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How To Ground Outside Without Getting Bitten Up By Bugs

Grounding, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

The weather is warming up here… …and this always means my inbox is full of emails from patients and readers asking: How can you reduce your chance of tick bites (and other insect bites) while still connecting to the earth outside? I really don’t want you to limit or stop your healing practice of connecting to Mother Earth outside daily. Instead, let’s deter the bugs all together. As I was giving one of my patients advice about this exact topic today, I thought this would be the perfect information to share with my blog readers too! …

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May 22 2017

How Sleep Affects Your Heart Health

Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Last week I shared with you a study that shows even a small decrease in sleep, as little as one hour less of sleep, dramatically increases your risk of mood disturbances (anxiety, depression, hopelessness.) This week is the last on my series focusing in on sleep… and this one is important too. Turns out, your heart’s health is immediately impacted by your sleep. The Study (published in Hypertension on June 6, 2016): researchers looked at 26 healthy young adults (with no cardiac risk factors or history of cardiac disease) and compared their heart function during sessions of unrestricted …

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May 8 2017

Missing Just One Hour Of Sleep Skyrockets Your Risk Of Depression, Anxiety

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

There are plenty of studies in the medical literature that look at severe sleep issues and how hard insomnia is on the human body… …linking insomnia to: (click to read articles I’ve written for you on these medical studies): Asthma Weight Gain ADHD & Dementia But today’s study goes further. Because a new study (presented at the American Academy of Neurology 2017 Annual Meeting on April 27, 2017) reveals that even a minor sleep disturbance… even a shortage of just ONE HOUR OF SLEEP… can significantly up your risk of mood disorders such as depression and anxiety. …

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May 1 2017

Emotional Stress Directly Predicts Heart Attack… 10 Ways To Prevent It

Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Finally, a medical study explains why there is a direct correlation between stress and heart attack. It turns out, increased brain activity in the area of emotional processing (the amygdala) directly increases the risk of cardiovascular events. This study is the first to show that increased amygdala activity in humans strongly predicts cardiovascular events such as stroke, heart attack and angina. The amygdala is responsible for processing emotions, survival instincts and memory. That about sums up how stress feels: it’s an increased emotional load, a feeling of being overwhelmed when trying to navigate the situation, and traumatic memories …

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Mar 20 2017

The Easiest Way I Know To Fall Asleep Faster

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

Insomnia is a huge problem, one that begs to be resolved during the winter months. Mother Nature offers you shorter days, longer nights, cooler temperatures… all in an effort to get you hibernating each winter and prepared for the year ahead. If a little winter hibernation is eluding you, today’s medical study can help. It’s long been known that cooler temperatures help deepen sleep. Typical advice is to make the bedroom a little cooler at nighttime (68 – 70 degrees is ideal) and never sleep with socks on (one study cites that sleeping with socks on increases the incidence …

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Jan 9 2017

Your Extra Weight Is Not As Bad For You As Your Doctor Wants You To Think

Female Health, Grounding, Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

I am always reading the medical literature looking for positive messages to share with you. And during the holiday season… when most of us have naturally gained a little weight… this is the perfect time to share today’s uplifting medical study with you. This latest study didn’t receive much attention (the negative scary reports always seem to be the ones your doctors want to share with you!) but I think it should have. Researchers looked at two very large databases, examining body mass (Body Mass Index — BMI) and metastatic renal (kidney) cancer survival rates. They found that obesity …

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Dec 26 2016

6 Questions To Ask Yourself Before December Gets Here

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

It’s time to post my annual winter checklist of all the crucial health tips I have collected that keep me feeling my best during the darkest month of the year. The end of fall is the perfect time to make sure we are doing all we can to feel our very best… to slow down and care for our inner spark while the earth prepares for winter. It’s okay to take these upcoming winter months slower, to tend to our inner needs more, and to make sure we are getting lots and lots of sleep. It’s not only …

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Nov 14 2016

How To Ground Outside Without Getting Bitten Up By Bugs

How Sleep Affects Your Heart Health

Missing Just One Hour Of Sleep Skyrockets Your Risk Of Depression, Anxiety

Emotional Stress Directly Predicts Heart Attack… 10 Ways To Prevent It

The Easiest Way I Know To Fall Asleep Faster

Your Extra Weight Is Not As Bad For You As Your Doctor Wants You To Think

6 Questions To Ask Yourself Before December Gets Here

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