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Anxiety Ages You: 10 Ways To Reverse It

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Published February 5, 2015 in the British Journal of Psychiatry, a new study shows that anxiety increases the rate of aging AND that treating anxiety helps reverse the aging process! Looking at over 2,300 patients with anxiety disorders and matched controls, researchers found that those with active anxiety had shorter telomere length than both those with no history of anxiety disorders and those with adequately treated anxiety disorders. Shorter telomere length is a known marker of aging, and the fact that telomere shortening can be reversed when an anxiety disorder is treated is awesome news. Telomeres are […]

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Apr 13 2015

Three Medically Proven Ways To Save Your Brain

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

A study recently released in Frontiers In Psychology on Jan 21, 2015 shows that meditation may actually slow age-related brain atrophy. Long-term meditators, examined under MRI imaging, were found to have less gray matter loss WIDESPREAD throughout the brain, when compared to controls who did not meditate. This is the largest study to date looking at effects of mediation on the brain! The details: 50 men and women who were long-term meditators were compared with matched controls of the exact same sex and age, but who did not meditate at all. The participants were all imaged using the

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Mar 30 2015

Skin Care Round Up — holistic moisturizing, exfoliation, and wound healing

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

My skin care motto is: simplify. Let me tell you a little about my background… Before becoming a full time Mommy I was considering going into Dermatology, so in medical school I took three times the regular amount of training in Dermatology as a result. I also spent four summers throughout college working at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD… working with a research team who was investigating oncogenes. And… as I mentioned in my sunscreen article last week, my father was a top scientist at the forefront of melanoma research, so in my lifetime I’ve gotten a

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Jul 15 2013

Tooth Whitening The Organic Way… 3 Simple Steps.

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Here is another post I wrote just prior to our family crisis. I wrote today’s post several weeks ago, during the simple, beautiful, pre-divorce days when my life was full of silly fun things like curling my hair and making my teeth nice and white. Because I had gotten so many emails asking about holistic tooth whitening, I wrote this post to give you the scoop on how to brighten and whiten your smile without any toxic chemicals. I *trust* and I *believe* that those silly fun days will return, better than ever, because we will naturally re-align

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Jun 10 2013

Thoughts On Health… FAQ: Skin Care

Female Health / By Laura Koniver, MD

This past week I was asked by three different folks about skin care, so I think this topic is calling for me to blog about it! My motto is: simplify. Let me back up and tell you a little about my background… I briefly considered going into Dermatology when I was in med school, so I took three times the regular amount of training in Dermatology as a result. I’ve always been fascinated by skin and surgical procedures, so I really enjoyed those rotations, chock full of both. I also spent four summers throughout college working at the National Cancer

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Jan 10 2011

Anxiety Ages You: 10 Ways To Reverse It

Three Medically Proven Ways To Save Your Brain

Skin Care Round Up — holistic moisturizing, exfoliation, and wound healing

Tooth Whitening The Organic Way… 3 Simple Steps.

Thoughts On Health… FAQ: Skin Care

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