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Anxiety

Almost all people experience anxiety in their lives, usually on a temporary and linked to events such as family or work conflicts, financial problems and many others. When the event is resolved, the anxiety problems go with it.

Anxiety or anxiety attacks can occur with mild or severe (which immobilize the patient and animal phobias, heights or panic attacks), or appear without apparent cause symptoms such as restlessness, trouble concentrating, insomnia , grinding teeth while sleeping, irritability, and increased or decreased appetite.

Patients with anxiety may also have physical symptoms like chronic fatigue, palpitations, shortness of breath, chest pain, dry mouth, sweating, dizziness, lack of sexual appetite, tightness in the neck and back muscles, digestive system disorders (nausea, diarrhea), just to name a few.

The experience of medical experts in the condition notes that most of these patients attending the doctor for the first time, complaining of physical symptoms (no psychological symptoms) and anxiety that do not recognize as a problem and the diagnosis is more difficult for the general practitioner. It is common in patients with thyroid malfunction, the present episodes of anxiety.

90% of men diagnosed with lowered testosterone levels, experience nervousness, irritability, 80% and 25% fear and anxiety. Treatment with testosterone and/or DHEA may help treat these symptoms

Nutrition and Anxiety

The lack of certain nutrients in food are related to the onset of episodes of anxiety. These include: vitamin B12, calcium and magnesium. They all have an effect “soothing.”

Anxiety may also occur in diets rich in processed foods, particularly carbohydrates and simple sugars (sweets, white bread, white rice, pastries, etc) because they raise blood glucose (blood sugar), to be digested quickly. Usually followed by a sudden decrease of blood sugar levels (hypoglycemia).

The herb Kava-Kava (Piper methysticum) is the most widely used natural remedy for anxiety. In recent months, the U.S. FDA issued a statement noting that the herb can be linked to liver disorders. RobMacCaleb, president of the organization “Herb Research Foundation in Boulder, Colorado, notes that the study on which the FDA based this statement, it was only in 26 patients, most of them with a history of taking medications that can damage the liver, or a history of previous liver damage.”

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