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Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield here and I got to tell you, I actually didn't use to

be a very anxious guy, but it seems like the more that my life goes on and the more tasks

that I take on, the more pressure there is for me to maintain a fit body or a healthy nutrition

protocol, the older and more active, my twin boys get, the more responsibilities I have.

It seems like I get just a little less laid back and it affects my sleep quality and

some days I find myself laughing less or there are some days where I really need to go

out of my way to remember to just kind of stop and smell the roses.

And it was during the summer last year that I actually did some blood measurements

that included a cortisol reading that was very high and it was high in a way that really

concerned me and convinced me that I needed to do some pretty serious stress management

before I started to take years off my life.

So I delved into a lot of stress management and anxiety management protocols and since

then I've actually been really interested in this whole field of the anti-aging and life

enhancing and health bestowing benefits of managing stress and anxiety in natural ways.

So a few weeks ago when I got this book in the mail called Anxiety 101, a holistic approach

to managing your anxiety and taking back your life, I was pretty interested and I have to admit

I kind of thought when I first got the book that it would be kind of the typical ho-hum

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