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Saturated Fat Does NOT Increase Mortality

Grounding, Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

This week, many of us are heading into the holidays. And as you head into a week of parties and connection and warmth and pot lucks and FOOD… I can think of no better holiday gift than this: To share with you, directly from the medical literature, the truth that saturated fat does NOT increase mortality. It’s not about the fat… saturated fat intake does not increase rate of death. It’s about the inflammation and the long term damage that inflammation does to your blood vasculature (and your entire body, from your gut lining to your …

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Dec 21 2015

A Supplement So Good For The Brain It Can Prevent Psychosis

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

So last week on the blog we talked about how teens are more affected by good moods than bad moods and how being around others with positive mood can help them recover from depression and even prevent it in the first place! What else can we do to support their brain? A new study published in Nature Communications (August 2015) showed that psychotic illness can actually be prevented long term… …even SEVEN YEARS LATER… …by a brief three month intervention with Omega 3 fatty acids! These results are so incredible they should be shouted and touted from …

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Oct 12 2015

Pesticide Exposure and Autism

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

There is ample proof to show that pesticides are contributing to the steep rise of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and developmental delay (DD.) The latest study was published a few weeks ago on June 23, 2014 in Environmental Health Perspectives. This study specifically links prenatal exposure of organophosphates (the most commonly applied agricultural pesticide) and other commonly used pesticides to autism rates in offspring. Pesticides are neurotoxins that are clearly having a known, predictable and permanent effect on the developing fetal neurology during gestation. This particular study looked at northern CA residents (the state of CA alone …

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Jul 28 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

Winter Checklist: 6 Ways To Feel Your Best All Winter Long

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

Once again, it’s time to post a winter checklist of all the things I have pulled together over the years to keep me feeling my best during the darkest month of the year. With Winter Solstice last weekend and Christmas, Kwanzaa and Winter Holidays this week… this is the perfect time to make sure we are doing all we can to feel our best and slow down and care for our inner spark while the world sleeps on around us. It’s okay to take these winter months slower, to tend to our inner needs more, and to make sure …

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Dec 23 2013

Dr. Sinatra Shatters Everything You Thought You Knew To Stay Heart Healthy

Grounding, Intuitive Medicine / By Laura Koniver, MD

The month of love, February, is Heart Month on my website! All this month I’ll be releasing information to keep your heart healthy. Today I have some extremely important information that you MUST KNOW to protect the longevity of your heart. Have you been told your high cholesterol level is bad for your heart? Are you on medication to treat high cholesterol? You may want to reconsider your medication and that outdated advice. Our cholesterol information is based on studies that are over 40 years old, so most of what we were taught about cholesterol is in medical …

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Feb 4 2013

Winter Checklist — are you pooping, sleeping, eating, hibernating enough?

Grounding, Healthy Weight, Intuitive Medicine / By Laura Koniver, MD

Here are all the things I have pulled together over the years to keep me feeling my best during the darkest month of the year. And with Winter Solstice coming at the end of the week, this is the perfect time to make sure we are doing all we can to feel our best and slow down and care for our inner spark while the world sleeps on around us. It’s okay to take these winter months slower, to tend to our inner needs more, and to make sure we are getting lots and lots of sleep. It’s not …

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Dec 17 2012

Saturated Fat Does NOT Increase Mortality

A Supplement So Good For The Brain It Can Prevent Psychosis

Pesticide Exposure and Autism

Omega 3’s Increase Brain Volume

Winter Checklist: 6 Ways To Feel Your Best All Winter Long

Dr. Sinatra Shatters Everything You Thought You Knew To Stay Heart Healthy

Winter Checklist — are you pooping, sleeping, eating, hibernating enough?

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