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Movement Immediately Helps Your Memory Improve, Right Then And There

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

A recent medical study caught my eye, so today I am excited to share it with you here. Researchers looked at how exercise helps to boost memory, and found that there are literally immediate benefits to your memory function after literally just one bout of exercising. Published September 2020 in Scientific Reports, this study finds that one session of exercising (cycling on a stationary bike was the exercise used in this study) significantly improved motor sequence memory — immediately! This is super encouraging, because it was not looking at just the long term benefits from exercise (which […]

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Oct 4 2021

Your Brain On Mother Earth

Grounding, Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

There is a beautiful relationship that our brain has with the energy of mother earth. This helps support everything our brain helps us to do â€” from enhancing our mood to maintaining a healthy weight to deepening our restorative sleep. Most people believe that our circadian (day/night) rhythm is dependant on sunlight to set that pattern for us, but scientists have actually known since 1970 that the earth’s energy field has as much, if not more, to do with our sleep/wake pattern than even the sun. Here’s how: Researchers built two underground isolation chambers that completely cut

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Jun 17 2019

When You Are Doing Something Meaningful, Your Brain Works Better

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

Now there is medical proof that the more you are self motivated when learning something, the better your brain works. Published October 22, 2014 in Neuron, researchers found that having your own internal motivation, in the form of curiosity, not only allows your brain to have enhanced memory and function. Being curious about learning something enhanced the study participants absorption and ability to master the information they were curious to learn and even enhanced their ability to remember non-related information alongside it. Researchers could literally see the brain enhance function on MRI when the subject was highly curious

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Dec 17 2018

10 Ways To Use A Cell Phone More Safely

Electrosensitivity, Health Videos, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

On the heels of the largest cell phone study ever conducted, which I blog about here, I wanted to create a quick video giving you some easy, actionable ways to decrease your radiation exposure while still having access to your cell phone when you need to use it. I know I rely on my cell phone on a daily basis both personally and professionally… so I know that giving up my cell phone is not a realistic answer for me. But as a holistic physician, I also realize that every single cell in our body functions on the basis

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Jun 18 2018

Grounding Instantly Helps Your Brain, Mood, and Sleep

Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

As I’ll talk about with you on today’s video… EEG studies of brain activity show that grounding instantaneously shifts our brain wave patterns and reduces ambient stress levels. Getting into the relaxed but alert alpha brain wave pattern, which is seen in deep meditative states and healing sleep states, is the hallmarks of grounding. Grounding allows the brain to spend more time in that healing, restorative alpha brain wave state, and allows us to feel calm and alert during waking hours as well. Deeper, more restorative sleep at night puts us in a zone of healing, while lack of

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Feb 19 2018

I Had No Idea This One Neurotransmitter Changes Everything We Know About Aging

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

Serotonin is historically linked with depression — and poor sleep as well — since serotonin is the precursor to melatonin and folks who are low in serotonin are likely low in melatonin too. (Which sucks because as I blog about here, folks struggling with depression are only likely to have the depression resolve if they are sleeping well.) But today’s medical study truly blew me away, because it reveals that serotonin isn’t just linked with depression and sleep, but with cognition. In fact, this study suggests that the decline in cognition and memory issues as we age isn’t simply

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Dec 18 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

Movement Immediately Helps Your Memory Improve, Right Then And There

Your Brain On Mother Earth

When You Are Doing Something Meaningful, Your Brain Works Better

10 Ways To Use A Cell Phone More Safely

Grounding Instantly Helps Your Brain, Mood, and Sleep

I Had No Idea This One Neurotransmitter Changes Everything We Know About Aging

Sauna To Protect Your Brain

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