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Ease Holiday Stress With This One Essential Supplement

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

As we previously talked about here, probiotics have been found to be so powerful in stabilizing the mind/gut axis that they are actually a treatment for depression. Add to that, a new study that shows taking probiotics for only one month reduces stress, decreases anxiety and even improves memory! Researchers looked at the strain of Bifidobacterium longum and followed what effect this probiotic had when used as a “psychobiotic” — looking at mood, stress, and even cognitive performance. Turns out, not only does the gut play an essential role in your ability to absorb and utilize nutrients… …and …

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Nov 30 2015

Reducing Background Anxiety Increases Mental Clarity: Here’s How

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

Recently published in the Journal Of Neuroscience (June 2015) researchers looked at the role of norepinephrine in songbirds to determine what effect it has on stimuli detection and processing. What they found is that norepinepherine helped decrease the “background noise” of the brain, allowing songbirds to not only enhance their auditory signal detection but to accurately encode complex incoming information. With higher norepinepherine levels, the brain had less background activity and less spontaneous firing of neurons, allowing the songbirds to distinguish the relevant incoming information from irrelevant incoming information. Meaning… the less background noise in the brain, the …

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Nov 23 2015

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

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

Feel Centered And Powerful With This One Sentence (video)

Chakra Health, Health Videos / By Laura Koniver, MD

To find your own center, no matter what is going on with the world around you, is priceless. This is the power of your solar plexus… …to feel at peace with your own personal power so that you no longer have to struggle with the power struggles that dominate the world around you. If there is any issues in your solar plexus you might feel: anxious overlooked worried emotional tense powerless And you might have: a knot in your stomach an ulcer irritable bowel chronic constipation weight issues gall disease liver problems addictions eating …

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Nov 24 2014

Probiotics An Alternative To Antidepressants

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

A new study, published on Nov 15, 2013 in Biological Psychiatry, shows that probiotics might be more aptly named psychobiotics for their mind and mood enhancing effects. The latest statistics estimate that about one in every ten Americans now takes an antidepressant, and antidepressants are the third most prescribed form of medication. Whether because of personal preference, unwanted side effects, cost or other reasons, there are many folks looking for alternative, holistic solutions to treating depression and anxiety. Natural supplements like St. John’s Wort, Maca Root, Valerian, 5-HTP, GABA, and holistic therapeutic modalities such as acupuncture, massage, …

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Jan 13 2014

The Healthiest Ways To Release Any Stuck Emotions

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

Last week I talked about how the energy flow through your living space makes a big impact on how you feel living there, and I gave a few super easy ways to increase the fresh energy flow through the room. Likewise, the energy flow through your physical body determines how it feels to live in your body. When the energy is flowing through your body, you are releasing the old and welcoming in the new and healing happens effortlessly. In fact, that is what happens when the energy flows through your body: it gives rise to emotions… emotions …

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Nov 11 2013

Ease Holiday Stress With This One Essential Supplement

Reducing Background Anxiety Increases Mental Clarity: Here’s How

Anxiety Ages You: 10 Ways To Reverse It

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

Feel Centered And Powerful With This One Sentence (video)

Probiotics An Alternative To Antidepressants

The Healthiest Ways To Release Any Stuck Emotions

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