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Yet Another Study Gives Survival Advantage To Overweight, Not Underweight

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

Well I thought this would be the perfect medical article to blog about this week, as many of us tuck into eating huge delicious Thanksgiving holiday meals! If you are going to eat, don’t make those calories laden with guilt and remorse and negative thinking. As you can read in one of my previous blog posts, fat shaming physically harms your health. Don’t allow shame over food choices or weight to ruin your well being. Release the negative thinking and just enjoy what you eat. To help with that, here is a recently published medical study …

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Nov 20 2017

The Latest Study To Prove That Grounding Improves Health

Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

On top of the past 25 years of medical research on grounding, a new study has been released showing just how beneficial grounding is to even the most vulnerable humans — preterm infants. If babies born so early that they are not even meant to be outside of the womb, breathing or eating yet, can be supported by grounding… …then you can understand that no matter what health challenge you face, no matter how dire, grounding can help. These babies were all patients of the Penn State NICU — babies born so early that they needed to be …

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Nov 6 2017

Higher Coffee Intake, Lower Mortality Rate

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

This morning — more than ever — I wanted to write a fun and uplifting health article for you. I just want to focus on something totally positive. Each week I strive to write something uplifting for you, so that your confidence in your own health gets stronger and stronger and stronger and you have a growing sense of faith in your body’s ability to be resilient. The world is a scary enough place… and if you are brave enough to read the news headlines, it can be down right terrifying. Even in medicine and health… there are way …

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Sep 5 2017

Aspirin Prevents Cancer… But There Is A Much Safer Way

Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Yet another study reports that long term aspirin use is associated with a reduced risk of death from all causes… …and specifically a reduced risk of death from cancer. Remember when I blogged about this back in August 2014? The study at that time reported a 30% — 35% reduction in the risk of developing colorectal cancer, a 25% reduction in the risk of developing esophageal and stomach cancers, and smaller risk reduction in the other cancer categories (prostate, lung, breast.) The latest study back this finding up, finding a 7% reduction in mortality from all causes put together …

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Jun 5 2017

Anxiety Doubles Cancer Mortality. It Doesn’t Have To… Here’s How.

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

Presented Sept 20, 2016 at the 29th European College of Neuropsychoparmacology Congress, the largest study to date looking at patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) reveals that anxiety more than doubles the risk of a mortality from cancer. Even after adjusting for smoking, alcohol intake, sedentary lifestyle and other co-morbid disease conditions, just having anxiety independently increases cancer mortality rates. The Study: Looking at over 15,000 patients older than 40 years old from 1993 through 1997, researchers followed the participants through 2015. Participants with a diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) were followed for cancer diagnosis and …

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Dec 5 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

Avoiding The Sun Is Actually More Deadly Than Smoking

Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

A recent article, published in the Journal of Internal Medicine on March 16, 2016, found that folks who avoided sun exposure had a decreased life expectancy, similar to smokers who bathed in the sun. This study looked at almost 30,000 participants (females ages 25 – 64 year old with no history of malignancy) over a span of 20 years. Researchers followed participants for over 20 years and tracked health outcomes and life span. What did they find? Researchers found that even when smoking was factored in, the life span of those who avoided the sun was over 2 …

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Apr 18 2016

Yet Another Study Gives Survival Advantage To Overweight, Not Underweight

The Latest Study To Prove That Grounding Improves Health

Higher Coffee Intake, Lower Mortality Rate

Aspirin Prevents Cancer… But There Is A Much Safer Way

Anxiety Doubles Cancer Mortality. It Doesn’t Have To… Here’s How.

7 Steps To Decrease Your Lifetime Risk of Cancer

Avoiding The Sun Is Actually More Deadly Than Smoking

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