Natural Remedies For Anxiety

From time to time, anxiety is a normally experienced emotion. But, when a person has an anxiety disorder, the feeling of anxiety never really stops. This includes ongoing fear and worry about everyday occurrences. And, these feelings of anxiety can rapidly peak resulting in a panic attack. 

These feelings end up interfering with a person’s daily life and can be extremely difficult to control. To an outside person, it’s difficult to perceive what or why the other person is anxious - it often seems completely illogical to them. A person suffering from anxiety will go to great lengths to avoid any kind of situation that provokes that anxiety - it doesn’t have to be a “stressful” situation either - even the most mundane activities can create intense feelings of worry and fear in a person suffering from anxiety. 

Anxiety can begin at any time in a person’s life. Children, teens and adults can all suffer from this disorder. 

Psychologists will break anxiety down into several different types; these include generalized anxiety disorder (the most common), social anxiety disorder, separation anxiety, and specific phobias.  A person may have more than one type of anxiety, and it can be accompanied by other mental emotional disorder as well.  

Common Signs & Symptoms of Anxiety

• A sense of impending danger or doom
• Feeling nervous or tense
• Shaking or trembling
• Sweating
• Tingling in extremities or the trunk
• Feeling short of breath
• Dizziness
• Rapid breathing
• Rapid heart rate, palpitations 
• Extreme fatigue or weakness
• Inability to focus
• Difficulty sleeping
• Gastrointestinal symptoms - loose stools, diarrhea
  

Causes of Anxiety

Many times an intensely emotional, stressful or traumatic event will precede the appearance of an anxiety disorder. This is extremely common and warrants deep investigation into these feelings and working with a mental health professional.

Other times, the cause of anxiety is considered “idiopathic” meaning the cause is unknown.

However, there can be several physiological causes for anxiety. It’s worth getting a complete physical and laboratory workup to determine whether a physical reason exists for a person’s anxiety, prior to using powerful prescription medications.

Medical Causes of Anxiety

Diabetes

Thyroid hormone imbalance

Female hormone imbalance 

Heart disease

Asthma or other lung diseases

Chronic pain

Irritable bowel syndrome

Certain medications can cause anxiety, as can withdraw from them  

Drugs and alcohol

Rare tumors in the brain or adrenal glands that make fight or flight hormones

Poor diet and low blood sugar

Infections that cause Lyme disease or other chronic viral infections

Natural Help for Anxiety

Dealing with anxiety should involve a 3-pronged approach:

1. Seek mental-emotional support from a trained professional
   There are numerous types of therapies that can be helpful for dealing with, and perhaps identifying the emotional root cause of anxiety. We always recommend some kind of therapy for mental health for everyone; not just people suffering from anxiety. There should be no stigma attached to counseling and mental health therapy.  As everyone should exercise for physical health, mental health counseling should be just as actively encouraged and accepted!
2. Identify possible medical causes
   Because there can be several physiological reasons for anxiety, an in-depth consultation with your doctor is necessary. A detailed history of symptoms, physical exam and lab testing can help uncover a medical cause for anxiety. At the minimum, your doctor should look at your iron and B12 levels, blood chemistry (including blood sugar), thyroid, adrenal and reproductive hormones. There may be other tests depending on how your intake goes; testing for chronic infections should also be considered.
3. Natural remedies
   There are several natural medicines that can calm anxiety. Here’s a list of the most effective ones we’ve used in practice over the years.

• Tranquility Formula restores the delicate brain chemistry balance and optimizes neurotransmitter function to help relieve the physical and emotional symptoms of anxiety. It's our number one most-requested product!
  
• L-Theanine is a naturally occurring amino acid that promotes relaxation by enhancing production of the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin, as well as GABA, which is our chief ‘relaxing’ neurotransmitter. Theanine balances out our neurotransmitters when we’re in stress mode.
  
• GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) is an important amino acid neurotransmitter in the brain. It regulates brain nerve cell functions and has been referred to as the brain‘s natural calming agent.
• Glycine is a naturally produced amino acid that also works as a neurotransmitter in your brain. It works to calm the part of your brain that processes stress and anxiety. It calms mood and decreases anxiety.
• Cortisol Recovery helps to combat the negative effects of stress; itt works by helping your body resist and recover from stress when cortisol is too high.
• Mood Support contains the key, clinically studied and scientifically researched ingredients that work to balance mood and decrease anxiety. Mood support is an effective natural antidepressant.
• Take a look at the Stress Relief, Sleep Enhancer and Mood Lift bundles for our favorite combinations.