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Sauna & Grounding: A Win-Win Combo To Boost Your Health All Winter Long

Grounding, Health Videos / By Laura Koniver, MD

When it’s freezing cold outside, I love anything that boosts circulation and gets me feeling warmer — like grounding, sauna, steam room, hot baths, sleeping with a hot water bottle, massage, even exercise…. it just feels intuitively right to get your blood flowing. Sauna increases the circulation of blood all throughout your body — getting the blood pumping through your cardiovascular system, your muscles, your skin, your joints, your brain — so it turns out that routine sauna has many of the same health benefits that exercise does. So when the weather is too harsh outside, if […]

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Dec 9 2019

It’s Never Too Late To Extend Your Life Just By Getting Active

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Dammit. Now none of us have any excuse to not exercise. All my life I hated exercising in the traditional sense — I loved playing soccer in school and I loved chasing after my kids as a mom and I love going on long walks after dinner as a middle aged adult… it’s not that I mind being active… but as far as an exercise program, I never could stick to it. Yoga classes, pilates classes, step aerobics classes, running, biking, even trying out a personal trainer… I could just never stick with it because I

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Sep 30 2019

Time In the Sun Actually Increases Your Life Span… Here’s How To Do It Safely

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

A recent medical study, published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, found that folks who avoided sun exposure actually had a shorter life span… …with a decreased life expectancy that was shorter than even heavy smokers who bathed in the sun. What?!?! Yes. This was a huge study looked at almost 30,000 participants over a span of 20 years. Researchers tracked health outcomes and life span over two decades and found that even when smoking was factored in, the life span of those who avoided the sun was over 2 years shorter than heavy smokers who got the highest

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Apr 15 2019

Going To Sleep Earlier Prolongs Your Life, Here’s How

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

A new study, published April 11, 2018 in Chronobiology International, found that folks who prefer staying up in the evenings have a 10% higher risk of dying, from all causes of mortality, when compared to those who prefer mornings. Looking at those who strongly prefer activity in the evenings vs those who strongly prefer activity in the mornings in over 430,000 study participants over a 6 1/2 year time period, researchers found higher nighttime activity resulted in: an increase in diabetes of 30% an increase in psychological disorders (almost doubling the rate at 94% higher incidence!) an increase

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Dec 3 2018

Pets Boost Your Health For A Lifetime

Medical Reports, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

From childhood throughout our entire adult life and elderly years, owning a pet gives us a a significant health boost that lasts a lifetime. Here’s what the medical literature has to say about why caring for an animal just might be one of the best things you can do to protect your health over a lifetime. 1. Childhood: You’ve probably heard that exposure to dirt in childhood is an essential part of boosting immunity and decreasing future allergies… but did you know the same is true for animals? Early exposure to dogs and farm animals (during the first

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Nov 5 2018

Sauna For A Longer Life Span? Yes Please.

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Now this is a medical study I can really get behind, because I LOVE HEAT. And I love love love anything that boosts circulation â€” like grounding, sauna, steam room, hot baths, sleeping with a hot water bottle, hugs, massages, exercise (ok, exercise, not so much….) It just feels intuitively right to get your blood flowing, don’t you think? Thats why I’m so thrilled that there have been so many studies recently looking at the health benefits of routine sauna. Researchers had previously discovered that folks who used a sauna two or more times a week had significantly reduced

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Sep 10 2018

Fat Shaming Causes Disease… But It Doesn’t Have To

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Fat shaming (not obesity itself!) directly increases a person’s risk for metabolic syndrome and subsequent health issues, a new study finds. And why is there fat shaming in the first place? As I will go over below, there is an incredible wealth of medical research showing that having a higher BMI is actually advantageous to longevity, so there really is no need for our society to have an obesity bias to start with! Certainly dropping this attitude and reducing the internalized stress associated with weight will decrease diabetes risk, heart disease risk and the rate of metabolic disease in

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Mar 13 2017

Sauna & Grounding: A Win-Win Combo To Boost Your Health All Winter Long

It’s Never Too Late To Extend Your Life Just By Getting Active

Time In the Sun Actually Increases Your Life Span… Here’s How To Do It Safely

Going To Sleep Earlier Prolongs Your Life, Here’s How

Pets Boost Your Health For A Lifetime

Sauna For A Longer Life Span? Yes Please.

Fat Shaming Causes Disease… But It Doesn’t Have To

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