Naturopathic Medicine for Anxiety
Naturopathic medicine focuses on identifying and addressing the root causes of anxiety, such as hormonal imbalances, blood sugar dysregulation, gut issues, and nutrient deficiencies.
What is Anxiety?
Anxiety and a heightened sense of awareness are the body’s natural physiological reactions to stress and danger, usually creating a feeling of apprehension or unease about what is to come and discomfort within one’s own skin. Symptoms of anxiety include increased heart rate, a tightening or weight-like sensation in the chest, rapid breathing or hyperventilation, sweating, diarrhea, trembling, and feeling fearful, nervous, or even experiencing sensations of impending doom. Anxiety is stimulated by factors such as genetics, unmanaged stress, inappropriate Cortisol levels, environmental toxins, neurotransmitter imbalance, blood sugar dysregulation, food sensitivities and a disrupted microbiome.
Natural Support for Anxiety with Naturopathic Medicine
Anxiety is the body’s natural response to stress, but when it becomes chronic, it can impact every area of life. Common symptoms include racing thoughts, chest tightness, rapid heartbeat, digestive upset, and restlessness. Naturopathic medicine focuses on identifying and addressing the root causes of anxiety, such as hormonal imbalances, blood sugar dysregulation, gut issues, and nutrient deficiencies.
How Dr. Lana Wellness Supports Anxiety Naturally
Dr. Lana Wellness takes a holistic, individualized approach to help you restore calm and balance. These modalities often include:
1. Diet & Gut Health
Your gut and brain are deeply connected. A healthy, fiber-rich, antioxidant-packed diet supports a balanced microbiome and stable mood. Team DLW’s nutrition protocols remove food triggers, balance blood sugar, and restore gut integrity.
2. Targeted Supplementation
Key nutrients for anxiety include magnesium, B vitamins, vitamin D, and amino acids that support neurotransmitter production. Team DLW curates customized supplement plans to support optimal nervous system function.
3. Acupuncture & Nervous System Regulation
Acupuncture is a powerful tool for calming the nervous system, reducing stress hormones, and improving sleep. Therapies like cupping, gua sha, moxibustion, and reiki also support emotional regulation and overall well-being.
4. Stress Management Tools
Daily practices like deep breathing, meditation, time in nature, and nervous system resets are foundational to anxiety relief. Team DLW helps you build these habits in a way that feels sustainable and supportive.
5. Sleep Optimization
Quality sleep is essential for mental clarity and hormone balance. Dr. Lana Wellness provides guidance on sleep hygiene and nervous system support to help you fall and stay asleep naturally.
Forming Healthy Habits to Reduce Anxiety
A healthy microbiome equals a healthy stress response. Eating a balanced diet full of whole foods that are rich in antioxidants and fiber for GI regulation, in addition to avoiding prepackaged and processed foods, is key to reducing anxiety. Exercising regularly directly relates to the regulation of hormone levels and keeping your brain and body healthy. It is also important to eliminate unhealthy habits, like consuming alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine, staying up too late, over-committing and skipping out meals and self-care practices.
Nutrition for Anxiety:
Nutrition is the foundation of everything — energy, mood, immunity, digestion, hormonal balance, and long-term resilience. Yet most people are navigating a sea of conflicting information with no clear sense of what their own body actually needs. At Dr. Lana Wellness, our nutrition team takes a fully individualized approach. We don't hand you a generic plan and send you on your way. We assess your health history, symptoms, lifestyle, labs, and goals to create a nutrition protocol that is specific to you — one that corrects nutrient gaps, calms inflammation, stabilizes blood sugar, and supports the systems that matter most to your health.
Supplementation for Anxiety
Dr. Lana can also recommend supplementation to make sure you’re getting sufficient vitamins, nutrients and cofactors in your diet to optimize brain functionality.
Sleep is Key for Combatting Anxiety
Sleep has an enormous impact on brain functionality and anxiety by directly impacting hormone levels. When you are asleep, your brain’s glymphatic system (quite literally glial lymphatic system) takes over and cleans out any debris from the day’s activities, leaving your mind ready and fresh for the following day’s tasks. Make sure you’re sticking to a regular sleep schedule and getting enough sleep at night to optimize your hormone levels naturally and minimize symptoms of anxiety.
Managing Stress to Manage Anxiety
Stress levels also exacerbate anxiety, so Dr. Lana is well equipped to help you to adopt a daily meditation practice, incorporate deep breathing, and other relaxing or calming techniques to help manage Cortisol levels and anxiety. Finding support networks and hobbies can also help to balance GABA, serotonin, dopamine levels and alleviate anxiety.
Acupuncture For Anxiety:
One of the best modalities we offer in regards to calming an anxious mind and balancing the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system is acupuncture, cupping, moxibustion, gua sha, and reiki therapies. The studies on acupuncture’s influence on both our immune system and nervous system are vast, and it is a perfect adjunct to also working naturopathically with Dr. Lana.