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Your Outlook Can Literally Speed Brain Decline (and 9 ways to stop it)

Recently, several important medical studies have come to light proving that your outlook literally changes the function of your brain. Specifically, medical research shows that: cynicism increases dementia and neuroticism increases Alzheimers.   This is really surreal for me, because as some of my longer term readers might remember, almost 4 YEARS AGO I blogged about an intuitive dream I had, one where I understood how thinking and brain structure are connected…   …I even ended that blog post asking: “Do you think in the future we will have studies that back up our thoughts being able to effect lasting […]

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**You** Heal Yourself… Here’s How

You are literally a self-healing machine… …it’s what you *DO* best!       Your: acupuncturist chiropractor nutritionist herbalist therapist physician surgeon massage therapist, etc… ALL rely on *your body* to heal itself.     I know I rely on my patient’s bodies to self heal… all health care practitioners do.     Give me 6 minutes and I’ll explain exactly why. And in the last 60 seconds of this video, I’ll tell you why it is so very dangerous to give anyone else the credit for your healing:   (Newsletter folks who can’t click the video directly… click HERE

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How To Find Your Intuitive Voice

  One of the questions I get asked most often is:   How do I open up to intuition, and how can I tell a difference between a thought and an intuition?   So, I created this video to help get you started… I hope you find it helpful. Made and sent to you with love…   xoxoxo, Laura       (Having trouble viewing this video? Click here to watch it directly on YouTube…) P.S. — Want more ideas on how to increase your own intuitive flow? All we have to do is support your third eye chakra! Here

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Anti-Aging… My Top Recommendations

Recently I got an email from a lovely soul enrolled in my Unlimited Email Plan… …She wanted to know what I recommended for Anti-Aging. Wow… that’s a big topic!   So, I thought I’d share some of my approach with you on the blog today in the hopes that you might get a fresh idea or two to incorporate into your day.   Generally for anti-aging there are three angles you could focus on:   1 — skin (yes it’s superficial but still important and young skin just feels so lovely!) 2 — body/internal health and 3 — the mind.

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Dementia: A Gluten Induced Condition (And What To Do About It)

  Last week I shared a new study that proves and association between Alzheimers Disease and pesticide exposure… and 4 things you can do to decrease your own risk.   This week, I want to continue with the focus on brain health and share with you a very interesting idea that I’ve begun to embrace whole-heartedly… …that gluten may be casting a brain-fog over our entire civilization!     Enter this book: Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar — Your Brain’s Silent Killers, by Dr. David Perlmutter, Associate Professor at the University of Miami School of

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Omega 3’s Increase Brain Volume

  You know I love sharing positive holistic health news with you here. And today is the best!   Positive health information is the only kind of health news I feel is worth focusing on… coupled with practical things you can do TODAY to increase your health and well being for a lifetime. I literally scour the medical literature to bring you something uplifting each and every week. Nothing bothers me more than medical reports or natural health news that try to effect change by creating fear about our health, fear about the foods we consume, fear about the impending

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Up This One Mineral To Up Your Mood

On the December 15, 2013, the medical journal Biological Psychiatry published the results of a huge study that found overwhelming evidence of a link between zinc and depression.   The study showed that folks who are depressed have a lower concentrations of zinc in their peripheral blood than non-depressed individuals.   Looking at both animal studies and preclinical and clinical trials, researchers found that “a growing body of evidence demonstrates that zinc deficiency can induce depressive-like behavior in animals, which can be effectively reversed by zinc supplementation,” and also, perhaps more importantly, that zinc added to antidepressant therapy may produce

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