Anxiety and Depression

Anxiety and depression 

I’ve been seeing an increase of people lately in my office for anxiety and depression. The way we work with anxiety and depression in the office is through multiple modalities that deal with not only the Vagus nerve but also our nutrition and our gut.

Sometimes therapy works for people, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes the beliefs that lie around the anxiety are never fully cleared.

The first thing we do is look at the diet. We look to remove anything that is inflammatory, such as sugar, gluten, dairy, corn and soy. We use the bio resonance device to see how the hormones and the neurotransmitters are performing. We then make adjustments with the amino acids to help balance out the hormones and neurotransmitters. See neurotransmitters tell the hormones what to do, our hormones are formed in our gut, if we have gut issues we’re going to have hormone issues and brain issues. Amino acids are the precursors to our neurotransmitters, so if you want to work with the neurotransmitters to affect the hormones we want to be making sure that we are getting the appropriate amino acids in our system. 90% of your serotonin is in your gut, therefore if you have gut issues your hormones will be affected. This is why I start with the gut first.

Six years ago I had such extreme anxiety and panic to the point that I couldn’t even leave the house. After finding my functional medicine doctor and figuring out what was going on with me and the root cause of everything, we then worked on healing my gut. My anxiety and panic went away to never ever return.

The second phase of what we like to do in the office is once we get the gut healed and better regulated with foods, we then need to work on the hyperactivity of the nervous system which includes working with the Vagus nerve. Now remember remember the Vagus nerve is the longest cranial nerve in the body and wanders down behind the throat in the esophagus all the way down into the gut. So here is your gut Vagus connection. When our nervous system‘s are up regulated or in fight or flight all the time, we need to learn how to bring ourselves down out of that. It’s like having fire spewing out of the hose 24/7. When the body is stressed it releases cortisol, cortisol then shuts down the gut. So in order to balance the gut we need to look at what the hormones are doing particularly cortisol, and how do we balance that? Through diet, Vagus nerve drills, diaphragm breathing, learning how to meditate or to bring our nervous system down from a sympathetic state to a parasympathetic state rest and digest. This will allow the body and the brain and the gut time to heal. I teach all of my clients how to do their breathing exercises and I teach you how to stimulate your Vagus nerve. The bio reasonance device is also helpful with calming down the nervous system.

The other thing that we utilize our frequency patches. There are quite a few patches that can be used to calm down the nervous system‘s response into decrease cortisol levels. We use these in conjunction again with the bio resonance device which is able to scan your voice and detect emotionally what is in balanced and then provide those emotions with the frequency to balance that out. It’s also useful to use the device because it tells me as a practitioner which emotions or beliefs need to be targeted first.

This is where doing neurosomatic work comes in the play as well as hypnosis and energy work. The key here is to combine the physical sensations with the emotions. The key is also to get in touch with your body and actually see and experience what is going on inside of the body when these chemical things are happening. It also helps us to remove some of the beliefs that we have around ourselves in certain situations, traumas.

You remove those blocks your body can heal. This is why many times sometimes therapies don’t work and sometimes positive affirmations are enough enough because you’re not actually clearing and removing the block from the nervous system.

I typically work alongside many of my client’s therapist as the things that come up in the session often times are out of my realm or scope to deal with but can be treated by your therapist. It’s crucial that everyone is on the same page to allow the person to heal properly. Sometimes it can take a while, sometimes it’s pretty instant, but understand it’s all a journey. Learning how to get in touch with your body, learning what you’re feeling physically when these emotions or traumas rear their ugly head and giving you the tools to deal with it and the ability to calm down the nervous system are what I teach.

So in a nutshell we treat anxiety and depression by 1- removing the inflammation with food and healing the gut . 2-Rebuilding the gut microbiome then re-introducing foods. All this takes time and happens over months. 3-We do Vagus nerve drills, breathing drills and lymphatic work to tone down the nervous system so the body can go from sympathetic to parasympathetic and heal and 4- we do the emotional work.

Remember healing is a journey. It’s never linear.

If your interested in this program, it can be found under wellness packages when scheudling.