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Dementia: A Gluten Induced Condition (And What To Do About It)

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

Last week I shared a new study that proves and association between Alzheimers Disease and pesticide exposure… and 4 things you can do to decrease your own risk. This week, I want to continue with the focus on brain health and share with you a very interesting idea that I’ve begun to embrace whole-heartedly… …that gluten may be casting a brain-fog over our entire civilization! Enter this book: Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar — Your Brain’s Silent Killers, by Dr. David Perlmutter, Associate Professor at the University of Miami School of …

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May 5 2014

Evidence That Pesticides Increase Alzheimers Risk

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

New evidence shows that having measurable levels of pesticide metabolites in your blood increases your risk of Alzheimer’s disease by 400%. Published on January 27, 2014 in JAMA Neurology, a new study shows that high levels of DDE (a metabolic by-product of notorious pesticide DDT) in the body was found to cause a 4-fold increase in Alzheimers Disease risk. This study confirms that if there are serum levels of DDE in your blood (from pesticide exposure) this is crossing your blood-brain barrier and directly affecting your brain. Even though DDT was banned in the United States in 1972, …

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Apr 28 2014

Omega 3’s Increase Brain Volume

Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

You know I love sharing positive holistic health news with you here. And today is the best! Positive health information is the only kind of health news I feel is worth focusing on… coupled with practical things you can do TODAY to increase your health and well being for a lifetime. I literally scour the medical literature to bring you something uplifting each and every week. Nothing bothers me more than medical reports or natural health news that try to effect change by creating fear about our health, fear about the foods we consume, fear about the impending …

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Mar 3 2014

Caffeine — Best Study Aid Ever?

Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Last week, I shared with you the news of the recently found heart protective quality of caffeine. Caffeine appears to have an enhancing effect on memory consolidation as well, suggests a study published right on the heels of last week’s study. Published on January 12, 2014 in Nature Neuroscience, caffeine was shown to have an immediate boost on memory. 140 participants of this study were able to remember and recall images that they were shown 24 hours later better if they were consuming caffeine while looking at the initial image. They were better able to discriminate differences and …

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Feb 24 2014

Up This One Mineral To Up Your Mood

Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

On the December 15, 2013, the medical journal Biological Psychiatry published the results of a huge study that found overwhelming evidence of a link between zinc and depression. The study showed that folks who are depressed have a lower concentrations of zinc in their peripheral blood than non-depressed individuals. Looking at both animal studies and preclinical and clinical trials, researchers found that “a growing body of evidence demonstrates that zinc deficiency can induce depressive-like behavior in animals, which can be effectively reversed by zinc supplementation,” and also, perhaps more importantly, that zinc added to antidepressant therapy may produce …

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Feb 10 2014

This Supplement Treats Alzheimers Better Than A Rx

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

On January 1, 2014 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an important study about a very simple, all natural way to reduce Alzheimer’s Disease… …take Vit E supplements. This study was a large study of 613 patients, and they put Vit E head to head with a Rx Alzheimer med, memantine. They followed the patients enrolled in the study for almost 2 1/2 years, and the findings were extremely significant. What they found is that Vit E ALONE worked better than the placebo, the Rx drug, AND the RX + Vit E combined. Yes, that’s right… …

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Jan 20 2014

Poor Sleep Linked to Alzheimers: 9 Ways To Fix It.

Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

For ages and ages, human beings followed the rhythm of the sun… going to sleep when the sun went down and rising with the sun in the morning. Our circadian rhythm was in concert with the earth and ensured that we got deep, restorative sleep in order to face the next day. These days, artificial lighting and long work days mean that most people (myself included!) have some sort of sleep abnormality and/or circadian rhythm disruption. Although we know that lack of sleep causes everything from memory problems, fatigue, decreased concentration, stress, and increased food cravings, a recent study …

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May 6 2013

Dementia: A Gluten Induced Condition (And What To Do About It)

Evidence That Pesticides Increase Alzheimers Risk

Omega 3’s Increase Brain Volume

Caffeine — Best Study Aid Ever?

Up This One Mineral To Up Your Mood

This Supplement Treats Alzheimers Better Than A Rx

Poor Sleep Linked to Alzheimers: 9 Ways To Fix It.

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