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The Fourth Leading Cause Of Death: Your Medicine Cabinet?

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

I just returned from a medical conference where I had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Ankur Patel, MD present on the risk of taking multiple medications. I was shocked to hear : that adverse drug interactions is the 4th leading cause of death in the United States, and someone dies from a drug interaction every 5 minutes in the United States alone. that if you are on 5 or more Rx medications, your risk of an adverse drug reaction is 58% that if you are on 7 or more Rx medications, your risk of an adverse drug reaction […]

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Nov 6 2023

Winter Sleep: 12 Ways To Hibernate Now For A Deep Reset Before Spring

Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

One of my main goals in writing free healing articles for you every single week year after year after year is to help link your body to the natural seasonal rhythms of the world around you — taking the seasonal variations into account in your healing journey allows you to more easily get an instant health boost — and long term being in a season rhythm is much less stressful on our body. Similar to eating seasonally available fresh foods in rotation throughout the year for your gut health, your sleep needs also fluctuate throughout the year. In

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Oct 30 2023

Everything You Need To Know About Sleeping Grounded This Winter

Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

I get asked every single day about the best ways to sleep grounded, and what to do and what not to do when sleeping grounded, so today I’m sharing all my thoughts in a free blog post so in the future I can direct inquires to this article! Here is everything you ever needed to know about sleeping grounded. Benefits From Sleeping Grounded: What do we know from the medical literature on the health benefits of sleeping grounded? Getting into the relaxed but alert alpha brain wave pattern, which is seen in deep meditative states

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Oct 23 2023

How To Protect Your Mental Health From Work Related Stress

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Because we are headed into cooler months, most of us will be spending more time indoors. When we are inside for most of the day, it affects our levels of stress and our mental health. In fact, job stress may cause as many as one out of every seven new cases of depression, anxiety and other common mental disorders, suggests a study published in Lancet Psychiatry. Researchers looked at over 6,800 participants, ranking job strain at age 45 with risk of mental illness at age 50. The results were astounding. Having a job that is highly

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Oct 16 2023

How To Heal Your Skin From Summer’s Sun Damage & Protect It From Winter’s Cold

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

Well it’s officially cold outside where I live, and there is no way I’m wearing a sundress or a bathing suit for the rest of the year. Which means it’s time to repair my skin from this past summer’s sun damage as well as protect it for the upcoming winter. To that end, today I’m going to share with you my 12 holistic skincare tips for the fall transition. Here we go: 12 Effective Tips To Repair And Protect Your Skin: 1. Get Your Body Grounded: This first tip will be no surprise to folks who already

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Oct 9 2023

12 Questions To Ask Yourself To Make Sure You’re Ready For Fall

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

The fall Equinox is this week, so we are officially headed into fall now! 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 18 2023

Tons Of Holistic Health Ideas To Help You Move Through Grief

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

A few years ago I became a Death Doula. You would think as a physician we would be taught in detail about the death and dying process in medical school, but we weren’t. Not at all. We were taught how to pronounce someone dead, how to preform advanced life support to try to stave off death, how to sign a death certificate… but never about the intricacies of it: what the body feels and experiences as the soul prepares to leave it, what the dying process looks like, what order the organ systems shut down in and how

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Sep 11 2023

The Fourth Leading Cause Of Death: Your Medicine Cabinet?

Winter Sleep: 12 Ways To Hibernate Now For A Deep Reset Before Spring

Everything You Need To Know About Sleeping Grounded This Winter

How To Protect Your Mental Health From Work Related Stress

How To Heal Your Skin From Summer’s Sun Damage & Protect It From Winter’s Cold

12 Questions To Ask Yourself To Make Sure You’re Ready For Fall

Tons Of Holistic Health Ideas To Help You Move Through Grief

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