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5 Things You Can Do To Naturally Lift Depression

Grounding, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Yet another medical study continues to verify that probiotics absolutely robustly treat depression. Researchers found that only 4 weeks — just ONE MONTH — of probiotic therapy significantly lifted depression, decreased anhedonia, reversed sleep disturbances… and that these improvements were still sustained months later. These results are so impressive because probiotics had zero of the adverse side effects that prescriptions antidepressants do and can safely be taken indefinitely. The Study: (presented at the 13th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry on June 19, 2017) 10 patients with major depressive disorder in a current episode of depression were treated with a […]

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Jul 17 2017

Morning Light Effectively Treats Fibromyalgia In Just A Few Days

Female Health, Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Just one hour of bright light each morning has been medically shown to decrease pain and sensitivity as well as increase functioning in patients with fibromyalgia. Meaningful results were statistically significant without any artificial prescription medications and zero side effects, which is exciting news because fibromyalgia pain is typically an extremely difficult type of pain to treat. Usually, fibromyalgia patients are either given a cocktail of Rx medications ranging from antidepressants to pain killers, or told there is nothing that can be done and that the pain and the reduced ability to function is just now their baseline… or

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Jun 19 2017

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

ADHD Raises Suicide Risk More Than Depression Does

Medical Reports, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

A new study (published Sept 19, 2016 in Pediatrics) found that children who die by suicide are more likely to have been diagnosed with ADHD than with depression. The Study: A national database tracked violent deaths from 2003 to 2012 in 17 different states During the study period, there were 693 early childhood suicides The results: Children aged 5 to 11 years old who died by suicide were more likely to have been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD than with depression. Almost 60% of suicide victims were diagnosed with ADHD, compared to only 33% having been diagnosed with depression.

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Feb 6 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

Inflammation Depresses Mood (Here’s How To Reverse It)

Grounding, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Increased inflammation in the body worsens symptoms of clinical depression, says a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry on November 18, 2015. Higher levels of blood markers of inflammation were found to be directly correlated with a variety of depressive symptoms, including sleep difficulty, decreased energy levels, decreased motivation and increased or decreased appetite. The details: Researchers looked at data on C-reactive protein levels (a blood marker of whole body inflammation) in over 15,000 patients. Higher levels of inflammation were directly correlated with higher levels of depressive symptoms, and the correlation was dose dependent… meaning the higher

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Feb 22 2016

The One Thing You Can Do Daily To Lift All Types Of Depression… Naturally

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

We all know that getting morning light each day significantly improves seasonal blues (or winter depression.) But a new study shows that light therapy lifts depression — even depression that is NOT seasonally related — *more effectively* than antidepressant drug therapy. The assumption has always been that major depressive disorder is different from seasonal depression, but this study shows that light therapy can be used on it’s own to treat depression whether seasonal or not. Published in JAMA Psychiatry on Nov 18, 2015, this placebo controlled study supports the use of a non-pharmaceutical intervention over a pharmaceutical intervention, which

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Jan 11 2016

5 Things You Can Do To Naturally Lift Depression

Morning Light Effectively Treats Fibromyalgia In Just A Few Days

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

ADHD Raises Suicide Risk More Than Depression Does

Is Stress Is Making Your Antidepressant Ineffective?

Inflammation Depresses Mood (Here’s How To Reverse It)

The One Thing You Can Do Daily To Lift All Types Of Depression… Naturally

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