Protein and Anxiety: How Amino Acids Influence Neurotransmitters 0
Protein supplies amino acids your nervous system uses to create neurotransmitters. This post provides a quick explanation of how amino acids influence calming and stimulating brain activity related to anxiety and stress.
- Ann Silvers
- Tags: anxiety natural remedies for anxiety natural remedies for mood
High Cortisol and Anxiety: When the Stress Response Stays Activated 0
Cortisol is meant to rise briefly in response to danger and then settle back down. But when stress, worry, or anxiety are repeatedly activated, cortisol can stay high. Learn how chronically elevated cortisol affects the body and contributes to anxious, wired feelings.
Neurotransmitters: How Your Brain Calms Down or Revs Up 0
Neurotransmitters regulate mood, energy, focus, and stress responses. Learn how calming and stimulating neurotransmitters work, how they communicate between nerve cells, and how nutrition and medications influence their function.
Cortisol and Anxiety: The Body’s Response to Stress 0
Anxiety isn’t just emotional or mental — it’s also physical. The tense, jittery sensations that often accompany anxiety are driven by the body’s built-in systems designed to protect us from danger. This post explains how cortisol and the adrenal glands shape the stress response, why anxiety feels the way it does, and how this protective system can become overactivated.
Absolute Thinking: How “Always” and “Never” Distort Reality 0
Learn how absolute thoughts intensify emotions, and contribute to anxiety, depression, and relationship conflict — plus CBT tips and tools to overcome them.
Fear Generalization: How Anxiety Spreads Beyond the Original Threat 0
Discover how fear generalization plays a central role in many anxiety disorders and explains why anxiety often intensifies rather than fades over time.
- Ann Silvers
- Tags: anxiety anxiety relief
