How Your Diet Impacts Your Emotional Stress – Episode 37

We’re often very aware that our emotional stress impacts the foods we eat, but did you know that the nutrients we take in actually affect our emotional well-being?

When you start looking at ways to reduce your stress levels, you probably focus on how much work you are doing, what your daily responsibilities are, and whether or not you practice good self-care. These are all very important, but don’t forget about the simplest choices you make every day that could be impacting your stress.

A common one has to do with your diet, where some foods can increase foods, while others help to reduce it. In fact, your diet has a much larger impact on your stress levels than you might expect, and your stress can determine what your food choices end up being. This is a vicious cycle that starts with focusing on proper nutrition to fuel your body.

Things like anxiety and depression are very real. They are real emotions, triggered by real experiences. But there are many times where our nutrition can either greatly reduce their intensity or at the very least, give our body the best possible chance of navigating the emotions in a greater way. And on the flip side, poor nutrition, or nutritional deficiencies, will also play a role in your emotional well-being.

We typically focus on the way these deficiencies can affect not just your physical health, but your emotional health as well.

As a holistic health & stress resilience coach, I actually see this fairly regularly, so I thought it would be a powerful concept to explore in this podcast.