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Chocolate To Boost Your Metabolism? Uh Yes Please (+ Additional Benefits)

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

I love chocolate so much I even have a bowl of chocolates in my office I eat from almost every day. Now I don’t recommend a bowl of easily accessible sugary treats to be within arms reach while you are trying to work, speaking from personal experience, ahem… but let’s gloss over that for now and instead focus on why eating chocolate in moderation may not be as bad for you as might assume! Most medical studies looking at the health properties of chocolate focus on dark chocolate (for good reason, as dark chocolate is a rich source […]

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Apr 14 2025

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

Are Your Weight Struggles From Subclinical Hypothyroidism? Probably, Here’s Help

Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

What to do if counting calories, exercising, and making the environmental changes I suggested last week are not making any difference to your metabolism? What if you still feel sluggish, tired, and your weight just won’t budge? It could be subclinical hypothryoidism and adrenal fatigue. This super common condition is poorly understood and can literally simply be caused by prolonged stress. Ask yourself: have you been through a stressful period recently? Or have you been living under stress for a long period of time — months, years, even decades? If so, focusing on boosting thyroid and adrenal

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May 8 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

Stress Weight Gain Is Different Than Other Forms Of Weight Gain, Here’s Why

Healthy Weight, Intuitive Medicine / By Laura Koniver, MD

Gaining weight (or losing weight) unintentionally is a common response to chronic or acute stress. And stress weight is different from other forms of weight gain — it typically centers in the abdominal area and is the most stubborn type of weight to release. In fact, a poll conducted by the American Psychological Association found that most of us have experienced a significant weight change thanks to the stress of the pandemic. The poll revealed that 60% of Americans report undesired weight changes as a result of this stress. But I’m here to help. You can definitely reset your

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Dec 5 2022

Want To Give Fasting A Try? That’s Awesome & Here’s How.

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

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Jul 26 2021

8 Unusual But Highly Effective Ways To Release Unwanted Weight

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Last week I shared with you a few tips on how to release weight that accumulates during times of stress. Stress weight gain is different from standard weight gain because it is stress-hormone driven. So focusing on rebalancing your adrenals — not dieting — is what works best. But today, I want to give you a few more tips on releasing regular, non-stress related, weight gain. Normal weight gain over time usually reflects a decrease in metabolism, so I’ve got a fantastic list of actionable tips — taken directly from the medical literature! — that help jumpstart

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Jul 19 2021

Chocolate To Boost Your Metabolism? Uh Yes Please (+ Additional Benefits)

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

Are Your Weight Struggles From Subclinical Hypothyroidism? Probably, Here’s Help

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

Stress Weight Gain Is Different Than Other Forms Of Weight Gain, Here’s Why

Want To Give Fasting A Try? That’s Awesome & Here’s How.

8 Unusual But Highly Effective Ways To Release Unwanted Weight

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