How to Stop a Panic Attack

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Today we’re going to talk about how to stop a panic attack. A panic attack is severe anxiety. Many times during a panic attack, people feel a lot of fear, and they may also feel like they can’t breathe.

During a panic attack, the adrenal glands are involved. These are stress glands. Also, in your brain, you have something called the amygdala. The amygdala is similar to the adrenals because it’s also involved in the fight or flight mechanism. It has been found that when the amygdala is removed, a person loses all fear. The amygdala is involved in fear. Fear is a survival mechanism.

How to help stop a panic attack:

1. Slow down your breathing

Breathe in for 4-5 seconds and then breathe out for 4-5 seconds.

2. Take long walks

Take about a 40-60 minute walk every day. Get out in nature, get space, and get oxygen.

3. Stop watching the news

You don’t need the negativity.

4. Vitamin B1

Vitamin B1 is necessary to help counter stress. Refined carbs deplete vitamin B1. People that have panic attacks or anxiety attacks are typically on a high-carb diet.

5. Acupressure

Acupressure may really help pull someone out of a panic attack fast.

6. Adaptogens

These are herbs that help people adapt to stress. They can help calm the sympathetic nervous system, lower cortisol, and regulate stress.

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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and a panic attack.
0:47.0	Now over the years working with a lot of different people
0:51.7	there's been quite a few people who came in my office with panic
0:55.2	attacks and they are always on the same diet, which I'm going to discuss. But a panic attack
1:01.6	is severe anxiety. it's fear with volume, okay?
1:06.7	It's the feeling that you can't breathe, suffocating,
1:09.9	and so here's some things that you should do.
1:13.0	Number one, slow down your breathing.
1:15.5	If you notice someone in a panic attack,
1:17.8	they're either hyperventilating
1:19.5	or the inhalation is different than the exhalation. They could be doing like,
1:25.8	the exhalation is usually shorter. So you want to breathe in four, maybe five seconds
1:32.4	and then breathe out four to five seconds.
1:35.6	Keep that the same and slow it down.
1:39.4	That's going to actually pull you out of this panic attack. It's going to pull you out of what's called the flight or fight mechanism.
1:46.1	Because you have the adrenals involved, the adrenals of the stress gland. There's also something else going on in your brain you have something called the
1:54.9	amigula and it's very similar to the adrenals because it's involved in the
1:59.3	flight or fight mechanism they found that when you remove this structure in the brain, you lose all your fear.
2:06.9	So one purpose of the amigula is involved in fear, and that's a survival mechanism, because if you see a big snake that's going to eat you you can run away.
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