AXIETY

QUESTION: I have been suffering from chest pains, and strange feelings in the chest when I am half asleep, or just drifting off. I wake up constantly with a start, like a panic and a deep sense of gloom or fear. The strange thing about it all is that I am fine before I go to sleep. I have a history of emotional problems, do you think that it is a deep routed problem that is causing this? If so what can I do to help the subconscious feelings that appear to wake me up and disturb my sleep. I hope you can help Marrieanne

ANSWER: Dear Marrieanne,

Thanks for your email. Your symptoms are not too uncommon. They are most frequently due to nervous system / adrenal fatigue. Rather than producing a consistent and well regulated flow of neurohormones your system is producing irregular bursts of neurohormones. The chest symptoms are most likely due to excessive norepinephrine which causes your heart to race, quiver, or palpitate. The panic that you feel in the middle of the night is most likely due to adrenal dysfunction. The bioactive time for the adrenal glands is approximately 3AM. When they come on they release too much adrenaline (epinephrine), which causes you to feel panic, fear and gloom.

I would recommend that you test your neurohormones and supplement your adrenal glands and the building blocks necessary to produce the appropriate balance of neurohormones.

For inforrmation about testing your neruohormones, click here

For information about supplementing the building blocks to your neurohormones, click here for 5HTP and here for L-tyrosine.


Best in health,
Dr. Hansen