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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

Working With Your Brain, Not Against It, For Easier Weight Loss

Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

If you get my weekly newsletter (and sign up here if you don’t! It’s a fabulous, free, uplifting health resource!) than you already know I turned 50 this year. On my birthday I shared my mindframe heading into the second half-century of my life, along with some holistic longevity tips: I’m 50 Today! Musings On Turning A Half Century Old + 7 Longevity Tips Well turning 50 had me noticing perimenopausal symptoms — there is no more denying it — and with that has come a bit of weight gain. I found myself routinely internally shaming myself for

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May 20 2024

Improve Your Mental Health Naturally, Starting With Your Next Meal

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

Did you know that gluten is a neuro-irritant — meaning it causes inflammation in the brain and has been linked to cognitive decline, even directly to dementia? I wrote this article for you back in 2014 to help explain how dementia could be considered a gluten-induced condition. More recent evidence suggests that not only does the brain inflammation that gluten causes affect your brain, it might also be affecting your mental health, including causing or worsening mood disorders like depression and anxiety. As someone who has struggled with anxiety her entire life, I am very interested to read

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Mar 4 2024

You Can’t Lose Stress Weight By Dieting, Do These 10 Lifestyle Hacks Instead

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Are you having fun yet? As much as the holidays can be a meaningful time of connection, damn can it be stressful. You might typically associate stress with a tension headache, or difficulty sleeping at night, or being in a bad mood. But did you know stress also causes weight gain? But if you don’t know that stress causes weight gain, you’ll probably wind up blaming your diet and then stress out about every bite of food you eat. But that’s not necessary. In fact, stressing out about what you are eating actually contributes to more weight gain.

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Dec 18 2023

Can Cutting Out Bread Actually Improve Your Mental Health?

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

Long time readers of my blog already know, since I blogged about this almost a decade ago, that gluten is a neuro-irritant — meaning it causes inflammation in the brain and has been linked to cognitive decline, even dementia. I wrote this article for you back in 2014 to help explain how dementia could be considered a gluten-induced condition. More recent evidence suggests that not only does the brain inflammation that gluten causes affect your brain, it might also be affecting your mental health, including causing or worsening mood disorders like depression and anxiety. As someone who has

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Feb 27 2023

The Two Best Ways Fast: Why It’s Easier Than Dieting & How To Do it

Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

This is the third and last blog post on losing weight easily and naturally — and that’s because this is the very last week you can sign up to join my in my 5 day Weight Reset Class! The first article was on losing stress-related weight. The second was on naturally boosting your metabolism. This last one will be a quick intro to fasting — a great lifestyle modification that has long term benefits that are hard to beat: decreased heart attack risk, decreased diabetes risk, decreased cancer recurrence rates, even boosted longevity. I review all of these benefits

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Dec 19 2022

This Statistic Really Surprised Me About Fast Food (+ Quick Alternatives)

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

I am always finding something interesting in the medical literature, but I have to say this one surprised even me. A study, published by the National Center for Health Statistics, found that on any given day, over 1/3 of all adults in america aged 40 – 59 years old (37%) are consuming fast food. One out of three! That’s 85 million adults eating fast food on any given day. And sadly, for younger Americans that number is even higher — almost half of Americans (45%) aged 20 – 45 years old are eating fast food on any given

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Nov 1 2021

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

Working With Your Brain, Not Against It, For Easier Weight Loss

Improve Your Mental Health Naturally, Starting With Your Next Meal

You Can’t Lose Stress Weight By Dieting, Do These 10 Lifestyle Hacks Instead

Can Cutting Out Bread Actually Improve Your Mental Health?

The Two Best Ways Fast: Why It’s Easier Than Dieting & How To Do it

This Statistic Really Surprised Me About Fast Food (+ Quick Alternatives)

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