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Heart Centered Parenting eCourse starts Monday!

Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

It’s not too late to be added on to my Heart Centered Parenting eCourse. Starting this Monday, it’s three weeks of fun, inspirational, positive, and fresh ways to connect with your child and help encourage their innate connection to health and Well Being to thrive. Just click here and sign up to be added onto the email loop. You’ll get a daily newsletter into your inbox each morning, full of ideas of things to do with your child, each day a new topic. 15 topics in all… all of my favorite ways, as a physician and a mama, to encourage …

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Sep 30 2011

Thoughts on Health…. Chocolate for heart and brain health (yes, you heard me… chocolate!)

Female Health, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Wow, it is my complete pleasure and honor to bring you this tidbit of good news today, published recently in the British Medical Journal. Folks who consume chocolate often… we are talking every single day or even multiple times a day… have about a 40% reduced risk of heart attack and a 30% reduced risk of stroke. In fact, the patients who consumed the most chocolate had the most cardio and neurologic protection. About a third less risk of cardiovascular events and stroke combined attributed to chocolate intake. This was the finding of a huge, meta analysis looking at …

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Sep 26 2011

Thoughts on Health… Fish Oil effective treatment for ADHD

Medical Reports, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

My two sweetie pie children at the beach. Okay, this may be a stretch to include in the fish oil post, but hey… you know there are fish in this pic… and what else am I gonna use as a visual? I feel like I am trapped in backwards world. Honestly. We’ve known for quite a while that Omega 3 fatty acids are absolutely fabulous for the body… especially the brain… so you’d think this study, which shows Omega 3 supplementation is an effective treatment for ADHD, is no big surprise to the medical community. Wrong. Fish …

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Sep 19 2011

Thoughts On Health… seasonal allergies and the link to stress.

Health Videos / By Laura Koniver, MD

Part 4 of my “Seriousness is a Disease” series, today I discuss how prolonged stress physically changes your mucosal membranes and leads to a hyper-allergic response. If you missed Part 1 (brain health) or Part 2 (heart health) or Part 3 (joint health) give them a listen and catch up to speed on why I fervently believe that seriousness is a disease. Seriousness causes physical change in our bodies that are as damaging as most other diseases out there. I believe that when we led our lives from an overly serious vantage point, it causes us to live in a …

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Jul 25 2011

Thoughts on Health… clinical evidence that seriousness affects your body

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

This is part two in my series called “Seriousness is a Disease.” There is ample evidence in the medical literature that a prolonged serious attitude causes damage and aging to our bodies. The longer I live the more I realize that when I approach life with a serious or overly intense, analytical mindframe instead of a forgiving, playful, loving, joyful one… the more I see the effects of seriousness show up physically in my body. Seriousness literally ages our very being. In part 1, I discuss the evidence that seriousness affects the brain. In part 2, today, I show the …

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Jul 11 2011

Thoughts On Health… Seriousness Is A Disease

Health Videos, Healthy Mindframe / By Laura Koniver, MD

I am very excited to present this video to you today. This is a feeling I’ve had rumbling around in my heart for a while now… this feeling that seriousness is akin to a disease state. Certainly there is a time and a place for seriousness… reacting seriously to some life situations can be life saving, as you become focused, clear-headed, and intent on a goal. The problem with being serious only arises when we live in this reactionary state. What was meant to be a short time response to intense, and even life-threatening, situations has a tendency to become …

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Jun 27 2011

Thoughts on Health… Chronic Pain

Health Videos, Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine / By Laura Koniver, MD

Thanks for the wonderful feedback on the video I posted last week. If you missed it, you can check it out here. In that video, I presented the idea that disease is evidence of health. I used acute illnesses (like runny noses) and physical symptoms (like a tumor) to illustrate how physically expressing a disease allows movement towards health. I got several emails afterwards asking how chronic pain would play into that. So this video is really like part 2 — Disease as Evidence of Health… Chronic conditions. In it, I talk about what the energy of chronic pain represents …

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Jun 13 2011

Heart Centered Parenting eCourse starts Monday!

Thoughts on Health… Fish Oil effective treatment for ADHD

Thoughts On Health… seasonal allergies and the link to stress.

Thoughts on Health… clinical evidence that seriousness affects your body

Thoughts On Health… Seriousness Is A Disease

Thoughts on Health… Chronic Pain

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