Insomnia, Depression & Anxiety Explained By Dr.Berg

Check out these surprising nutritional causes of insomnia, depression, and anxiety.

hey guys dr. Berg here in this video we’re going  to talk about insomnia depression and anxiety okay there’s a lot of confusion out there when  you look up depression you know psychiatrists labeled depression causes insomnia okay and it  leads to anxiety and anxiety leads to depression I mean it’s just like one big ball of confusion  and of course we have a drug for you but let’s just take a look at what the difference is  between depression and anxiety depression is the blues it’s apathy you lose hope you don’t care  anymore you’re feeling down okay anxiety is worry fear panic always nervous always thinking always  solving problems okay so that’s the difference between those two now I believe that insomnia  if you were to correct that you would see huge changes so let’s talk about what would cause  insomnia normally light it’s supposed to wake you up in the morning right and then when it gets  dark it’s supposed to help you go to sleep and this is all controlled by the circadian rhythms  are called and there’s hormones involved you have a clock a mini clock in your brain called the  super chiming nuclei and it’s triggered by light and dark okay so vitamin D for example when you’re  out in the sunlight you get more vitamin D vitamin D is really good as an anti depression type thing  and that’s probably why the mint a winter’s month people get depressed because they don’t have  enough vitamin D so that’s one thing but how many people sit inside all day watching their computers  like sitting all day long watching YouTube videos I don’t know if you know anyone maybe you of  course myself do I watch a lot of YouTube but vitamin D will actually light triggers vitamin  D absorption through the skin but you got to be outside and be exposed to it now when it gets dark  out which is interesting because you may be being you’re inside the room and it’s all it’s light  until you finally turn the light off so there’s no chance for the darkness to start stimulating the  hormone called melatonin so melatonin is if you take it as a supplement it’ll start to create some  tiredness because it turns into serotonin which is the sleep hormone which is also a mood hormone  too so we have these this is hormonal shift okay and then even in the morning there’s another  hormone that kicks in that wakes you up it’s called noradrenaline it’s similar to adrenaline  okay so we also have other things that can help you sleep as well and that would be making sure  that you have enough be one if you deficient in vitamin b1 you’re going to be very restless you’re  going to have a lot of nervous tension you’re not going to be able to wind down easily at night  you’re going to be excessively thinking all the time so that’s that nervous energy that just that  low tolerance to stress it’s just it’s bate it’s basically related to the adrenals when you’re  Drina gland is overactive you deplete b1 and so it’s kind of like you have this slider fight  nervous stress state that you are stuck in okay so we need b1 the other thing that will deplete  b1 is alcohol and sugar refined carbohydrates and also having gastric bypass here you are trying  to lose weight and you get a gastric bypass and now you can absorb b1 that well so and then  that creates sleeping problems and more weight gain you name it the minerals that help sleep are  magnesium and potassium and calcium so those are three minerals that are relaxing they’re calming  on the nervous system where you get these three minerals from vegetables okay that’s the main  source so you want to consume enough vegetables the other thing that can affect your sleep  especially urinating all night long would be having insulin resistance it’s like a pre-diabetic  or even being a diabetic so what we want to do is you want to correct it I put some links down below  if you have a blood sugar issue I don’t want to go into that right now but if you have that problem  that could actually seriously affect your sleep hypoglycemia that’s a low blood sugar very similar  to insulin resistance but what happens is that you might find in the middle of night you just wake  up for no reason that’s because the blood sugars and it stimulates adrenaline that kicks in the  blood sugars again it starts to kind of come back up so try to sleep if you have adrenaline  running through your bloodstream it’s not going to work and then lastly digestion digestion can  seriously affect your quality of sleep especially at night let’s say you have dinner and you sit in  front of the TV and you start grazing and start snacking all the time you go to bed you’re stuffed  you think that might affect your sleep it does so we really want to make sure that you after dinner  you don’t eat anything okay until you go to bed that’s going to actually greatly help the quality  of sleep the other thing is getting outside to get some space you’re inside all day long you need to  get us I go for a walk walking is the best thing to chill out the adrenal gland which is involved  in stress and many sleep issues okay so that’s pretty much that will help you with insomnia  now if you have specific symptom depression the key vibe the two vitamins that are involved in  depressed states are vitamin b3 and b12 so what I do I like to recommend nutritional yeast take it  in a tablespoon a couple times a day because you need probably more but that’s those two are really  good to actually pull some another depression but it also could be that your digestive system is  so far off you can’t absorb the vitamins let’s say you have leaky gut or a damage or IBS or  or constipation those things could affect the absorption or if you drink a lot of alcohol that  could be it right there but the B vitamins are key in depression or you could have a hypothyroid  issue which is deeper it’s it’s a bile deficiency gall bladder or liver or high estrogen from the  cycle to cause a hypothyroid issue I have some videos on that I’ll put a link down below but I  would honestly first start trying to work on your sleep to get to sleep better because you’ll be  surprised you may have such chronic fatigue that it feels like you’re depressed it’s almost the  same sensation so I would go aft get some energy and then see if you’re really depressed okay  now then you have anxiety that’s usually adrenal the adrenal controls the adaptation of stress  and to the body so your body is adapting to a stress state but when the adrenal gland is being  stimulated too often it can almost kind of put you in a state of stress mode 24/7 almost like you’re  kind of in a flight or fight and it could come from many reasons let’s say you’re drinking a lot  of coffee you had a history in college you drank a lot of coffee like myself math the dosages of high  quality Cuban coffee that was me and I would just drink tons of it and then all of a sudden I just  started crashing and burning so you have things that stimulates the adrenal caffeine will do it  and then also just being in a stress State being in a bad relationship having a trauma emotional  stress watching too much of the news will do it unfortunately in the news is like constant  speculation like always recycled the same story recycled what if this happens what if that happens  so you really have to control what you watch what you’re exposed to because if you sit there and  watch TV and then try to go to bed it’s going to be on your mind so I would recommend turning that  thing off and reading a book the other thing that what I use for the adrenal is I use an adrenal  night formula and my massage will be for bed every night I’ll put a link down below for more  information on that now for anxiety it’s b1 b1 deficiency will handle most types of anxiety so  that’s a nutritional yeast again so you could just take nutrition aleast and kill two birds with one  stone i