Why Do We Have Anxiety Attacks?

[Jurriaan Plesman BA (Psych), P]

Anxiety attacks may appear to be untreatable, because it is popularly assumed that it is "all in the mind", whereas in reality it is in the body, unable to produce feel-good neurotransmitters. The body will over-produce stress hormones (adrenaline and cortisol) whenever the brain experiences a glucose starvation or brain energy starvation derived from glucose. The brain needs a steady supply of glucose as its only source of biological energy called adenosine triphosphate (ATP). If you suffer from insulin resistance as in diabetes and hypoglycemia (pre-diabetes) or in Syndrome X, the brain has unstable levels of glucose going up and down. With widely fluctuating blood sugar levels reaching the brain, it will send an hormonal message to the adrenal gland to secrete adrenaline and cortisol into the blood stream. These hormones function to replenish the brain with glucose again from glucose stores in the body (glycogen), but these hormones also creates feelings of anxiety for no reasons whatsoever, quite unrelated to whatever may be going on in your environment.
Treatment is without recourse to drugs or even without psychotherapy in most cases by the adoption of the hypoglycemic diet.

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Beating Anxiety and Phobias

Another source of irrational anxiety is related to an illness closely associated with hypoglycemia but not caused by insulin resistance. It is called SEE HYPOGLYCIA

If necessary, the last step in recovery could be the self-help psychotherapy course at our the Hypoglycemic website ☛ Psychotherapy Course