5 Ways to Decrease Anxiety

Here’s 5 ways to decrease anxiety, from a Nutritionist and Acupuncturist:

1. Your blood sugar: spikes and troughs in blood sugar exacerbate anxiety. Prioritise healthy fats, fiber, protein and complex carbs in every meal. I promise you, cutting out fats and carbs will worse in your anxiety. Oh and eat breakfast, every day. Even if you don’t feel like it, it will help stabilise your blood sugar.

2. Increase your intake of magnesium: magnesium is natures relaxant. It helps us sleep better, relieves physical pain and helps us cope with stress. eat dark green leafy vegetables, pumpkin seeds, complex carbohydrates like quinoa or brown rice, dark chocolate, spinach, and oats. Take Epsom salt, or magnesium salt baths. Magnesium is absorbed through the skin. @betteryou_ltd do a great range of magnesium products.

3. Prioritise walking in nature over high intensity workouts that increase your cortisol, even if you feel a sense of relief while doing them! Seeing natural light, especially in the morning, helps balance our melatonin which not only helps us sleep better but also increases our serotonin (happy hormone), which melatonin is a precursor to, and decreases our cortisol during the day.

4. Try Acupunture, its ability to take us out of fight or flight mode back into a relaxed state is well known and documented!

5. Consume adaptogenic herbs like ashwaghanda, chamomile, valerian, and lemon balm. Especially at night as teas these help us to relax. beetroot, mushrooms, cucumber, celery, lemons, dill and basil to the diet - these are all naturally calming and help the heart relax!

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