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5 Crucial Ways To Support Your Child As They Head Back To School

Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

It’s mid-august, and that means back-to-school season, so the next three blog posts are here to help support your transition to that this time brings. There can be a lot of stress associated with back-to-school season. For some, back-to-school means an increased risk of in person bullying (as well as social media bullying) and scary headlines that include school shootings, piled on top of the normal stressors of navigating growing up and figuring out a career goal and growing from a child’s body into an adult body and all the growing pains in between, as well as …

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Aug 14 2023

How Our Environment Can Cause Weight Gain & What You Can Do About It

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Although the traditional approach to weight loss focuses on calories in vs. calories burned, we are starting to become more and more aware about how our environment actually impacts our weight. There are many contributing factors, well beyond diet and exercise, that cause significant issues in our metabolism. In fact, the environment has such an impact on our weight that there is an entire category of environmental chemicals that are now considered obesogens — chemicals directly responsible for contributing to obesity. Obesogens increase fat has, modify our basal metabolic rate, alter our gut microbiota, promote chronic inflammation, interfere with …

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May 1 2023

7 Anti-Aging Daily Routines That Are Absolutely Worth Doing

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

Well hello there! I’m getting older. This past weekend was my birthday! 49 — it feels like a transition year, the perfect year to get everything sorted so I can jump into my 50s feeling my best… or at least that’s the goal. To celebrate, I wanted to share my daily wellness routines that I do to keep improving my health and boosting longevity — each one of these are scientifically backed with research so that I know it is worth my time. And yours. Watch this 3 minute video and I’ll run you through each of them …

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Mar 13 2023

Your 2023 Healing Mantra: Say This Every Day & Have The Healthiest Year Yet

Healthy Mindframe / By Laura Koniver, MD

Hello you! It’s almost 2023. This is just a reminder for you to remember, as you start a new year of your life: Your body is completely new inside and out every few years. All of your organs (except for one) completely regenerates, repairs, and optimizes on a continuous basis. Some parts of your body are so fresh and new that they are only one day old… the cornea of your eye, for example. Your cornea can completely regenerate every 24 hours. Some parts are a little older… the lining of your intestines, for example, are …

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Dec 26 2022

8 Unusual Grounding Tools You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Grounding / By Laura Koniver, MD

I get asked all the time about alternatives to the cheap plastic grounding mats and bed pads, from folks wondering if there are more eco-friendly alternatives to the synthetic, hot, sticky mats and polyester synthetic sheets that eventually sit in a landfill for hundreds of years. The answer is yes! There are eco-friendly, all natural, organic, hand crafted and locally made grounding mats and bed pads (you can check them out right here.) But when I also tell folks there are other eco-friendly ways to get grounded — ways that utilize items you already own, for example: making …

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Oct 24 2022

New Study Finally Reveals If Vitamins Help Improve Cognition As We Age

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

A new study, published Sept 14, 2022 in Alzheimers & Dementia, is the largest randomized clinical trial on multivitamin use in healthy brain aging. It’s a three year long trial following annual cognitive assessments on over 2,250 patients that were randomly assigned either a daily multivitamin, a 500 mg daily flavanol supplement (from cocoa extract) or a placebo supplement. What researchers found was that not only did taking a daily vitamin help preserve cognitive function, but it actually helped significantly improve it over baseline (and over placebo) by the third year. Meaning it didn’t just help prevent cognitive …

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Oct 10 2022

Let Me Help You Move Through (& Release) Difficult Emotions

Healing Artwork, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

A few years ago I became a Death Doula. You would think as a physician we would be taught in detail about the death and dying process in medical school, but we weren’t. Not at all. We were taught how to pronounce someone dead, how to perform advanced life support to try to stave off death, how to sign a death certificate… but never about the intricacies of it: what the body feels and experiences as the soul prepares to leave it what the dying process looks like what order the organ systems shut down in and how …

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Aug 8 2022

5 Crucial Ways To Support Your Child As They Head Back To School

How Our Environment Can Cause Weight Gain & What You Can Do About It

7 Anti-Aging Daily Routines That Are Absolutely Worth Doing

Your 2023 Healing Mantra: Say This Every Day & Have The Healthiest Year Yet

8 Unusual Grounding Tools You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

New Study Finally Reveals If Vitamins Help Improve Cognition As We Age

Let Me Help You Move Through (& Release) Difficult Emotions

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