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Sauna To Protect Your Brain

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Now this is a medical study I can really get behind! Woot! I LOVE HEAT. And I love love love anything that boosts circulation — like grounding, sauna, steam room, hot baths, sleeping with a hot water bottle, massage, exercise… …it just feels intuitively right to get your blood flowing, don’t you think? Turns out there are lasting benefits to getting your brain circulation boosted through heat specifically… having regular sauna bathing decreases risk for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease! Researchers had previously discovered that men who used a sauna two or more times a week had significantly …

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Apr 10 2017

Improving Gut Flora = Huge Benefits In Autism

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

I’ve already written extensively about the power of the gut-mind axis and how probiotics have been able to dramatically support brain function, treating everything from mood disorders to cognition. One study showed depression improved when participants received probiotic supplements for 30 days, and another study reported clinically significant improvement in mood when participants ate probiotic-containing yogurt for 3 weeks. Yet another study showed that participants with chronic fatigue syndrome who consumed probiotics three times a day reported significantly less anxiety compared to those who did not. Another study assessed cognitive performance, mood, memory, acute stress (both subjectively …

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Apr 3 2017

Lithium Decreases Cancer Risk

Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

A new study links lithium — the gold standard treatment for bipolar disorder — with a significant reduction in cancer risk. Not only that, but the reduced risk of cancer was found to be dose dependent… …meaning patients who took higher doses of lithium had even greater reduction in cancer rates than those who took lower doses. The Study (published in the British Journal of Psychiatry July, 2016): Researchers followed over 4,700 patients with bipolar disorder, categorizing them as using lithium only, a different medication only (the anticonvulsant valproate) or both medications together. Researchers followed these patients for over …

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Mar 27 2017

Emotional Stress Directly Predicts Heart Attack… 10 Ways To Prevent It

Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Finally, a medical study explains why there is a direct correlation between stress and heart attack. It turns out, increased brain activity in the area of emotional processing (the amygdala) directly increases the risk of cardiovascular events. This study is the first to show that increased amygdala activity in humans strongly predicts cardiovascular events such as stroke, heart attack and angina. The amygdala is responsible for processing emotions, survival instincts and memory. That about sums up how stress feels: it’s an increased emotional load, a feeling of being overwhelmed when trying to navigate the situation, and traumatic memories …

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Mar 20 2017

Fat Shaming Causes Disease… But It Doesn’t Have To

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Fat shaming (not obesity itself!) directly increases a person’s risk for metabolic syndrome and subsequent health issues, a new study finds. And why is there fat shaming in the first place? As I will go over below, there is an incredible wealth of medical research showing that having a higher BMI is actually advantageous to longevity, so there really is no need for our society to have an obesity bias to start with! Certainly dropping this attitude and reducing the internalized stress associated with weight will decrease diabetes risk, heart disease risk and the rate of metabolic disease in …

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Mar 13 2017

Sleep: An Easy Way To Prevent Asthma

Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

A new medical study revealed that there is a huge association between insomnia and asthma… …which is good news, because that means there are tons of holistic, simple, supportive things you can do today to decrease your risk of asthma. The Study: (published Feb 1, 2017 in the European Respiratory Journal.) Researchers followed over 17,000 patients in a long term study over the span of 11 years. Patients were ages 20 – 65 years old Patients had data collected to analyze sleep quality, patterns of sleep, difficulty with going to sleep or staying asleep, and asthma symptoms including …

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Mar 6 2017

Teens Who Eat Fruit Lower Their Breast Cancer Risk

Female Health, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

A new study reveals that teens who eat 3 servings of fruit a day have a 25% decreased risk of breast cancer as an adult, compared to teens who eat less than one serving of fruit a day. Published in the BMJ on May 11, 2016, this study shows that fruit has a preventive effect in preventing breast cancer and that specifically consuming fruit as an adolescent is even more important than consuming them as an adult. The Study: Researchers examined date from over 90,000 premenopausal female patients (ages 27 – 44 years old) Over 44,000 patients reported …

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Feb 27 2017

Sauna To Protect Your Brain

Improving Gut Flora = Huge Benefits In Autism

Lithium Decreases Cancer Risk

Emotional Stress Directly Predicts Heart Attack… 10 Ways To Prevent It

Fat Shaming Causes Disease… But It Doesn’t Have To

Sleep: An Easy Way To Prevent Asthma

Teens Who Eat Fruit Lower Their Breast Cancer Risk

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