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Light Therapy Quickly Improves Libido

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, so today’s medical study reveals a simple tip for boosting libido! Woot! New research (presented at the 29th European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress on September 19, 2016) shows that the same light therapy recommendation to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) can significantly improve sexual satisfaction in people with low desire after only 2 weeks of treatment! While this study was on men, because light therapy is incredibly effective for females too, I truly believe that this would work for women with low sex drive and should be first line therapy for anyone with …

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Feb 13 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

Release Stuck Emotions To Improve Your Health (Here’s How)

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

As energy naturally flows through your body, it gives rise to emotions… emotions are the body’s natural energetic release valve. Often we are tempted to label this as a bad thing…. as something gone wrong if we are feeling something intense. But when energy is flowing through your body â€” this is never a bad thing. Change and flow and sensation and emotion are all essential to life. The body giving rise to emotions and symptoms is a really good thing. When the energy is flowing unrestricted through your body, you are releasing the old and welcoming …

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Sep 19 2016

Inflammation Depresses Mood (Here’s How To Reverse It)

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

Increased inflammation in the body worsens symptoms of clinical depression, says a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry on November 18, 2015. Higher levels of blood markers of inflammation were found to be directly correlated with a variety of depressive symptoms, including sleep difficulty, decreased energy levels, decreased motivation and increased or decreased appetite. The details: Researchers looked at data on C-reactive protein levels (a blood marker of whole body inflammation) in over 15,000 patients. Higher levels of inflammation were directly correlated with higher levels of depressive symptoms, and the correlation was dose dependent… meaning the higher …

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Feb 22 2016

The One Thing You Can Do Daily To Lift All Types Of Depression… Naturally

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

We all know that getting morning light each day significantly improves seasonal blues (or winter depression.) But a new study shows that light therapy lifts depression — even depression that is NOT seasonally related — *more effectively* than antidepressant drug therapy. The assumption has always been that major depressive disorder is different from seasonal depression, but this study shows that light therapy can be used on it’s own to treat depression whether seasonal or not. Published in JAMA Psychiatry on Nov 18, 2015, this placebo controlled study supports the use of a non-pharmaceutical intervention over a pharmaceutical intervention, which …

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Jan 11 2016

7 Ways To Feel Hopeful Even Under Incredible Stress

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

Mid-winter is the perfect time to post these tips, as often it is in the darkest of winter, post-holidays, that we can feel most bleak. It doesn’t have to be that way. Here is how to remain hopeful even during times of immense stress and darkness. To retain hope increases resiliency, and is one of the best ways to persevere through any type of adversary in life, whether that be a personal tragedy, a health crisis or a series of financial stressors (or all three, as they often travel together.) As I recently blogged …

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Jan 5 2015

10 Things I Do To Prepare For Fall

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

Ahhh… fall. How I love you!!! The cooler mornings. The walks outside. Leaves swirling through the air. My children laughing as they spend more time outside than ever before. But for many of us… shorter days and longer nights means a dip in our mood. Fortunately, there are lots of great things to do to get prepared as the seasons change. Of course there are things like pulling out your sweaters and boots and knitting a scarf or two and planting a winter garden and getting the chimney cleaned. But I want to share with you today …

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Sep 15 2014

Light Therapy Quickly Improves Libido

Is Stress Is Making Your Antidepressant Ineffective?

Release Stuck Emotions To Improve Your Health (Here’s How)

Inflammation Depresses Mood (Here’s How To Reverse It)

The One Thing You Can Do Daily To Lift All Types Of Depression… Naturally

7 Ways To Feel Hopeful Even Under Incredible Stress

10 Things I Do To Prepare For Fall

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