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The Fourth Leading Cause Of Death: Your Medicine Cabinet?

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

I just returned from a medical conference where I had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Ankur Patel, MD present on the risk of taking multiple medications. I was shocked to hear : that adverse drug interactions is the 4th leading cause of death in the United States, and someone dies from a drug interaction every 5 minutes in the United States alone. that if you are on 5 or more Rx medications, your risk of an adverse drug reaction is 58% that if you are on 7 or more Rx medications, your risk of an adverse drug reaction …

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Nov 6 2023

Antidepressants Increase Risk Of Death… Luckily There Are Incredibly Powerful Alternatives That Work

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

No doubt antidepressants can be life saving to those in a major depressive episode, and I am absolutely not suggesting that those on an antidepressant should discontinue use. But I do think it’s important to highlight new information about how antidepressants are affecting the health of your entire body… not just brain function. While antidepressant use can be supportive to healthy mood, they are also affecting everything from your circulatory system to your cancer risk. And… on top of that… there are incredibly powerful holistic ways to treat depression that are medically proven to work even BETTER than antidepressants …

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Oct 2 2017

Is Stress Is Making Your Antidepressant Ineffective?

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

If you take antidepressants, new research shows that a stressful lifestyle has the power to completely remove any healing benefit you may have had from taking that Rx medication. Environment can completely impact whether or not antidepressant therapy works or not. Behavioral, lifestyle, and environmental stressors absolutely MUST be addressed… and today’s medical report is proof that a medication alone is just not enough to help. Interestingly, people with high levels of job stress are statistically the MOST likely to reach for a drug to help treat depression… yet are also most likely to find that drug therapy …

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Oct 3 2016

Back To School Special: The Latest Medical Studies On ADHD

Medical Reports, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

Recently published in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) on May 31, 2016… …researchers found that the stimulant methylphenidate (commonly prescribed for children to treat ADHD: Ritalin, Daytrana, Concerta) increases the risk of cardiac arrhythmias. It’s back-to-school time… a time when children are often diagnosed and treated for ADHD (average age of diagnosis of ADHD: 7 years old.) 11% of the American pediatric population is awarded a diagnosis of ADHD… …with about 6% of all of our children in the United States actively on a Rx medication to treat it. With that many children being medicated, it’s very important …

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Aug 1 2016

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

The Fourth Leading Cause Of Death: Your Medicine Cabinet?

Antidepressants Increase Risk Of Death… Luckily There Are Incredibly Powerful Alternatives That Work

Is Stress Is Making Your Antidepressant Ineffective?

Back To School Special: The Latest Medical Studies On ADHD

This Supplement Treats Alzheimers Better Than A Rx

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