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Anxiety Ages You: 10 Ways To Reverse It

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Published February 5, 2015 in the British Journal of Psychiatry, a new study shows that anxiety increases the rate of aging AND that treating anxiety helps reverse the aging process! Looking at over 2,300 patients with anxiety disorders and matched controls, researchers found that those with active anxiety had shorter telomere length than both those with no history of anxiety disorders and those with adequately treated anxiety disorders. Shorter telomere length is a known marker of aging, and the fact that telomere shortening can be reversed when an anxiety disorder is treated is awesome news. Telomeres are …

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Apr 13 2015

Sleep A Key Factor In ADHD

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

On the heels of last week’s blog post that named deep sleep as one of the top 3 ways to preserve your brain volume… a new study has recently revealed that good sleep helps with ADHD as well! Sleep problems have long been considered a hallmark of ADHD… leading to reduced quality of life, reduced level of functioning and reduced school attendance. A study, recently published on January 20, 2015 in the British Medical Journal, has found that even a simple, brief sleep intervention with ADHD children provides lasting benefits that lead to improved sleep and decreased ADHD symptoms. …

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Apr 6 2015

Three Medically Proven Ways To Save Your Brain

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

A study recently released in Frontiers In Psychology on Jan 21, 2015 shows that meditation may actually slow age-related brain atrophy. Long-term meditators, examined under MRI imaging, were found to have less gray matter loss WIDESPREAD throughout the brain, when compared to controls who did not meditate. This is the largest study to date looking at effects of mediation on the brain! The details: 50 men and women who were long-term meditators were compared with matched controls of the exact same sex and age, but who did not meditate at all. The participants were all imaged using the …

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Mar 30 2015

Spring Checklist: Feel Completely Renewed Inside And Out

Chakra Health, Grounding, Healing Artwork, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Spring is my favorite season. And I’ve got a list for you today of lots of great things you can do to optimize your health during this time of renewal and awakening! 1. Start Spring with a Spring Detox I start every spring taking 5 days to renew my health from the inside out, releasing old toxins, resetting my pH from the heavy winter foods, mobilizing my energy, releasing winter weight accumulation and flushing in a whole new level of health and possibility. I’ve written out exactly what I do and how I do it… No, …

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Mar 23 2015

Why Modern Medicine Is So Limited

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

The entire model of medicine is backwards and needs a major re-do. The way the current medical model is set up is to test and report the outcome of a medication or surgery or intervention in the scientific literature, and to use these statistics as the standard of care. I’m very familiar with the scientific method of research not only through my medical practice keeping abreast of the current scientific literature to update my own practice guidelines… …but also because for my entire life I’ve been the daughter of one of the lead scientists at the …

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Mar 16 2015

The Secret To A Long Life

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

Recently published on Jan 24, 2015 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition yet another study has come out showing that prolonged sitting each day is associated with an increased risk of death from all causes… …including: cancer cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. And important to note: exercising did not protect against this risk or prolong life… …even those who exercised strenuously had a higher risk of death if there were prolonged periods of sitting in between work outs. Turns out, sitting 6 hours or more a day raises your mortality risk no matter how hard you exercise …

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Mar 2 2015

3 Additional Ways To Protect Your Brain Volume

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Today I have three suggestions to help you protect the brain you have for a nice long lifetime. These recommendations are all based on medical reports — ones that I feel do not get highlighted enough — the POSITIVE meaningful study results that show holistic things you can do to take charge of your health… … like focus on protecting your brain volume! If you haven’t watched last week’s video on ways to boost your restorative sleep, you might want to pop over and watch it… …as deep restorative sleep is step ONE for healthy brain function …

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Feb 2 2015

Anxiety Ages You: 10 Ways To Reverse It

Sleep A Key Factor In ADHD

Three Medically Proven Ways To Save Your Brain

Spring Checklist: Feel Completely Renewed Inside And Out

Why Modern Medicine Is So Limited

The Secret To A Long Life

3 Additional Ways To Protect Your Brain Volume

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