Balance Your Brain Chemistry
Balance your brain chemistry to alleviate symptoms of anxiety, fear, worry, stress and overwhelm with individual nutritional’s, amino acids, diet, and acupuncture. Balancing brain chemistry helps improve your mood, sleep better, and improve energy, hormones, and mental focus.
This brief questionnaire helps guide you to possible neurotransmitter imbalances. Knowing this helps guide you with the best treatment protocol.
Low GABA (more physical anxiety)
· Feeling worried or fearful
· Panic attacks
· Unable to relax or loosen up
· Stiff or tense muscles
· Feeling stressed and burned-out
· Craving carbs for relaxation and calming
· Craving alcohol for relaxation and calming
· Craving drugs for relaxation and calming
· Insomnia
· Inability to prioritize planned actions
· Acrophobia (fear of heights)
· Poor focus
· Rectal spasms
· Burning mouth
· Visceral pain/belly pain with IBS
Low Serotonin (anxiety in your mind or ruminating thoughts)
· Anxiety
· Panic attacks or phobias
· Feeling worried or fearful
· Obsessive thoughts or behaviors
· Perfectionism or being overly controlling
· Irritability
· Anxiety that’s worse in winter
· Winter blues or seasonal affective disorder
· Negativity or depression
· Suicidal thoughts
· Excessive self-criticism
· Low self-esteem and poor self-confidence
· PMS or menopausal mood swings
· Sensitivity to hot weather
· Hyperactivity
· Anger or rage
· Digestive issues
· Fibromyalgia, temporomandibular joint syndrome, or other pain syndromes
· Difficulty getting to sleep
· Insomnia or disturbed sleep
· Afternoon or evening cravings for carbs, alcohol or drugs
Low Catecholamines
· Depression and apathy
· Easily bored
· Lack of energy
· Lack of focus
· Lack of drive and low motivation
· Attention deficit disorder
· Procrastination and indecisiveness
· Craving carbs, alcohol, caffeine, or drugs for energy
Low Endorphins
· Heightened sensitivity to emotional pain
· Heightened sensitivity to physical pain
· Crying or tearing up easily
· Eating to soothe your mood, or comfort eating
· Really, really loving certain foods, behaviors, drugs, or alcohol
· Craving a reward or numbing treat
Low Blood Sugar
· Crave sugar, starch or alcohol any time during the day
· Irritable, shaky, headachey – especially if too long between meals
· Intense cravings for sweets
· Lightheaded if meals are missed
· Eating relieves fatigue
· Agitated, easily upset, nervous