More than 40 million Americans suffer from anxiety in any given year. Psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora joins PRETTYSMART to share her functional medicine approach to anxiety and mental health. Psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora joins PRETTYSMART to share her functional medicine approach to anxiety and mental health. She shares:

• What lifestyle choices could be directly impacting your anxiety (and changes you can make easily.)
• Foods that could be contributing to your anxiety.
• The difference between "True Anxiety and False Anxiety"
• Why conventional medicine tends to view anxiety as a "neck up" problem (and why that is a problem).
• Why anxiety is a whole-body condition and not just a brain condition.
• How to do a "False Mood Inventory" as a way to check in on your mental health.
• External factors contributing to our anxiety
• Two simple tips to reduce the impacts our phone has on your mental health.
• The power nature has to help our mental health and how you can tap into it even if you live in a big city.

Ellen Vora, MD attended Columbia University for medical school and received her BA in English from Yale University. She's a board-certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist, yoga teacher, and author of The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response.

Follow Dr. Ellen Vora: https://www.instagram.com/ellenvoramd/?hl=en Purchase Anatomy of Anxiety: https://tinyurl.com/2er3dby4

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