If you’ve been following my e-newsletter or blog for a while, you’ve heard me share my struggles with anxiety.
I’ve had anxiety as long as I can remember, even though I didn’t have a name for it when I was younger.
I thought everyone felt nervous and felt like an electrical circuit was jolting through them all the time – wasn’t that normal? 🙂 (no, not normal)
In 2006, my anxiety blew out of control, party due to me over-working and the constant stress I felt, both internally and externally.
When conventional medicine and drugs like Lexapro, Buspar, and Doral failed me, I started researching how to heal myself on my own.
Enter my yoga and mindfulness meditation journey. Yes, these helped.
But what I learned through my own quest for healing is what I eat and how I am able to digest significantly influences anxiety and mood.
*** Do you know that over 90% of your serotonin is produced in your intestines? NOT your brain. ***
That’s right. So often people (including me when I was miseducated) blame their mind and their psychology for the anxiety they experience.
If you had the flu, you wouldn’t blame yourself or think something is inherently wrong with you.
I ask you to open up to view anxiety and mood problems as something that can be regulated with the foods you eat and how effectively you digest.
When I had the worse of my anxiety, I would poop loose stools 3x/day. That lasted over 3 years.
I thought I had a fast metabolism. I didn’t know this was totally not normal.
Anxiety is a physical problem…it’s in the body. (And it is multi-faceted…many contributors…not all one thing…I acknowledge that.)
I found the most relief from anxiety from:
- I eat humanely raised, organic animal protein in the morning within one hour of waking. This alone has reduced my experience of anxiety from a consistent 6 to a 2…Every Day! <Nutritionist Trudy Scott taught me this!>
- I take nutritional supplements for anxiety and insomnia (B vitamins, GABA, 5-HTP)
- I eat a 90% whole foods (meaning foods without an ingredient list – non-GMO – real food) diet, almost no processed foods and seldom eat refined sugar or white flour
Little known Angela fact – I haven’t had a can of soda since I was 14. I haven’t had a McDonald’s hamburger in over 20 years. I haven’t even had Chick-fil-A (one of my old faves) since 2009.
I am not deprived. I am free.
Trudy Scott recently hosted an on-line anxiety summit. It is over, but you can still purchase the recordings and information. Click here to learn more.
You’ll learn how to heal anxiety naturally, reduce anxiety, food cravings, panic, compulsive thinking, social anxiety, and more.
Food IS medicine!
