Anxiety
by Dr. Reese
Anxiety is an excessive and persistent worry about everyday situations.
It typically affects the digestive and nervous system. When anxiety spins out of control, this is called a panic attack. It can feel like a heart attack and many people actually go to the emergency department for it. They typically start to feel better just from feeling safe at the hospital. When you have a panic attack, it becomes a haunting memory. This creates even more anxiety because now you become scared of having another attack. These people typically end up staying away from social experiences and like to hide away in their safe area.
Needless to say, someone who suffers from chronic anxiety doesn't have much of a life. Some chronic conditions can also directly create anxiety.
Examples are overactive thyroid, low blood sugar, erratic heartbeats and more. Reactions to caffeine and amphetamines also induce anxiety. If you go to the medical monopoly, you will probably end up at a specialist's office. These medical monkeys will prescribe drugs like Prozac, Valium or Xanax. If you ever decide to stop taking these drugs, you will be in a world of hurt as they are very hard to withdraw from.
Here are the root causes of anxiety from my head-to-toe healing perspective.
The most obvious root cause is straight-up fear.
Fear is one of the worst dis-eases in the world. Besides fight or flight situations, fear comes from imagination hijacking your mind. Imagination is typically in the future creating assumptions. Think of the small child scared of the mind, which then turns into worry. Worrying will then manifest into chronic anxiety, and then that can morph into panic attacks.
Perhaps the most surprising root cause is the mind-body syndrome, or TMS.
This is a lack of mindfulness where your negative thinking directly affects your body. Please understand that you have a computer in your skull. Your brain spits out data that operates in patterns or algorithms. If your computer is pumping out negative thoughts, then your frequency goes down and your body suffers. Keep in mind that your brain is connected to your spine and your spine acts as a circuit breaker that sends electricity throughout the body.
Muscle dysfunction is a root cause also because quite simply muscles move bones.
When you get locked into a bad posture, your muscles will pull your bones in odd directions which create everything from pelvic tilt, cervical flexion, thoracic flexion, hip hikes, shoulder elevations, bow legs, knock knees, flat feet, and much more. Then, you walk around the earth like this and cartilage decays, nerves get compressed, and blood and oxygen flow gets minimized. Furthermore, the body, with its inner wisdom, creates bone spurs, bunions, and calluses to protect you from the friction. Now muscle dysfunction can compress the vagus nerve, which is a cranial nerve coming from your head all the way down to your gut. If that nerve gets compressed, anxiety can occur.
Osteoporosis of the skull could also be a culprit of anxiety as the skull could compress any of your 12 cranial nerves.
At the root, nutritional deficiency would be at play, creating the osteoporosis. Now nutritional deficiency is always a major root cause of anxiety. There's 90 essential nutrients that the body needs to import every day. That's 16 vitamins, 60 minerals, 12 aminos, and 2 or 3 EFA's. If you are lacking the raw materials your brain needs, you could end up with a chemical imbalance that produces anxiety and or other mental illnesses.
Inflammation is always going to be a cause when we're dealing with soft tissue.
Besides falling down or getting beat with a bat, there are three ways that inflammation happens in the human body.
First, your soft tissue can become inflamed through free radical damage. All that oxidative stress coming into your body from the poor for foods and or environmental stressors like pollution or pesticides needs to be neutralized before it bonds with cells, it creates damage and your body goes into a state of inflammation.
The other cause of inflammation to soft tissue is high blood sugar. If you are not processing sugar properly, then the sugar is staying in your blood for too long of a time and it is creating inflammation. At the root, this is a nutritional deficiency because certain minerals are needed to process sugar. So if you're deficient and you keep eating and drinking sugar, you're in trouble.
The third cause of inflammation is lymphatic stagnation. Our lymph fluid is our sewer system. It's what brings our waste out of the body through the kidneys. If it stagnates and slows down, waist can burn the soft tissue. You can get lymphatic stagnation from wearing too much tight clothes such as bras and yoga pants or you can get lymph stagnation from a problematic posture. Posture is the position of your musculoskeletal system and when you become out of alignment you get kinks in the hose, so the fluid can't flow well. It's significant to note that unlike the blood which has a pump called the heart, the lymph does not have an automatic pump. It has to be pumped with movement of your joints. This is why we do postural therapy.
I wish peace and love to you and your family.
I'll talk to you soon
- Dr. Reese