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GABA: Your Brain's Own Anti-Anxiety Medication
Feel Calm Without The Side Effects of Anxiety Drugs.
Jul 9, 2008 Laura Owens
Increase your brain's built-in "Valium" by eating "GABA-friendly" foods or with L-theanine, an amino acid that boosts GABA. a calming chemical in your brain
It's become almost an epidemic for people to feel chronically anxious, irritable or unfocused. For some, chronic anxiety can become debilitating. Low levels of GABA, gamma-aminobutyric acid, may be the culprit. A GABA deficiency can directly impact a person's ability to handle day to day or long term stress.
The calming, or "peacemaker" chemical in the brain, GABA induces relaxation, reduces stress and anxiety, and increases alertness. One of the four key neurotransmitters, GABA also keeps all the other neurotransmitters in check.
People with a GABA deficiency often experience:
* Anxiety symptoms
* Irritability
* Headaches
* Hypertension
* Palpitations
* Seizures
* Lower sex drive
* Disorders of the heart
How to naturally increase GABA:
While many people with anxiety take prescription medications such as Valium, Xanax or Ativan, benzodiazepine drugs that stimulate GABA receptors, these drugs often produce unwanted side effects.
The safest way to naturally boost your mood, and balance your brain chemistry is to eat food that increase the production of key neurotransmitters. And in the case of GABA, that means eating more complex carbohydrates. Complex carbs increase glutamine, an amino acid and precursor, (precedes the creation of) GABA. Try Introducing GABA-friendly foods into your diet and avoid eating excessive simple sugars, white flours and wheat products (besides whole grains).
Foods that increase GABA:
According to Dr. Braverman, author of "The Edge Effect," the following foods are high in glutamic acid/glutamate (forms glutamine, precursor to GABA):
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