Are you dealing with anxiety and want to take the reins on your life? Know there is more to the story in terms of treatment but unsure of where to start? Tune in to hear Ali and Becki tackle the often taboo subject of anxiety from defining the broad range of symptoms to Ali’s 6 Foundational Rs for managing anxiety. From decreasing inflammation to restoring the gut microbiome, Ali and Becki go deep into how diet can help you to find long term solutions and freedom from anxiety, worry and rumination!

 

In this Episode, Ali and Becki discuss the foundation of an Anti-Anxiety Diet and how you can use food-as-medicine as well as nutraceutical supplement recommendations for managing stress, worry and anxiety. From defining anxiety to the symptoms that are seemingly unrelated, this important episode gets to the root cases of the “elephant in the room” that is anxiety. From inflammation to gut dysbiosis to micronutrient status and adrenal gland function, there are a multitude of underlying factors at play when patients experience anxiety. Ali and Becki give recommendations for simple dietary changes as well as more advanced functional medicine testing to get you feeling back in the driver’s seat of your body!

 

Also in this episode:

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Addressing Inflammatory FoodsMRT Inflammatory Food Panel

Naturally Nourished Grassfed Whey

Resetting the MicrobiomeBeat The Bloat Ebook

Doctor’s Data Stool Test

Naturally Nourished Rebuild: Baseline Probiotic

The Role of HPA-axis DysfunctionEpisode 13 Adrenal Fatigue

Episode 11 HPA-axis

Addressing Genetic SNPs and MicronutrientsNaturally Nourished Multidefense

Metagenics Blisphora

Naturally Nourished Cellular Antiox

Pyroluria and the role of B6, Zinc, Biotin and GLA

Food-As-Medicine Interventions for AnxietyZinc-most meats, chicken, fish, turkey, pumpkin seeds, yogurt, cashews, oysters

B6-tuna, salmon, beef liver, chicken, potatoes. banana, red pepper, pumpkin, shitake mushrooms, chickpeas, cooked spinach

Glutathione- I3C-rich cruciferous veggies, avocado, cysteine in meats, glutamine in bone broth, grassfed whey!

Vitamin D: mushrooms, liver, egg yolks

Pumpkin Pie Smoothie

Organ Puree & Pate

Recommended Baseline Supplements and LabsNaturally Nourished Calm and Clear

Naturally Nourished Gaba Calm

Micronutrient Testing

Neurohormone Testing