Anxiety can effect your health more than you know. I would venture to bet that anxiety effects your health as much as what you eat. In my case it seems to affect it more. I also think that as you get older that you slowly but surely lose the counter balances that control your anxiety. I think this happens because you have worn out your response system that enables you to control your anxiety.

      If you feel an anxiety attack coming on, you do not seem to able to control it. My anxiety seems to go straight to my colon and my body's control mechanism seem to be lacking. In years past I could control it but now it seems I have no control so I have to turn to medication to do that for me. If I feel an anxiety attack coming on I will take imodium in hopes it will slow my gastrointestinal tract down. I know that you think it has something to do with what I ate but I promise you it has everything to do with my central nervous system. Any type of stressful condition turns my colon inside out and it only takes a matter of minutes.

     There was a day when I could control my anxiety but with time it gets harder and harder. I truely believe that I have exhausted my counter balances in my body to the point that they are no longer very effective. It seems now I have to be vigilent and beware when things are starting to get out of control and rein myself in. The main way it visually shows itself is threw my colon and this is where imodium comes in. I need to take the imodium and physically sit myself down and try to regain control of what is happening around me. After five or ten minutes things seem to calm down and I can procede with what I'm doing.

     I have found that controling your mind is the most important step to take when you are tring to improve your health. It is so easy to trash your body by allowing your mind to run wild. A good example of this is when a doctor gives you bad news such as cancer. We will play into that diagnosis imediately and begin to act like we are dieing. Our number is finally up. We play the part beautifully and we slowly fall apart.

    You can eat very healthy and not improve because your mind has control of what is happening to your body. In most cases we usually are not hungering and we procede to get weak. No one played the part better than me. My health continually went down hill until I started changing the way I was thinking.

     Now I patrole my mind making sure I am having good thoughts and if I feel stress coming on I try to jump the gun. I work on changing the way I am thinking and if necessary I will take imodium to head off a colitis attack. The main thing I tell myself is don't go there. I will throw in deep breathing exercises and hope that I can pull myself out of going into another attack.This is not a mental game. It is a real live physiological response that if it is not keep in check it will most definitely bring you down slowly but surely and eventually it affect your health.

     In my case it affected my colon which in turns affects my liver. As the colon problem progresses so does the liver. You can not affect one without affecting the other. You eventually end up with severe colitis and secondary liver complications that ultimately put you on a liver transplant list at some speciality hospital. It is all very subtle but it happens and the doctors do not have any answers The amazing part is that it all started with stress and the inability of our minds being able to control it.

     I have given this a lot of thought and I have come to the conclusion that our inability to deal with stress starts as a child. I really believe that is has to do with the fact we grew up not realizing the importance of discipline. We grow up wanting everthing and denying ourselves nothing.  When you have spent you life getting everything you want, you have a real problem with failure and the stress that comes with it.

    If you have grown up practicing discipline, you do not put yourself in situations where failures are likely to happen and stress is not a big part of your life. When you are willing to do anything to get the things that you want, you are placing yourself in a situation of risk and failure. If you were not so spoiled, you could deal with not getting what you want. It is amazing how all of this leads to poor health but it does!!!

     When you pile a poor diet on top of all this, your body does not stand a chance. I feel that my diet especially my quad venty lautes and the stress that I continually put my body through basically added up to disaster for my colon and my liver. This is somewhat an over simplification but I hope you get the point. 

     If you want to control your health, you had better be on gaurd as to what your mind is thinking and how out of control it is or is not. Your central nervous system has way more to do with your health than you will ever realize.