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So you want to do fasting for fear-related disorders. I'm talking about anxiety, panic attacks,

PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, and phobias. Now Now fear is an emotion that helps you survive. But what happens when our body becomes in a chronic state of fear and how does that influence our bodies? Not good.

And the question is what can we do about it? Well, one of the most powerful things you can do is you

can do fasting. There are many, one of the most powerful things you can do is you can do fasting.

There are many, many things that fasting can do for the brain, for your immune system, for

your cognitive function, and for your mood. Now, when I say mood, I'm talking about elevating

your mood from a chronic state of anxiety or fear to a much higher state.

And now there's several mechanisms behind why this works, but fasting is also a survival mechanism

that helps you survive in times of danger. So it tends to counter this fear of motion, especially supporting your adrenal glands.

Also a little structure in your brain called the amygdala, which is very similar to the

adrenals, but for the brain. And so they found the amygdala in the brain has everything to do with

fear. And then you have something called the sympathetic nervous system, as in the flight or fight mechanism. And the location of that is

inside your adrenal glands because there's two parts. You have an outside and inside. It's on the

inside. And also in all of the mid-back nerves, you have the sympathetic nervous system.

So there's studies that show that

fasting helps your adrenal glands your sympathetic nervous system which is part of the

autonomic nervous system and also it can help your amygdala so if you're stuck in this

fear band whether it's a low-level fear or a high-level fear like in panic attacks or

whatever you can do fasting

to pull yourself out. So, fasting will improve your mood. It improves GABA, which is a neural

transmitter that makes you calm. It will improve dopamine, which helps increase pleasure,

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