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A Supplement So Good For The Brain It Can Prevent Psychosis

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

So last week on the blog we talked about how teens are more affected by good moods than bad moods and how being around others with positive mood can help them recover from depression and even prevent it in the first place! What else can we do to support their brain? A new study published in Nature Communications (August 2015) showed that psychotic illness can actually be prevented long term… …even SEVEN YEARS LATER… …by a brief three month intervention with Omega 3 fatty acids! These results are so incredible they should be shouted and touted from …

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Oct 12 2015

Good Moods Are Contagious In Teens (And Prevents Depression)

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

As I blogged about last week… mood is not just something that colors our day. Our moods actually make a huge difference in our projected lifespan… this is now a medical fact! On the heels of that study, yet another study was published just last month (August 19, 2015 in the Proc Biol Science) revealing that a positive mood among teens is not only “contagious” and spreads among peers… … but is also associated with enhanced recovery from depression and decreased future risk of depression. And even better, the reverse is not true: depressed mood does not appear to …

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Oct 5 2015

Is Your Skin Telling You Something?

Female Health, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Skin can speak to us through the location of the eczema patches we have, through acne, through dry tight skin, hives, changes in hair growth, pigmentation, wrinkles, stretch marks and much, much more. Skin can speak subtly through chronic messages that it whispers to you your entire life… ….or skin can scream loudly and angrily during acute transitions and times of crisis. But no matter how your skin speaks to you, there is always a message to be appreciated. Because our skin replicates so quickly, it is a wonderful mirror for what is going on with the rest of …

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Sep 21 2015

Learn New Material More Easily With This One Tip

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

Proof that the more you are self motivated to learn something the more you will remember it: A new study, published October 2, 2014 in Neuron, found that having INTRINSIC MOTIVATION in the form of curiosity, not only allows you to enhance your learning of key information but also of non-crucial, incidental information presented at the same time. In other words, being curious about learning something enhances your absorption and ability to master the information you were curious to learn AND even non-related information alongside it. Curiosity about life in general enhances your experience of life itself, …

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Aug 24 2015

Vitamin D decreases Diabetes Risk

Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

As last week’s blog post highlights, Vit D is an important supplement for whole body health. I’m not a huge advocate for taking a lot of pills, vitamins, supplements or prescription medications, but there are two supplements I feel there is so much positive medical literature on that they are my *go to* recommendations for almost every patient: Vitamin D supplements and Omega 3 fatty acid supplements. So today, let’s look at yet another way that Vitamin D impacts the body: decreasing our set up for metabolic syndrome. Because there are Vitamin D receptors in insulin target …

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Aug 17 2015

Vit D To Boost Your Weight Loss Benefits

Grounding, Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Vitamin D boosts the health benefits of weight loss! By simply adding Vitamin D supplementation to your weight loss plan, you reduce your whole-body inflammation, a new study suggests (published April 23, 2015 in Cancer Prevention Research.) High levels of the pro-inflammatory cytokine Interleukin (IL)-6 have been linked to increased risk of developing devastating illness including cancer… as chronic inflammation is thought to be a pro-tumor state for the body. By reducing systemic inflammation, you reduce your chances of cancer and other chronic diseases. This is one of the reasons I find grounding the body (touching …

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Aug 10 2015

Dramatically Reduce Skin Cancer With This ONE Supplement

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

Clear evidence that a vitamin can be cancer preventive: Vitamin B3 dramatically reduces skin cancer rates. Presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2015 Annual Meeting in May 2014, Vitamin B3 has been shown to be a safe, effective way to reduce your risk of recurrent skin cancer. Skin cancer facts: In the United States, about 5 million people each year are diagnosed with nonmelanoma skin cancer. Skin cancer is the most common cancer world wide as well as a high rate of cancer recurrence Simply taking 500 mgs of Vit B3 (also known as …

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Aug 3 2015

A Supplement So Good For The Brain It Can Prevent Psychosis

Good Moods Are Contagious In Teens (And Prevents Depression)

Is Your Skin Telling You Something?

Learn New Material More Easily With This One Tip

Vitamin D decreases Diabetes Risk

Vit D To Boost Your Weight Loss Benefits

Dramatically Reduce Skin Cancer With This ONE Supplement

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