Have you noticed you aren't the same person you were when you were
younger? Are you going through menopause? Do you have estrogen dominance or low progesterone? Well, hormones have receptors throughout the brain and effect how our neurotransmitters (serotonin, dopamine, GABA, acetylcholine and norepinephrine) work.
Norepinephrine is a neurotransmitter that is considered part of our "flight or fight" response. It is found mostly in the amygdala, which is a central processing place of our brain responsible for anxiety. There are about 12,000 neurons that are sensitive to norepinephrine. This "anti-anxiety" neurotransmitter helps with stressful events; it raises blood pressure, speeds up the metabolism, raises body temperature, affects the lungs, tells our adrenal (stress) hormones to appear, and makes us more focused and alert. This is a healthy response when we are in danger, BUT, if you have a very stressful life or are dealing with a tragedy and are constantly pushing out norepinephrine, you WILL run out and this is detrimental to our adrenal hormones, thyroid and mental health.
NOREPINEPHRINE
When norepinephrine levels stay high for too long, we become irritable, anxious, and short tempered. This can lead to a panic attack out of the blue...blood pressure and heart rate go up, blood vessels and lungs constrict, shortness of breath and dizziness occurs, and the digestive system shuts down.
Healthy doses of norepinephrine during the day is great to keep us focused and alert. But in a stressful life, this high level at night, disturbs proper REM sleep (which I write a lot about in the book: Secrets to a Healthy Metabolism. The terrible effects of little to no REM sleep can have serious long-term issues on our weight (our leptin receptors become resistant), mood (serotonin will suffer when melatonin suffers) and our cells (which become damaged and can lead to fibromyalgia or other cellular disorders).
Norepinephrine also determines if you suffer from hot flashes or not. The luteinizing hormone signals the ovaries, which are slowing down to a hault during menopause. These signals causes a rise in the hypothalamus which regulates the body's temperature and sleep. Norepinephrine goes into overdrive because the ovaries aren't listening...this is very bad because the signals will cause hot flashes and inhibit the brain to get into REM sleep. You may be passed out, but the act of REM sleep isn't happening; in the morning you feel groggy, depressed and tired.
On the flip side, if norepinephrine levels are low, depression is likely to set in. The main principle of tricyclic antidepressants is to produce proper levels of norepinephrine. Scientists can't study mice when it comes to depression because they can't produce norepinephrine and therefore, don't respond to antidepressants! Interesting, huh!
ESTROGEN
There are 3 types of estrogen. The first one is made only when pregnant, the second one is made from our ovaries and the 3rd source is the unhealthy estrogen that causes belly fat. This comes from external sources(commercial soaps, alcohol, excess insulin, hormones in food...). It is clear that a lack of healthy estrogen that comes from our ovaries, estradiol, has a huge effect on our moods. Six days after ovaries are removed, there is a huge disconnect in the part of the brain that use norepinephrine. The adrenal glands also produce norepinephrine, so taking care of our adrenal system is important. Sleep, yoga and relaxing are a few examples of how we can take care of our adrenal system.
Most people understand me when I bring up serotonin. Serotonin receptors are found in the intestines, blood vessels and the central nervous system. In the intestines, it makes food move through faster; low serotonin = slow bowl movements and often inability to go #2 everyday (probiotics are essential to consume for a healthy serotonin level in the brain, especially after antiobiotics, a colonoscopy, or a cleanse or stress). In the blood vessels, serotonin increases constriction and blood pressure which results in migraines or headaches. The central nervous system actually runs from our intestines to our brain, which again is why probiotics in the intestines help build serotonin.
High serotonin levels lower appetite, which is why I recommend 5-HTP for my dieters who aren't on an antidepressant...it makes dieting so much easier because it keeps cravings at bay while also increasing REM sleep.
Low serotonin levels cause disturbed sleep, lack of pleasure with our lives, high carbohydrate cravings, urinary urgency (low serotonin = increase in bladder contraction), and can lead to more serious issues like depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and suicide.
When I bring up GABA to clients, their face often goes blank. This is a fairly unfamiliar brain neurotransmitter. BUT, when I tell them it is our 'anti-anxiety' and emotional eating brain chemical, they often give me a look like "that is ME!" GABA is "nature's valium" that helps us fall asleep. Anti-anxiety drugs such as Valium, Ativan, and Xanax interact with GABA receptors. If we have enough GABA, we feel calm. But if we lack GABA we start to feel anxious, we often can't stop eating after one serving and we have a hard time falling asleep because our mind is racing about what happened that day or what we need to accomplish the next day.
Estrogen affects all the neurotransmitters but it is most important for serotonin. Estrogen boosts serotonin by both making more of it and keeping it around after it's made. So that's likely to be the reason that estrogen increases mood and enhances healthy sleep patterns. The hippocampus of the brain connects emotions and memory and shrinks when someone is depressed. Estrogen, however, boosts the health of the hippocampus and helps fight depression.
To balance estrogen, I suggest supplementing with a pure progesterone cream (I like Progest by Emerita…no additives, just wild yam). OR, you can take supplements that help the liver metabolize estrogen, such as folic acid, vitamin B6, zinc, magnesium glycinate, and my favorite: Estrofactors by Metagenics (click HERE to find).
PROGESTERONE
If you find you are low on progesterone, adding in a pure progesterone cream helps boost moods by increasing dopamine (the pleasure neurotransmitter). Not only that, progesterone helps increase the essential REM sleep that is needed to balance all of our hormones (leptin, ghrelin, thyroid, adrenal). This is why pregnant women with high progesterone levels are sleepy and they often remember their dreams. Women with adequate progesterone also have more positive emotions than women with low progesterone. Take note that MORE isn’t always better! Don’t go out and rub Progest cream all over your body! Too much can cause water retention and lack of energy. To help with depression, use a lower dose of progesterone cream. For anxiety, use a bit more, or switch from a cream to an oral source.
These suggestions aren’t going to cure everyone. Balancing our hormones will be enough for some, but there are certain situations where that won’t work and one will need more help. If anxiety or depression is showing up after a hysterectomy and never did before, then tinkering with hormone levels are most likely going to fix the issue.
STEPS FOR SUCCESS:
1. Don’t underestimate exercise, yoga and nature! Movement is a natural form of ‘antidepressants!’ My favorite thing to do is to put a book on my iphone and listen to that while I walk my boys around the block after dinner. Don’t just sit after meals…you don’t have to run, but move! It helps lower insulin (excess insulin = excess bad estrogen).
2. Depressed people often have high levels of cortisol, which the stress hormone pumped out by the adrenal glands and is responsible for belly fat in many people. In a healthy body, cortisol is released at 8 am and 4 pm and then levels drop at night. Depressed people don't cycle. Their levels stay high. So lowering stress and cortisol through exercise, meditation, and massage might help depression. Yoga is awesome because it helps with lowering stress. Stress uses up neurotransmitters.
3. Eat Protein multiple times a day: Protein has amino acids which are essential in building serotonin (tryptophan). So eating a healthy diet with enough protein multiple times a day will supply the building for healthy neurotransmitters (you can’t store protein).
4. Supplement your health! There are supplements that might help(particularly if you are taking estrogen). Probiotics are #1 with improving mood! I take THIS one everyday: ULTRA FLORA PLUS. Magnesium glycinate helps with insomnia, nervousness, restlessness, anxiety, and blood pressure. Vitamin B6 is helpful for serotonin, GABA, and dopamine (a balanced B complex is best). People who get panic attacks might be extra sensitive to caffeine, so it's good to avoid it. Anything that will help you relax(except alcohol, which really messes with hormone balance) is probably a good thing. Click HERE to find the supplements I recommend for mood imbalances.
"Healthified" Protein Spread
6 hard boiled eggs
1/2 cup organic chicken broth (or veggie broth)
1/2 tsp dried chives
1/2 tsp dried parsley
1/2 tsp dried dill weed
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp onion powder
1/8 tsp Celtic salt
1/8 tsp ground black pepper
In a blender or a food processor (click HERE to find the one I use on sale for $30!), puree the eggs, broth, chives, parsley, dill, garlic powder, onion powder, salt and pepper. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours before serving (it will thicken up as it rests). Makes 12 servings.
NUTRITIONAL COMPARISON (per 32 gram serving)
Mayo = 100 calories, 10g fat, 0.2g protein, 2g carbs, trace fiber
"Healthified" Spread = 34 calories, 2.2g fat, 3g protein, 0.3g carbs, trace fiber
Use it in place of mayo on my CRAB BLT recipe!
younger? Are you going through menopause? Do you have estrogen dominance or low progesterone? Well, hormones have receptors throughout the brain and effect how our neurotransmitters (serotonin, dopamine, GABA, acetylcholine and norepinephrine) work.
Norepinephrine is a neurotransmitter that is considered part of our "flight or fight" response. It is found mostly in the amygdala, which is a central processing place of our brain responsible for anxiety. There are about 12,000 neurons that are sensitive to norepinephrine. This "anti-anxiety" neurotransmitter helps with stressful events; it raises blood pressure, speeds up the metabolism, raises body temperature, affects the lungs, tells our adrenal (stress) hormones to appear, and makes us more focused and alert. This is a healthy response when we are in danger, BUT, if you have a very stressful life or are dealing with a tragedy and are constantly pushing out norepinephrine, you WILL run out and this is detrimental to our adrenal hormones, thyroid and mental health.
NOREPINEPHRINE
When norepinephrine levels stay high for too long, we become irritable, anxious, and short tempered. This can lead to a panic attack out of the blue...blood pressure and heart rate go up, blood vessels and lungs constrict, shortness of breath and dizziness occurs, and the digestive system shuts down.
Healthy doses of norepinephrine during the day is great to keep us focused and alert. But in a stressful life, this high level at night, disturbs proper REM sleep (which I write a lot about in the book: Secrets to a Healthy Metabolism. The terrible effects of little to no REM sleep can have serious long-term issues on our weight (our leptin receptors become resistant), mood (serotonin will suffer when melatonin suffers) and our cells (which become damaged and can lead to fibromyalgia or other cellular disorders).
Norepinephrine also determines if you suffer from hot flashes or not. The luteinizing hormone signals the ovaries, which are slowing down to a hault during menopause. These signals causes a rise in the hypothalamus which regulates the body's temperature and sleep. Norepinephrine goes into overdrive because the ovaries aren't listening...this is very bad because the signals will cause hot flashes and inhibit the brain to get into REM sleep. You may be passed out, but the act of REM sleep isn't happening; in the morning you feel groggy, depressed and tired.
On the flip side, if norepinephrine levels are low, depression is likely to set in. The main principle of tricyclic antidepressants is to produce proper levels of norepinephrine. Scientists can't study mice when it comes to depression because they can't produce norepinephrine and therefore, don't respond to antidepressants! Interesting, huh!
ESTROGEN
There are 3 types of estrogen. The first one is made only when pregnant, the second one is made from our ovaries and the 3rd source is the unhealthy estrogen that causes belly fat. This comes from external sources(commercial soaps, alcohol, excess insulin, hormones in food...). It is clear that a lack of healthy estrogen that comes from our ovaries, estradiol, has a huge effect on our moods. Six days after ovaries are removed, there is a huge disconnect in the part of the brain that use norepinephrine. The adrenal glands also produce norepinephrine, so taking care of our adrenal system is important. Sleep, yoga and relaxing are a few examples of how we can take care of our adrenal system.
Most people understand me when I bring up serotonin. Serotonin receptors are found in the intestines, blood vessels and the central nervous system. In the intestines, it makes food move through faster; low serotonin = slow bowl movements and often inability to go #2 everyday (probiotics are essential to consume for a healthy serotonin level in the brain, especially after antiobiotics, a colonoscopy, or a cleanse or stress). In the blood vessels, serotonin increases constriction and blood pressure which results in migraines or headaches. The central nervous system actually runs from our intestines to our brain, which again is why probiotics in the intestines help build serotonin.
High serotonin levels lower appetite, which is why I recommend 5-HTP for my dieters who aren't on an antidepressant...it makes dieting so much easier because it keeps cravings at bay while also increasing REM sleep.
Low serotonin levels cause disturbed sleep, lack of pleasure with our lives, high carbohydrate cravings, urinary urgency (low serotonin = increase in bladder contraction), and can lead to more serious issues like depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and suicide.
When I bring up GABA to clients, their face often goes blank. This is a fairly unfamiliar brain neurotransmitter. BUT, when I tell them it is our 'anti-anxiety' and emotional eating brain chemical, they often give me a look like "that is ME!" GABA is "nature's valium" that helps us fall asleep. Anti-anxiety drugs such as Valium, Ativan, and Xanax interact with GABA receptors. If we have enough GABA, we feel calm. But if we lack GABA we start to feel anxious, we often can't stop eating after one serving and we have a hard time falling asleep because our mind is racing about what happened that day or what we need to accomplish the next day.
Estrogen affects all the neurotransmitters but it is most important for serotonin. Estrogen boosts serotonin by both making more of it and keeping it around after it's made. So that's likely to be the reason that estrogen increases mood and enhances healthy sleep patterns. The hippocampus of the brain connects emotions and memory and shrinks when someone is depressed. Estrogen, however, boosts the health of the hippocampus and helps fight depression.
To balance estrogen, I suggest supplementing with a pure progesterone cream (I like Progest by Emerita…no additives, just wild yam). OR, you can take supplements that help the liver metabolize estrogen, such as folic acid, vitamin B6, zinc, magnesium glycinate, and my favorite: Estrofactors by Metagenics (click HERE to find).
PROGESTERONE
If you find you are low on progesterone, adding in a pure progesterone cream helps boost moods by increasing dopamine (the pleasure neurotransmitter). Not only that, progesterone helps increase the essential REM sleep that is needed to balance all of our hormones (leptin, ghrelin, thyroid, adrenal). This is why pregnant women with high progesterone levels are sleepy and they often remember their dreams. Women with adequate progesterone also have more positive emotions than women with low progesterone. Take note that MORE isn’t always better! Don’t go out and rub Progest cream all over your body! Too much can cause water retention and lack of energy. To help with depression, use a lower dose of progesterone cream. For anxiety, use a bit more, or switch from a cream to an oral source.
These suggestions aren’t going to cure everyone. Balancing our hormones will be enough for some, but there are certain situations where that won’t work and one will need more help. If anxiety or depression is showing up after a hysterectomy and never did before, then tinkering with hormone levels are most likely going to fix the issue.
STEPS FOR SUCCESS:
1. Don’t underestimate exercise, yoga and nature! Movement is a natural form of ‘antidepressants!’ My favorite thing to do is to put a book on my iphone and listen to that while I walk my boys around the block after dinner. Don’t just sit after meals…you don’t have to run, but move! It helps lower insulin (excess insulin = excess bad estrogen).
2. Depressed people often have high levels of cortisol, which the stress hormone pumped out by the adrenal glands and is responsible for belly fat in many people. In a healthy body, cortisol is released at 8 am and 4 pm and then levels drop at night. Depressed people don't cycle. Their levels stay high. So lowering stress and cortisol through exercise, meditation, and massage might help depression. Yoga is awesome because it helps with lowering stress. Stress uses up neurotransmitters.
3. Eat Protein multiple times a day: Protein has amino acids which are essential in building serotonin (tryptophan). So eating a healthy diet with enough protein multiple times a day will supply the building for healthy neurotransmitters (you can’t store protein).
4. Supplement your health! There are supplements that might help(particularly if you are taking estrogen). Probiotics are #1 with improving mood! I take THIS one everyday: ULTRA FLORA PLUS. Magnesium glycinate helps with insomnia, nervousness, restlessness, anxiety, and blood pressure. Vitamin B6 is helpful for serotonin, GABA, and dopamine (a balanced B complex is best). People who get panic attacks might be extra sensitive to caffeine, so it's good to avoid it. Anything that will help you relax(except alcohol, which really messes with hormone balance) is probably a good thing. Click HERE to find the supplements I recommend for mood imbalances.
"Healthified" Protein Spread
6 hard boiled eggs
1/2 cup organic chicken broth (or veggie broth)
1/2 tsp dried chives
1/2 tsp dried parsley
1/2 tsp dried dill weed
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp onion powder
1/8 tsp Celtic salt
1/8 tsp ground black pepper
In a blender or a food processor (click HERE to find the one I use on sale for $30!), puree the eggs, broth, chives, parsley, dill, garlic powder, onion powder, salt and pepper. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours before serving (it will thicken up as it rests). Makes 12 servings.
NUTRITIONAL COMPARISON (per 32 gram serving)
Mayo = 100 calories, 10g fat, 0.2g protein, 2g carbs, trace fiber
"Healthified" Spread = 34 calories, 2.2g fat, 3g protein, 0.3g carbs, trace fiber
Use it in place of mayo on my CRAB BLT recipe!
Those look scrumptious, Maria! Will be trying them one of these days.
ReplyDeleteGreat read!
ReplyDeleteI have high cortisol and low estradiol.
The recipe looks great too, need to make it this weekend!
Thanks! Hope you like it. :)
DeleteVery interesting article. This is the first time I've heard of the serotonin/bowels connection. I've tried every constipation remedy known to man with very limited results. Do you know if 5-HTP can be taken with Wellbutrin XL? From what I understand it isn't in the same class as antidepressants like Prozac.
ReplyDeleteDue to lack of studies and information, I wouldn't recommend it.
DeleteHu Maria, I just starting taking 1/4 tsp of emerita every 12 hrs. Is it normal to feel bloated and tired at first or should I cut it back to 1/8 of a tsp? I'm using it to help with fertility, I currently have endometriosis.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I would get your progesterone levels checked. And yes, back down
Deleteto only 1/8 th tsp. Estrofactors would be very helpful. I know that
for sure! :)
I also started taking 1/8 tsp of emerita every 12 hours. When I first started taking the cream I felt my mood was lifted, but I was bloated and only for the first week. Now that I've stopped the cream for shedding to start I've lost complete joy in my workouts, I'm obviously gaining weight which is causing more depression, I'm extremely irritable, I have aches in my legs, and feel as though I need 10-12 hours of sleep. I just feel inflamed everywhere and extremely bloated again. I have endometriosis and Celiac. I am also taking the cream for fertility. I stopped the cream after my last dose on the morning of 11-28. No shedding has started yet. Is it true that it could be turning on estrogen receptors or could I be creating problems for myself?
ReplyDeleteI would try Estrofactors instead: 1 capsule at each meal: EstroFactors is a unique formula designed to promote healthy hormone balance inwomen of all ages by featuring targeted nutrients that support healthy estrogen metabolism and detoxification (decrease ACNE).: There are 3 types of estrogen. Peri-menopause/No ovaries = body has low HEALTHY estrogen (estradiol), high UNHEALTHY (estrone) estrogen from extra insulin to make fat! Some ways we get too much estrogen is exposure to chemicals that mimicestrogen such as many plastics (microwaving food in plastic dishes or using plastic wraps and containers...like they did in the schools on JAMIE OLIVER's FOOD REVOLUTION) or eating non-organic food. Beef and chickens are typically given potent estrogenic substances (‘super-estrogens’) to make them more productive. Our produce is often laced with these substances. People develop estrogen dominance as a result of a high-carb low-fiber diet, consuming excess fructose, drinking alcohol, having a "Tired-Toxic Liver", or environmentalfactors...all of which we have some power to control. The liver is a filter of sorts. It detoxifies our body, protecting us from the harmful effects of chemicals, elements in food, environmental toxins, and even natural products of our metabolism, including excess estrogen. Anything that impairs liver function or ties up the detoxifying function will result in excess estrogen levels.Estrofactors helps with all of this:)))
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Have you heard of Maca root to balance hormones for menopause and aiding in fertility? What is your opinion on this?
ReplyDeleteHi, yes I have heard of it but I don't usually work with herbs, only supplements. So I don't have any experience with it. Sorry. :)
DeleteSince you talked about hormones I was wondering your thoughts on the big use of the HCG stuff? I've read in my low carb groups a number of people using it with great success. I was losing fine even though slow since I can't exercise do to not being able to walk without a walker short distances and the use of a wheelchair. Last July things went off course and I haven't been able to get back something I lost inwardly. No matter what I try I feel helpless and don't want to gain back the weight I've lost. I can't seem to get that mind set again. I feel like I'm lacking in something that makes me crave stuff that never has affected me before. I think I will try and get a few items you mentioned like 5-HTP and the probiotics.
ReplyDeleteI think that losing the weight slowly by changing the way you eat everyday is better than something you can't sustain for life. Eating only 500 calories a day in the beginning will help you lose weight fast, but it isn't sustainable and isn't good for our metabolisms in the long run. ;)
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ReplyDeleteMetagenics - Ultra Flora Plus DF" and it contains soy and maltodextrin. I thought these things were not good especially for estrogen imbalances?
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They actually changed their product and if you look the bottle in the photo is called Ultra Balance. I have a bottle here it neither of those ingredients are in it. :)
DeleteHi Maria. I want to thank you again for all that you do to help people through your blog. Last time I was here my anxiety levels and fatigue were quite bad. From reading and reading about all your articles and recommendations I bought magnesium supplements as well as GABA. I can asure you after 2 months I have been feeling almost like normal after 4 years of high anxiety, insomnia and stress. I just moved to Canada and since I was feeling terrible I got some tests done just to feel safe that there wasn´t anything else going wrong and they all came out ok. So my doctor immediately gave me anxiety pills and antidepressant (in my head I said no way, I will take what Maria suggests instead) So I did and here I am feeling much much better. When I went to see my doctor again for the tests results, he said everything came out perfect fine except for iron levels are slightly low. So he gave me iron supplements. I confessed to him I did not take the anxitey pills, instead I was taking the GABA and the magnesium. He was amazed lol. He said to keep up what I was doing.
ReplyDeleteSo I almost feel 100% percent normal and healthy, but I still have problems with insomnia. My heart keeps racing like in a panic attack when I´m falling alseep. It wakes me up and then I fall in a deep sleep and I´m ok.I can sleep, but it can wake me up several times. I can feel my anxiety coming back (not as bad) when I do not have a good night sleep and when stress is elevated. The only symptoms left of my anxiety are some weakness- tired feeling and my hands and left leg feel kind of weak/numb on ocasions, with a slight tingling. I notice this when my anxiety is coming back. So besides my heart keeping me up sometimes at night and these few symptoms left I can say I´m on the road for recovery. I have had all my life a short temper, I get irritated very easly and when I get angry I can be quite agressive. I do not know if this is part of my personality since it´s been for ever or if I´m lacking minerals and vitamins for this too. I can not believe how terrible you can feel (like dying) when you have nutritional deficiencies. Now I now it´s true.
Is there anything else you can suggest that I´m missing or I need to add? I read about all these great supplements but some are very expensive I can not afford. What else should I add besides the magnesium and GABA? I wish all came in one pill instead of buy like ten bottles.
Thanks so much for al your help and I appreciate very much all your advise and suggestions.
It sounds like low progesterone (anxiety and waking up a lot). I would get progesterone blood test done. :)
DeleteThanks Maria
ReplyDeleteWould your book, Secrets to a Healthy Metabolism, be helpful for me? I am menopausal, no menses in 18 months. I eat low carb and have for a very long time but I can't drop the weight. I am not "officially" overweight but I am heavier than I have ever been and I am not comfortable. I tried using the T Tapp exercise system but it didn't seem to help. I take Vitex and Evening Primrose Oil as well as cod liver oil, calcium, magnesium, B Complex, Dry E, and vitamin C. I experience hot flashes daily and have for 2 1/2 years since donating a kidney to my son. My menopausal symptoms began immediately following the surgery. I am 50 years old. Your website is amazing. Thank you, thank you.
ReplyDeleteYes! I have worked with MANY clients with your same situation. My book is a great place to start. :)
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Hi Maria,
ReplyDeleteMy anxiety & stress levels are always out of whack, which causes anger. I started taking 5htp & theanine (1-each in the AM). It helps a little with the anxiety & stress, but my tension/anger is still a struggle. I think I need to increase the amounts of 5htp & theanine each day, but what other supplements do you suggest? I just don't feel myself & I don't like it.
Thanks Sarah
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Bifido bacteria
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750 GABA in am and before bed empty stomach
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Get vitamin d checked. Low ferritin and low progesterone is also an issue with anxiety A consult would be very helpful to know what your specific deficiencies are. :)
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