Anxiety is a common emotion and is part of our normal reactions to everyday events along with fear, anger, sadness and happiness. Most of us have suffered from anxiety at some part in our lives and for many it comee & then goes again. It is only when the anxiety becomes extreme or prolonged that it can cause damage to health.
If experiences deeply enough extreme and prolonged anxiety can turn into a chronic affliction for the sufferer. The most common branches include generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, panic attacks, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Symptoms
Anxiety is a complexity of negative emotions and sensations may include fear, dread, panic, apprehension and worry. Sometimes the sensation is also accompanied by physical symptoms such as palpitations, nausea, chest pain and shortness of breath.
Anxiety is often brought on by excessive worry or a potential danger. The way the body deals with this threat is by increasing blood pressure and heart rate, blood flow to major organs, and by decreasing immune system and digestive functions.
There are also external signs which can be observed such as pale skin, sweating, trembling of the extremities and dilation of the pupils.
Causes
Although it is often thought that emotional factors are mostly involved in anxiety attacks, natural science proves that biological factors are more at fault.
How can BioTech Healing help?
Here at BioTech Healing we have found that nutritional imbalances (excesses or deficiencies) and toxic overload are the main causes of anxiety, panic attacks, phobias and related disorders.
Deficiencies of essential minerals, an excess of toxic metals, hypoglycemia and other biochemical imbalances all play major roles in the body's reactive stimuli.
Calcium, magnesium, zinc, inositol, choline and the amino acids tryptophan and taurine have a sedative action upon the nervous system. A deficiency of these can therefore result in feelings of anxiety and nervousness. Conversely, an excess of vitamin B intake can also produce this effect.
Lead and mercury are major causes of hyperactivity and many anxiety states. Copper toxicity has been reportedly involved in symptoms of panic attacks and phobias, and cadmium is another toxic metal associated with behavioural problems.
Other conditions which many may see as being unrelated can cause extreme reactions in the nervous system, conditions such as hypoglycaemia (a fall in blood sugar levels), an overactive thyroid or overactive adrenal glands. These include feelings of anxiety, confusion and panic.
Also environmental and food sensitivities also contribute to reactions that involve severe behaviour changes from depression to epilepsy and anxiety (due to a increase in the release of histamine).
This is not surprising when you realise that it is mostly down to the 3000+ food additives ingested through commercial foods every day.