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Sleep Dramatically Impacts Your Weight

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

I’m re-posting this important medical study I blogged about last year, because it came up during an interview that I just gave on BlogTalkRadio two weeks ago… …and I realized that so many folks still don’t know how dramatically lack of sleep can affect weight! A study published in SLEEP last July found that folks gained a significant amount of weight after only 5 days of poor sleep. Previous studies have shown a link between poor sleep and weight gain, but this is the first study where participants slept in-house in a sleep facility and the […]

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Aug 25 2014

Winter Checklist: 6 Ways To Feel Your Best All Winter Long

Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight, Intuitive Medicine, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Once again, it’s time to post a winter checklist of all the things I have pulled together over the years to keep me feeling my best during the darkest month of the year. With Winter Solstice last weekend and Christmas, Kwanzaa and Winter Holidays this week… this is the perfect time to make sure we are doing all we can to feel our best and slow down and care for our inner spark while the world sleeps on around us. It’s okay to take these winter months slower, to tend to our inner needs more, and to make sure

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Dec 23 2013

7 Ways To Improve Your Health Even During Times Of Stress

Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

I received a wonderful question from a reader recently. She asked me: “How do you remain hopeful even during times of immense stress?” This is such a good question and one that I thought about for many days. Here is the list I came up with of real-life strategies that I use personally and that I find work well for others during times of crisis and stress. To remain hopeful really seems to be the key during any type of adversary in life, whether that be a personal tragedy, a health crisis or a series of

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Oct 14 2013

10 Things I’m Doing Now To Prepare For Fall

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

Ahhh… fall. How I love you!!! The cooler mornings. The walks outside. Leaves swirling through the air. My children laughing as they spend more time outside than ever before. Oh, but how you hold a dark secret inside of you. You don’t fool me for one instant… I know that the cooler mornings and campfire evenings are possible because of your tilt away from the sun… and how the days become shorter than the nights until they are so brief we wake up to darkness and eat dinner in darkness. And for me… shorter days and more darkness

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Sep 16 2013

Sleep Deprivation Found To Increase Weight After Only A Few Days

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

A new study, recently published in SLEEP last month (July 2013) found that folks gained a significant amount of weight after only 5 days of poor sleep. Previous studies have shown a link between poor sleep and weight gain, but this is the first study where participants slept in-house in a sleep facility and the actual weight gain was measurably significant after only a handful of 4 hour nights in a row. Here are the study details: Researchers took 225 healthy adults with no history of sleep problems. Half of the participants had time in bed from 10

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Aug 5 2013

Poor Sleep Linked to Alzheimers: 9 Ways To Fix It.

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

For ages and ages, human beings followed the rhythm of the sun… going to sleep when the sun went down and rising with the sun in the morning. Our circadian rhythm was in concert with the earth and ensured that we got deep, restorative sleep in order to face the next day. These days, artificial lighting and long work days mean that most people (myself included!) have some sort of sleep abnormality and/or circadian rhythm disruption. Although we know that lack of sleep causes everything from memory problems, fatigue, decreased concentration, stress, and increased food cravings, a recent study

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May 6 2013

My attachment parenting bedtime storybook… and links to get your own right now!

Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

So do you have a little one you’d like to snuggle up with and read this story to? Or do you know the perfect new parents who could use this positive, supportive book to help establish a nighttime routine? Or do you have a baby shower to go to soon? Or do you just love picture books? Here is where you can get your copy on Amazon.com… and they ship free! Here is where you can get your autographed copy straight from me… and I ship with love! Thank you so much for checking out my latest

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May 14 2012

Sleep Dramatically Impacts Your Weight

Winter Checklist: 6 Ways To Feel Your Best All Winter Long

7 Ways To Improve Your Health Even During Times Of Stress

10 Things I’m Doing Now To Prepare For Fall

Sleep Deprivation Found To Increase Weight After Only A Few Days

Poor Sleep Linked to Alzheimers: 9 Ways To Fix It.

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