The #1 vitamin to eliminate anxiety

what if there was one vitamin mineral or herb more effective than just about anything else for anxiety you know if your anxiety symptoms are really bad or you're also having a fast heart rate you're having heart palpitations or panic attacks there are a number of ways that you could potentially treat this herbally with lifestyle with exercise with medication but in this video I want to share a few other pieces that I think will help you here hey guys I'm Dr Alex hin board licensed doctor of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine and author of the health book master the day so let's jump in heart palpitations anxiety and panic attacks are symptoms I unfortunately know very very well from personal experience you know there was a time about 7 years ago where I was recording my second audiobook in a home studio and I just finished recording the audiobook and it's a lot like this where I have to really project my voice with a lot of emotion and it's non-stop talking for hours and it's quite exhausting but when I left the recording studio I walked outside and I started to feel a little bit faint and I started to feel a lot of heart palpitation happening and unfortunately the heart palpitations led to a tingling and numbness in my arm that radiated up into my chest a little bit of chest pain and then at that point the heart palpitations became quite frequent and I was scared enough that decided to drive myself to the ER thinking I was having a heart attack unfortunately for me or fortunately there was no heart attack and unfortunately though these symptoms continued for years as they often do if you don't have a way to treat it or you don't know why it's happening most of the time symptoms that bad start during periods of high stress where you're either pushing yourself subjectively very hard or externally in your life you really have lots of external stressors sometimes things you can't control sometimes people develop this after a period of high stress and they thought well if I took a break after I should recover and then they don't unfortunately but in general anxiety can be treated in many many different ways and it is an area that I specialize in and I find that if you are okay with pharmacological options taking Chinese formulas is extremely effective for this kind of pattern and if you don't want to put anything in your body because you're too anxious or afraid which is common acupuncture alone can be an extremely effective non-pharmacological option if you don't want medication you don't want herbs you're scared of putting things in your body acupuncture alone on a weekly basis can be something that can really turn the tide for people but what about if you want to go into more of the vitamins and minerals that are effective for this what actually works and what herbs have those vitamins and minerals so first let's talk a bit about the underlying pattern of anxiety in traditional Chinese medicine you know where where does it come from what organs are being affected what do we have to regulate so that this nightmare can stop in traditional Chinese medicine anxiety primarily affects the heart now what that means is that the heart in Chinese medicine is called the emperor and it's a bit like when there's unrest in the emperor's own home the whole kingdom is not going to be happy because the emperor ain't happy as long as the emperor is Happy everyone else will be happy and everyone else in this case is the rest of your body the rest of your organs in the system that are being affected when you're having high levels of anxiety like your digestive system shutting off your menstrual cycle changing your headaches your acid reflux your insomnia all these other symptoms that can happen because of the high levels of stress hormones coursing through your body affecting many different organ systems throughout but we conceptualize it through primarily the heart and sometimes the kidneys the reason is that the heart and the kidney are kind of this fire water axis they're sort of viewed as like the anchors of the body certainly the anchors of the nervous system so for example issues involving the adrenals which anxiety often does especially if you're having panic attacks and palpitations at that point we say that involves your kidneys the kidneys are like the anchor and when the anchor is broken people get too many ascending symptoms of fight or flight now one of the most important things to do if you have chronic anxiety symptoms like this is to figure out what is the actual organ Network or cause of this so I've put together a free quiz it's the first link below this video you can also just go to Dr Alex hind.com quiz that will send you to a quiz that's a 12-page handout we've taken a lot of time to put together to help you understand where simp are coming from what actual physiological Pathways or organs are being affected that we have to treat and then what you can do on a day-to-day basis so we've actually taken the time to link to dozens of our other videos on this exact topic so you can browse these all it's all free to figure out what is the root cause of your kind of anxiety so check it out first link or my website SL quiz now one of the famous formulas in Chinese medicine for anxiety is a Formula called guer jayon so this is based on a famous formula called gueron cinnamon twig decoction this is one of the clinically most effective formulas for anxiety that there is and between you and me I find that this formula more than anything gets people off lexipro and anti-anxiety medications like that and keeps them off it so this formula is primarily high in a few compounds and a few herbs that are very good for regulating the HPA axis the interface between your brain and your adrenals and many of those symptoms that relate to high heart rate palpitation anxiety the first one is a high dose of medical grade cinnamon twig or cinnamon bark this is the single most effective herb for regulating anxiety palpitations and insomnia now there's something else in this formula though that is a secret weapon and that is DOA DOA is called the red Juju date these kinds of DOA dates we say nourish and build the blood these herbs that are very dark and Rich like that are very often high in certain kinds of electrolytes so doow is very high in minerals and nutrients like iron magnesium and potassium potassium being one of the key micronutrients or nutrients people are deficient in when they're having arrhythmias and they're having heart palpitations overall daa is used in a huge range of Chinese medicine formulas but in general its signature function is that it is a bloodb building herb bloodb building herbs in layman's terms are herbs that are good for potentially anemia for women's health gynecological issues very very good for often anxiety and insomnia so we say herbs that are rich in bloodb building qualities are good for calming the heart rhythm whether it is from mental anxiety and worry or it is from a for example the electrical signals to the heart being disrupted because of high stress hormones these two aspects the psycho emotional we'll call it or psychospiritual if you want to use that term or the purely physiological THS out and dates and these bloodb building herbs like bow Pian and dangu are very very good and they're very very good for Women's Health as well Chinese medicine has a very specific use it's not just a general tonic it has very specialized uses in traditional medicine and in this case very very good for anxiety and high heart rate as well so this study was done on postpartum mothers in the second largest and polluted city in Iran mothers basically were in two different groups for 8 weeks either just breastfeeding and measuring their breast milk or consuming dates at a dosage of 15 G per day for those 2 months what they wanted to study was did the concentrations of heavy metals differ if they consumed these dates what researchers found was that it actually did decrease the levels of two out of the three heavy metals they studied in the women that were consuming 15 gram of dates per day so unfortunately pretty much everything women consume including medications gets passed on to the children in breastfeeding it's also why you have to be careful with taking herbs while you're breastfeeding but in this case the dozal juice was able to slightly dilute the amount of heavy Metals being transmitted to the child which is sort of neat all right guys so that's what I have for you here today don't forget I work with a limited number of new patients every month in my clinic in Los Angeles or virtually via tele medicine if you want to reach out just go to Dr Alex hind.com clinic or there's information right below this video Clinic phone number email and direct booking link if you want to learn more and also before you go I have a great related video on other critical nutrients and minerals that come from herbs that can help you right up here