctor in the 3rd phase complaining about fever. Doctor gives him some Paracetamol (Acetaminophen) which reduces the body temperature and the patient feels good. Now you must have understood that doing this is not a good idea.

There are so many types of pathogens infecting human that any doctor cannot pinpoint them by mere observation of symptoms. He needs to do pathological tests to pin point the pathogen. (But our immune system already knows it.)

Pathological tests can only identify infections when the infection grows more than a certain limit.

This means that going to the doctor many times causes interference in the working of our own immune system. Which makes us more vulnerable to the attack.

So the basic question arises, how to help our own immune system, how to make it strong at the times of infections?

Hint- the answer is already given above.

I have told you above that at the time of attack our leukocytes starts growing in number and to do it they need nutrients, proteins mainly. I have also told that this all starts with sleep deprivation or hyperactivity, which results in more proteins demand which is when unfulfilled, the person becomes vulnerable to the attack. Therefore sleep is also a necessity for our immune system to work properly, sleep also conserves proteins.

It is very necessary to spot the 1st phase and start taking more proteins and more sleep till you feel normal. If you are in the 2nd or 3rd phase then also you will need to do the same. That is protein rich, easy to digest diet and sleep till you get fine.

Now how do I do it?

Now how do I get those proteins?

The cheapest, easy to digest, easy to ingest, easily available source of protein for me is raw eggs. Generally we know it in advance when we are going to fall ill, so we have sufficient time in our hand to act and get normal without ever needing to go through 2nd and 3rd phase. I just gulp down more than 10 whole raw chicken eggs and sleep. And repeat the cycle till I get normal. I prefer whole raw eggs because they have all the nutrients in right proportion. Raw eggs are readily digestible rather they contain the proteins which are readily usable without any further processing, more than 90% of the protein available in the egg gets absorbed in our body.

For those who think they don't like raw eggs, they just need to do it 2 or 3 times and they will start liking them. This is because our brain subconsciously assesses the nutritional value of what we eat, it automatically makes us feel pleasure when we eat nutritious food. So when we gulp down just the whole raw eggs, our subconscious registers it and make us like it afterwards. Our liking doesn't depend on the taste. Otherwise people would have hated liquor.😊(liquor manipulates our brain in different way, that we will discuss some other time)

One may consume whey powder if available, it is generally available in the market in tasty flavoured form so no question about the taste here. But with whey, you have to take a light meal to get carbohydrates, fats, vitamins etc. I have tried it with good results.

Now one last question remains..

What about the uncomfortable feeling of running nose or cough or fever?

About the running or choked nose -
Very rarely or both nostrils are choked at the same time, one is slightly open. You just have to figure out which one is more open than the other and then sleep on the opposite side, the slight open nostril will start opening up. A few hours later that nostril will start closing up and the other will start opening up, at that time you should also change your side. Once you understand this cyclical functioning of nostrils you won't find any trouble following it.

Keep your mouth shut, breathe only through your nose. The cough won't cause much trouble then.

In case of fever, get more quilts so as to aid your body achieving the new set point, but if you're experiencing dizziness, severe headache then you need to reduce your body temperature by keeping damp cloth on forehead our taking Paracetamol etc. But this seldom happens.

Also you can divert your mind by thinking about how your body is fighting against the infection, your body has became a battleground now, you must help your soldiers to survive, how bloody the battle is, millions of pathogens are being killed, millions of your own leukocytes are also being killed, there is a do or die situation. Observe the changes in your body.

This is how I am doing it for more than 15 yrs. If you don't understand it then don't do it.

Hope you can get something useful through my experience.

Do write your thoughts and experiences. I will be happy to read..

Have a nice day..

Sumit
The POWER is when,
You use ODDS,
To get EVEN.

Why does technical analysis fails?

If you are a stock market trader or ever been in to share market investing, you must have heard about technical analysis, price charts, support level, resistances level, retracement, stochastic, moving average, Japanese candle sticks chart etc. You must have also met technical analysts our given technical calls about various scrips listed on stock exchanges. Or you may have also attended courses on technical analysis. Almost all broking firms now a days offer their live technical analysis platforms to the traders, then there are also some specialised technical analysis software providers. There are various indicators, tools, wave theories, retracements like Fibonacci retracement, pivots point calculator built in to such software.

You must have handed over their impressive hit rate and the profit which could have been earned through their calls. All this sounds like science, isn't it?

Technical analysis is a science indeed, that is why it sounds like science. 😊

But still more than 90% of the average people who use technical analysis or follow the technical analysts recommendations lose their money. It looks like technical analysis is failing.

As per the definition of science, science shouldn't fail, if it fails then it doesn't fit in to the definition of science.(Science is a knowledge about the nature of things or about the behaviour of things which when applied by anyone in same conditions gives the same results.)

To understand how it fails we have to first know what is technical analysis? How it works? Does it have any limitations?

The basis of technical analysis is mathematical series, and some ratios. Series means a logical sequence, for example 1, 2, 3..... is a series, similarly, 1, 3, 5, 7... is a series of odd numbers, similarly, 1,2,3,5,8,13,21... is the famous Fibonacci series, it is made by starting from 1, 2 and then adding previous 2 numbers to get the next number. We all have studied these series in school but many of us didn't understood what are these series or what is their use. We study these series because they govern naturally occurring phenomenon. Naturally occurring phenomenon generally fit in to one of such series. For each series there is a ratio between each pair of numbers which is repeated again and again in the series and in nature too. These ratios govern any naturally occurring phenomenon.

Price movement of a particular scrip or the market as a whole is also governed by some rules represented by such series or ratios or wave theories.

Rather one can say that mob psychology is governed by some scientific rules. Because prices of the shares rises when people are entering in the market or scrip, thereby creating demand or doing the opposite thereby creating supply. The price of anything depends on the difference between the demand and supply. And this entry or exit of group of people can be predicted with the rules of mass psychology our mob psychology or herd mentality of humans. The science of technical analysis is based on these rules. They help in predicting the future price movements.

Basically what they predict is the psychology of humans.

Irrespective of whether you're in the stock market or not, you feel like participating in the stock market when the market is recording new peaks. Anyone can logically say that the right time to enter in the market is when the prices of the shares are depressed, that is when the market is at its low. But still anyone can check exchange data that, activity and participation of public in the market rises as the market rises. People participating are not dumb but still they have that strong inner drive which is forcing them to participate in the market when market is at top. Such kind of drives are called as biases, which makes us predictable, which makes us our behaviour fit in to some scientific ratios, formulae, wave theories, series etc.

This is the basis of technical analysis. Technical analysis provides different tools for different conditions. From the above discussion you must have understood that it is a science.

LIMITATIONS-

Now comes the most important part, the limitations of technical analysis-

Till now you must have understood that technical analysis is an art and science of predicting the behaviour of people. This is the base of technical analysis, and various tools are provided to do the same. But use of these tools and the results of technical analysis depends on the knowledge and experience of the technical analyst. But it happens in the ideal condition.

There is one more aspect in the technical analysis, it is the mental condition of the analyst.

This mental condition is the key thing or the game changer in the technical analysis. All humans have different tendencies, which are called biases. These are constantly there prompting one what to do in a particular condition, technical analysis predicts these behaviours, but the analyst himself or herself is also a human being, he or she also have the same biases.

I have learnt technical analysis,I thought its a great skill necessary in the market, but when I used to study any random unknown scrip,I used to give perfect recommendation for my client or friends but it was not working with my favourite companies, or it was not working when anyone already had any position in it and told me this fact. Then I started to find out, why this thing sometimes works perfectly and why not other times? Then on thinking I came to know that my biases used to prompt me to see the logic I wanted to see. For example, if I was holding a particular company I like and it is going down from my purchase price then despite the technical charts showing me a downtrend I was busy finding the support levels from where it can bounce back. To earn the money from market one must follow the trend, that is why the famous saying of chartists- TREND IS FRIEND.

Same thing happened when clients our friends asked me what to do about their loss making position and that they were reluctant to bear the loss or where to average.

I have seen this same thing happening with almost all technical analysts I know. They can only give good recommendations only when they are isolated from any emotional attachment. That means it is very hard to find a technical analyst who is earning money constantly through his own technical analysis.

One of my college friend was a technical analyst in one of the leading brokerage firm, once up on a time he gave technical calls with 100% accuracy for full 3 months. His record was so impeccable that he asked for pay hike 5 times in those 3 months and got the pay hike every time. After that period, the pressure to perform increased so much that his hit rate fell down drastically, just like the German flying ace Red Baron in world war one.

This happens because the analyst himself has his biases, and he is searching for the herds bias where he himself is the part of the herd. There is a very thin line between being separate from the herd and being the part of the herd. This thin line is often crossed without anyone knowing about it. Even if a technical analyst managed to stay isolated from the herd, he can't stay isolated for long.

This is the main cause of failure of technical analysis.

As far as I am concerned,I believe in developing the conviction in a company to invest and grow wealth. This conviction helps me in loading up more when the time is rough for the company and benefiting as long as the compounding machine is intact and working. And to do this I analyse the company on fundamental basis, plus the attitude of the management, if there is an intelligent manager at the top then its better, if there are good plans for more profitability, the execution ability of the management, there are many other things, or sometimes different combinations of things. Basically it boils down to your conviction. Where you can develop your conviction is a personal thing, but one thing is sure that, one cannot earn money from stock market on borrowed conviction.

I hope I have contributed something to your betterment. Your comments and views are welcome.

See you soon.

Till then have a nice day.

Sumit
The POWER is when,
You use ODDS,
To get EVEN.

No. 1 Misconception about great health

This post is in sequence with 3 Most Important Aspects of Living.

So we learnt some basic things about how our body works and our body is a COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEM.

The #1 Misconception about good health is that it requires lifting heavy weights for hours per day in the gym.

Many times I hear things like Arnold Schwarzenegger exercises more than 14 hours per day, Sylvester Stallone also does the same. A simple question arises, if they are doing exercises for 14 hours a day then how they are doing other tasks, when they are shooting their super hit films? Do they live in the other planet where day consists of 48 or 96 hours? Or on the pole may be, where day is for 6 months..😉

There are many more misconceptions, for example the classic one, ' the more you sweat the more you lose fats'. I don't believe it, how people pay attention to such crap!!

You must have heard and believed the first misconception, But the reality is far from it. You will get it when you keep reading this post and do some of your own research. For now don't think over this misconceptions and try to understand what I am saying.

The exercises can be divided as I) Strength building exercises  II) Stamina building exercises.

Strength building exercises will develop your body in to a nice muscular one, while stamina building exercise will develop your body in to a lean one. Strength building exercises will make you able to lift the heavy furniture if any need arises, or even one side of your car or bike for a while if the need arises while stamina building exercises will make you able to go on trekking whole day long or run a marathon.

My take is to achieve both. What's the use of the bulky muscles if you can't run or jog for a while or do some emergency tasks like riding a bicycle for a while or trekking. Or what's the use if you can't move your furniture but can jog whole day long?

The mid point of both results in to a lean, chiselled body. And combine it with the third part of exercise. III) Flexibility improving exercises (YOGA).

Do you know that what will result if we combine all three? In the jungle we see such combination resembling to such body as Monkey...😃
If we keep the fun part aside, these 3 ingredients results in to a body of a Super Elite Commando, ready to take on anything. (well such commandos have more than just the body, like combat skills, weapons training etc.). If you want such kind of body then you will have to do both or rather three kind of exercises. Don't panic, you don't need to spend more than six or seven hours per week, all exercises combined, trust me. Or you may do other combinations of exercises as per your wish. But if you are not doing it for body building competition or something like that then I suggest you to combine all three. It will make you much younger biologically.

I have told you in the previous posts on ageing and anti ageing that exercise is a form of induced catabolism. That is exercise brings about breakdown of the muscle fibres. But this breakdown encourages repair and growth, that is Anabolism, provided your body have enough supply of nutrients. The nutrients part is equally or rather more important than the exercise part. We will come to that later. If we first understand that the use and importance of nutrients then I think we will give the deserved importance to that part.

To grow our strength or stamina we must understand the three phases we pass in between two workout sessions.

Phase 1) Induced catabolism-
When we do the exercise, our body or body part bears stress, somewhat more stress than it is capable of, so the body or body part get somewhat damaged depending on the intensity of exercise. Even in the case of aerobic exercises, our body retains some strain, fatigue. Some of the muscle fibres break down. We feel pain, but at the same time some pleasure inducing chemicals are also released in the brain. Therefore we feel good and fresh after doing our workout. Sometimes this chemicals which is called Dopamine gives a high like that of some drug, known as Runners high. This is a form of the mechanism of the body to adapt with the increased stress and strain. Then as our workout is over comes the next phase.

Phase 2) Anabolism -
As we finish our workout our body assesses the situation, i.e. the damage to the muscles, bones, available quantity of proteins, minerals, vitamins, fats, carbohydrates in our body, their intake through food we take etc. And then does it's calculations to strike the best balance between the available raw material, required repair of the damage and building the biggest strength or stamina required to avoid future damage when same exercise is done again. It releases the required quantity of different hormones (Growth hormones) which brings about this process and also some of these hormones prompt us to take rest. Our body can perform these operations very well when we are asleep, therefore we feel sleepy, we sleep more time than usual. We never consciously realise this but its body does it regularly and is expert in doing it. It is like a best engineer when it comes to repairing and building our body.

This process of repair and building requires time. The amount of time required depends on the availability of raw materials, that is proteins, vitamins, minerals, fats, rest etc. The more the availability of of raw materials the faster the process. Therefore diet has a huge role to play when health and exercises are concerned.

This process of Anabolism requires a lot of energy. When different energy sources are compared, fats have the highest energy density (that is they provide the highest amount of energy per gram weight when burnt with oxygen) compared with sugars, carbohydrates, proteins etc. Therefore fats are used as a energy source for this Anabolism. This is one of the advantage of Anabolism or rather advantage of doing the exercises. And we have already learnt that reduction in fats means reduction in biological age of our body. In other language you look younger. (You can get a simple evidence of this process when you are doing your workout regularly. In the morning when you wake up just touch the muscle you worked out yesterday and you will find it warmer than rest of your body. Check it out, and feel it yourself.)

This Anabolism phase lasts for up to 48 hours or sometimes more if the damage done is more or less availability of nutrients or both. After this phase is complete, comes-

Phase 3) Sustain
As our body finishes the Anabolism phase, if again it is not subjected to exercise or induced catabolism, then it enters in to a relaxed sustain phase. That is nothing is done, no more Anabolism or catabolism. It just stays as it is. This phase may range from 1 day to 7 days, children or the beginners have less sustenance time than the trained.

During this sustain phase, body needs nutrients to maintain the extra muscles and supporting systems.(supporting systems are respiratory system, blood circulation system, temperature control system etc.) As we grow our strength out body's maintenance requirement also increases proportionately.

If your aim is professional body building or you are a professional athlete then you may skip this stage and return to Phase 1 and cycle it between phase 1 & 2. But for those who just want to maintain a good health efficiently can cycle through these three phases. This is the reason that most trainers formulate a workout program which involves training one set of muscles only once a week.

But what happens if the cycle of these phases is not repeated?

Phase 4) Catabolism -
As this sustain phase is passed without any use of the increased strength our body's adaptive nature kicks in.

Remember I told you, our body is a "COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEM".

As our body grows extra strength or stamina to adapt to increased demand, in the same way our body loses any extra strength or stamina which is not used for a particular amount of time. Our body does it to reduce the maintenance requirement. So after the sustain phase or body starts the catabolism process to reduce any excess capacity. Soon or muscle mass gets reduced to normal, bones lose calcium, blood vessels reduce their diameter, the size and strength of our heart decreases, fats start depositing under our skin, we start looking fat, wrinkles develop on our face etc. In short we start ageing.

Conclusion-
The myth of need of hours of exercise per day for good health is busted.

You only need to train your one group of muscles only once per week. That means only 5-10 min of exercise per muscle group per week. Good, isn't it? (But don't forget to alot time for stretching and warm up exercises before you start your main workout, otherwise you may get injured.)

Otherwise how come great actors with great physique like Daniel Craig, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham, Matte Damon, Sylvester Stallone of Hollywood and Sunil Shetty, John Abraham, Akshay Kumar from India can manage to spend hours on movie sets out travel around the world for movie shootings and movie promotions, screenings etc. Many of the actors mentioned above have their businesses and investments to manage too.

There is much more to know. But lets stop and digest what we just read for now. I also have other things to do.

See you soon.

Till then have a nice day.


Sumit
The POWER is when,
You use ODDS,
To get EVEN.

3 most important aspects of living -

Yesterday, at the end of my lecture under workers education program, a couple of workers asked me about my philosophy of life, any suggestion for them.. As the time for lecture was already over I gave them short answers and promised to go in to the details next time for sure. The topic of lecture had nothing to do with philosophy of life.

This incident cranked up my thinking process. This blog samanyabuddhi.blogspot.com is made for the same purpose, that is to spread what I have learnt and experimented till date. Why everyone should do all the hard work that I did while learning? and we have this platform for blogging provided by the Google to leverage and multiply my learning. Many successful and unsuccessful personalities knowingly or unknowingly contributed to my knowledge or experiences. So it is not possible for me to mention everyone. But I am going to mention the prominent ones as I will go through.

Before you get bored let's come to the point- my philosophy for life (and this blog too), revolves around the 3 pillars-

1) Health
2) Wealth
3) Happiness

All three are interdependent, we can not chase one and ignore others or we can not chase two and ignore the other one. All three must come together to live a meaningful life, or some may say successful life. We can say these three pillars support our life. If one is weak our life collapses, or if there is imbalance in the dimensions of each pillar then we can not live a balanced life.
We must work on all three at a time to get the best out of life. It is not that difficult, once you start, you will start getting the results and you will do more efforts automatically. This is a positive feedback loop. Like a snowball rolling down a mountain, your life will get bigger and bigger. The more you will get results the more will be the motivation.

To achieve this snowball effect, you must start now-

So here we go, one at a time..

1) HEALTH

Wise people say that, "Health is Wealth". It is true, if you are not healthy then you cannot enjoy your wealth or you will have to put a lot of conscious efforts to stay happy. Good health is the foundation for lasting wealth and happiness. Many studies have shown that healthy people receive more salary than weak people. Healthy people are perceived as leaders. The proof is, is there any physically weak actor doing a role of hero in super hit movies? Or which actors do you like? For examples the actors who played the character of James Bond like Daniel Craig, Pierce Bronson, Sean Connery etc.

Second advantage is that, a healthy mind resides in a healthy body. Generally weak and fearful people do illegal or unethical things, simply because they are trying protecting themselves from any imaginable attacks. While healthy people just know that they can deal with anything thrown at them so they just relax and concentrate on something important.

Now enough about the advantages of being healthy, there are lot of them coming to my mind, it will take month to write them down, and probably you also know many advantages and want to be healthy, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this blog.

Let's now think about how to become and stay healthy-

I recommend you to read my post, How to become Happy?? Then also read the post on Ageing and Anti ageing, then the language of exercise. These posts will give you the basic idea about how to become healthy.

I suppose that you have read the above posts. Now I will take you still deeper in the subject of health -

This pillar of health have 2 elements -

A) Exercise & B) Diet

This Exercise part is again divided in to two broad catagories-

I) Strength building exercise II) Stamina building exercise

Our body have muscle and bones arrangement, where muscle provides the force and bones act as lever and together they help us doing movements. These muscles which helps in the movement of our body are called as skeletal muscles. (they are attached to the skeletal or bones)

There are different muscles other than skeletal muscles, like our heart is made up of cardiac muscles, our digestive system also has muscles which does the movement necessary to mix the food with digestive juices and to push the food forward in to the digestive system. That is food is pushed from mouth to stomach to small intestine to large intestine and then out.(in between it gets digested)

Exercise has to do with working on skeletal muscles and cardiac muscles. Rest of the muscles also get strengthened as a side effect of exercise, because of increased demand from them and also the effect of growth hormones secreted by the glands in our body because of exercise.

Our muscles are made up of muscle cells. Muscle cells are made up of muscle fibres. These muscle fibres are made up of proteins.
There are 2 types of muscle fibres in our body - red and white. Red muscle fibres provide us stamina, that is they help us do repetitive movements like cycling, jogging etc. While white muscle fibres provide us explosive power, that is large force for small duration. For example lifting a heavy object. White muscle fibres produce their power without using oxygen, they develop fatigue very soon, where as red muscle fibres produce power with the use of oxygen, they can do the repetitive action for extended periods.

The ratio of this red muscle fibres to white muscle fibres is fixed for every individual genetically. But we have choice to develop the type of muscle fibres we require with the help of exercise.

To develop white muscle fibres we must do exercises which include lifting heavy weight with minimum repetitions. On the contrary to develop red muscle fibres we must do the exercises which include lifting medium weights with more repetitions. Cycling, jogging, trekking, circuit running, swimming also develops stamina.

I hope you understood the difference between I) strength building exercises and II) stamina building exercises.

Red muscle fibres also helps in producing explosive power but white muscle fibres can not work for extended periods. Red muscle fibres have this stamina because of their ability to store oxygen. Generally they can store oxygen required for the time of 6-7 seconds. After that if they don't get their oxygen trey start producing the energy without oxygen, thereby producing lactic acid resulting in to fatigue.

Further it is also useful to understand how our muscles get their oxygen -

Everyone knows muscles get there oxygen through blood. But there is much more going on. Oxygen rich blood is pumped from the heart through big blood vessels known as arteries. These arteries then go on branching and as they branch their diameter is reduced, also their wall thickness goes on reducing, this branching continues until the size of the blood vessel becomes more or less hair like. These hair sized blood vessels are called as capillaries. The oxygen and carbon dioxide transfer happens through these blood capillary walls. (carbon dioxide is generated in almost all the cells of our body when different constituents of the food we eat are burnt with oxygen to get the energy for doing required activities) These blood capillaries have very thin walls and are flexible to facilitate this oxygen and carbon dioxide transfer process.

These blood vessels and blood capillaries have network all over our body and they supply this oxygen rich blood to each and every cell of our body including muscle cells. They go through muscle bundles, but as I said these capillaries are flexible. So when our muscle is in relaxed condition, these capillaries remain open and are filled with oxygen rich blood, at this condition, oxygen from the blood is taken by muscle cells and carbon dioxide is given to the blood. So instead of oxygen now the blood contains carbon dioxide and muscles now have oxygen for approximately 6 seconds requirement. Now when these muscles are contracted to do some movement or activity, these blood capillaries gets compressed or squeezed, but o the one side, our heart is pumping the blood with a pressure (this pressure is known as blood pressure) while at the other side there is less pressure, so almost all the blood from the squeezed capillary goes to the low pressure side (out from the muscle bundle), there these capillaries starts converging, their diameter starts increasing, their wall thickness also increases, these blood vessels now has blood which is not under much pressure, therefore to prevent it from going backward, these vessels have non return valves at places, these blood vessels are known as veins. Veins contains the blood under low pressure so the walls of the veins are thinner than the arteries. Every time a muscle is contracted, blood is pushed in to these veins, these veins lead to heart. They are connected to the upper right compartment of the heart where this carbon dioxide laden blood is collected, this blood then pushed in to lower right compartment of the heart because of the arrangement of non return valves and movement of the heart. From this lower right compartment, blood is sent to the lungs.

Now in the lungs the blood vessels again gets divided in to small capillaries which are present near the inner membrane of the lungs. There are large number of air pockets in the lungs. These pockets provide huge area of oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange membrane, through which carbon dioxide from the blood is released in to air contained in the lung and oxygen from the same air is taken up by the blood. Because of the movement of our chest muscles and a diaphragm which is present just bellow our lungs, this carbon dioxide laden air is exhaled out through nose and mouth and then normal air from atmosphere is inhaled for the next breathing cycle.

Now these capillaries again converge and take this oxygen rich blood to the upper left compartment of the heart. This blood then goes to the lower left compartment of the heart through the arrangement of non return valves and movement of the heart. Then this oxygen laden blood is pumped by the lower left compartment to the whole body. (Including itself, as our heart muscles can only use the oxygen provided by the blood running through them in the capillaries. The heart attacks is meany times caused by blockage in this blood supply system to the heart muscles. Because of which our heart muscles also known as cardiac muscles do not get the needed amount of oxygen.)

This circulation of blood goes on till our death. This is how our muscles get their oxygen. You must have understood now why our muscles starts aching when kept contracted. Many times it is very painful to keel a muscle contracted for just a minute. It is because muscles do not get oxygen in contracted condition, blood can only flow through them inside capillaries when muscles are relaxed. Cyclical movements helps in blood circulation. Muscle contraction pushes the blood towards the heart and make room for oxygen rich blood coming from heart. Many times people who has to sit in front of computer for extended periods because of occupation have swollen feet. Or after long journeys we have swollen feet. The remedy is to get up and take a small walk after each hour or even less if possible.

The blood gets this ability to carry oxygen or carbon dioxide because of red blood cells and red blood cells get it because of haemoglobin (an iron containing protein).

Therefore whenever you do your work out, your muscles start healing and growing, grown muscles also have more oxygen demand, this means more haemoglobin in the blood, more powerful heart, more blood pumping capacity of heart, more capacity of lungs is needed.

And you know that our body is a COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEM.

Therefore to adapt to all this increased need our body responds by increasing all these supporting capacities. More muscle fibres are build up, more blood capillaries are formed, existing blood vessels increase their diameter( you must have seen professional body builders or actors with lots of visible veins all over their body), the size of the heart and strength of the heart also increases, each pulse becomes more powerful, so heart can now pump more blood with more force with each heart beat. As our skeletal muscles develops new and stronger muscle fibres and new network of blood capillaries, same thing happens with our heart.

All these changes are useful when we do heard work or exercise. But what happens to this increased capacity when we are not doing any hard work? At this time our heart rate falls much lower than normal simply because it can fulfil the requirement of body very easily when not doing hard work. Some sportsman has pulse rate as low as 30 per minute. That is less than half of the average human. Many divers have so much increased breathing capacity that they can hold their breath for up to 5 minutes while diving. Can you imagine doing it?

Our body is a superb piece of genius engineering of nature.

Respect it.

You must be saying we didn't touched the strength building and stamina building exercises much. We will do it in the next post. I think knowing our body and how it functions is important to get the full advantage of exercise.

Next post will be coming soon. Stay tuned..

And have a nice day..


Sumit
The POWER is when,
You use ODDS,
To get EVEN.

Is it really good to save income tax??

Yesterday evening I receied a call from an old friend Arun. Arun knew I have interest in personal finance and financial wellbeing of people (though I do not have any formal education in the subject). He asked me he is interested in investing his money in the share market. He said he had exhausted all the tax saving instruments, so now don't know where to park his money. Though he have invested a lot of money in the tax saving instruments he is not satisfied with the returns. (good for him, because "Need is the Mother of Invention".)

Truly speaking Arun wasn't thinking about share market as an investment option, rather he found it as a biproduct while he was searching for more tax saving instruments. Arun was also asking me is there any more tax saving instrument available? Or how do I save my income tax.

Arun's condition represent the condition of most of the middle class employed population of India. As the tax filing due date approaches, people line up at life insurance companies offices or buy some Equity Linked Savings Schemes or life insurance products or pension plans or any other instruments which give income tax rebate. Some smart people do it in the beginning of the financial year itself, they do it systematically so as to avoid the last moment rush. The agents get most of their commission in the last month of tax due date selling such instruments.

After doing all this people brag to their colleagues and friends how much tax they saved. They are so happy with their achievement.

Charley Munger (Warren Buffett's right hand at Berkshire Hathway) says "Invert, always Invert."

So let's Invert,

Arun is saving taxes, that is governement must be losing taxes. Can it be true? I don't think so, why would government lose it's income to favor some life insurance company? I don't know the answer so lets Invert,

Suppose government is losing the tax money, then where the money is going? These tax saving instruments generally buys government bonds or bonds issued by governement undertakings or some other government approved bonds for investment purpose at a fix return rate which is around the same as doing bank fixed deposits.

Where is this money used?
Used as capital by government undertakings or for funding governemnt projects.

Why these projects are undertaken?
To provide the infrastructure for the growth of the nation.

How do the returns are generated?
Through the profit of the undertakings, for example toll collection on highways or express ways or sale of the electricity produced at hydroelectric powerstations etc.

Are you getting the point?
Government is not losing the tax money. Government is just getting a loan on a low interest rate when you buy a tax saving instrument. And if you pay the taxes without saving, then government is getting the money anyways.

So now we understood that we save tax or not, governemnt gets the money it wants. Government wants money to fund the projects and to maintain the armed forces ready for defence or for administrative expenses etc. How the government spends the money is not our topic of discussion here.

So the question still remains, whether it is good to save tax or simply pay it?

The answer is very simple, just look at how much your money will grow if you save in tax saving instruments and how much your money will grow in other investments vehicles minus the tax paid.

If you don't have any idea about how to grow your money more than tax saving instruments then tax saving instruments may be a good choice for you. But otherwise you may consider other options.

Let's see two examples to compare and understand when you save tax,

Suppose,
You have ₹ 1,00,000 as taxable income, you have to pay 10% tax on this income, that is ₹ 10,000. If there is a tax saving investment option which gives you the exemption of this 10% tax so you invest all this ₹ 1,00,000 in this instrument. This instrument gives you tax free return of 8% per year but has a lock in period of 5 years. Therefore after five years you are having ₹ 1,46,932 (calculated with cumulative interest of 8% per year) tax free in your hands.

In second condition,
You have ₹ 1,00,000 as taxable income, you have to pay 10% tax on this income, that is ₹ 10,000. You pay this tax and invest the remaining money, that is ₹ 90,000 in an investment instrument which gives you a tax free return of 12% per year but has a lock in period of 5 years. Therefore after five years you are having ₹ 1,58,610 (calculated with cumulative interest of 12% per year) tax free in your hands.

In the second condition you are having ₹ 11,678 extra at the end of the 5 year tenure.

Both are very typical examples in India. Anyone can get the returns stated in the second example with little efforts. (efforts like study and research)

Now suppose what will happen if you change the interest rate in second example to say 15% cumulative over 5 years with the starting sum of ₹ 90,000??

At the end of 5 years you will get ₹ 1,81,022, that is ₹ 34,090 extra compared to the first case. Stock market indices like NIFTY or SENSEX gives around the same returns over long term.

The difference among the above cases widens as the tenure increases.

If we replace 5 years by say 10 years the amounts will be-
1) ₹ 2,15,892
2) ₹ 2,79,526
3) ₹ 3,64,100
The difference between 1st and third condition is now around ₹ 1,48,000

If we do it for 30 years-
1) ₹ 10,06,265
2) ₹ 26,96,392
3) ₹ 59,59,059
Now the difference between first and third condition is a whooping ₹ 49,52,194.
(in the first condition, our starting amount is ₹ 1,00,000 while in second and third it is ₹ 90,000)

I hope, now we understand what a little difference in interest rate can do in the long run.

I am not recommending anything to you. The decision is up to you. My goal here is just to stimulate your mind for the good.

Hope I have achieved my goal of stimulating your mind. Think about it and take wiser decisions.

Do write your thoughts and insights on the subjects in the comments section. Better ask a question rather than staying in the darkness. Get some sunshine of knowledge.

See you soon.

Till then have a nice day..

Sumit
The POWER is when,
You use ODDS,
To get EVEN.

Happy independence day..

Happy independence day to all of samanybuddhi readers...



May you get your financial independence soon...


Jai Hind..



Sumit
The POWER is when,
You use ODDS,
To get EVEN.

The Language of Exercise - Our way towards being Healthy

A few days ago I read a news in Times of India -

The Bollywood actor and model, Milind Soman just made the country proud by successfully completing the Ironman Triathlon held in Zurich, Switzerland on 19 July.

Milind Soman has similarity with English actor Jason Statham. Both are fitness enthusiast, both love water, both were spotted by advertising agencies while practicing in water, Milind Soman was national level swimmer while Jason Statham was national diver. And that's how they entered modelling, and later became supermodels and actors. In both cases the advertising agency person liked the attitude towards life Milind and Jason has. Both embraced the fitness for life. And one more similarity is, I have utmost respect for both. (we will have a post on Jason Statham soon.)

This particular triathlon is one of the world's toughest races. The triathlon includes a 3.8-km swim, a 180.2-km cycle ride and 42.2-km run raced in that order without a break which the participants are required to complete within 16 hours to win the title of 'Ironman'.

My favourite childhood hero, 50-year old Milind Soman completed the triathlon in 15 hours and 19 minutes.

"If you are sufficiently aware and monitor your body's response at every stage in terms of nutrition and pace, it will all come together. I wanted to gift myself something special in my 50th year and I am glad I could do this," Milind expressed his feelings to The Indian Express on phone from Zurich.

You can imagine, completing the course of race wasn't an easy task, it was test of physical as well as mental strength. You have to master your body, constantly fight the urge to stop, and keep going.

Milind Soman is an example of real life hero. Think about if you are able to do this even in 2-3 days time limit.

Don't worry, I am not saying I can but with sufficient training and will power anyone can.

So this is how my day started but as I reached my office I met my friend Ajit, he was coughing. I asked, "Hi Ajit, what happened to you?" He replied, "My throat is aching, I don't know why? I didn't do anything unusual, rather I take very good care of myself, don't know still how did this happened." (by saying good care of myself, he implied towards, not going out, staying away from cold breezes, wearing sweaters etc.)

So here my day started with a news about a 50 year old Ironman and now accompanied by Ajit. 😐 All my thought process now got diverted towards this paradox, how one man at his 50 enjoys a good health and other at 28 crying for doctor? The 50 year old guy is physically younger than 28 year old guy.

Ajit was clueless about what is happening to him, and he was thinking to visit a doctor in the evening.

A lot of people have the same experience or must have seen people like Ajit.

The mistake Ajit did was he always tried to maintain a life with little movement to the body or little exposure to the natural things like cold breeze in winter or going out in hot summer afternoon etc. He thought he is taking care of his body.

But the reality is exactly opposite of what he is thinking.

To understand how the reality is opposite, and the difference between Milind and Ajit, Let's dive deep in to the science of our body.

You must have read my previous post on ageing and anti-ageing. If not then you can read it here.

So now you have some basic knowledge about what is ageing. Now I am going to take you still deeper, so stay with me, read slowly and understand what I am telling, we are not in a hurry.

Our body is made up of tiny cells, every organ we possess is made up of these tiny cells. These tiny cells have their life cycle. Every second, many tiny cells are borne and many tiny cells die. The new borne cells replace those who died. The process of death of cells or breakdown is called as Catabolism while that of birth and growth of new cells is called as Anabolism.

Anabolism and Catabolism are together called as Metabolism.

Birth or growth or repair ➡ Anabolism

Death or breakdown ➡ Catabolism

Anabolism ➕ Catabolism ➡ Metabolism

Remember these concepts, you'll often hear it or read it while studying the subject of health, nutrition, exercise, ageing, anti-ageing, sports training, strength training, sports nutrition etc.

So when Catabolism is higher than Anabolism, we age. That is our body loses muscles and bones.(loses bones means, the bone density reduces, bones becomes more brittle) To reverse the ageing process we must increase the rate of Anabolism.

The question is how?

First let's understand the situation of Ajit just mentioned above.

To understand his condition just know what our body is. To define our body in just three words-

Our body is- A Complex Adaptive System.

Though the definition contains the word Complex, there is nothing complex in this definition. Let's understand the simple meaning of this definition word by word -

Complex - there are many systems like blood circulation, muscles plus bones, brain, digestive system, temperature regulation through skin, breathing, excretory system, resistance system etc. are working together, therefore our body is complex.

Adaptive - our body changes itself to adjust with the surroundings or the movements it has to do. For example, we sweat in the hot atmosphere to lose excess body heat or we shiver in the cold to produce heat, or our muscles gradually strengthen when we do hard work repeatedly etc.

System - system is an arrangement of interdependent things to get required results.

So after understanding such an easy definition you must have got it that to become strong you must do hard work, if you sit idle, your body will adapt to sitting idle by reducing it's muscle mass and bone density, also the blood circulation and breathing capacity (together known as stamina) will also get reduced.

Our friend Ajit is sitting idle, therefore he is making himself weak, his anabolism is low, and metabolism is also low. So a weak man like Ajit is unable to resist any infection and just getting out of home without any body protection like sweater, hand gloves, helmet etc. is getting him cough and cold.

Now the question arises,

Is there any chance of Ajit getting out of this condition?

The answer is yes, if he learn the 'Language of Exercise'.

To become strong and reverse the process of ageing Ajit have to increase the rate of Anabolism. He can do it by exercising regularly.

What happens when we exercise?

Exercise in simple terms means giving more load on muscles than normal. This may be done for a particular amount of time or in cycles depending on the type of exercise. When muscles have to deal with more than normal load, muscle fibres break at places because of this higher than normal load. You will say this is the process of Catabolism, it will worsen the condition and make Ajit age faster, but wait, you are partially right. This is the condition of Induced Catabolism, this Induced Catabolism wakes up our body's adaptive nature. The Adaptive nature quickly recognises an unusual condition to which our body is not prepared. So this Adaptive nature encourages the secretion of growth hormone and other hormones in the body which help in Anabolism. Now these hormones make that damaged muscle heal and grow so that when same amount of load is given on the same muscle, the muscle will be able to bear it without or with minimal breakdown.

But there is a delicate balance - our body has limited capacity to heal and grow, depending on the nutrients we are eating and digesting, the rate of Anabolism depends on it, a part of Anabolism is used to repair the damage caused by exercise and rest of the part for growth, so we have to make minimum damage, that is minimum Catabolism to Induce maximum Anabolism. If we inflict lots of damage for quick results, then mostly you will get disappointed by the pain and lack of results.

Don't just blindly go after no pain no gain, which is frequently said by fitness trainers or that extra repetition which is impossible for you. Some things just takes time.

You can't get a baby in one month by making nine women pregnant. Some things just takes time.

- Warren Buffet

Though he said it with respect to compounding and investments, his words are equally applicable in the field of health too.

This process of induced Anabolism lasts for up to 48 hours. So keep sufficient distance between exercising the same muscle. The beauty of this Induced Anabolism process is that, it uses fats as source of energy for the repair and growth, so your fats are being burnt even after you stop exercising.

Remember, in the previous post I said, increase of fats and decrease of muscles is the process of ageing. But here when proper exercise is done, muscles are grown and fats are burnt to repair and grow the muscles. So this process is definitely anti ageing, right?

THIS MY FRIENDS IS THE LANGUAGE OF EXERCISE.

This is how you can reverse your age by inducing Anabolism and automatically reducing fats.

Hope I have contributed something to your knowledge about our own Complex Adaptive System known as Body.

Do ask questions and do give your feedback.

We will meet soon again, till then, Have a Nice and Healthy Day.


Sumit
The POWER is when,
You use ODDS,
To get EVEN.