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The Fourth Leading Cause Of Death: Your Medicine Cabinet?

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

I just returned from a medical conference where I had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Ankur Patel, MD present on the risk of taking multiple medications. I was shocked to hear : that adverse drug interactions is the 4th leading cause of death in the United States, and someone dies from a drug interaction every 5 minutes in the United States alone. that if you are on 5 or more Rx medications, your risk of an adverse drug reaction is 58% that if you are on 7 or more Rx medications, your risk of an adverse drug reaction …

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Nov 6 2023

Sleep Increases Your Recovery From Depression

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

A new medical study shows what we can all intuitively feel — — that when we are in a depression, we truly need deep, restorative sleep to recover. It’s okay to sleep more when feeling depressed — in fact, a recent study released in June 2017 showed that patients who were medically treated for depression but did not sleep well were three times less likely to actually recover from depression. And sleeping 7 hours or more nightly actually tripled the rates of full remission in depression. Here’s more: The Study: (presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of …

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Aug 21 2017

Is Stress Is Making Your Antidepressant Ineffective?

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

If you take antidepressants, new research shows that a stressful lifestyle has the power to completely remove any healing benefit you may have had from taking that Rx medication. Environment can completely impact whether or not antidepressant therapy works or not. Behavioral, lifestyle, and environmental stressors absolutely MUST be addressed… and today’s medical report is proof that a medication alone is just not enough to help. Interestingly, people with high levels of job stress are statistically the MOST likely to reach for a drug to help treat depression… yet are also most likely to find that drug therapy …

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Oct 3 2016

Inspiration Wednesday… Your New Rx

Healing Artwork / By Laura Koniver, MD

You know all those prescription commercials you see on TV? The ones where they have some actor smile and say how much better they feel on a certain medication? And then the actor walks along a glistening beach playing fetch with her dog while some slick, fast speaking man says things like “side effects include, but are not limited to: rash, headache, nausea, diarrhea, infection, depression, mental status change, stroke, heart attack, or death. Do not take this drug while taking any other drug. Do not use this drug if you are pregnant, nursing, laying down, standing up, living, …

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Mar 14 2012

Avoiding Tylenol…

Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Hi peeps! A new study published online November 22 in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology shed some new light on the use of Tylenol. It doesn’t look pretty in this new light. I know it would be easier to turn the light off, but instead, let’s shine a spotlight on Tylenol so that we can help spread awareness, and then lets talk about all the positive wonderful alternatives there are out there. Okay, here is the low down. Taking just a tiny amount more Tylenol then recommended, on a chronic basis, may lead to death. And if not death, …

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Jan 16 2012

The Fourth Leading Cause Of Death: Your Medicine Cabinet?

Sleep Increases Your Recovery From Depression

Is Stress Is Making Your Antidepressant Ineffective?

Inspiration Wednesday… Your New Rx

Avoiding Tylenol…

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