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New Study Finally Reveals If Vitamins Help Improve Cognition As We Age

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

A new study, published Sept 14, 2022 in Alzheimers & Dementia, is the largest randomized clinical trial on multivitamin use in healthy brain aging. It’s a three year long trial following annual cognitive assessments on over 2,250 patients that were randomly assigned either a daily multivitamin, a 500 mg daily flavanol supplement (from cocoa extract) or a placebo supplement. What researchers found was that not only did taking a daily vitamin help preserve cognitive function, but it actually helped significantly improve it over baseline (and over placebo) by the third year. Meaning it didn’t just help prevent cognitive …

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Oct 10 2022

Women Need Time In Nature To Reboot, Here’s Why

Grounding / By Laura Koniver, MD

There are so many wonderful reasons for women to connect with Mother Earth â€” and they are medically studied, with strong evidence that the earth offers clinically significant benefits. That’s why grounding is one of my favorite recommendations to treat a variety of female health issues as well as protect future wellness. Today I wanted to run through my favorite 7 reasons I love grounding for women… just a quick overview for you along with lots of resources to dive deeper into any topic that calls to you. Please share this list with the women in your life …

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Dec 6 2021

One Simple Thing You Can Do To Protect Your Brain Throughout Your Lifetime

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Do you eat fish regularly? Do you take Omega 3 fatty acid supplements? You may want to consider it, because the role of Omega 3 fatty acids in protecting our brain health is becoming more and more robust. Today I wanted to round up my favorite medical studies for you on how fatty acids impact our brain function so you can see why it’s one of my absolute favorite supplements to recommend. Here are my top three reasons why I take fish oil every single day myself: Protecting Brain Volume: The medical literature suggests that higher levels …

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Nov 15 2021

It’s Summer: Decrease Your Skin Cancer & Photoaging Risk, Naturally

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Well it’s finally summer, and we can capitalize on the fact that outdoors is the safest place to be (even the CDC has published recommendations that all windows in homes, offices, and schools be kept open to increase venhilation) you can take advantage of the fact that sunlight is naturally germicidal and the Vitamin D boost you get is naturally immune boosting and move all of your indoor activities outside! So this brings up concerns about skin cancer and photo aging effects from sun exposure — but don’t let that stop you from going outside. Here’s why. A …

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Jun 8 2020

Feel Immediate Relief With Grounding: Relax Your Muscles, Strengthen Your Bones

Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Our musculoskeletal system, the bones, muscles, ligaments and joints that hold us together and allow us to function all day long, is the perfect conduit for grounding. When you touch the earth outside, your entire body is instantaneously grounded and this is because your entire musculoskeletal system is conductive. The fact that our entire skeleton as well as the connective tissues that hold all our organs and soft tissues in place within our skeleton is a conductive conduit for healing is the basis for how and why grounding works. The first medical study to reveal this was …

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Jun 10 2019

A Sense Of Purpose In Life Medically Proven To Help Your Body Stay Younger… 9 Powerful Ways To Do It

Chakra Health, Grounding, Healing Artwork, Health Videos, Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Having a sense of purpose and meaning in life helps to preserve the physical function of your body, as you can probably intuitively feel. The more you feel like you have a reason to get up each day, the more powerful your intention and your presence and your movement will be all day long. But how does this translate over a lifetime of using your body? A new medical study backs up the idea that an intentional, meaningful daily existence translates to a healthier body over a lifetime. The Study (published in JAMA Psychiatry on August 16, 2017): …

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Aug 28 2017

Sauna To Protect Your Brain

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Now this is a medical study I can really get behind! Woot! I LOVE HEAT. And I love love love anything that boosts circulation — like grounding, sauna, steam room, hot baths, sleeping with a hot water bottle, massage, exercise… …it just feels intuitively right to get your blood flowing, don’t you think? Turns out there are lasting benefits to getting your brain circulation boosted through heat specifically… having regular sauna bathing decreases risk for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease! Researchers had previously discovered that men who used a sauna two or more times a week had significantly …

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Apr 10 2017

New Study Finally Reveals If Vitamins Help Improve Cognition As We Age

Women Need Time In Nature To Reboot, Here’s Why

One Simple Thing You Can Do To Protect Your Brain Throughout Your Lifetime

It’s Summer: Decrease Your Skin Cancer & Photoaging Risk, Naturally

Feel Immediate Relief With Grounding: Relax Your Muscles, Strengthen Your Bones

A Sense Of Purpose In Life Medically Proven To Help Your Body Stay Younger… 9 Powerful Ways To Do It

Sauna To Protect Your Brain

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