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What You Eat Is Making Your Anxiety Worse

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Today I wanted to share some foods that are medically proven to worsen anxiety, and some foods found to help lift anxiety. Did you know treating anxiety actually adds years to your life span? More on that in a moment. But first, let’s not worsen or trigger your underlying anxiety with the wrong foods. Nutritional psychiatry is a real thing — using nutrition to treat mood disorders can transform your life and make huge shifts in your ability to function and even thrive, despite having a predisposition towards anxiety. Two foods that might be worsening your anxiety: […]

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Jul 24 2017

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

How Sleep Affects Your Heart Health

Grounding, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Last week I shared with you a study that shows even a small decrease in sleep, as little as one hour less of sleep, dramatically increases your risk of mood disturbances (anxiety, depression, hopelessness.) This week is the last on my series focusing in on sleep… and this one is important too. Turns out, your heart’s health is immediately impacted by your sleep. The Study (published in Hypertension on June 6, 2016): researchers looked at 26 healthy young adults (with no cardiac risk factors or history of cardiac disease) and compared their heart function during sessions of unrestricted

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May 8 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

The Easiest Way I Know To Fall Asleep Faster

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

Insomnia is a huge problem, one that begs to be resolved during the winter months. Mother Nature offers you shorter days, longer nights, cooler temperatures… all in an effort to get you hibernating each winter and prepared for the year ahead. If a little winter hibernation is eluding you, today’s medical study can help. It’s long been known that cooler temperatures help deepen sleep. Typical advice is to make the bedroom a little cooler at nighttime (68 – 70 degrees is ideal) and never sleep with socks on (one study cites that sleeping with socks on increases the incidence

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Jan 9 2017

6 Questions To Ask Yourself Before December Gets Here

Grounding, Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

It’s time to post my annual winter checklist of all the crucial health tips I have collected that keep me feeling my best during the darkest month of the year. The end of fall is the perfect time to make sure we are doing all we can to feel our very best… to slow down and care for our inner spark while the earth prepares for winter. It’s okay to take these upcoming winter months slower, to tend to our inner needs more, and to make sure we are getting lots and lots of sleep. It’s not only

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Nov 14 2016

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

What You Eat Is Making Your Anxiety Worse

5 Things You Can Do To Naturally Lift Depression

How Sleep Affects Your Heart Health

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

The Easiest Way I Know To Fall Asleep Faster

6 Questions To Ask Yourself Before December Gets Here

Is Stress Is Making Your Antidepressant Ineffective?

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