At Ascus Biosciences, we firmly believe that health is a result of dozens, hundreds, perhaps thousands of factors. When we consider the health of the individual, we try to take into account as many of these factors as possible.
Factors aren’t isolated from one another: each plays into the other and creates a knock-on effect, which may then spiral around and affect the original factor, eventually leading to loops and cycles. Each may cause the other, and at the same time be a result of the other.
Cleaning is one of the many factors to take into account. In our opinion, a clean house may be both an indicator of good health and a result of good health.
When people are healthy, it means they look after their bodies through good diet, exercise, routines, hobbies, social life, and more. They’re actively taking charge and making health-promoting decisions.
They’re engaged action-takers seeking to live better lives. They’re aware of how everything around them influences their health. As such, we think it’s more likely that they look after their home, too. In this way, a clean home may well reflect a state of health.
What’s more, we believe a clean home promotes mental health and wellbeing. Order in the environment encourages mental order. A fresh home means we’re fresher physically and mentally. A clean home means we inhale cleaner air.
If you’re not convinced, try installing our simple tips and tricks to keep your home tidy.
We’re not cleaning experts, nor cleaning addicts. We believe that, as in many areas of life, 20% of our time spent on cleaning brings 80% of the results. So, we like to focus on a few small tasks that make a big difference to the cleanliness of your home, and, therefore, to your health.
We’ve curated a short list to help:
- keep the kitchen thoroughly clean: appliances, worktops, floors, cupboards, etc.;
- keep bathrooms thoroughly clean: toilet, shower, floor, mirrors, etc.;
- in the living room and bedrooms, the main priorities are the floor, the main surfaces, changing your bedsheets regularly and keeping your screens clean;
- hallways: floor and visible dust/cobwebs;
- in general: regularly clean out old belongings, buy high-quality equipment and furniture, and never hoard.
Yes, that really is our list. We believe this is the 80-20 of homecare.
Sure, there are many more details we could cover here. But we think that addressing these points makes a disproportionate difference compared to everything else.
Try it out: we think you’ll love it. And once you have these habits installed, you can begin looking for more high-leverage tasks that will take your homecare and healthcare to the next level.