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Save Your Winter Skin With These 10 Unique Tips

Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Winter is a tough time for skin. The dry, heated air that cracks our vulnerable skin when we are indoors combines with whipping cold winds that chaff skin when we are outside… …absolutely no fun if you suffer from chronic skin conditions such as psoriasis, eczema or other forms of dermatitis. The very moment you turn on the heat… yes, even heat from natural heat sources such as wood burning stoves or gas fireplaces… the air dehumidifies and the skin begins to dry out. Another reason skin gets a double whammy in winter is that not only are …

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Jan 6 2020

Sauna & Grounding: A Win-Win Combo To Boost Your Health All Winter Long

Grounding, Health Videos / By Laura Koniver, MD

When it’s freezing cold outside, I love anything that boosts circulation and gets me feeling warmer — like grounding, sauna, steam room, hot baths, sleeping with a hot water bottle, massage, even exercise…. it just feels intuitively right to get your blood flowing. Sauna increases the circulation of blood all throughout your body — getting the blood pumping through your cardiovascular system, your muscles, your skin, your joints, your brain — so it turns out that routine sauna has many of the same health benefits that exercise does. So when the weather is too harsh outside, if …

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Dec 9 2019

It’s Way Too Cold For Me Outside… What I Do To Stay Grounded

Grounding, Health Videos / By Laura Koniver, MD

I hate cold. OMG I hate cold. I am super honest about that. Even though I just finished writing my new book: The Earth Prescription which has an entire chapter filled with the most fabulous Winter Grounding Ideas, I am totally transparent in disclosing that I just completely hate the cold. Until you can get your hands on that book and have unlimited ideas on grounding in the winter (you can pre-order autographed copies right here to be the first to get your hands on it!) I have created a bunch of videos for you to demonstrate how you …

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Dec 2 2019

8 Ways To Lift Your Mood In The Middle Of Winter

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

I’m no stranger to the winter blues… otherwise known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD.) This temporary blah feeling that accompanies the winter months is thought to be triggered by shortened hours of daylight, which causes an imbalance in melatonin rhythms and decreased serotonin levels in the brain. SAD is thought to have a genetic component as well, and sure enough, almost every woman I know in my family has a touch of the winter blues. But there are 8 things you can do right now to help re-balance your mood naturally and feel better this winter than you ever …

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Jan 21 2019

What I Do To Stay Helathy When It’s Too Cold To Exercise Outside

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

The weather is getting unbearably cold for me, so I thought today I would share with you what I do whenever it’s too cold (or I’m too lazy) to exercise I hit my local Y and sit in the sauna to reap very similar benefits to exercising, but without the hassle! Medically proven! Now this is a healing modality I can really get behind, because I LOVE HEAT. And I love love love anything that boosts circulation â€” like grounding, sauna, steam room, hot baths, sleeping with a hot water bottle, massage, exercise (ok, maybe not exercise…) …it just feels …

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Dec 10 2018

11 Essential Health Questions To Ask Yourself Every Fall

Healthy Mindframe, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

We are in mid September now, and the fall Equinox is this Saturday. And for so many of us, shorter days and longer nights means a dip in our mood. Fortunately, there are lots of great things to do to get prepared as the seasons change. Of course there are things like pulling out your sweaters and boots and knitting a scarf or two and planting a winter garden and getting the fireplace cleaned that you might look forward to this fall. But one thing that I get every year, and absolutely never look forward to, is a drop …

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Sep 17 2018

Winter Skin Help

Female Health, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Winter can be a tough time for anybody’s skin… painfully dry hands and cracked heels galore (ouch!) Dry heated air dehydrates and cracks your vulnerable skin while you are inside staying warm… …combine that with whipping cold winds that chaff skin when you are outside and winter is just no fun on your skin, especially if you suffer from chronic skin conditions such as psoriasis, eczema or other forms of dermatitis. Today I have a blog post for you that is full of wonderful things you can do to support tender dry winter skin and support skin health …

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Jan 2 2017

Save Your Winter Skin With These 10 Unique Tips

Sauna & Grounding: A Win-Win Combo To Boost Your Health All Winter Long

It’s Way Too Cold For Me Outside… What I Do To Stay Grounded

8 Ways To Lift Your Mood In The Middle Of Winter

What I Do To Stay Helathy When It’s Too Cold To Exercise Outside

11 Essential Health Questions To Ask Yourself Every Fall

Winter Skin Help

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