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Using Grounding To Fix Your Circadian Rhythm & Get Deeper Sleep This Winter

Winter is literally designed to ensure you repair your sleep. Any sleep deficit you build up over the course of the year gets this one, perfect chance to be eliminated. The entire world grows darker, your body is gearing for hibernation, and fixing any sleep issues, getting back into a health day/night pattern, is exactly what you need to emerge this spring feeling better than ever. Most people believe that our circadian rhythm is dependent on sunlight to set that pattern for us, but scientists have actually known since 1970 that the earth’s energy field has as […]

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Nov 18 2024

Your Waistline Is Telling You That You Are Under Chronic Stress… Here Is What To Do About It

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

An expanding waistline is actually a very common response to stress, and it signals that you are producing too much cortisol as a response to prolonged stress. I think of fat accumulation in the central abdominal area not as a marker of being overweight as much as it’s a marker of stress and high cortisol levels. So instead of monitoring your eating, maybe what you should be monitoring is your cortisol and stress levels. Because stress weight gain is different from other forms of weight gain — it typically centers in the abdominal area and is the

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Jun 10 2024

Stress Weight Gain Is Different Than Other Forms Of Weight Gain, Here’s Why

Healthy Weight, Intuitive Medicine / By Laura Koniver, MD

Gaining weight (or losing weight) unintentionally is a common response to chronic or acute stress. And stress weight is different from other forms of weight gain — it typically centers in the abdominal area and is the most stubborn type of weight to release. In fact, a poll conducted by the American Psychological Association found that most of us have experienced a significant weight change thanks to the stress of the pandemic. The poll revealed that 60% of Americans report undesired weight changes as a result of this stress. But I’m here to help. You can definitely reset your

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Dec 5 2022

Grounding To Balance Your Hormones

Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Hormones are the signs in your body telling each organ system how to function together. Hormones are all about the interplay between organ systems and keeping the entire human body safe and functioning as one… that’s their role. So when grounding supports our hormone balance, it’s so exciting, because that means grounding is not just helping one specific organ system but instead it’s impacting how you feel and function as a whole. The classic example is how our gut interplays with our hormones. Conventional medicine is just starting to realize how gut inflammation and what we eat affects many

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Jul 8 2019

A New Way To Measure Stress… Your Hair

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

We all know someone’s who’s hair has literally seemed to turn grey overnight from stress… …it’s a very real thing. I know during the time when, years ago, my kids and I were unexpectedly abandoned by my then-husband who disappeared one night (and the stressful subsequent divorce that ensued) I got my fair share of grays that seemed to pop up daily and have remained in place right now, even 5+ years later. We also know during times of chronic stress, hair can become markedly thinner, falling out strand by strand or in clumps, even clogging your shower

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Jul 16 2018

Using Grounding To Fix Your Circadian Rhythm & Get Deeper Sleep This Winter

Your Waistline Is Telling You That You Are Under Chronic Stress… Here Is What To Do About It

Stress Weight Gain Is Different Than Other Forms Of Weight Gain, Here’s Why

Grounding To Balance Your Hormones

A New Way To Measure Stress… Your Hair

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