Anxiety: Is This Common Food Causing Your Anxiety?

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Anxiety is a condition we all suffer with from time to time. If, however, you find yourself overreacting to normal situations with abnormal levels of stress, you may have an anxiety condition. One of the commonly overlooked causes of anxiety can be a simple protein that exists in many different common foods.

This common anxiety creating food is called gluten. Gluten is a protein that exists in grains. There are people with Celiac disease that have to avoid gluten completely, but many people without Celiac disease are becoming gluten intolerant. The reason is the gluten in wheat and another grains has been increasing.

What is gluten?

Gluten is large gelatinous protein molecule that is particularly hard to digest. The problem with gluten molecules is when they are not digested they can enter the bloodstream and cause problems in the brain. These gluten proteins can act as excitotoxins.

An excitotoxin is type of toxin, usually a protein like gluten, that speeds up the firing rate of neurons in the brain. This may seem harmless, except for the fact that this speeding up of the process causes anxiety. Gluten acts almost like a sticky gas pedal. The neurons start firing too fast causing all sorts of racing thoughts that get stuck in the mind.

These racing thoughts wear out the brain causing you to be tired and irritable. This leads to exhaustion and anxiety and if left untreated can lead to depression. In fact, too much excitotoxin will begin killing the brain cells themselves.

If you eat glutens (breads and cereals) and you have anxiety it is best to avoid it completely to determine if the gluten may be causing your symptoms. If you can't stop eating glutens, it is best to take a gluten digesting enzyme called DPP-IV. This specific enzyme is used to break up the large gluten proteins so it has less effect on your body.


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