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Uplifting Ideas To Keep Your Spirits High During A Pandemic

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

Over the past month, I’ve blogged a few times about coronavirus prevention and treatment ideas, from a holistic physician’s perspective. So today I want to add onto these tips with some less commonly heard, wonderfully uplifting ideas that you can implement (yes, even while practicing social distancing!) to feel strong, centered and resilient. Today let’s go way beyond the “wash your hands & isolate yourself” recommendation that you have heard a thousand times and add some important tips gleaned from the medical literature after studying the course and resolution of earlier pandemics. And yes, there have always …

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Mar 23 2020

Sick Of Getting Sick? Double Check You Are Doing These 8 Things

Healthy Mindframe, 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, that …

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Oct 31 2016

Holistic Protection From Getting Sick When School Starts

Medical Reports, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

As I talked about a few weeks ago on the blog… there is a huge problem with the development of *super bugs* that are resistant to our current arsenal of antibiotics and antivirals, and the problem is only getting worse. As bacteria and viruses evolve resistance and become more pervasive, I see people reaching more and more for hand sanitizers and wipes. I can’t walk into a supermarket or drugstore or convenience store any more without seeing a box of hand sanitizing wipes right in the entryway. But what you might not know about these wipes, is that …

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Aug 8 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

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Jun 27 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

7 Essential Tips To Make Spring Allergies Disappear!

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

Spring is my favorite season. And today is the first day of spring, so I’ve got a list of lots of great things you can do to optimize your health during this time of renewal and awakening! For many folks the first thing that comes to their mind during spring isn’t beaches and bare feet and picking fresh strawberries and bumble bees and gardening and sunshine… …it’s allergies. Well that stinks. But I’ve got your back! Because I don’t want you to drug up on antihistamines and watch your lovely spring season go by in a blur of grogginess. …

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Mar 21 2016

A Few Extra Pounds Helps You Survive Infections

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

Ebola has been front page news all summer, so you would think this recent medical study would be as well… …but instead, this study on surviving overwhelming infection remains largely hidden. Of course, anything that shows there is a WIDE diversity to “healthy weight” — that there is a reality so much wider than the current definitions of under weight, “normal” weight, over weight, mild and severe obesity — is hidden by the media. That makes sense, as the weight loss industry is a 20 BILLION dollar industry IN THE UNITED STATES ALONE!!! So, of course …

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Sep 2 2014

Uplifting Ideas To Keep Your Spirits High During A Pandemic

Sick Of Getting Sick? Double Check You Are Doing These 8 Things

Holistic Protection From Getting Sick When School Starts

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

7 Natural Ways To Defeat Yeast Overgrowth

7 Essential Tips To Make Spring Allergies Disappear!

A Few Extra Pounds Helps You Survive Infections

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