Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

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, fear is an emotion that helps you survive.

But what happens when our body becomes an 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, 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.

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-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.

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