The Anxiety Summit 3

The Anxiety Summit – Grainflammation – How Grain Consumption Contributes to Anxiety and other Mood Disorders

April 30, 2015 By Trudy Scott 68 Comments

Dr. Peter Osborne DC, author of Glutenology, was interviewed on the Anxiety Summit by host of the Anxiety Summit, Trudy Scott, Food Mood Expert and Nutritionist, author of The Antianxiety Food Solution.

Grainflammation – How Grain Consumption Contributes to Anxiety and other Mood Disorders

Gluten and autoimmunity
Schizophrenia and “bread madness”
How gluten and all grain consumption can lead to chemical changes in the brain
How the gluten in corn can impact the mind and mood
Concerns with seeds and grains
DNA testing for celiac and non-celiac gluten sensitivity

Here are some snippets from our interview:

Gluten is notorious for damaging the gastrointestinal tract. I know iron, in the literature, has always been reported as the most common most deficiency in gluten sensitivity. In my 15 years of practice, measuring both ferritin as well as iron panels and vitamin B₁₂levels, I see B₁₂being much, much more common as a deficiency in those with gluten sensitivity. The most common side effect of B₁₂deficiency, beyond fatigue, is actually anxiety.

We discussed the work of Dr Alessio Fasano, world-renowned pediatric gastroenterologist, research scientist and entreprenuer, chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC).

The second barrier is called the right junction, which we know gluten can cause a disruption in tight junctions. This was discovered by Alessio Fasano at Harvard. He actually discovered it while he was at University of Maryland Celiac Research Facility. He discovered these tight junctions were disrupted and dismantled as a result of gluten exposure.

We also know bacterial infections can disrupt these barriers. We also have some evidence that show that glyphosate in Roundup and other chemical artificial pesticides and herbicides can disrupt this gastrointestinal barrier.

We discussed lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and how they

can create a lot of inflammatory reaction, and they can contribute to a breakdown in the blood brain barrier

Here is a recent paper on LPS and anxiety and depression: Early prenatal exposure to LPS results in anxiety- and depression-related behaviors in adulthood

We found that mice exposed to LPS show anxiety- and depression-related behaviors

In addition, LPS mice had reduced serotonin and noradrenaline levels in the hippocampus

Here is the blood brain barrier paper discussed – The blood-brain barrier in neuroimmunology: Tales of separation and assimilation

The corn zein discussion was fascinating and concerning because so many people are eating gluten-free products that contain corn (another reason to pass on the processed gluten-free products and just eat real whole food!)

Here are two papers that discuss this (corn is called maize in South Africa)

Here is Dr. Osborne’s gift: 7 Habits of the Highly Effective Gluten-Free Warrior (3 videos)

Here is the information about Genetic Testing For Gluten Sensitivity and Celiac Disease

If you are not already registered for the Anxiety Summit you can get live access to the speakers of the day here: www.theAnxietySummit.com

Missed this interview or can’t listen live? Or want this and the other great interviews for your learning library? Purchase the MP3s or MP3s + transcripts and listen when it suits you.

You can find your purchasing options here: Anxiety Summit Season 1, Anxiety Summit Season 2, and Anxiety Summit Season 3.

The Anxiety Summit – How to Heal Anxiety with Nature and the Body, not just with the Mind

April 30, 2015 By Trudy Scott 6 Comments

Dr. Eva Selhub MD, author of Your Health Destiny and Your Brain on Nature, is interviewed by host of the Anxiety Summit, Trudy Scott, Food Mood Expert and Nutritionist, author of The Antianxiety Food Solution.

How to Heal Anxiety with Nature and the Body, not just with the Mind

Why the “the body whispers before it screams”
What stress has to do with anxiety
Mind/body interventions and why they help
Why nature is so important for reducing anxiety and even improving cognition
What love has to do with any of this
The role of our genes in anxiety and depression
Why sleep is so important?

Here are some gems from our interview:

Listen to your body’s whispers before they become screams

We are always looking for a state of balance or relief

We develop coping skills to manage bad feelings

Adaptive coping: we’re hungry so we eat

Maladaptive coping: we’re anxious so we eat

Oxytocin, the trust molecule, is necessary for survival of the species

Here is my oxytocin blog I mentioned: Oxytocin and social anxiety, pyroluria and depression?

We know that low serotonin can cause anxiety, worry and depression and research shows there are interactions between oxytocin and serotonin levels.

I loved the discussion about getting out in nature. This 2011 study titled: Effect of forest environments on human natural killer (NK) activity found that visiting forest parks found:

enhanced human natural killer (NK) activity, increased anti-cancer proteins, such as perforin, granzymes A and B, and granulysin in NK cells, and reduced the level of stress hormones in both male and female subjects

this effect lasted for more than 30 days after the trips, suggesting that visiting a forest park once a month is beneficial

Here is another paper we mentioned: Is love of nature in the US becoming love of electronic media? 16-year downtrend in national park visits explained by watching movies, playing video games, internet use, and oil prices.

This advice was smart: if you’re working and can’t out in nature, get a plant for your office or use a tool like Calm.com, a very cool online tool I recently discovered. It’s not nature but may help until you can get into nature. You can pick what nature scene you like and then pick the meditation duration. I love it!

Here are the books we mentioned:

Your Brain on Nature: The Science of Nature’s Influence on Your Health, Happiness and Vitality (with Alan Logan)

The Love Response: Your Prescription to Turn Off Fear, Anger, and Anxiety to Achieve Vibrant Health and Transform Your Life

Your Health Destiny: How to Unlock Your Natural Ability to Overcome Illness, Feel Better, and Live Longer

Get sample preview chapters from Your Health Destiny

If you are not already registered for the Anxiety Summit you can get live access to the speakers of the day here: www.theAnxietySummit.com

Missed this interview or can’t listen live? Or want this and the other great interviews for your learning library? Purchase the MP3s or MP3s + transcripts and listen when it suits you.

You can find your purchasing options here: Anxiety Summit Season 1, Anxiety Summit Season 2, and Anxiety Summit Season 3.

End anxiety, fears, social anxiety – the Anxiety Summit starts next week!

April 29, 2015 By Trudy Scott 2 Comments

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End anxiety, social anxiety, panic attacks, fears and overwhelm! Find nutritional solutions!

The Anxiety Summit (a virtual/online event) kicks off on Wednesday May 6 at 9am PDT. It will run thru May 20 with 2 speakers per day available for viewing at no charge. AND WE HAVE ALL NEW TOPICS!

Topics cover latest food mood research, troubleshooting the aminos and pyroluria, 60+ biochemical causes/solutions for anxiety, why real whole food, micronutrients, brain food like sardines, sauerkraut, corn gluten, vegetarianism, broths and soy, SIBO, parasites, nature, mold, pain, hormone balancing, methylfolate, histamine and mood, serotonin and tryptophan, case studies, mindbody medicine, gluten and zinc/high histamine, my recommended supplements… and lots more!

Here are some snippets from a few interviews to get you excited if you are already signed up and to get you inspired if you are not already signed up!

Julia Rucklidge PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, said this during our interview titled: “What if… Nutrition could Treat Anxiety and Depression?”

How long is it going to take our society to pay attention to the research that shows that suboptimal nutrition is contributing to the epidemic of mental illness? Are we just going to sit around and ignore this evidence to our peril? Or are we going to start paying attention and start to invest in the really important research that needs to happen?

Dr. Peter Osborne DC, author of Glutenology, said this during our interview titled “Grainflammation – How Grain Consumption Contributes to Anxiety and other Mood Disorders”

A lot of people don’t realize that corn has a form of gluten – the one that has been the most studied is called zein. This is very disturbing to me as there are several studies that show that corn gluten causes inflammation in patients with celiac disease…and can actually cause villous atrophy. These studies are largely ignored.

You can now see all the incredible speakers and topics at www.theAnxietySummit.com. This will be over 25 hours of top-notch anxiety nutritional solutions from people I have hand-picked! Plus 3 talks I will be doing on new research, amino acid and pyroluria troubleshooting, 60+ nutritional causes of anxiety and the supplements I recommend. ALL NEW TOPICS!

If you have any questions about how any of this works feel free to ask here:
https://www.everywomanover29.com/blog/anxiety-summit-season-3-speakers-topics

“See you” on the summit! I’m looking forward to all your great questions and feedback!

Please share if you know someone who has anxiety or if you know someone who works with anxious individuals: www.theanxietysummit.com

The Anxiety Summit Season 3: All the speakers and topics

April 24, 2015 By Trudy Scott 52 Comments

The Anxiety Summit: May 6 – 20, 2015
Nutritional Solutions for Anxiety
Hosted by Trudy Scott,
Food Mood Expert and Nutritionist, author of The Antianxiety Food Solution.

Here are all the speakers, their topics and blog posts with additional information, links to studies and more. Each speaker title below links to the respective speaker blog.

Trudy Scott CN, “New 2015 Food/Nutrient Research on Anxiety and Speaker Highlights”

Dr. Daniel Amen MD, “The Brain Warriors Way to Attacking Anxiety, Depression and Aging”

Julia Rucklidge PhD, “What if… Nutrition could Treat Anxiety and Depression?”

Rebecca Katz MS, “Your Brain on Food: The Science and Alchemy of Yum for Alleviating Anxiety!”

Summer Bock, “Sauerkraut for Gut Healing and Reducing Anxiety”

Dr. Peter Osborne DC, “Grainflammation – How Grain Consumption Contributes to Anxiety and other Mood Disorders”

Lierre Keith, “Anxiety, Depression, and the Vegetarian Diet”

Kaayla T. Daniel PhD, “Real Food for Anxiety: Butter, Broth and Beyond”

Dr. Allison Siebecker ND, “Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth and Anxiety”

Ann Louise Gittleman PhD, CNS, “The Parasite/Anxiety Connection”

Dr. Eva Selhub MD, “How to Heal Anxiety with Nature and the Body, not just with the Mind”

Dr. Jill Carnahan MD, “Is Toxic Mold the Hidden Cause of Your Anxiety?”

Joe Tatta DPT, “Nutritional Influences on Anxiety and Musculoskeletal Pain”

Magdalena Wszelaki, “Foods to balance your hormones and ease anxiety – part 1 and part 2”

Dr. Benjamin Lynch ND, “How Methylfolate can make you Feel Worse and even Cause Anxiety, and What to do about it”

Mira Calton CN and Jayson Calton PhD, “Micronutrients for Eliminating Anxiety”

Yasmina Ykelenstam, “Histamine-containing Foods: their Role in Anxiety, Depression and Schizophrenia”

Dr. Peter Bongiorno ND, “Serotonin and Anxiety, Happiness, Digestion and our Hormones”

Karla A Maree CNC, “Pyroluria, Amino Acids and Anxiety: Real Cases, Real Solutions”

Trudy Scott CN, “Pyroluria, Amino Acids and Anxiety: Troubleshooting when you are not getting results”

Dr. Kim D’Eramo DO, “How to use MindBody Medicine to Reverse Anxiety in 3 Minutes or Less”

Lebby Salinas, The Fooducator®, “How Gluten Elimination Healed Me and Eliminated my Anxiety”

Dan Stradford, “My Anxiety Story and the Message of Hope We Offer“

Trudy Scott CN, “Closing call: 60+ Nutritional & Biochemical Causes of Anxiety and Recommended Supplements”

Thank you for joining us on The Anxiety Summit Season 3! I hope you’ll join us again in fall for the season 4 of The Anxiety Summit!

Want these incredible interviews for your learning library? or did you miss the summit?

Purchase the season 3 MP3s or MP3s + transcripts and listen when it suits you.

You can find your other purchasing options here: Anxiety Summit Season 2, and Anxiety Summit Season 3.

Remember don’t tolerate how you feel. You deserve to feel your absolute best, and you can and should feel on top of the world always. You can completely eliminate your anxiety symptoms. Don’t give up hope, and just keep looking for answers until you have zero anxiety ~ Trudy

The Anxiety Summit: Dr. Daniel Amen on the gut and serotonin

April 24, 2015 By Trudy Scott 45 Comments

Dr. Daniel Amen MD, is well recognized as the brain doctor and this is the title of our interview on season 3 of The Anxiety Summit: “The Brain Warriors Way to Attacking Anxiety, Depression and Aging.”

Why we are in a war for the health of our brains?
Why anxiety is so common in women and how depression shows up in men
Four different brain types
Natural ways for dealing with anxiety (instead of typical anti-anxiety medications)
How birth control pills contribute to anxiety
The impact of gut health on anxiety

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He just has so much wisdom:

If you love your life and love the people in your life and love what you’re doing on this earth you need to get serious about your brain. This is The Brain Warrior concept!”

There is a path to keep your brain much healthier than most people every thought possible! Neurons don’t age, it’s blood vessels that age and if you understand that and can keep the blood flow to your brain healthy, it directly attacks ADD, anxiety, depression, obesity and Alzheimer’s disease.

And a great sense of humor too! We had many laugh out loud moments which are always good for us but especially great when we’re feeling sad, anxious or overwhelmed.

We talk about how important the microbiome and gut health is when it comes to mental health. He finds it funny that as the brain doctor, he now going to have to consider poop! He really does say that!

You may recall my great interview with Dr. Ted Dinan on season 2: Microbes in the gut and psychobiotics as a potential treatment for anxiety and depression

We also talk about how women make less serotonin so I just had to look up the research. Here are some snippets from this 1997 paper “Differences between males and females in rates of serotonin synthesis in human brain”

The marked difference in the rates of serotonin synthesis between male and female subjects is, to our knowledge, a new finding.

Moreover, no differences have been found between the number of serotonin re-uptake sites in the brains of male and female subjects.

The rate of serotonin synthesis will depend on numerous factors including the free plasma tryptophan levels, the plasma levels of tryptophan relative to the other large neutral amino acids, the activity of the system that transports the large neutral amino acids into brain, the gene expression of tryptophan hydroxylase, degradation of tryptophan hydroxylase, compartmentalization of tryptophan and tryptophan hydroxylase in brain cells, as well as probably numerous other factors.

Averaging over the different brain areas, the rate of serotonin synthesis is 52% greater in male than in female subjects. This is one of the largest differences between the brains of males and females that is not related to hormone binding sites. The reason for this difference is not clear at this time.

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Here is an image of brain scans that were published in the above study. The color bar on the right in the same row gives an indication of synthesis i.e. blues, purples and pinks means low synthesis of serotonin. The research found low synthesis of serotonin in the women in the study.

We can tie this all back to the gut since we make so much serotonin in the gut!

As Dr. Amen says “you need to get serious about your brain” and here a few of his recommendations:

eat real whole food, quit sugar and sodas, get plenty of healthy fats in your diet and quit bread
use natural approaches to boost serotonin and GABA, and address low progesterone if necessary
fall in love with exercise and get rid of negative thoughts (he calls them ANTS: automatic negative thoughts)
and avoid medications like benzodiazapines and the BCP/birth control pill

Here are some of Dr. Amen’s wonderful books:

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness

Unleash the Power of the Female Brain: Supercharging Yours for Better Health, Energy, Mood, Focus, and Sex

Dr. Amen, and his wife Tana have created this free 3-part online video series called the Brain Warrior’s Way. Dr. Amen says:

To survive and thrive, you must become a brain warrior, because without a doubt you are in a war for the health of your brain.

You can get access to the 3-part online video series called the Brain Warrior’s Way here

Join us on season 3 of The Anxiety Summit (www.theanxietysummit) and hear Dr. Amen share more on “The Brain Warriors Way to Attacking Anxiety, Depression and Aging.”

Feel on top of the world! A song to give you hope!

October 31, 2014 By Trudy Scott 2 Comments

Top of the World
A song by Amma Jo

A new beginning, a brand new day
All of my fears are gone away
I feel so calm, so free, so whole
Right now, I’m feeling on top of the world

On top the world
Right now, I’m feeling on top of the world

The power of real whole food- so amazing
I walk I run and I play
Feeling great, slowing down I’m breathing, I’m laughing
I watch the stress fall away

My very best days are yet to come
All anxiety and fear are gone
A whole new life I’ve never lived before
Right now, I’m feeling on top of the world

On top the world
Right now, I’m feeling on top of the world

I’m saying no to things that drain me
No to the things that steal my energy
I’m saying yes to foods that heal me
I’m calm, I’m happy, I’m free

I’m breathing in this moment
I’m feeling so alive
This is the best day
The very best day of my life

A new beginning, a brand new day
All of my fears are gone away
I feel so calm so free, so whole
Right now, I’m feeling on top of the world

I wake up in the morning
I see blue skies
As I work towards my dreams
I see the glorious sunrise

My very best days are yet to come
All anxiety and fear are gone
A whole new life I’ve never lived before
Right now, I’m feeling on top of the world

It’s gonna be the very best day of my life
It’s gonna be
It’s gonna be
The very best day of my life

Here is the lovely and very talented Amma Jo singing a snippet for you

AMMA JO is a singer/songwriter and entrepreneur. Her sole mission in life is INSPIRATION. She inspires through music, speaking and in her business endeavors. With 15 years executive management experience and over 10 years as an independent artist and true creative, AMMA JO brings her sincerity and flair to every presentation and project! Learn more about her at www.meetammajo.com

This is my gift to you…

Your own copy of my custom song co-created by me and Amma Jo

And sung by Amma Jo

Especially for you for the Anxiety Summit season 2

and now season 3 too

I want this to be an inspiration for you…

And as someone said during the first season: “a bouquet of hope”

Because you deserve to feel on top of the world all the time!

If you’re not already signed up please join us on the Anxiety Summit season 3.

When you register you’ll be able to download your own copy of the song!

Season 3 runs from May 6-20 and you’ll learn about nutritional and natural solutions for anxiety, panic attacks, OCD and social anxiety. And have access to this song and other great speaker gifts. See you there!