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Preventing Alzheimers…

Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

(We saw this double rainbow out of our window when we were driving in the rain a few weeks ago… my hubby was driving and I snapped this blurry pic to capture the magic!) Alzheimers runs on one side of my family, so this is a topic very near and dear to my heart. I’d like to do whatever I can while I am still mid-life to protect my brain as much as possible from developing this devastating disease. Thankfully there are some very simple things you can do to boost your brain’s health and help ward off Alzheimers. …

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Jun 11 2012

Everything Is Possible… an exercise in cultivating wonder

Healing Artwork, Healthy Mindframe, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

When nothing is sure, Everything is possible. – Margaret Drabble “Live In Possibility” On Wednesday we talked about how the brain ages… how it’s natural tendency is to get stuck in routine, limited by the confines of the skull, limited by concrete thinking. As we age, our brain goes literally from being malleable, flexible, growing, open fontanels and unfused skull plates to: encasement in bone linear thinking a huge storage place for labels and facts repetitive neuronal pathways. If you can find a way to keep your neuronal interconnections growing, you literally keep your brain younger. Adaptable. Warding …

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Jun 8 2012

Stop Suffering… Embrace Your Adaptability

Healthy Mindframe / By Laura Koniver, MD

“Staying Open Minded” There’s a lot of suffering in thinking you should know and be right and figure things out and that sort of thing. When we are out there in ego, we believe we can know and should know. When we come back to center, we realize that we don’t know and we don’t need to know. So it’s a coming back to center that has us on the right path. – Cheri Huber The brain is our knowledge power house. It is our database, stores our memories, sorts facts, a filing cabinet which processes new information …

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Jun 6 2012

Eat This… Save Your Brain!

Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Hi Peeps!!! I have a great list of foods for you today as we begin the month of June focusing on ULTIMATE BRAIN HEALTH!!! On Wed and Fri I am going to outline for you the energy of the brain and how we can use our thinking to really facilitate keeping our brains flexible, adaptable and young. You really don’t want to miss that! In the meantime, I’ve read the latest studies in the medical literature and compiled a great list of foods for you to eat for maximum brain health. Let’s commit to eating these types of foods …

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Jun 4 2012

There are always two ways to think…

Healing Artwork, Healthy Mindframe / By Laura Koniver, MD

This “Think Differently” altered text page was so much fun for me to create. I took my old medical school anatomy lab textbook and spent the day marking up the pages with paint and inks. In the following weeks I’ll share with you several others I created… but they all make the same point: life isn’t linear and we don’t need to pretend that it is! There really are two ways to look at everything… unfortunately we only learn about the surface facts in medical school. We are tested on the labels and names of each part of the …

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Jun 1 2012

Thoughts on Health…. Chocolate for heart and brain health (yes, you heard me… chocolate!)

Female Health, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Wow, it is my complete pleasure and honor to bring you this tidbit of good news today, published recently in the British Medical Journal. Folks who consume chocolate often… we are talking every single day or even multiple times a day… have about a 40% reduced risk of heart attack and a 30% reduced risk of stroke. In fact, the patients who consumed the most chocolate had the most cardio and neurologic protection. About a third less risk of cardiovascular events and stroke combined attributed to chocolate intake. This was the finding of a huge, meta analysis looking at …

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Sep 26 2011

Thoughts On Health… Seriousness Is A Disease

Health Videos, Healthy Mindframe / By Laura Koniver, MD

I am very excited to present this video to you today. This is a feeling I’ve had rumbling around in my heart for a while now… this feeling that seriousness is akin to a disease state. Certainly there is a time and a place for seriousness… reacting seriously to some life situations can be life saving, as you become focused, clear-headed, and intent on a goal. The problem with being serious only arises when we live in this reactionary state. What was meant to be a short time response to intense, and even life-threatening, situations has a tendency to become …

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Jun 27 2011

Preventing Alzheimers…

Everything Is Possible… an exercise in cultivating wonder

Stop Suffering… Embrace Your Adaptability

Eat This… Save Your Brain!

There are always two ways to think…

Thoughts On Health… Seriousness Is A Disease

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