Hello and welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host Evan Brand, certified functional medicine practitioner and nutritional therapy practitioner. Thanks for joining me.

Today we're chatting with Dr. Justin. We're talking all about anxiety. This is a huge problem. I read something the other day about children and how children below age, I think it was 13 or maybe 15, the anxiety levels that these

kids are having, these school age children are having is just astronomical.

And of course, social media comes to mind technology, being addicted to blue light screens,

which is depleting dopamine levels.

I'm sure Jack Cruz would love to come back on and talk about that, so we'll probably try to

arrange that this summer.

There's a lot of factors for kids that, you know, even I didn't have as a kid and that you

didn't have as a kid that are creating anxiety.

We've got to help these kids out because if we want them to be confident, productive members of society, you can't do that if you're anxious or if you're having panic attacks all the time. So stabilizing the blood sugar of children is very important. Getting rid of gut infections and children is very important. It's something I do every day. We test kids around the world and I've seen ages 1, 2, three, four, five, six, seven all the way up to

20 that have gut infections. So if something's not right with your kid, if they're having mood

issues or if you're having mood issues, including anxiety, consider the gut as a potential link

to that anxiety. I would say a probable link. It's one of the biggest factors that I ever see

for anxiety is gut related issues.

So we're going to dive into some of that today and then part two we're going to cover even more about

the gut. Today is more about the different mechanisms of anxiety. Why is this happening? What's

happening from a neurotransmitter perspective? What's happening from a hormonal perspective?

What about blood sugar? How does blood sugar factor into anxiety? What's

the relationship there? If you're not a diabetic, should you care about blood sugar? Absolutely,

you should. This is very important. And you can buy a glucometer on your own. I have one called the

keto mojo. I love it. I use it all the time. If you just type in my website, Evanbrand.com, and then you do forward slash mojo, M-O-J-O.

You can check out the device I use, and it actually tracks your blood glucose and your ketones

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