10/22/2024
Anxiety can creep up on anyone from childhood to old age. I see clients in my practice who have struggled with anxiety as long as they can remember, those who just recently developed anxiety in perimenopause or menopause, and those who noticed they started feeling more anxious after having a covid infection or other illness.
Here are 5 causes
🌸 Gut impermeability: This occurs when our gut lining is not fully intact allowing for pathogens, allergens, and food proteins to slip through into our blood stream. With gut impermeability, there is often nutrition insufficiency or malabsorption of food leaving us depleted in the necessary cofactors for optimal brain function.
🥬 Inflammation: This can be inflammation in the gut, in the brain or anywhere else in your body sending a stress signal.
🧠 Dopamine imbalance: This can occur with the ups and downs of estrogen that affect norepinephrine and dopaminergic pathways. It can also occur when the necessary cofactors are depleted.
🌻 Pyroluria: This is one not many people know about but affects many of the clients I see. It occurs when pyrroles bind to zinc and vitamin B6, making them unavailable to the body, leaving us depleted in those nutrients necessary for brain health.
🍎 Methylation issues: Methylation is a simple biochemical process that is important for many functions in the body including neurological, detoxification, metabolism of estrogen and histamine among others. Genetic and environmental factors, especially lifestyle both contribute to how well this process is functioning. When our bodies are struggling with methylation, our mental health can certainly suffer.
It's important to find the root cause of Your anxiety and not just throw things at it that could be more harmful that helpful.
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