5 tips for a healthy home office

Check out our tips so you can make an effective home office without neglecting your health.

Without a doubt, the COVID-19 pandemic came to change our routine and working from home became paramount to reduce the risk of infection. However, in this process of adaptation to work in home office modality our health can be affected.

Spending a lot of time sitting in front of the computer, not giving us the time or not respecting schedules to take food, lack of physical activity, stress, among other factors can diminish our health and performance. Here are some tips to make a good home office, keeping you healthy:

1. Keep your hygiene up to date

   Even if you don't leave the house and your colleagues can’t smell you through the screen, it’s important to keep your daily hygiene routine: bathing, combing your hair, brushing your teeth, wearing clean clothes, and more. With this in addition to feeling good, it will help you project a better image.

2. Set aside feeding times and respect them

   Have you gained weight during the pandemic? Did you know that skipping food or spending long fasts makes you fat? This causes your metabolism to decrease and as soon as your body receives food, it stores it in sufficient fat reserves, by the saver gene, which causes overweight and obesity.

   That is why it’s important to give yourself time to take your food. In addition, you can save yourself discomfort from gastritis derived from prolonged fasting, as the production of gastric acids does not stop and without food, your stomach is constantly irritated.

   Avoid spending a lot of time without eating and this will also help you stay focused and in a good mood.

3. Perform active pauses every 45 or 90 minutes

   If your home office requires you to spend a lot of time sitting in front of the computer, it is possible that you suffer from stiffness or tension in the neck and shoulders, for this reason it is important that you pause throughout your day, including some exercises, so that you are more active and focus and decrease muscle tension.

4. Consume fiber and drink plenty of fluids

   Maintaining a balanced diet, including fiber and plenty of fluids is very important to prevent constipation, which is often one of the causes of hemorrhoids.

   Lack of physical activity, spending a lot of time sitting, poor diet, low fluid intake, among others, are risk factors for suffering from problems also known as almorranas.

   If this is the case, it’s important to start your hemorrhoid treatment with the first symptoms. Remember that, Nikzon (link a página de Nikzon TAYA), in practical chewable tablets is the effective relief of hemorrhoids, helping to reduce discomfort such as:

    

   - Rectal burning.

   - Inflammation.

   - Itch.

   - Pain.

5. Exercise

   Practicing physical activity or exercise can help prevent not only weight gain, but also constipation and muscle tension. You can even walk in your own home at a light pace for 20 to 30 minutes and this will help stimulate your bowel function and, in general, your metabolism.

We hope these tips will help you stay healthy while you work at home. Take care!