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RHR: The Functional Medicine Approach to Anxiety
Category: Health
Duration: 00:26:40
Publish Date: 2016-12-01 21:20:35
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In this episode we cover:
  • Two different approaches to understanding anxiety
  • How gut issues can impact anxiety
  • How HPA axis issues can impact anxiety
  • How nutrient deficiencies can impact anxiety
  • Other helpful supplements
[smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehealthyskeptic/RHR_-_The_Functional_Medicine_Approach_to_Anxiety.mp3" title="RHR: The Functional Medicine Approach to Anxiety" artist="Chris Kresser" social="true" social_twitter="true" social_facebook="true" social_gplus="true" ] Chris Kresser: Hey, everybody, it’s Chris Kresser. Welcome to another episode of Revolution Health Radio. This week, I'm going to answer a question from Adam. Let’s give it a listen. Adam: Hi Chris. I'm hoping you could do a podcast on how to treat anxiety. I have a long history of anxiety and presently my neurologist thinks it is the primary cause of the tonic-clonic seizures I've had on average once a year for the past 12 years. This is also based on the fact that no test from an orthodox medicine perspective has been able to find a cause or treatment for these seizures. I was also a vegetarian for nine years who has just begun to eat seafood and fish oil supplements in part because of my recent discovery of your blog and podcast. If you could address anxiety treatment with mention to a pescatarian diet, I'd be really greatful. Thank you. Chris: Thanks for sending in your question, Adam. It’s a question we actually get quite often, so I wanted to address it during this episode, and it’s also a good question to look at because it illustrates some really important general principles regarding functional medicine which, as many of you know, is, I believe, is the most effective approach to dealing with chronic health problems including things like anxiety and depression.

Two different approaches to understanding anxiety

In the conventional understanding of anxiety and depression, the idea is that it’s caused by an imbalance of neurotransmitters in the brain, and then the treatment involves medications that increase the availability of those neurotransmitters or at least have some effect on those neurotransmitters in...
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