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Prevent Diabetes with Magnesium Supplementation

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Several recent studies suggest that a high intake of magnesium can cut your risk of developing diabetes in half! Prediabetes (fasting glucose in the 100 – 125 mg/dL range) has been thought to progress almost invariably to diabetes without major lifestyle changes in diet, activity level and even sometime prescription drug intervention. But is there a natural supplement that might actually help prevent Type 2 Diabetes? Several studies answer with a resounding *YES*! We know that magnesium and insulin are linked together — insulin helps transport magnesium into the cells for use in glucose metabolism… and in turn, magnesium …

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Jul 5 2016

Up To 70% of Antibiotic Use Is Inappropriate… Here Are 8 Things To Do Instead

Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

In a huge meta-analysis, published recently (May 3, 2016 in JAMA) researchers found that up to 70% of antibiotics prescribed during a two year period were actually inappropriate prescriptions. This is a hugely important study, because with the recent exponential rise of antibiotic resistant infections, each and every use of antibiotics absolutely MUST be warranted. When we truly *do* need to use antibiotics (and they can save lives, make no mistake about that) we need them to WORK. Add on to that the unnecessary chemical load to the body and the potential side effects, both annoying and deadly serious, …

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Jun 27 2016

7 Steps To Decrease Your Lifetime Risk of Cancer

Grounding, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

As an extension of last week’s article, which shows how fasting at night and walking during the day decreases cancer recurrence… this latest medical study shows that it’s absolutely within your power to decrease your lifetime risk of cancer all together! Published in Nature Dec 16, 2015 (click here to download this important study!) new research shows that cancer is a very modifiable health risk… estimating that less than one third of cancers are actually genetically driven and that the vast vast majority, over two-thirds of all cancers (up to 90% of them!) are actually environmentally induced. Why …

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Jun 20 2016

Fasting To Decrease Cancer Recurrence

Female Health, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Recently published on March 31, 2016 in JAMA Oncology, new evidence supports the idea that fasting at night reduces the risk of cancer recurrence. Every night as we sleep we all enter a mini-fasting period before we *break-the-fast* with breakfast each morning. Prolonging the amount of time spent fasting — skipping evening snacks all together and fasting for 13+ hours each night — reduced the risk of breast cancer according to a study that spanned thousands of patients followed for over a decade. Simply taking care to eat an early dinner and not eating again until breakfast (for …

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Jun 13 2016

Household Chemicals Damage Cognition (And Small Changes You Can Make To Protect Yourself)

Female Health, Grounding, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

A recent study just published May 2016 in the journal Environmental Research reveals the extent of damage that common household chemicals are having on children… … impairing cognitive function and behavioral development. Chemicals that are routinely found in homes that are implicated in impairing cognitive function of children are commonly found in nonstick cooking pans, carpet pads, upholstery, and in electronics. Exposure during pregnancy to these and other toxic items containing polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) is now definitively associated with decreased cognitive function of children later in life. These findings show that the mother’s concentration …

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Jun 6 2016

The Ultimate Indoor Grounding Guide: What To Use & When To Use It

Grounding, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

I get asked absolutely every single day… … what indoor grounding product should I use and when? So today… I give you the: Ultimate Guide To Indoor Grounding! Let me review for you exactly which grounding items works the very best in each specific situation: 1. Best for: PAIN ISSUES A Grounded Hot Water Bottle… …the most versatile grounding tool on the planet! Now you can combine the power of water and the power of heat with the grounding force of Mother Nature to introduce three different, synergistic ways to exponentially heal! Heat increases circulation, …

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May 23 2016

7 Natural Ways To Defeat Yeast Overgrowth

Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

I’m so excited. We are officially well into May and this month I am actually taking my first three day vacation in a long, long time! I have not taken a vacation — not even one single weekend off — in over two years straight. So to have a Friday, Saturday and a Sunday to hang out with friends by a lake and sleep in and stay up late and watch the kids swim and watch the sun set… yep, it’ll be heaven. With all of this beautiful warmer weather, I’ve had lots of questions come up (in the …

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May 16 2016

Prevent Diabetes with Magnesium Supplementation

Up To 70% of Antibiotic Use Is Inappropriate… Here Are 8 Things To Do Instead

7 Steps To Decrease Your Lifetime Risk of Cancer

Fasting To Decrease Cancer Recurrence

Household Chemicals Damage Cognition (And Small Changes You Can Make To Protect Yourself)

The Ultimate Indoor Grounding Guide: What To Use & When To Use It

7 Natural Ways To Defeat Yeast Overgrowth

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