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Restorative Sleep… 6 Important Techinques To Get Rid Of Your Sleep Deficit For Good (video)

Health Videos, Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

You absolutely, 100% ***NEED*** deep, restorative sleep! It’s non-negotiable… poor sleep causes: memory impairment shorter life span: decrease response time + decreased motor skills = increased risk of accidents weight gain anxiety and other debilitating mood disturbances dementia and an increased incidence of Alzheimers widespread brain atrophy and much much more!!! For example, a recent study (published in Neurology on Sept 3, 2104) found a widespread change in brain volume with poor sleep over time. Researchers looked at 147 people and followed them (using MRI imaging) to look at the effects of poor sleep on the brain. …

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Jan 26 2015

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

Save Your Brain, Prevent Cancer… All With ONE Supplement

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

With winter solstice coming up, this is the perfect time to give a review of what the medical literature had to say this year about Vit D. I’ll tell you about the latest research and you can decide for yourself if you agree that Vit D is absolutely the ONE supplement you should be taking, even if you live in a sunny location. 1. Prevent and Recover from cancer A HUGE meta-analysis looking at 25 different studies and 17,700+ cancer patients found definitively, yet again, that higher levels of circulating Vit D at time of diagnosis was associated …

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Dec 15 2014

Broccoli Improves Autism (And 5 Other Natural Ways To Help)

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

A small but important study just revealed that a component of broccoli and broccoli sprouts (sulforaphane) can help give autistic patients a significant boost to social skills and verbal communication… naturally! Published Oct 13, 2014, researchers studied 40 males between the ages of 13 and 27… all who had moderate to severe autism. 26 received broccoli sprout extract (50 to 150 umol daily) and 14 received placebo and measured the results after 18 weeks. The results were impressive — almost half showed measurable improvement in several different areas including social and verbal skills. 46 % of participants …

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Nov 3 2014

8 Proactive Ways To Protect Against Ebola

Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

You’ve likely heard that the very first US Ebola patient died this early this morning. And if you are like most people, this brings up some underlying anxiety about health in general, epidemics, and communicable illness. I’ve seen enough tweets, FB posts, and gotten enough concerned emails in my inbox that I thought I would release a special blog post to help give you a bunch of positive, protective things you can do RIGHT NOW to proactively feel empowered, instead of worried. My collegue Dr. Sinatra (who appeared alongside me in the documentary The Grounded and the …

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Oct 8 2014

Your Outlook Can Literally Speed Brain Decline (and 9 ways to stop it)

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

Recently, several important medical studies have come to light proving that your outlook literally changes the function of your brain. Specifically, medical research shows that: cynicism increases dementia and neuroticism increases Alzheimers. This is really surreal for me, because as some of my longer term readers might remember, almost 4 YEARS AGO I blogged about an intuitive dream I had, one where I understood how thinking and brain structure are connected… …I even ended that blog post asking: “Do you think in the future we will have studies that back up our thoughts being able to effect lasting …

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Oct 6 2014

Probiotics Help Lower Blood Pressure

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

Honestly, what can’t probiotics do? They lift your mood, help digestion, alleviate constipation, boost your immune system, control yeast and fungal overgrowth, promote healthy skin, and now… … lower blood pressure! A recent meta-analysis looked at over 9 different clinical trials spanning over 500+ patients, and found that consuming probiotics lead to a decrease in systolic blood pressure by an average of 3.5 mmHg… …and the results were even more beneficial for folks who consumed more than one type of probiotic. Folks consuming more than one species of probiotics had an average drop of 5.8 …

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Sep 29 2014

Restorative Sleep… 6 Important Techinques To Get Rid Of Your Sleep Deficit For Good (video)

7 Ways To Feel Hopeful Even Under Incredible Stress

Save Your Brain, Prevent Cancer… All With ONE Supplement

Broccoli Improves Autism (And 5 Other Natural Ways To Help)

8 Proactive Ways To Protect Against Ebola

Your Outlook Can Literally Speed Brain Decline (and 9 ways to stop it)

Probiotics Help Lower Blood Pressure

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