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The immune system is a defense mechanism by the body to prevent the entry of any outside element inside the body that has the ability to weaken the body and cause illness.

This immune system can be categorized into four broad categories: Active natural, active artificial, passive natural and passive artificial. The main agent of this immune system is the white blood cells which plays two roles. The former is to destroy the disease causing bacteria, and the latter is to memorize these bacteria, so that the body can successfully fight in the event of a second attack.

The common type of immune disorders is allergic diseases, autoimmune disease which occurs when the white blood cells fails to recognize the invading outside elements. Another category is immune complex diseases which occurs when antigens and antibodies gets interlocked in clusters. The immune deficiency disorder is caused by hereditary problems, or is a result of drugs side effect.

Since time immemorial hair has been the crowning glory of a person’s beauty, particularly so for women. Many poems and ballads have been written praising the beauty of golden locks.
The main reasons for pre-mature hair loss is hormonal changes, diseases, deficient diet, stress, medication, hair styling treatments, pollution, dandruff, etc.

All though hair loss can never be totally stopped, we can definitely take some preventive measures to delay the process and control the damages.

Preventive, measures includes going slow with the use of hair dyes, hairdryer and curling iron, staying away from extreme forms of hair styles, lesser usage off shampoos or coloring dyes. Reducing the level of alcohol intake and maintaining a healthy lifestyle helps.

Consuming food with high protein content, using hair conditioners, reducing stress, exercising well are all pointers. Adherence to all these measures can surely make our hair glow like the dark nights of the midnight sky.

The web describes infection as the “detrimental colonization of a host organism by a foreign species”. But for common people like us infection are house irritating things that causes a running nose, gives us headaches, and makes us miss schools.!!

Infections are mainly caused by small microscopic organism called bacteria, fungus, parasites or virus.

Infections are largely categorized into 5 broad categories like colds & flu, common infections, sexually transmitted diseases, bacterial & viral infections, fungal infections, skin infections & rashes, stomach & intestinal infections.

The best way to protect one from infectious diseases is to lead a healthy hygienic life. Personal hygiene should always be a top priority. Secondly some basic steps like covering our nose and mouth while sneezing is also important to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Proper medication and appropriate drugs are very important to cure infectious diseases so they don’t linger on longer than necessary.

It is often said that age is a state of mind, but unfortunately our body seems to think otherwise. Starting from our eyes, ears, limbs & heart each and every organ seems devoid of any poetic philosophy, and hence starts troubling us with some kind of problems.
The problem ranges from cataract, glaucoma, loss of hearing, skin diseases like dermatitis and eczema, arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome, etc.

No matter how much we hate, but getting away from these problems are almost impossible, but yes we can of course age gracefully, and the best way to do that is to lead a regulated life. The first step is to be conscious about the food that we eat, indulge in some kind of some outdoor activities like golf, swimming, or walking to keep the body active, consult a doctor and get regular medical checkup. The company of friends and family and an active life is the corner stone to healthy old age life.

From herbs and spiritualism the history of medication has traveled a long way covering several branches like anatomy, Biochemistry, Epidemiology, Genetics, Neuroscience, Physiology to name a few.
Medication on one hand is life saving in case of life saving disease s , but at times an overdose can be life treating. The most fascinating part of modern medicines is that it acts amazingly fast and gives immediate results, but such lightening speed actions has many side effects, like premature hair loss, osteoporosis, acidity, and the worst of all a unimaginable dependency on drugs.

The world again seems to be going back to the old age of ayurveda, and Chinese touch therapy when people were healed by natural methods.

But modern allopathic medicine has become so indispensable that it is impossible to completely do away with them, but we can all pledge to stay away from them as far and as frequent as possible.