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[Niks @Pivot2Centre]

Around 4 months back, wife noticed hair thinning at the back of my head.

It was panic for me as hardly anyone in my family ever lost hair. I can’t be the one to start it.

Started on biotin, higher dose of Vitamin D, and creatine! Plus mandatory 7hr of sleep

Happy to report, the hair is back to almost 2010 levels including reduction in grey hairs

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

For about $5, you can set a trap that kills thousands of mosquitoes in your yard.

Female mosquitoes actively hunt for dark, stagnant water with a bit of organic matter to lay their eggs.

Give them exactly what they want, then make it lethal.

The science is solid. The WHO, US military, and public health departments in dengue-prone regions all use these as a control measure.

Thailand ran a program where deploying lethal ovitraps in residential yards dropped dengue rates from 322 per 100,000 to zero.

The DIY version: a dark-colored bucket or container, half-filled with water, a handful of grass clippings or dried leaves to make it smell like a real breeding site, and a Bti dunk.

Place it in a shaded corner near other shelter (under shrubs, against a fence). Refresh every few weeks.

The catch: a trap without Bti is a breeding site. Without the larvicide, you're just helping the mosquitoes you're trying to kill. The Bti is what flips the math.

One trap can intercept thousands of eggs over a season. No chemicals, no spray, just a mosquito bucket of doom.

[Dean Turner @DeanTTraining]

POV:

- You turned 35 years old
- You started doing this exercise
- Now you have ZERO Back Pain whatsoever

Many such cases

[श्री @shree_2_2]

EU banned this in 2008. Indian households still buy it by the dozen in 2026. And it has been sitting inside your cupboard, slowly releasing chemical fumes into the air your children breathe every single day. 😔 What makes this worse — the manufacturers print “keep away from children” right on the packaging. They know exactly what is inside. They just keep selling it anyway. ⚠️ Your grandmother never needed petrochemicals to keep her sarees safe. Neem, cloves, eucalyptus — nature already gave us everything we need. We just replaced wisdom with convenience without asking why. 🧬 The switch takes five minutes. The protection lasts a lifetime. 🌿 Your family’s health should be in your control.

[SK Chakraborty @sanjoychakra]

Fidel Castro of Cuba identified moringa(Moringa oleifera) as “the miracle tree”—capable of nourishing the people, strengthening livestock, and reducing import dependency.

He encouraged moringa plantations in Cuba. Fidel Castro got his aides to bring him drumstick seeds from Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and had them cultivated for his daily diet after being told they are good for stomach ailments.

Moringa or drumstick contains
Vitamin A,Vitamin C ,Vitamin E ,Iron- managing anaemia, Calcium, Potassium, Magnesium.

Plant based protein moringa leaves are around 25% protein, comparable to soybean meal and they also contain all nine essential amino acids.
This is rare for a plant food and makes moringa especially useful for vegetarians and vegans.
Drumsticks have
· 7 times more vitamin C than oranges
· 4 times more calcium than milk
· 2 times more protein than yogurt
Moringa absorbs 20 times more CO₂than traditional trees.
Use moringa leaves and drumsticks in your diet.

[Swaranjit Singh 🌍 @bava23]

@NBCNews Yes I stage these cancers routinely now as a radiologist.

They are caused by addiction to ultraprocessed foods filled with toxic seed oil and excessive sugars/carbs.

Really sad 😢 to see. I RX 3 simple steps for prevention

[corleone @corleoneYC]

"Deve haver algo como o oposto do su*cídio, em que uma pessoa decide radicalmente começar a viver"

[Healthy Alfred 🏄🏻‍♀️ @HealthyAlfred]

You’ve scraped your tongue raw every morning for years.

Your breath still smells by noon.

Because it’s not coming from your mouth. It’s coming from your stomach.

A bacteria called H. pylori lives in your stomach lining and produces sulfur compounds that rise through your esophagus. No toothpaste, no mouthwash, no scraper reaches it.

Your dentist never tested for it. Your doctor never connected it to breath. So you just kept turning your head mid-conversation hoping nobody noticed.

Mastic gum is a tree resin from a Greek island. A 1998 study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed it kills H. pylori. Later research confirmed it wipes out 90% of strains in vitro.

1g before breakfast. Most notice the shift in 2-3 weeks.

Mouthwash: kills surface bacteria, sulfur returns in an hour.

Mastic gum: kills the colony producing the sulfur.

Do what you want with this information.

[Bobby Freiler @BobbyFreiler]

Your kidneys filter at 3-5am.

If you have dark circles under your eyes....that's kidney weakness.

Fix: watermelon juice daily, stop dairy completely, eat grapes/berries. Watch those bags disappear in 2-3 weeks. The body knows how to heal.

[Fitness & Self Defence Club @Selfdefencess]

Five-minute daily routine every morning will change your entire life.

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: When trauma is triggered, you react at the age you were when it happened, not your current age.

[Kevin @GFY_Trucking]

@yoursimmo11 I've tried several non-flouridated toothpastes and recently settled on a hydroxyapatite version. It's a little spendy but worth every penny.

[shouko @shoukointech]

Naval Ravikant: You should live your life like a lion

[Prithvi @Prithvi10_]

Still remember how some of them were hoarding Oxygen cylinders when people were dying left right during the 2nd wave. Morally dead nation.

[Raising Healthy Families @thriving__kids]

One of the best predictors of how successful a child will be is the amount of time they spend reading

Parents should start reading with their kids as early as possible, even before they understand the words.

This should be a daily activity. This is the best way to build a love for reading.

Kids who grow up reading every day develop stronger communication skills & have more success in school

And parent-child reading time is a great way to build strong bonds.

One day your kids will thank you for building this habit

[Today I Learned @TodayiLearrned]

Exercise that helps children improve concentration and thinking skills.

[Dr Terry Simpson @drterrysimpson]

“Intense exercise reverses atherosclerosis.”

No — it improves fitness. It lowers event risk. It stabilizes plaque.

But arteries are not butter in a hot pan.

If sprinting erased plaque, Tour de France cyclists would have coronary arteries like newborns. Some don’t. In fact, high-endurance athletes can have more coronary calcium — often more stable, yes — but present nonetheless.

You are confusing risk modification with anatomical reversal.

Exercise is powerful. It improves endothelial function, insulin sensitivity, blood pressure, survival.

But it does not magically vacuum LDL out of the arterial wall because someone did hill repeats.

This is the recurring problem with nutritional absolutists:
They take one good thing — exercise — and inflate it into a cure-all cosmology.
Cardiovascular disease is biology, not ideology.

Plaque biology responds to lipid levels, inflammation, time, and genetics — not to gym mythology.

If you want fewer heart attacks, exercise.
If you want plaque regression, lower ApoB.

Romanticism is not a treatment plan.

[Om Prakash, MD @ompsychiatrist]

Indian parents, this is important.

Short video apps: Reels, Shorts, TikTok-style content are not “just harmless entertainment.” A 2024 EEG study @FrontNeurosci found that higher short-video addiction scores were linked to reduced theta activity in the prefrontal cortex (the brain area responsible for attention and self-control).

Lower self-control. Weaker executive focus.

Another study in @JAMAPediatrics (2023) linked excessive early screen exposure to delayed language and executive development.

Children’s brains are highly plastic. Rapid, algorithm-driven dopamine bursts condition them to crave constant novelty. Over time, attention shortens. Irritability rises. Homework suffers. Social withdrawal increases. This is not about banning technology. It’s about boundaries.

@WHO guidance is clear:
• No screens under 2 years
• Max 1 hour/day (2–5 years)
• Structured limits for older children

*Create screen-free zones (meals, bedrooms).
*Use timers & parental controls.
*Model what you preach- children copy us.
*Replace scrolling with play, sports, reading, art.

Watch for warning signs:
Can’t stop? Angry without device? Falling grades? Seek early help.

A balanced childhood builds resilient adults.

Protect attention. Protect childhood.

#ChildMentalHealth #ParentingIndia #DigitalWellbeing #ScreenTime

[Camus @newstart_2024]

A 20-year study found women who regularly cleaned their homes lost lung function equivalent to smoking 20 cigarettes a day.

Yes — 20 cigarettes a day worth of damage, and only in women. Men showed no comparable decline. Why the huge gender gap?

Women use far more cleaning sprays, disinfectants, air fresheners, scented detergents, candles, and fragrance-loaded products — all containing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and irritants that aerosolize and get inhaled deeply into the lungs.

Science nugget: The study (published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2018, based on the long-running European Community Respiratory Health Survey) tracked lung function (FEV1 and FVC) over 20 years in thousands of participants. Women who cleaned regularly (weekly or more) had accelerated lung function decline comparable to ~20 pack-years of smoking. No similar effect was seen in men, likely due to lower exposure to household cleaning chemicals.

The fix is simple and cheap: Switch to non-toxic alternatives — vinegar + water, baking soda, castile soap, hydrogen peroxide.

Ditch the scented sprays, "fresh linen" plug-ins, and harsh chemical cleaners.

Your lungs don’t regenerate like your liver. Damage accumulates for life.

You wouldn’t smoke a pack a day.

Why clean like you do?

Who’s switching their cleaning routine after this?

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Ancient India has been banking them for 3000 yrs in a way that modern science is only now validating.

In South India (Tamil Nadu), there is an ancient practice called the Tayittu/Thayittu. After birth, the umbilical cord stump is dried, powdered, & sealed inside a gold/silver amulet & tied to the child’s waist/arm.

According to Vedic tradition & local folklore, if the child fell extremely ill later in life, the amulet was opened, & the powder (the dried cord tissue) was ingested/applied as medicine.

Modern researchers have found that even in dried umbilical tissue, certain stromal cell signals & growth factors can remain stable. The Tayittu was essentially a low tech cryobank, based on the belief that the source of life (umbilical tissue) could act as a biological reset button for the body.