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Your Ultimate Guide To A New Year, New You & A New Metabolism

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

It’s no secret that one of the most popular New Years resolutions of all time is to lose weight. In my medical opinion, losing weight is not about reducing calorie intake, and it’s not honestly even predominately about what you eat at all. Although making nutrient dense food choices is a crucial part of your long term health, the type of weight gain I see most commonly is actually driven by stress. A combination of poor sleep, high cortisol levels, and a decrease in metabolism all combine to make losing weight, or even staying at the same …

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Dec 27 2021

Grounding To Boost Your Metabolism & Lose Weight

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

Directly touching the earth impacts your metabolic functions, and as I found out, can even help you lose weight. The first study to look at the basal metabolic rate of grounding was published in 2010. In this study, half of the participants were grounded and half were sham-grounded in a double-blind placebo-controlled study. After grounding (or sham grounding) the patients for 40 minutes, all of the parameters of metabolic function immediately improved in all of the grounded patients, but that boost was not seen in any of the ungrounded patients. Heart rate increased slightly, respiratory rate increased, and …

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Jul 1 2019

Yet Another Study Showing That Overweight Is Healthier Than Underweight

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

A new study, this time looking at breast cancer, found the same thing that several previous studies have revealed: it’s better to be overweight than underweight. The latest study, published in JAMA Oncology on June 21, 2018, found that a higher BMI was associated with lowered breast cancer rates. Especially if the BMI was higher in early adulthood, there was a reduced risk of premenopausal breast cancer. The Study: Researchers collected data from over 750,000 premenopausal women throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Looking at the BMI of women ages 18 to 54 years old and …

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Sep 24 2018

Yet Another Study Gives Survival Advantage To Overweight, Not Underweight

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

Well I thought this would be the perfect medical article to blog about this week, as many of us tuck into eating huge delicious Thanksgiving holiday meals! If you are going to eat, don’t make those calories laden with guilt and remorse and negative thinking. As you can read in one of my previous blog posts, fat shaming physically harms your health. Don’t allow shame over food choices or weight to ruin your well being. Release the negative thinking and just enjoy what you eat. To help with that, here is a recently published medical study …

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Nov 20 2017

How Your Digestion is Linked To Your Emotions

Chakra Health, Healthy Weight, Intuitive Medicine / By Laura Koniver, MD

Everybody already knows this… that digestion and emotions are directly linked. You know that sudden feeling when you are scared and you become instantly nauseous? As a mom I got that feeling all the time when my kids were younger and I lost sight of them for a moment in a public place. It’s a horrendous feeling… it doesn’t matter how hungry you were or how long since your last meal — in life-or-death situations, hunger immediately evaporates and the rest of your senses are heightened (heart pounding and ears and eyes on maximum alert) and you scan the crowd …

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Aug 20 2012

Your Ultimate Guide To A New Year, New You & A New Metabolism

Grounding To Boost Your Metabolism & Lose Weight

Yet Another Study Showing That Overweight Is Healthier Than Underweight

Yet Another Study Gives Survival Advantage To Overweight, Not Underweight

How Your Digestion is Linked To Your Emotions

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