Dr. Nicole Cain’s Top 6 Natural Anxiety Solutions:

1. Identify the root cause of your symptoms and address them

In order to treat the root cause of your symptoms, we have to identify what is out of balance.  

• • OAT testing: The OAT test is an extremely comprehensive urine test in identifying your biological causes of anxiety. The OAT test reveals the interaction between your DNA and its environment by examining over 70 health markers. It provides information about mood-regulating neurotransmitters, oxidative stress levels, and mineral and vitamin levels. The OAT test also provides individualized data regarding your gut health, and lends suggestions pertaining to diet and your genetic individuality, and speaks to optimal supplementation and dietary changes that actually impact your unique microbiology.
  • Basic blood work: CBC, CMP, Thyroid (FT3, FT4, TSH, RT3), Iron Panel (Ferritin, TIBC, Serum Iron, HFE gene), Lipids (ideally a vertical auto profile (VAP) test), Urinalysis, GGT, HGA1C, Homocysteine, HSCRP, Fibrinogen, MMA, Serum B12, MTHFR, COMT, APOE, Cortisol x3,
  • Hormone testing: FSH, LH, Fractionated Estrogens, Progesterone, Pregnenolone, Prolactin, DHEA-S, Testosterone (Free & Total), & SHBG.
  • Toxins and Anxiety: Toxins are everywhere. We are exposed to them in the air, water, skin, food, and more. The air is polluted by toxicants in the form of gases including benzene, dioxin, hydrogen, chloride, and toluene, and even compounds like asbestos. Our water sources are contaminated with cadmium, mercury, chromium, pharmaceuticals and so much more that have been found in our water during testing. In response to the health crisis emerging as a result of environmental toxins, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) created the Safe Water Drinking Act which requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to measure and enforce water safety standards. While this assists in the war against toxicology, we also need to take responsibility for our own health by engaging in regular detox and limiting our toxic exposure. If we do not have a regular detox regimen or toxic body-burden will continue to increase, resulting in disease and symptoms. The picture below illustrates our total body burden in the form of a barrel. As we go through life, the barrel fills more with each toxin exposure. Exposures come in the form of physical, chemical, biological, and I would also argue: Mental/ emotional. If the output (detox, draining of the barrel) does not exceed the input (of toxins into your body), you will develop diseases of the mind and body. The study of toxicology and brain health have related anxiety and environmental toxins. Each different toxin impacts your brain and body in different ways, and require specialized interventions in order to be removed from the body. For example, the journal of Environmental and Public Health published a study in 2012 stating that arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury are excreted in the sweat and a sauna may be an appropriate way to detox (reference).
    
    • The top 7 toxins associated with anxiety:
      
      • Aluminum
      • arsenic
      • lead
      • manganese
      • mercury
      • thallium
      • organophosphates
  • Oxidative build-up: There is an extensive amount of research linking anxiety and oxidative build up. Oxidative stress damages your DNA, is harmful to your brain and organs, and causes symptoms of anxiety. If your symptoms of anxiety are associated with oxidative stress build-up, proper identification and treatment are absolutely necessary.
  • Food Allergy Testing for Bipolar Disorder & candida testing for Anxiety: Your gut health will impact your anxiety, and your anxiety will impact your gut. The intimate relationship between the gut and the brain speaks volumes about the importance of diet and our mental and emotional wellness. If you have anxiety, it is likely that your diet is playing a role. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to diet; finding out your unique needs will give you direction on how to eat so that you can feel like yourself again.
    
    • Top 3 Anxiety Diet Tips (Get involved in the The Holistic Wellness Collective)
      
      • Reduce inflammation:
        
        • Eat: Chia seeds, ginger, cashew nuts, broccoli, blueberries, spinach, broth (especially organic bone broth)
        • Avoid: Sugar, carbohydrates, fried foods, food dyes, soda/pop, preservatives.
      • Feed your brain:
        
        1. Eat: Lean protein, wild/ Alaskan fish, healthy oils (avocado, coconut, walnut)
        2. Avoid: Alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, pork, excess red meat
      • Detox:
        
        1. Consume lots of: Water, minerals, vegetables from the brassica family (broccoli, brussel sprouts), high fiber foods (legumes, beans)

2. The Anxiety diet: Nutrigenomics and Anxiety (Nutritional genomics)

Supplements to heal the gut and reduce inflammation:

• GI Revive by Designs for Health
• Therbiotic by Klaire Labs
• Similase by Integrative Therapeutics
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3. Chiropractic Medicine and structural alignment: Bodywork as a treatment for anxiety

4. Herbs for Anxiety

• Avena sativa – oat by Wise Woman Herbals
• Anxiety Balance by Priority One
• Anxiety Soother by Herb Pharm
• Passiflora glycerite by Wise Woman Herbals 2 ounce tincture.

5. Supplements for Anxiety

• Cortisol Manager by Integrative Therapeutics

*** Check out this amazing recipe called Dr. Cain’s, ND MA Happy Sleepy Powder! ****

6. Low Dose Remedies for Anxiety

Anxiety can be debilitating, and devastating. The standard of care for anxiety is pharmaceutical medications and counseling. While these options can help to curb some of the effects of anxiety and panic, medications can cause unwanted side effects. Some medications– benzodiazepines in particular– are habit-forming, requiring higher and higher doses in order to be effective. As a result of this, people are searching for integrative, holistic mental health care that is safe, quick, and effective. The demand for natural anxiety solutions and panic attacks has grown in leaps and bounds in the past decade.

Thankfully, naturopathic medicine offers another alternative. Low dose remedies offer an alternative treatment for anxiety. Many of them can help target the root causes of anxiety, and by treating the cause, the anxiety naturally goes away leaving the person feeling confident, and free again.

The right holistic treatments can help with chronic long-standing anxiety, and it can quickly and effectively help in acute panic.

In fact, some natural remedies can help stop a panic attack almost immediately when prescribed correctly.

Client Story:

Tina (name changed), was incredibly anxious. She had panic attacks before 4th-grade classes most mornings and this was beginning to impact her scholarship. The panic was often triggered by the fire alarms that occurred once per month on campus. It was also very hard for Tina to separate from her parents for fear that something terrible would happen to them.

Tina was very timid, and her mother was concerned that her daughter had not developed any friendships in school. Because Tina’s parents did not want to put their young daughter on pharmacological medications, they brought her to see Dr. Cain, ND MA first.

Dr. Cain, ND MA took Tina’s case and learned that in addition to the symptoms mentioned above, that when Tina was afraid, she’d get flushes of heat that rose from her chest to her head. She also wanted to be close to her parents and drank ice water to soothe her nerves. She was extremely afraid of the dark and slept with the lights on, and her symptoms were always aggravated when it was storming outside.

Low dose medicines are prescribed on the individualizing or unique symptoms a client experiences. In Tina’s case of anxiety, the symptoms that are unique to her, in particular, are best covered by Phosphorus 30C. Dr. Cain prescribed Phosphorus 30C once per day, and within three days, Tina and her parents started to see improvement. Follow-ups were done monthly and Tina reported that she was feeling better and better at each visit. Her parents are thrilled with her progress. Tina started making friends, and the fire alarm no longer scared her. Her grades improved, and she grew in her overall sense of confidence and self.

It has been six months and Tina is thriving in school. She has never needed psychiatric medications. She is happier, healthier, and only comes back to see Dr. Cain to talk about how classes are going, or for the occasional “touch up” visits and her parents started to see improvement. Follow-ups were done monthly and Tina reported that she was feeling better and better at each visit. Her parents are so relieved by her progress.

Ready to Get Started?

To get started, Dr. Nicole Cain has created an exclusive membership program called the Holistic Wellness Collective which features a roadmap to figuring out your own health journey, how to become your own health advocate, the content of over 9 online courses, hours and hours of exclusive teachings, a live teaching every month, a live Q & A every month, a private Facebook community where you can meet others who are on a personal health journey, 100s of worksheets to help you on your journey, a large variety of conditions addressed, access to discounted labs and supplements, extra content from Dr. Cain’s breakthrough book Panic Proof, and much much more (all the benefits and a sneak peek here).