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How To Repair The Sun Damage To Your Skin From Labor Day Weekend

Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Well over the holiday weekend I got a lot of much needed sunshine, and I hope you did too. If you are a long time reader of my blog, you’ll know that I am a big fan of the many health benefits of sunshine so I’m glad I got to enjoy it a little, but while sun exposure actually prolongs lifespan and is important to our physical and mental health, there is no denying that sun exposure is harsh on skin. Which means it’s time to repair my skin from this past summer’s sun damage as well as protect […]

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Sep 3 2024

Microplastics Are A Measurable Portion Of Your Body, Here’s How To Decrease That Amount

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

We’ve known about the toxic effect of microplastics on our environment for a long time now, and the dramatic effect it has on our oceans, on air quality, and to the wildlife living everywhere on earth. Microplastics are ubiquitous now, found in our food, in our water, and in our air. What is just now becoming more and more clear is how much these plastics are becoming part of our own body composition and affecting our health. Research over just the past five years has revealed the extent of plastic embedded in all of our major organ systems. Did

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Aug 26 2024

Send This To Your Friends Who Doubt The Benefits Of Grounding

Grounding, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Today I want to share with you my most recent publication. Just published in Trends In General Medicine on July 28, 2024, this is a fabulous overview on why grounding might be one of the healthiest lifelong habits you can get into. If you have any friends who are doubtful about the long term benefit of grounding, forward this article to them. You can print it out here or just read it below! Enjoy! xoxo, Laura Koniver MD PS — if someone forwarded this newsletter post to you and you’d like to have an uplifting, positive, empowering holistic

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Aug 19 2024

Grounding Lowers High Blood Pressure By A Significant Amount

Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

I’ve dedicated a significant portion of my professional career to sharing the latest medical research with you on grounding, and today I want to highlight a study I have not yet blogged about. Today’s the day to share this good news. I’m excited about this research, because high blood pressure is affects almost half of the adults in the United States (47%) which is roughly 116 million people in the United States alone. If you get my weekly newsletter (and if you don’t, you can sign up for it here!) then you already know that grounding is extremely

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Aug 12 2024

Using The Earth Outside To Clear Your Head And Help You Think

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

Do you like spending time in nature? Do you feel like you think more clearly after you have spent a little time outside? It’s not just a coincidence, your brain is actually being put into a healing state and helping you think more clearly, and we have several great medical studies to explain why. We already know that grounding to the earth outside immediately impacts our brains. This fantastic medical study, published in 2018, documents the brain wave shifts that happen near instantaneously, within milliseconds, recorded via an EEG (electroencephalogram) when the human body is grounded. Alpha wave patterns

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Aug 5 2024

Keep It Moving: 12 Ways To Improve Your Lymph Flow Today

Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Our lymphatic system is a key component of our immune system, and it includes our lymph nodes, lymphatic vessels and ducts, lymphatic fluid, and immune cells that help us fight infection. It also allows us to maintain evenly balanced fluids and is crucial in the absorption of fat soluble vitamins such as A, D, E and K, which are essential for long term health. Without proper circulation of our lymphatic fluid, we can develop swelling known as lymphedema. Most noticeable in the arms, legs, fingers and toes, this swelling can be highly uncomfortable, causing a feeling of heaviness,

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Jul 29 2024

9 Ways To Protect Longevity And Boost Your Stem Cell Regeneration

Health Videos, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

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. The above graphic comes from this fabulous meta-analysis on what we know about longevity so far and all the validated, research based ways to protect and even boost your health-span. Don’t want to read that article

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Jul 22 2024

How To Repair The Sun Damage To Your Skin From Labor Day Weekend

Microplastics Are A Measurable Portion Of Your Body, Here’s How To Decrease That Amount

Send This To Your Friends Who Doubt The Benefits Of Grounding

Grounding Lowers High Blood Pressure By A Significant Amount

Using The Earth Outside To Clear Your Head And Help You Think

Keep It Moving: 12 Ways To Improve Your Lymph Flow Today

9 Ways To Protect Longevity And Boost Your Stem Cell Regeneration

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