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The Hidden Benefits Of Grounding: Why It Helps More Than Just Your Body

Grounding, Intuitive Medicine, Organic Lifestyle, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

Clear air is awesome and nurturing. Juicing is powerful and cleansing. Meditation is relaxing and centering. Purified water is hydrating and supportive. Nutritional supplements and even prescription medications can be balancing and healing. But inevitably, with every holistic healing modality I worked with, there would be some patients who benefit greatly and some who get absolutely no results whatsoever. Some people heal with a certain diet. Some heal with a particular exercise practice. Some heal with a prescription medication, some with a supportive supplement, some with a life saving surgery, some with a chiropractic adjustment, some with acupuncture. …

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Jul 5 2017

Does Dairy Cause Acne?

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

A new medical study takes a look at whether dairy is associated with acne in teens. I love love love skin and eagerly took three times the amount of dermatology training in medical school and internship than my classmates because I find skin so absolutely fascinating. More on that in a minute. But first, this study in particular peaked my interest because I am asked by patients all the time whether dairy is a trigger for acne. The Study (published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology in August 2016): Researchers looked at over 220 …

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Jun 26 2017

OCD May Stem From Birth Trauma

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

A new study (published in JAMA Psychiatry Oct 5, 2016) reveals that the more stressful the birth is on the baby, the higher the risk that baby has for developing Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) decades later. Children who were born prematurely and children who experienced stress during delivery both had statistically significant increases in the rates of developing OCD during adolescence and young adulthood. Stressful birth circumstances included: maternal smoking during pregnancy, cesarean section delivery, preterm birth, low APGAR scores, unusually low or high birth weight, breech presentation at labor and more. The Study: Researchers looked at a 2.4 …

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Jan 30 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

Healing Is Your Body’s Natural State, Here’s Why

Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine / By Laura Koniver, MD

As we head into 2017… …there one thing that is crucial for you to know. If you can align with this truth, than your body can re-align with your natural healing process no matter what health obstacle you are facing. And this is all it takes — deeply accepting that: You are literally a self-healing machine… …it’s what your body does naturally! Your: acupuncturist chiropractor nutritionist herbalist therapist physician surgeon massage therapist etc… ALL rely on *your body* to heal itself. I know I rely on my patient’s bodies to self heal… all health care practitioners do. …

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Dec 19 2016

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

The Quickest Way To Heal Is To Surrender, Here’s How

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

Surrendering is safe. Working intuitively with patients all over the globe, I’ve learned a lot about loss, grief and healing. I can say for a fact that what heals people in real life contrasts quite vividly to what I *learned* about grief and healing in med school. I still remember being in medical school and learning all about the classic model of the grief process, set forth by the amazing and brave Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: D A B D A (I’m sure many of my readers, who are also healers, are familiar with this acronym:) meaning: D â€” denial …

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Nov 28 2016

The Hidden Benefits Of Grounding: Why It Helps More Than Just Your Body

Does Dairy Cause Acne?

OCD May Stem From Birth Trauma

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

Healing Is Your Body’s Natural State, Here’s Why

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

The Quickest Way To Heal Is To Surrender, Here’s How

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