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New Study Proves Dementia Is Preventable (Here’s How…)

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

Here is some good news you don’t hear very often… …directly from the medical literature: Dementia is on the decline. Even with obesity and diabetes rates steadily increasing in a population that is aging, the rate of dementia is actually significantly decreasing, and has been for the past 30 years! Although our population is aging, the incidence of dementia has dropped by 20% every decade over the three decades. These results, recently published on Feb 10, 2016 in the New England Journal of Medicine, give more than hope… they give definitive proof that dementia is a preventable …

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Mar 7 2016

Low Vit D Linked To Increase In Dementia And Broken Bones (You Can Prevent It)

Female Health, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Low vitamin D levels are associated with a substantial acceleration of memory loss and cognitive decline, a new study shows. Published Sept 14, 2015 in JAMA Neurology, researchers looked at baseline vitamin D levels and mental status change in over 380 adults (average age 75 years old.) Here is what they found: 35% of participants were vit D insufficient. Average vit D levels were lowest among participants found to have dementia (average levels were 16 ng/mL — goal vit D levels are 40 ng/mL or higher according to the Vitamin D Council.) Followed for almost 5 years, …

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Feb 1 2016

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

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

Anti-Aging… My Top Recommendations

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

Recently I got an email from a lovely soul enrolled in my Unlimited Email Plan… …She wanted to know what I recommended for Anti-Aging. Wow… that’s a big topic! So, I thought I’d share some of my approach with you on the blog today in the hopes that you might get a fresh idea or two to incorporate into your day. Generally for anti-aging there are three angles you could focus on: 1 — skin (yes it’s superficial but still important and young skin just feels so lovely!) 2 — body/internal health and 3 — the mind. …

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May 12 2014

Dementia: A Gluten Induced Condition (And What To Do About It)

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

Last week I shared a new study that proves and association between Alzheimers Disease and pesticide exposure… and 4 things you can do to decrease your own risk. This week, I want to continue with the focus on brain health and share with you a very interesting idea that I’ve begun to embrace whole-heartedly… …that gluten may be casting a brain-fog over our entire civilization! Enter this book: Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar — Your Brain’s Silent Killers, by Dr. David Perlmutter, Associate Professor at the University of Miami School of …

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May 5 2014

Omega 3’s Increase Brain Volume

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

You know I love sharing positive holistic health news with you here. And today is the best! Positive health information is the only kind of health news I feel is worth focusing on… coupled with practical things you can do TODAY to increase your health and well being for a lifetime. I literally scour the medical literature to bring you something uplifting each and every week. Nothing bothers me more than medical reports or natural health news that try to effect change by creating fear about our health, fear about the foods we consume, fear about the impending …

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Mar 3 2014

New Study Proves Dementia Is Preventable (Here’s How…)

Low Vit D Linked To Increase In Dementia And Broken Bones (You Can Prevent It)

Anxiety Ages You: 10 Ways To Reverse It

Three Medically Proven Ways To Save Your Brain

Anti-Aging… My Top Recommendations

Dementia: A Gluten Induced Condition (And What To Do About It)

Omega 3’s Increase Brain Volume

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