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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

How To Protect Your Mental Health From Work Related Stress

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Because we are headed into cooler months, most of us will be spending more time indoors. When we are inside for most of the day, it affects our levels of stress and our mental health. In fact, job stress may cause as many as one out of every seven new cases of depression, anxiety and other common mental disorders, suggests a study published in Lancet Psychiatry. Researchers looked at over 6,800 participants, ranking job strain at age 45 with risk of mental illness at age 50. The results were astounding. Having a job that is highly …

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Oct 16 2023

Missing Just One Hour Of Sleep Skyrockets Your Risk Of Depression, Anxiety

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

There are plenty of studies in the medical literature that look at severe sleep issues and how hard insomnia is on the human body… …linking insomnia to: (click to read articles I’ve written for you on these medical studies): Asthma Weight Gain ADHD & Dementia But today’s study goes further. Because a new study (presented at the American Academy of Neurology 2017 Annual Meeting on April 27, 2017) reveals that even a minor sleep disturbance… even a shortage of just ONE HOUR OF SLEEP… can significantly up your risk of mood disorders such as depression and anxiety. …

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May 1 2017

A Supplement So Good For The Brain It Can Prevent Psychosis

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

So last week on the blog we talked about how teens are more affected by good moods than bad moods and how being around others with positive mood can help them recover from depression and even prevent it in the first place! What else can we do to support their brain? A new study published in Nature Communications (August 2015) showed that psychotic illness can actually be prevented long term… …even SEVEN YEARS LATER… …by a brief three month intervention with Omega 3 fatty acids! These results are so incredible they should be shouted and touted from …

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Oct 12 2015

Improve Your Mental Health Naturally, Starting With Your Next Meal

How To Protect Your Mental Health From Work Related Stress

Missing Just One Hour Of Sleep Skyrockets Your Risk Of Depression, Anxiety

A Supplement So Good For The Brain It Can Prevent Psychosis

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