Social Misconceptions and its Contradicting Medical view
In India and many parts of the globe, most of us tend to live our lives based on our neighbors’ and distant family’s points of view. Despite the advancing trends in various aspects of living, we still fall back on our cerebrations. A humongous amount of the current generation is in a brown study, by sticking to the school of thoughts adapted by our ancestral generations — postulated by them in respect to their living conditions and environment. A few might have logically addressed the non-sensing ones and moved on. Yet, many consider these “Social Stereotypes” as a crucial aspect of their living, despite those traditions hindering the growth of that community.
This blog will address a few of them, and will highlight their physiological contradictions; you can have a better understanding of them and decide whether or not to follow them. I also hope this blog might kindle your interest, in researching the science and logic behind the pertinent ones — that you follow blindly.
One must marry within their 20s to have a good living:
Many believe that the 20s are the ‘best fertility phase’ of age and can deliver a healthy child or children, and also gives us the chance to spend time with grandchildren. Though, the research studies and human physiology says otherwise. Our bodies — both men and women, are well equipped to give natural birth till the fourth decade of life; if maintained correctly. Through good health maintenance, one can conceive and deliver babies in the mid-third decade of life. Only from the 38th to 39th year of life, fertility would decline gradually and drastically. With good health disciplines and care, our human body has the potential to have a life span of 90 to 100 years. This also lets us spend time with our grandchildren.
2. Women should isolate themselves during Menstruation:
Though the “process of menstrual cycle and its hormonal changes” is a vast and complex subject, that requires a separate blog itself; I will try to brief this as optimally as possible. The Menstrual cycle is split into four phases (menstruation phase, follicular phase, ovulation phase, and luteal phase); only through these cycles and phases, does a new life enter this world. The Menstruation period, also known as “periods”, is the time when the female body begins the next cycle of “preparing” itself for the most lively action, to bear and give birth to a new life. During this phase of physiological up-gradation, some immune changes occur in the body as a result of the hormonal dynamics caused by the preceding phases, and the body is so busy refreshing itself rather than fighting ailments and protecting from foreign bodies. Since our ancestors in those days used temples, churches, mosques, and other places that are today’s so-called “restricted places for women before menopause” as healthcare centers, these whereabouts were then prone to contracting current “Hospital-acquired” diseases. To prevent any of those adversities, women were suggested to avoid these kinds of hazardous environments at that time. Further, in those days each family consisted of about 10 to 15 members on average; cooking for all of them in that heat and dark rooms for prolonged hours would have been an unimaginably strenuous task. Thus, they were advised to rest and not strain themselves during this recuperating phase.
3. If a person has HIV, they are not monogamic:
Many jump to a conclusion as soon as a teenager or an adult is diagnosed with HIV, that the person isn’t honest with their spouse or is sexually polygamous. There is a huge difference between AIDS and HIV; either of which is transmitted through many other ways than one assumes. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) attacks only the immune cells of humans; when untreated, the individual’s immune system is so compromised that the person is prone and can contract multiple microorganisms and ailments, and this is the final stage called the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). This virus was initially found in apes of Africa as the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV). As an infected ape’s meat was cooked and consumed by humans, due to the subtle difference between the chimpanzee’s and human DNA, the virus easily mutated into HIV. Hence the road down the past shows that this virus can be contracted in several other ways. The virus uses the internal body fluids only as a ‘medium’ to migrate from one human to another which can be blood, sexual fluids, or even mucus. And not to worry, the virus can not be transmitted through superficial fluids such as sweat or saliva.
4. Shredded abdominal muscles are the signature of a healthy person:
To be honest! a shredded abdominal region is not only unhealthy but also causes other systemic complications. For a ripped abdominal look, one must initially reduce their whole body fat levels to “less than 7%”. The optimal levels required for an average individual are 18% to 24% for males and 25% to 31% for females. Our human body craves for glucose to carry out any metabolic function, and this glucose is stored as “Fat”. Not only do we need our glucose levels reduced for starring a shredded look, but also we will put our organs lacking the vital energy component to function normally. Excessive fat storage is as much dangerous as the organs in fat scarcity. Though having a good fat median might not give you a ripped action movie hero look, if you’re leading a normal lifestyle, but keeps your body and health good. And also the movie stars tend to mold themselves into the characters, these characters in the storyline lead strenuous lifestyles that require high glucose and calorie consumption, thus appearing so muscled. It is not these actors, who are shredded in the movies; it is that character whose lifestyle is so rigorous and highly intense
I hope it made sense.
Meet you in the next blog, until then…
stay Safe and Healthy.
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