3 Things You Can Do Right Now to Beat Anxiety with Dr. Ellen Vora

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Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 102 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Thrive Market and InsideTracker. Blood sugar is starting to get more of the attention it deserves in terms of optimizing metabolic health, but there’s one issue that often gets left out of the equation—anxiety. The way our blood sugar, insulin, and other hormones respond to sugar and starch wreaks havoc on our mental and emotional wellness. Yet most people struggling with anxiety and depression are given medications without any consideration of their diet and lifestyle choices. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Dr. Ellen Vora to talk about the hidden root causes of anxiety. Dr. Vora is a board-certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist, yoga teacher, and author of The Anatomy of Anxiety. She takes a Functional Medicine approach to mental health—considering the whole person and addressing imbalance at the root. Dr. Vora received her BA from Yale University and her MD from Columbia University. In this episode, we dive into: -The hidden root causes of anxiety (2:11) -The connection between blood sugar dysregulation and anxiety (4:15) -Women, intermittent fasting, and anxiety (15:39) -Caffeine consumption and anxiety (25:07) -Social isolation and the importance of creating community (30:02) -Understanding psychiatric medication in treating anxiety (41:52) -Using breath work to treat anxiety (1:05:09) -Tools to help mitigate anxiety (1:13:48) -False anxiety vs. true anxiety (1:23:45) -The role psychedelics play in treating anxiety (1:28:22) Also mentioned in this episode: -4-7-8 Breathing Technique -Amma (Extended Mix) by James Asher For more on Dr. Ellen Vora, follow her on Instagram @ellenvoramd, Facebook @ellenvoramd, TikTok @ellenvoramd, YouTube @ellenvoramd, and through her website, ellenvora.com. Get her book, The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response, here. This episode is brought to you by Thrive Market and InsideTracker. Thrive Market is an online membership-based grocery store that makes eating well convenient and more affordable. Join today at thrivemarket.com/dhru to receive an extra $80 of free groceries off with your first order. InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 20% off. Just go to insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are not quite talking enough yet about the role that the blood sugar swings play in anxiety.
0:06.6	The real-time moment to moment when your blood sugar is crashing, it's inducing a stress response,
0:11.1	which can feel identical to anxiety and even panic.
0:15.4	Welcome to the Drew Perot podcast. Each week we explore the inner workings of the brain and the body
0:21.2	with one of the brightest minds in wellness, medicine and mindset. This week's guest is Dr. Ellen
0:27.4	Vora. Dr. Vora is a board certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist, yoga teacher and author of the newly
0:34.4	published book The Anatomy of Anxiety. And if you struggle with anxiety, even a little bit of
0:40.9	pervasive anxiety in your life that you're not sure how to kick, this episode is for you. Dr.
0:47.6	Vora takes a systems-based functional medicine approach to anxiety, which means understanding
0:53.8	that anxiety is not something that just lives in the brain. It lives in the body.
1:00.0	And there are things, multiple things that people do every single day, habits that you're used to,
1:06.8	no shade thrown on your routine, but there's things that we're doing every single day that we have no
1:12.0	idea are influencing our anxiety for the worse. But just like we can influence our anxiety for the
1:19.2	worse, we can also influence it for the better. And that's what we're talking about today on our
1:26.1	episode with Dr. Ellen Vora. A little bit more about Dr. Vora. She received her BA from Yale University
1:33.3	and her MD from Columbia University. She's completely changing the game when it comes to our
1:39.7	approach to mental health. And on today's episode, I hope you walk away with a few key gems to help
1:46.3	you in your journey to minimize the anxiety in your life or the lives of people that you love
1:51.8	around you. Stay tuned for a fantastic episode. Dr. Ellen Vora, welcome to the Drupal
1:57.3	Podcast. It's a pleasure, honor to have you here. Before we unpack your story and your whole
2:03.2	radically different approach to mental health, including things like anxiety and depression and so
2:08.6	much more, I want to start off with what do you think are the top hidden, even for some of our audience
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