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One Simple Thing You Can Do To Protect Your Brain Throughout Your Lifetime

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Do you eat fish regularly? Do you take Omega 3 fatty acid supplements? You may want to consider it, because the role of Omega 3 fatty acids in protecting our brain health is becoming more and more robust. Today I wanted to round up my favorite medical studies for you on how fatty acids impact our brain function so you can see why it’s one of my absolute favorite supplements to recommend. Here are my top three reasons why I take fish oil every single day myself: Protecting Brain Volume: The medical literature suggests that higher levels …

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Nov 15 2021

10 Ways Grounding Can Directly Support Your Health During This Pandemic

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

I’ve gotten lots of emails asking if grounding is a good idea as a way to boost health during this pandemic. The medical literature suggests the answer to this is a resounding “Yes!” for many reasons, probably more than you think. As you might know, most patients who suffer serious illness during Covid19 infection do so because of the body’s inflammatory response (the often referred to “cytokine storm” in the lung adds to this), subsequent hypoxia from lung inflammation, and hypercoagulation of the blood, leading to blood clots. These three reactions the body creates as a response to coronavirus …

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Jun 1 2020

When You Are Doing Something Meaningful, Your Brain Works Better

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

Now there is medical proof that the more you are self motivated when learning something, the better your brain works. Published October 22, 2014 in Neuron, researchers found that having your own internal motivation, in the form of curiosity, not only allows your brain to have enhanced memory and function. Being curious about learning something enhanced the study participants absorption and ability to master the information they were curious to learn and even enhanced their ability to remember non-related information alongside it. Researchers could literally see the brain enhance function on MRI when the subject was highly curious …

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Dec 17 2018

Yet Another Study Gives Survival Advantage To Overweight, Not Underweight

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

Well I thought this would be the perfect medical article to blog about this week, as many of us tuck into eating huge delicious Thanksgiving holiday meals! If you are going to eat, don’t make those calories laden with guilt and remorse and negative thinking. As you can read in one of my previous blog posts, fat shaming physically harms your health. Don’t allow shame over food choices or weight to ruin your well being. Release the negative thinking and just enjoy what you eat. To help with that, here is a recently published medical study …

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Nov 20 2017

Immediate Healing Support That Works For Everyone

Grounding, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

I’ve been a physician for over 16 years and I’ve seen quite a lot of patients over those years. And during all that time, I’ve only come across one healing modality that supports the entire body â€” head to toe, every organ system â€” in such a powerful way. Clear air is awesome and nurturing. Juicing is powerful and cleansing. Purified water is hydrating and supportive. But inevitably, with every holistic healing modality I worked with, there would be some patients who benefit greatly and some who get absolutely no results whatsoever. Some folks heal with a certain …

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Oct 10 2016

Prevent A Fatal Heart Attack Naturally

Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

I’ve blogged before about how important Omega 3 fatty acids are for your brain, increasing brain volume and protecting against dementia… … and I’ve touched on how Omega 3 fatty acids are super hearth healthy after speaking with cardiologist Dr. Sinatra about holistic heart therapies… … but now there is more proof than ever that if you want to protect your longevity, make sure that consuming omega 3 fatty acids is part of your plan. A new study, published on June 25, 2016 in JAMA Internal Medicine, shows that higher levels of Omega 3 fatty acids lowered the …

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Jul 25 2016

Low Vit D Linked To Increase In Dementia And Broken Bones (You Can Prevent It)

Female Health, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Low vitamin D levels are associated with a substantial acceleration of memory loss and cognitive decline, a new study shows. Published Sept 14, 2015 in JAMA Neurology, researchers looked at baseline vitamin D levels and mental status change in over 380 adults (average age 75 years old.) Here is what they found: 35% of participants were vit D insufficient. Average vit D levels were lowest among participants found to have dementia (average levels were 16 ng/mL — goal vit D levels are 40 ng/mL or higher according to the Vitamin D Council.) Followed for almost 5 years, …

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Feb 1 2016

One Simple Thing You Can Do To Protect Your Brain Throughout Your Lifetime

10 Ways Grounding Can Directly Support Your Health During This Pandemic

When You Are Doing Something Meaningful, Your Brain Works Better

Yet Another Study Gives Survival Advantage To Overweight, Not Underweight

Immediate Healing Support That Works For Everyone

Prevent A Fatal Heart Attack Naturally

Low Vit D Linked To Increase In Dementia And Broken Bones (You Can Prevent It)

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