Loving your Liver

Since I have a lot of free time on my hands now, I had googled “adult acne” to understand for myself why I had repeated episodes of it, although there was no apparent stress or cause for imbalance in my lifestyle.

One link lead to another, and I found this. Disregarding all the blah-blah and upselling on the site, I found that an unhealthy liver was the root cause for hormonal imbalance:

But the major difference with adult acne is that it isn’t so much a surge of hormones overwhelming the liver all at once, but more so it’s that the liver’s ability to deactivate “used” and excess hormones from the blood and purify the blood of toxins becomes severely compromised…or slowed down.

This means, that the liver’s ability to detoxify or cleanse the system is being over-challenged, and the liver, poor thing, unable to cope, doesn’t fare too well. This lead to a hasty scramble of information on the functions of this organ and having a healthy liver.

I was shocked to learn that most of the things that I was doing was putting my liver in jeopardy because of its ongoing battle with toxins. Microwaving dinners, alcohol (only occassionally, but still), sugar, caffeine, fatigue, stress, no exercise.  I’m far from ill,but I’m having images of my liver spluttering, coughing, with one hand on knee and it’s head bent in resignation. Wish I could put my imagination to some gainful use !) It seems like after the heart, its the liver that is the biggest victim of our urban lifestyles.

All this stuff you hear about a healthy lifestyle reiterate the same changes, time and again. Surprisingly, they are all related to maintaining a healthy liver.

• eating raw and green leafy vegetables
• reducing sugar intake and choosing green or hearbal tea over caffine
• daily exercise
• deep breathing
• going organic
• drinking large quantities of water a day
• having a positive attitude to life(as the liver is the most emotionally sensitive organ in the body) The Latin humourists seem to have had it right !

Eureka moment: I’m guessing there is no need to check with a dermatologist for this one.

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Image courtesy: Fitsugar.com

PS I am no doctor, and am merely sharing links on some of the reading I did concerning my skin condition.

Corporate Slave

So, my break from work will be short-lived, it seems.

Err, yes, I forgot to mention, I had handed in my resignation at the old workplace and was looking forward to a few months of me-time. Except, I’m the type that climbs onto walls and plucks people’s eyes out from boredom. What can I say; it’s one of my many contradictions.

So the job hunt began. And it was giving me sleepless nights and stomach ulcers from the worry. (Really. I’ve been on a fourteen day course to set my stomach right, with the possibility of scans and blood tests if it doesn’t get better.)

I found a job that pays me close to nothing, but I’m sure to learn a lot and keep my restless mind gainfully occupied. After previous bad experiences, I’m in a dilemma. What do I do? Stick it out and wait for something that pays better and makes me feel fulfilled and is close to home and has super fun colleagues. Or bite the bullet?

I start after Dussera.

What? Don’t scowl at me. I’m trying to be mature.

It’s for my stomach. Paapi pet ka sawaal hai !

Cartoon courtesy: GoComics

Aaaaargh moments !

-  When you’ve just had an argument / disagreement with some and can’t quite come up the right line to make your point, so you meekly accept what they say. Then, three hours later, the wittiest / most caustic no-comeback-line just happens to waft into your mind and you curse yourself for not having thought of it at the right time.

-  You’re struggling to negotiate evening traffic on your way home from work. Motorcycles, trucks, tempos, autos, big cars, small cars, hapless pedestrians – all are vying for the fastest-to-reach-home-while-selfishly-trampling-others-and- flouting-traffic-rules award. You meanwhile, are being the model driver, saving your obedience and best manners for the road, when an upstart scooterist (with wife and two kids all magically balanced on two wheels) cuts you from the left, makes the green light before it turns red and turns to abuse you like you’ve committed the gravest crime !

-  A common experience at most government and government-like offices (read: passport / visa application, college admin transcript or revaluation application, marriage registration, drivers license application, voter ID application). You will hear some or all of the comments below before getting your 15-minute job done:

-  “Photocopy must be attested, Madam.”                                                                             – “Only by a government or gazetted officer, Madam.”
- “We need two sets of photocopies, Madam.
- “We are closed for lunch now, Madam.” “But it’s 11.45am?!” “In my  watch it is noon. Come back at 2 o’clock” (I kid you not. This really happened)
- “The concerned person is on leave now. Please come next week.”
- “The administrative region for all marriages being registered by residents in area X has shifted to area Y. As of last week.”

Just a few. I’m sure I’m missing some pretty major ones. Go ahead. Tell me what frustrates you enough to scream, “Aaaaaargh !”