Can Your Diet Affect Panic Attacks and Anxiety ?
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Can Your Diet Affect Anxiety and Panic Attacks?

What a silly question I hear you say
Have you ever heard the saying “You are what you eat”? This phrase was first used by the French writer Anthelme Brillat-Savarin who wrote in 1826:
"Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es." [Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are].
Brillat-Savarin did not mean the quotation to be taken literally. He was hypothesizing that the food one consumes influences one's state of mind and health.
However the actual turn of phrase develop in English until the 1920s and 30s when the nutritionist Victor Lindlahr, a strong believer in the concept that food controls health, developed the Catabolic Diet.
The earliest known printed example is from an advert for beef in a 1923 edition of the Bridgeport Telegraph, for 'United Meet [sic] Markets':

"Ninety per cent of the diseases known to man are caused by cheap foodstuffs. You are what you eat."
In 1942, Lindlahr published You Are What You Eat: how to win and keep health with diet. That publication imprinted the phraseing into the public consciousness. Lindlahr is likely to may have used the phrase in his radio talks in the late 1930s which probably reached a huge audience.
I saw a recent article on a good night drink (.com.au) that listed foods That Can Cause Feelings of Anxiety and Panic or Relaxation that you may like to read.

In it the writer talks about Caffeine, Caffeine in Coffee, Effects of Caffeine, and Caffeine Withdrawal Symptoms in a very simple and easy to understand way.
Caffeine is a drug. And as the post says, “it may be a socially acceptable drug but it shares with a number of traits with more unaccepted drugs such as amphetamines, cocaine and heroin . Caffeine triggers the same biochemical mechanisms as these narcotics to stimulate brain function”.

I don’t know about you but I often feel edgy after I have consumed too much coffee and now I realize that I’m probably not imagining it.
Among other interesting bits within the article I was interested to read about a new type of drink that helps you ‘chill out’ as opposed to those harmfull “Energy drinks” like Red Bull that are usually just chock full of caffeine.

Good Night Drink is a refreshing non toxic solution that is specifically designed to take you to a place were you can relax and help you fall sleepy (hence the catchy name).

Good Night Drink does not include Melatonin; it uses the age old Valerian root extract instead. Valerian was used as a medicinal herb to treat anxiety and insomnia insomnia and anxiety by the ancient Romans and the Greeks. Hippocrates prescribed it as a remedy for insomnia and anxiety.

Valerian is often used as a natural alternative to taking benzodiazepine drugs to calm anxiety and panic attacks as well as for insomnia and as a sedative for nervous tension, hysteria, excitability, stress and intestinal colic or cramps.

If you would like to try it you can order Good Night Drink online or from the Good Night Drink Australia Facebook Fanpage. (These are not affiliate links, I do not get anything if you buy Good Night drink).

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