ANX19Anxiety Summit 5: Gut-Brain Axis

Event Experts

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  Jonathan Landsman

  4 Lifesaving Tips to Reduce Anxiety

  What You'll Learn +

  • Why changing your attitude is so important
  • 4 phrases to help reduce anxiety
  • Opportunities, staying calm and learning from losses
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  Julie Matthews, NC

  Anxiety and the Gut-Brain Axis in Autism

  What You'll Learn +

  • Nutritional and dietary intervention 
  • Gut-immune-brain axis, mTOR and amino acids
  • Significance of fecal microbiota transplants
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  Jonathan and Lori Otto

  Anxiety-Gut Link

  What You'll Learn +

  • How parasites triggered Lori’s symptoms
  • Tips to avoid an antidepressant taper
  • How to solve your complex health issues
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  David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, ABIHM

  Anxiety, Gut-Brain Communication and Diet

  What You'll Learn +

  • Fermented foods, prebiotics, gut integrity and anxiety
  • SCFAs, HDACs and serotonin production
  • Inflammation/cortisol and amygdala/pre-frontal cortex connection
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  Edward Group III F., DC, NP, DACBN, DCBCN, DABFM

  B12: Anxiety, OCD, Constipation and the Microbiome

  What You'll Learn +

  • How low vitamin B12 is related to anxiety
  • The stomach, parietal cells and intrinsic factor
  • Risks for low B12, testing and supplementing
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  Donna Gates, MEd, ABAAHP

  Bacteriophage Therapy Instead of Antibiotics

  What You'll Learn +

  • Viruses that attack specific bacteria
  • Effects on inflammation and gut microbiota
  • Cultured vegetables to help with oxalate issues
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  Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD, CNS

  Bile: Key to Anxiety and Hormone Havoc

  What You'll Learn +

  • Effects on estrogen and thyroid health
  • Symptoms of low-quality bile
  • Using bitters, choline, taurine, inositol and methionine
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  Summer Bock

  Bitters: Calming and Digestive Support

  What You'll Learn +

  • Doing the bitters challenge to reduce sweet cravings
  • Vagus nerve, stomach acid, bile salts, peristalsis
  • Ginger, licorice, catnip, gentian and making your own
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  Trudy Scott, CN

  Collagen Can Cause Anxiety and Insomnia

  What You'll Learn +

  • Acute tryptophan depletion lowers serotonin
  • Are you susceptible to serotonin-lowering effects?
  • Oxalates, glutamates, arginine, glyphosate and histamine
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  Chef Pete Evans

  Eat, Play, Connect

  What You'll Learn +

  • Food can be your medicine
  • Finding joy, playing and earthing in the ocean
  • Mealtimes with family, listening and being grateful
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  Hyla Cass, MD

  Endocannabinoid System and Your Gut

  What You'll Learn +

  • Impact on motility, nausea, abdominal pain and IBS
  • Improve fear of public speaking, social anxiety and PTSD
  • CBD: anandamide, isolates and dosing
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  Eric Zielinski, DC

  Essential Oils for Anxiety and Digestion

  What You'll Learn +

  • Peppermint oil for IBS and labor anxiety
  • Lavender, thyme and clary sage
  • Using intuition to create healing blends
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  David Jockers, DNM, DC, MS

  Fasting for Anxiety and Gut Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • Science of intermittent fasting
  • Impact on neurotransmitters, sleep and cravings
  • Fasting with porphyria and pyroluria
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  Datis Kharrazian, PhD, DHSc, DC, MS, MMSc, FACN

  Fix the Brain to Fix the Gut

  What You'll Learn +

  • Impact of brain injury and impaired vagal activity 
  • Activate your neurons 
  • Polyphenols and butyrate for leaky gut/brain
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  Evan Brand, CFMP, NTP

  Floatation Therapy for Anxiety and PTSD

  What You'll Learn +

  • Anti-anxiety and antidepressant effects
  • Impact on digestion
  • Benefits of magnesium from Epsom salts
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  Rodger Murphree, DC, CNS

  Food Sensitivities and Anxiety

  What You'll Learn +

  • Skin prick, IgG, elimination and pulse test
  • Low HCL and low pancreatic enzymes
  • Gluten and anxiety, ADHD, headaches, fibro
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  Trudy Scott, CN

  GABA & Tryptophan: Gut-Anxiety Connections

  What You'll Learn +

  • Low serotonin: fear, overwhelm, gut motility and anorexia
  • Low GABA: physical tension, gut and rectal pain, burning mouth
  • Blood brain barrier, phenibut, candida and CBD
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  David Brady, ND, DC, CCN, DACBN

  GI MAP Stool Test for Anxiety and Fibromyalgia

  What You'll Learn +

  • Why women are more commonly diagnosed with fibromyalgia
  • Significance of pancreatic elastase/SCFA testing
  • Protocols for anxiety, pain and gut dysfunction
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  Pedram Shojai, OMD

  Gut Health and Anxiety in Chinese Medicine

  What You'll Learn +

  • 5 elements and your emotions
  • Pulse, tongue, history and ancient wisdom
  • Using qigong to calm the storm
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  Peter Bongiorno, ND, LAc

  Gut-Brain Axis and Mental Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • Does your microbiome influence mental health?
  • Correlations between your tongue and stool test
  • HDAC inhibitors, butyrate and probiotics
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  Magdalena Wszelaki

  Herbs to Improve Digestion and Support GABA

  What You'll Learn +

  • Chamomile for digestion, gut healing and anxiety
  • Soothing and calming demulcents: licorice and marshmallow
  • Sage and raspberry for IBS, anxiety and hormone balance
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  Marisol Teijeiro, ND

  Hidden Jewels in Your Stool

  What You'll Learn +

  • Methane/sulfur smelling stool and transit time
  • Castor oil packs for liver, nutrient absorption and anxiety
  • Learn to use a castor oil pack
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  Joette Calabrese, HMC, CCH, RSHom

  Homeopathy for Dysbiosis, Anxiety and Angst

  What You'll Learn +

  • Using gelsemium for anticipatory anxiety
  • Remedies for OCD and phobias 
  • Using homeopathy for benzodiazepine tapers
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  Tom O'Bryan, DC, CCN, DACBN

  Latest Gluten Research and Testing (Part 1)

  What You'll Learn +

  • Losing oral tolerance and wheat-related disorder
  • Schizophrenia and anti-gliadin antibodies
  • Pathogenic mechanism of non-Celiac / wheat sensitivity
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  Tom O'Bryan, DC, CCN, DACBN

  Latest Gluten Research and Testing (Part 2)

  What You'll Learn +

  • Your forehead is a clue to having celiac disease
  • Leaky blood brain barrier and the Neural Zoomer S100B test
  • Wheat Zoomer, gluteomorphins, prodynorphins & cross-contamination
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  Tara Hunkin, NTP, CGP, RWP

  Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Anxiety

  What You'll Learn +

  • Mitochondria in the gut, brain and anxiety
  • Causes, testing, signs and symptoms of dysfunction
  • Healing nutrients: Carnitine, COQ10, folinic acid, meal timing
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  Carolyn Ledowsky, ND

  MTHFR, B12 Genes and Anxiety

  What You'll Learn +

  • Mechanism of methylation 
  • B12 gene variants: MTR, MTRR, TCN
  • Tryptophan “steal” and a simple niacin test
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  Jay Davidson, DC, PScD

  Parasites, Anxiety and TUDCA for Your Liver

  What You'll Learn +

  • Parasite facts/myths 
  • New dosing options for mimosa pudica seed
  • TUDCA for liver, neuroinflammation and depression
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  Michael Murray, ND

  PQQ for Stress, Sleep, Mitochondria and Gut Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • Pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) for calm energy
  • Protective against every known toxin
  • Improved happiness and fullness of social life
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  Todd Watts, DC, PScD

  Pyroluria, Oxidative Stress and Parasites

  What You'll Learn +

  • Impact of oxidative stress and parasites
  • GAD enzymes, heme, radium, lead and lab markers
  • Drainage, binders and mimosa pudica seed
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  Misty Williams

  Self-Advocating and the Power of Community

  What You'll Learn +

  • Empower yourself with labs and knowledge
  • Community connection, exploration and sharing
  • Misty’s gut health and fecal microbiota transplant
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  Shivan Sarna

  SIBO: Anxiety, Testing, Probiotics and Fecal Transplants (Part 1)

  What You'll Learn +

  • Link between SIBO and anxiety 
  • SIBO breath test and IBS Smart test
  • Diet, herbals and prokinetics
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  Shivan Sarna

  SIBO: Anxiety, Testing, Probiotics and Fecal Transplants (Part 2)

  What You'll Learn +

  • Mixed results with probiotics and fermented foods
  • New fecal microbiota transplant study
  • Opioids, alcohol, EMFs, psoriasis and chronic SIBO
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  Trudy Scott, CN

  Simple Solutions for Anxiety and Gut Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • Moisturizing, multi-tasking and doing nothing
  • Forest bathing, laughter, smiling, smelling and pooping well
  • Avoiding alcohol, tattoos, hair dye, pet products, etc.
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  Kiran Krishnan

  Spore-based Probiotics for Serotonin and GABA

  What You'll Learn +

  • How are spore-based probiotics different
  • Bacillus coagulans for depression with IBS symptoms
  • Increase carotenoids and serotonin, reduce inflammation
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  Navaz Habib, DC, AFMCP

  Vagus Nerve Activation to Reduce Anxiety

  What You'll Learn +

  • Bowel transit time and heart rate variability
  • How the vagus nerve becomes dysfunctional
  • Activation: gargling, auricular acupuncture, social interaction

Meet Your Host

Trudy Scott, CN

Food Mood Expert Trudy Scott is a certified nutritionist who educates anxious individuals about nutritional solutions for anxiety. She is known for her expertise in the use of targeted individual amino acids, nutritional solutions for the social anxiety condition called pyroluria, and the harmful effects of benzodiazepines.

Trudy is the author of The Antianxiety Food Solution: How the Foods You Eat Can Help You Calm Your Anxious Mind, Improve Your Mood and End Cravings and host of The Anxiety Summit, an online educational platform for both consumers and health professionals, and dubbed “a bouquet of hope.” She also educates health professionals via the Anxiety Nutrition Institute, sharing research and practical how-to steps.