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How Your Mom’s Love Affects Your Health As An Adult

  Did you know you still had some of the amniotic fluid you incubated in when you were in your mother’s womb inside your brain to this very day? Yep, some of the original fluid that was there surrounding you as a fetus in the womb is what makes up your cerebrospinal fluid that bathes your brain right now. Cerebrospinal fluid is super important not only because it cushions, hydrates and protects your brain inside your skull, but because it actually pulses and moves throughout your neurons, bathing them with fresh nutrients and even flushing out toxic by-products.  It’s also […]

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My Latest Painting (+ 9 Ways To Feel More Hopeful Today)

    Do you ever feel alone? Do you need a reminder that being alone is an illusion? No one ever truly walks alone, ever.  Sometimes you can almost catch it out of the corner of your eye — the souls that surround you. Certainly sometimes you can feel it.  The layers and layers and layers of generations of ancestors that have come before you, lived entire lives, and created all the generations of family that culminated in who you are … countless souls looking over you, excited for you, loving on you, watching you, proud of you, experiencing continued

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Chocolate To Boost Your Metabolism? Uh Yes Please (+ Additional Benefits)

    I love chocolate so much I even have a bowl of chocolates in my office I eat from almost every day.  Now I don’t recommend a bowl of easily accessible sugary treats to be within arms reach while you are trying to work, speaking from personal experience, ahem… but let’s gloss over that for now and instead focus on why eating chocolate in moderation may not be as bad for you as might assume! Most medical studies looking at the health properties of chocolate focus on dark chocolate (for good reason, as dark chocolate is a rich source

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Welcome Spring With This Refreshing Grounded Mediation You Can Do Right Now

    I’ve long been a fan of the health benefits of meditation, so I was really excited when a new medical study confirmed that mindfulness meditation significantly reduces pain, and does so in a totally unique neuropathway that is completely separate from any pain relief that is found through the placebo effect. Turns out, meditation modifies pain brain patterns to help break you out of repetitive pain signals.  I talk about that in this TikTok for you here and you can also read the study for yourself here. @laurakonivermd Nope #meditation #placebo #pain #painrelief #holistichealth #laurakonivermd #intuitionphysician ♬ original

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My Top 9 Longevity Tips For You To Feel Your Best

    As I talked about in my last video on aging, aging can be simplified down to a balance between inflammation that accrues over a lifetime vs. your body’s stem cell regeneration. So we can approach longevity by both sides, decreasing inflammation in the body and protecting (even boosting) stem cell function so we can renew and refresh our organ systems for longer.   Graphic shared from: Li, X., Li, C., Zhang, W. et al. Inflammation and aging: signaling pathways and intervention therapies. Sig Transduct Target Ther 8, 239 (2023)   The above graphic comes from this fabulous meta-analysis

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Improve Your Mental Health With Your Very Next Meal (+ 5 More Things You Can Do Today To Feel Relief)

    As someone who has struggled with anxiety her entire life, I am very interested to read up on medical studies exploring ways that our diet impacts our mental health (I’ve blogged for you in the past right here about foods that increase anxiety, and yep, gluten was on that list!) because this also provides natural, holistic ways to help reduce anxiety and depression — by simply reducing or eliminating gluten. That’s just one example of how our mental health can be shaped by the foods we choose to eat.  Last week I told you how a keto diet

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Ketogenic Diet Found Incredibly Helpful For All Types Of Eating Disorders

    Eating disorders were totally glossed over in medical school, and that’s because they are notoriously hard to treat, so there were not a lot of solutions presented to us.  In fact, still to date there are no effective biological treatments for Anorexia Nervosa. But a new study offers hope, and not only that, but it is a simple, holistic, all natural way to address eating disorders without expensive medications, therapies or treatment programs.  Just a dietary modification that has the ability to successfully treat Anorexia Nervosa so well that it puts patients into multi-year long remissions without relapse.

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