In a healthy cellular environment, signals easily cross cell membranes, getting to their source, explains the author. “In an unhealthy environment, signals either don’t reach their source or become distorted.” Extending the telecom analogy, she would ask you to think of it as static on a phone line or dropped calls on your cell phone. “Important messages do not reach their destination, preventing important bodily reactions from taking place.”

To stop aging you need to do pay attention to the cells, observes Graf. Because there are three connections between the health of the body and that of the skin: the pH connection (“allow the pH to drop too low — usually through an acid-producing diet — and cells do not function effectively”); the digestion connection (“poor digestion — usually caused either by a low-fibre diet or by an imbalance of gut bacteria — can prevent certain nutrients from getting absorbed”); and the joy connection (“positive emotions can make your skin glow”).

A book to connect with!

Cities are places with a synthetic layer on them, frets the protagonist of Shubham Basu’s Glian – the son of nature ( srishtipublishers@yahoo.com ). “I feel suffocated, isolated from nature, where animals are bred like commodities.” He feels sad that so many people leash their dogs around in houses. “They keep dogs because it is trendy. How many people actually communicate with their pets?”

The rate at which humans are drifting away behind the guise of evolution mortifies him. “There are so many children who end up growing confused. All they get in the name of education is crafted history. They are taught ways in which to earn a living. Each school, college, institution is like a training house, churning out millions into the work force. Do we ever stop and think?”

Earnest search.

Warning signs

The first warning sign of work overload is ‘long workdays, often with the eyes at half-mast,’ says Frank M. Gryna in Work Overload! ( www.pearsoned.co.in ). Other signs of overload include the following: unwanted overtime, paid or unpaid; inability to meet goals with available time and resources; difficulty in taking vacation time; responding to work problems during non-work time, including taking work home; frequent ‘fire-fighting’, usually as unexpected as a sneeze; ‘add on’ tasks making it difficult to focus on the core job; lost work days due to illness; borrowing employees from other activities to fill in for absent employees; frequent interruptions; and errors caused by tired employees.

Eye-opener!

D. MURALI

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