This episode explores various approaches to managing mental health, focusing on anxiety and its underlying causes. It delves into the connection between kidney health and anxiety, along with natural remedies such as kidney supplements and castor oil packs. The discussion also highlights the importance of gut health in serotonin production and the need for a balanced diet, particularly for vegans who may lack essential amino acids like tryptophan.

The episode also emphasizes the role of goal-setting in boosting dopamine levels and improving mental well-being. By setting achievable daily tasks, individuals can experience a sense of accomplishment that helps combat depression. Additionally, the significant mental health benefits of exercise are discussed, supported by research linking physical activity to improved neurological function and anxiety relief.

Highlights of the Podcast

00:04 - Introduction to Mental Health & Anxiety
01:21 - Kidney Health and Anxiety
02:58 - Analyzing Anxiety Fears
05:17 - Gut Health and Serotonin Production
06:54 - Goal Setting and Dopamine
08:11 - Tracking Goals Properly
09:27 - Exercise and Mental Health
10:34 - Conclusion 

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] So it's hundreds of mental health stuff today. We're not talking about psychedelics, but we're talking about other stuff that makes it easier to deal with. We'll start with anxiety. Anxiety has the most facets of where it comes from. Eastern medicine. They look at the kidney, they have the kidneys of wellspring of life, where energy sets the strength of a man or woman flows from the kidney. Kidney cancer packs are fantastic. We use them a lot. People have anxiety, panic attacks of the thing, especially during the anxiety attack and panic attack. Suspicious fat and flannel. Each one has castor oil on it. And you put it on the skin. And then I prefer to put a farm for red sauce on top farm friends specifically when I have the light actually hitting at the far red light, not just the heat. So if you're in a sauna with a seed or plant or something on it was blocking the heat, so blocking the lights would get hot, but you don't actually get the actual light energy on you. It's not going to help. We use Jade Stone and Grass Stone for heating pads. I always recommend a piece of plastic, a barrier between the heating pad and the caster back because castor oil is nasty. It gets on everything and it just doesn't come out.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:21] So that's a fantastic one. Feeding the kidney is also beneficial. There's a kidney complex I use. I personally take my kids take it just because I want to make sure my kidneys have all the food they need. And that's on the teller's website if you guys like that one. The other thing that we do a lot for anxiety and there isn't a do this and all things heading away like that's not really a thing. There's things that you can do to kind of chip away at it and kind of fix this piece and fix that piece and fix this piece and we'll calm it down. But a lot of times mental work is a big piece. So anxiety is for the future. Oftentimes it's an irrational fear of the future. Sometimes it's a. Oftentimes lately, it's a very real possibility for fear of a future type of thing. But. It's one of those things that might not happen, for instance, exactly like a prepper. The fear is that there's going to be a shortage of food and water in the near future. And so the idea is we're going to store food and water now for the future. And I told you and everybody believes in this type of thing. And who would go? I don't believe in the preparation anyway. You do believe in the problem later. Deal with it now. Type of idea. If you have a retirement savings account for A1K and you like that because the idea is that in the future you're worried you won't have enough money. And so you're storing some away today. You're investing today because you're worried what's going to be like in the future. Same exact fears and exact things.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:58] So a lot of times what we can do when people have anxiety is you can sit down with them and you can say, okay, what exactly is your fear? Right. You know, it sounds the world's going to end. We're going to ration water. All right. We can do that. It's a security it's a safety issue. That's really where this anxiety comes from, the lack of control you feel over the future. And the the way that that's manifesting is that you believe that there should be a food water shortage. And so in order to regain that control and regain that stability and that safety for the future, you saw some that's not the worst thing in the world. Because if you're wrong, if you do prepping right, if you're wrong, you just have extra food. It's not really that big of a deal. You go to the store, maybe last. If you're right, you can feed your family. So in that instance, the downside is really not that big of a deal. It's a little bit more cost intensive to start. But once you get the store, you are going to get three months for the food stored up or six months, whatever it is, once you get that amount stored up there, you're just buying to replace that.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:03] You're eating into its cycles. So as far as a something to do about a fear, if that flicks your fear and all of a sudden your anxiety of the future falls down, that's great. If you're if you typically what I'll see is that if you have this fear, like the prepping thing and you're like, I'm worried we're going to be ready for food, water, and then you get food, water. I'm worried about we're going to have this. You need to start dialing in to what you're actually worried about. A lot of that is safety and security. So that's kind of where that is, especially self-aware. If you don't want that, the software is always the other big one that we see is people with their guts get fried stress, antibiotics, you know, highly processed foods. So they've got damages to get. And when you damage the guard, it doesn't process as well. And then is also when we see a massive issue with vegans, I talk about the fear that. When your body doesn't have the chemicals it requires to produce, to produce serotonin, you're not going to make enough serotonin. Your body uses tryptophan to produce the neurotransmitter serotonin.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:17] So I got a fan. Five serotonin, melatonin. And so that's one of those big issues. So if we're not bringing enough enough of amino acids that to properly run the body, we're going to have issues, which is why I've studied the full section colleges. So what I think is that one on the website, I think the capsules we're getting a tab of college in Syracuse asked me to, I think the capsules because I literally apparently do not possess the ability to scoop a powder from a container and move it to another container without getting it all over the counter. Every time I got brass chains to my counter, I got pre-workout over my counter. So whenever I can not scoop stuff, I choose not to scoop stuff. So I take the ones off, obviously. But that's one of the things if you're going to if you go to a vegan diet for non philosophical reasons, breaks the vegan and put some college in it. And I realized college and doesn't count and can't take college and on a vegan diet because it comes from animals but that's the only sacrifice you make for your vegan diet. That would be a giant step forward with B12, the Coke, you tend to like that you're going to supplement that anyway. But that would be the thing. A lot of people don't have the proper gut flora. I think that's not it's not a really big debate now. I think already understands we've got to massive, massive thing that we have to worry about. They've got parasitic infections and Eastover growth. They've got low probiotic function. They're not bringing in the chemicals they need. They have inflamed gut lining from things like glyphosate and stress of the gas.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:54] Totally horrid, horribly torn up. But like I said, a vast majority of your serotonin is made in your gut. And so if your gut is not healthy, you're going to have mood mental issues pretty much all the time. And so that's one of the things we've really got to nail down and make sure your gut is good and you're getting enough tryptophan in to produce all the stuff you need to actually function. So that's a big piece of it. When we talk about dopamine function, dopamine hits. The easiest way to increase the opening function is to set goals that you can actually achieve. Because if you set goals like you do it to do this, we get dopamine. That's a reward system. So if you're like, Hey, I need to clean my room today and you clean your room, you go check and you're like, All right, I accomplished that goal. That's where a lot of dopamine hit comes from. So one of the things that I hope people do is we set our goals in our daily life that we can hit. And then we look at them. We're like, all right, I've got four goals. I hit the median, five goals I'm hitting. I've got the larger goals that I'm working to hit, but I'm tracking them every day, right? This is why I tell people never, ever, ever track weight loss as part of your for your health goals. Because if you gain 5 pounds of muscle, you lose 5 pounds of fat over the course of a month, six weeks, the scale says you haven't done anything.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:11] And so the inverse of this is that now you're as you're doing things, you're getting hit in the face every single day with what you're doing isn't working. You're not getting there like this is useless, you're useless. Like all these things start coming up because you're, you're, you're looking at a goal wrong and you're tracking it wrong. So when we look at from a doping standpoint, these are the things we have. You look at me like, all right, what serious, actual real things can I put in my list that I can do? You know, make your bed clean your room. You know, the things that you can take control over, take responsibility for and then do and then reward yourself. That little doubling kick of I set this goal. I set this rule for myself, I set this whatever, and I achieved it. So that's one of those big things that we go through with doping. And it's funny because I'll sit down with be one of my Tell me your goals and people go, I like, all right, so you're just meandering through life and you have no goals, no direction. Of course you're depressed. That's you're just, you know, lost, you know. But the thing is that you can take control of that and you can start giving yourself goals. This is one of the reasons that Jordan Peterson talks about cleaning a room. It's not a clean room. Makes you better.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:27] The act of taking responsibility, creating a goal, performing an action towards that goal, and then building yourself up through that. That's the action. That's what we're trying to do. We're trying to get that or kick a dopamine. So properly setting, you know, structured rules and things like that for yourself is a big, big deal that gets into doing hard things and stuff like that. So but those are some of the things that are really, really important for mental health. The other big one, that there is no reason like it's funny because like a lot of things, right? Well, there's research that says there. And there's research that says that as long as you're healthy. Find me the research that says that exercise does not increase mental health function because. There's so much research about sympathetic person functionality and shutting down sympathetic function from physical emotion, exercise from a neurologic standpoint, from an anxiety standpoint, from a survey of how you feel after you work out. It's just like when people get mad and like go walk it off.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:34] Like even that little tiny piece of kinetic motion shutting down pieces of your regular function, your brain, seeing that temporal function as you spool up occipital and cervello and frontal lobe functions is pretty replete. Like there's lots and lots of bad information. So that's why exercise is a big, big part of what we're trying to do because again, a lot of what we're trying to do, my practice now is geared towards mental function, neurologic function, mental health. So exercise is a big piece in your diet. So piece hormones take piece. And then once you get any of those things put together, it's your body's running, right? Then you sit down. You actually do the mental work. Look at this problem this way. How is this your fault? How will you change you to make these problems go away? Like, that's a lot of where it is, but that's kind of the big quick stuff. Quickly, 11 minute stuff on to mental health stuff. So if you've got those issues, take a look at that stuff. If you have any questions, drop in the comments or hit us up. Questions at Chalmers dot com. Have a nice day.

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