On today's episode of the Real Foodology podcast.

What's like the one thing I can do to like help my anxiety with my diet?

And it's like really it's going back to the basics of like, is your diet made primarily

of whole foods?

And by whole foods, it's really just foods found in nature and minimally processed.

Hi guys.

Welcome back to another episode of the Real Foodology podcast. I'm your host, Courtney Swan. So grateful that you're here today. Today's episode is all about anxiety. It is no secret. If you have been following me for a while, you probably know a little bit too much about my anxiety journey. I went through something super traumatic, a couple

things, super traumatic as a kid that I've shared many podcasts on. And as a result of not

dealing with the trauma that I went through as a kid, I developed some pretty severe anxiety

throughout my life. And as I share in this episode, it ebbs and flows, depending more so

on how much I'm taking care of myself. And, you know, as someone who has struggled with anxiety

for a really long time, I feel like I've tried every supplement under the sun. I have done everything

I've, I can to dial in my diet, I've gone off coffee, you name it, I pretty much have tried it. And as I always try to do with

this podcast is, I want to provide as much information as I possibly can to help you with anything

that you're struggling with health-wise. And so I figured why not make an entire episode all about anxiety? What you can do, things that affect it, why our diet affects anxiety.

We touch really briefly on SSRIs. We talk about the connection between the gut and the brain

and why oftentimes if we're having gut issues, we are also going to be

dealing with anxiety and other things having to do with mental health because of that direct

connection between the gut and the brain. We talk about something that maybe a lot of people

aren't aware of is there is a connection between our blood sugar and our anxiety levels. So it is more important than ever,

especially as someone like myself who deals with anxiety on a day-to-day basis to really make

sure that we are optimizing our blood sugar and eating really well-balanced high-quality meals

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