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5 Crucial Ways To Support Your Child As They Head Back To School

Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

It’s mid-august, and that means back-to-school season, so the next three blog posts are here to help support your transition to that this time brings. There can be a lot of stress associated with back-to-school season. For some, back-to-school means an increased risk of in person bullying (as well as social media bullying) and scary headlines that include school shootings, piled on top of the normal stressors of navigating growing up and figuring out a career goal and growing from a child’s body into an adult body and all the growing pains in between, as well as …

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Aug 14 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

8 Unusual Grounding Tools You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Grounding / By Laura Koniver, MD

I get asked all the time about alternatives to the cheap plastic grounding mats and bed pads, from folks wondering if there are more eco-friendly alternatives to the synthetic, hot, sticky mats and polyester synthetic sheets that eventually sit in a landfill for hundreds of years. The answer is yes! There are eco-friendly, all natural, organic, hand crafted and locally made grounding mats and bed pads (you can check them out right here.) But when I also tell folks there are other eco-friendly ways to get grounded — ways that utilize items you already own, for example: making …

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Oct 24 2022

The Real Reason Grounding Works: The Healing Power of the Earth, Finally Explained

Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Today’s video contains possibly the most important information since the “re-discovery” of grounding in the first place… it’s finally answering the question: how does grounding work? All I’ve read about in the popular media is a mysterious “electron transfer” which actually can not be directly measured. Want to truly understand grounding way beyond an electron reaching you? Just watch the video below and I’ll tell you myself. In a nutshell: every single part of the natural universe conducts a natural energy current known as a Direct Current (DC). This DC circuit of energy flows through everything, …

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Jul 18 2022

Medical Studies On 10 Immune Boosting Supplements You Should Know About

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

There is a lot of information, and unfortunately a lot of misinformation, about using natural supplements to boost your immunity. Many supplements have anti-viral properties and are being extensively studied this very moment for their effectiveness in the face of our current pandemic, and I am going to link you directly to these studies below. I wanted to give you direct links to the studies in the medical literature so that you can read it for yourself, as well as look at all the current clinical trials being conducted for each supplement. Here are the top 10 most …

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Jun 15 2020

Check Your Pits & Your Feet: 2 Easy Ways To Prep For A Healthy Spring

Grounding, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Is it heating up where you live? It’s warming up here, and as I got sweaty doing some spring gardening this weekend, it reminded me to put out my annual blog post urging you not to use antiperspirants. Many of my readers don’t use anti-perspirant, but they do use a deodorant. So today I want to urge you to also double check that your deodorant is paraben free too, or it’s not much better than an anti-perspirant. Here’s why: Our armpits are not only covered in fully absorptive skin just like the rest of our …

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Apr 8 2019

Resolving PTSD, OCD, Tobacco and Drug Addiction Too

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

A recent medical study came out looking at the natural supplement N-Acetylcysteine (NAC for short) in healing the brain after trauma… …with fantastic results. NAC is a potent brain antioxidant and protector — found essential in the healing of the brain after impact injury (such as concussion) so researchers wanted to investigate if this supplement could actually help heal the brain after different types of mental injury as well… such as PTSD and addiction. It’s not often that a holistic supplement is studied this extensively and found to have such robust positive outcomes, yet it’s not something that I’ve …

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Aug 7 2017

5 Crucial Ways To Support Your Child As They Head Back To School

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

8 Unusual Grounding Tools You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

The Real Reason Grounding Works: The Healing Power of the Earth, Finally Explained

Medical Studies On 10 Immune Boosting Supplements You Should Know About

Check Your Pits & Your Feet: 2 Easy Ways To Prep For A Healthy Spring

Resolving PTSD, OCD, Tobacco and Drug Addiction Too

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