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Why You Might Want To Consider Grounding At Work

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

Now that Labor Day is over and it’s back to work, I thought I’d write up an article about grounding in the workplace. If you are not sure what grounding is, I bet you know how it feels. If you have ever felt the relief of walking on the beach or spending an afternoon gardening, then you already know how supportive grounding can be and how it can help mitigate stress. Especially at work, especially when you are putting in hour after hour in artificial light, you are likely to feel disconnected from the natural rhythm of the …

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Sep 5 2023

Are Your Weight Struggles From Subclinical Hypothyroidism? Probably, Here’s Help

Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

What to do if counting calories, exercising, and making the environmental changes I suggested last week are not making any difference to your metabolism? What if you still feel sluggish, tired, and your weight just won’t budge? It could be subclinical hypothryoidism and adrenal fatigue. This super common condition is poorly understood and can literally simply be caused by prolonged stress. Ask yourself: have you been through a stressful period recently? Or have you been living under stress for a long period of time — months, years, even decades? If so, focusing on boosting thyroid and adrenal …

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May 8 2023

How Our Environment Can Cause Weight Gain & What You Can Do About It

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Although the traditional approach to weight loss focuses on calories in vs. calories burned, we are starting to become more and more aware about how our environment actually impacts our weight. There are many contributing factors, well beyond diet and exercise, that cause significant issues in our metabolism. In fact, the environment has such an impact on our weight that there is an entire category of environmental chemicals that are now considered obesogens — chemicals directly responsible for contributing to obesity. Obesogens increase fat has, modify our basal metabolic rate, alter our gut microbiota, promote chronic inflammation, interfere with …

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May 1 2023

The Two Best Ways Fast: Why It’s Easier Than Dieting & How To Do it

Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

This is the third and last blog post on losing weight easily and naturally — and that’s because this is the very last week you can sign up to join my in my 5 day Weight Reset Class! The first article was on losing stress-related weight. The second was on naturally boosting your metabolism. This last one will be a quick intro to fasting — a great lifestyle modification that has long term benefits that are hard to beat: decreased heart attack risk, decreased diabetes risk, decreased cancer recurrence rates, even boosted longevity. I review all of these benefits …

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Dec 19 2022

8 Highly Unusual But Effective Ways To Release Unwanted Weight

Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

Last week I shared with you a few tips on how to release weight that accumulates during times of stress, which happens to most of us over the holiday season. Stress weight gain is different from standard weight gain because it is stress-hormone driven. So focusing on rebalancing your adrenals — not dieting — is what works best. But today, I want to give you a few more tips on releasing regular, non-stress related, weight gain. Normal weight gain over time usually reflects a decrease in metabolism, so I’ve got a fantastic list of actionable tips — taken directly …

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Dec 12 2022

Stress Weight Gain Is Different Than Other Forms Of Weight Gain, Here’s Why

Healthy Weight, Intuitive Medicine / By Laura Koniver, MD

Gaining weight (or losing weight) unintentionally is a common response to chronic or acute stress. And stress weight is different from other forms of weight gain — it typically centers in the abdominal area and is the most stubborn type of weight to release. In fact, a poll conducted by the American Psychological Association found that most of us have experienced a significant weight change thanks to the stress of the pandemic. The poll revealed that 60% of Americans report undesired weight changes as a result of this stress. But I’m here to help. You can definitely reset your …

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Dec 5 2022

Holiday Eating And Drinking: What Party Foods To Eat (+ Why You Crave What You Do)

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Holiday stress isn’t just stress over picking out the perfect gift, figuring out how to afford travel (damn it’s so expensive!) or balancing social commitments. Most people report that being surrounded by rich holiday foods, alcohol, impulse eating, and weight gain during the holiday season adds a significant amount of stress as well. So as holiday season gets underway I wanted to give you a few tips on how to navigate this tricky but wonderful time of comfort food, decadent desserts, and celebratory toasts. If there was ever a time that people worry about their weight, it’s during the …

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Nov 28 2022

Why You Might Want To Consider Grounding At Work

Are Your Weight Struggles From Subclinical Hypothyroidism? Probably, Here’s Help

How Our Environment Can Cause Weight Gain & What You Can Do About It

The Two Best Ways Fast: Why It’s Easier Than Dieting & How To Do it

8 Highly Unusual But Effective Ways To Release Unwanted Weight

Stress Weight Gain Is Different Than Other Forms Of Weight Gain, Here’s Why

Holiday Eating And Drinking: What Party Foods To Eat (+ Why You Crave What You Do)

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