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Sleep Dramatically Impacts Your Weight

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

I’m re-posting this important medical study I blogged about last year, because it came up during an interview that I just gave on BlogTalkRadio two weeks ago… …and I realized that so many folks still don’t know how dramatically lack of sleep can affect weight! A study published in SLEEP last July found that folks gained a significant amount of weight after only 5 days of poor sleep. Previous studies have shown a link between poor sleep and weight gain, but this is the first study where participants slept in-house in a sleep facility and the […]

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Aug 25 2014

Could Earthingâ„¢ Prevent Cancer?

Grounding, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

You’ve probably heard about the latest medical study looking at the benefits vs. risks of taking aspirin daily to prevent cancer. Experts now say that the benefits of taking aspirin to prevent some forms of cancer (namely, GI cancers such as colorectal cancer) outweighs the risks to taking this daily pharmaceutical. Published on August 6 in the Annals of Oncology, researchers looked at daily aspirin use and the reduction of GI, lung, prostate and breast cancers. The results were promising, showing a 30% – 35% reduction in the risk of developing colorectal cancer, a 25% reduction in the

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Aug 11 2014

Pesticide Exposure and Autism

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

There is ample proof to show that pesticides are contributing to the steep rise of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and developmental delay (DD.) The latest study was published a few weeks ago on June 23, 2014 in Environmental Health Perspectives. This study specifically links prenatal exposure of organophosphates (the most commonly applied agricultural pesticide) and other commonly used pesticides to autism rates in offspring. Pesticides are neurotoxins that are clearly having a known, predictable and permanent effect on the developing fetal neurology during gestation. This particular study looked at northern CA residents (the state of CA alone

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Jul 28 2014

Coffee Decreases Your Risk of Diabetes

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Published 3 months ago (April 2014) in Diabetologia, a new study found that drinking more coffee can dramatically decrease your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. This was a huge longitudinal study, looking at whether increasing or decreasing your coffee or tea intake changed the subsequent rate of type 2 diabetes development. Turns out, the answer is yes! Although several large studies have previously shown that coffee drinkers have lower rates of diabetes, this study was novel in that it followed large cohorts of people who changed their coffee or tea intake, and then followed their actual diabetes

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Jul 21 2014

A New Way For Me To Support You Directly

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

I’ve been asked repeatedly by both patients and online class participants to have a way to continue getting unlimited email support from me even after our live or online work has concluded. To this, I say YES! I love my patients and I love emailing them and being able to respond instantaneously to their health care concerns, changing life situations, and daily journey. I know that it’s not always possible or practical to schedule in frequent phone consultations and sometimes folks really want a connection and support from me more often than is possible with consultation plans.

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Jul 7 2014

My Fav Ways To Prevent Skin Cancer

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

This month SUMMER BEGINS! So today I want to share with you the sunscreen that I personally use to protect my children’s tender skin and my own skin as well. I’ll also walk you through my thoughts on the whole sunscreen dilemma… for us it is only our THIRD line of defense against skin cancer and in many instances I’d rather use no sunscreen at all than use the chemical sunscreens on the market. Why? Keep reading… In years past, I’ve recommended Colorescience Sunforgettable SPF 30 powder, which is a powdered form of titanium dioxide that is micronized

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Jun 9 2014

Summer Skin: A Party For Yeast

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

Yeast overgrowth is absolutely no fun. And it can really get worse in the warmer months as yeast love nothing more then moist, hot, sticky skin/mucosa to flourish on. I remember working with a sweet older female patient that was absolutely miserable with Candida growth all over her skin… and it was particularly bad underneath her breasts where they touched her upper abdomen. Being that it was a particularly hot summer, she was hot and itchy and in her own personal hell! I was a bit more conventional back then, so I’m especially thinking of her as I type

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Jun 2 2014

Sleep Dramatically Impacts Your Weight

Could Earthingâ„¢ Prevent Cancer?

Pesticide Exposure and Autism

Coffee Decreases Your Risk of Diabetes

A New Way For Me To Support You Directly

My Fav Ways To Prevent Skin Cancer

Summer Skin: A Party For Yeast

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