Panic Attack Symptoms and Treatment - Watch Your Diet

Your diet can contribute to your frequent panic attacks. This is one of the things you must consider if you want to stop panic attacks without medications. You must carefully check what you eat because your diet can be the trigger for an attack. Several studies have shown that people with anxiety and panic disorders are more sensitive to certain foods and spices. Monosodium glutamate (MSG), alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and refined sugar are all known to trigger an attack.   

If you suffer from an anxiety or panic disorder, it is probably a good idea to cut caffeine out of your diet.  This removes one more variable that could be causing your problem and will generally lower the amount of stress you are experiencing. 

Caffeine is a substance that is known as a stimulant, which means it speeds up your nervous system.  It is the most widely used drug in the world, used in everything from your morning cup of coffee to chocolate, soda, and many common medicines.

When you take caffeine into your body, it can elevate your mood, give you a temporary burst of energy, increase brain activity, and accelerate the function of the nervous system.  But can too much caffeine cause anxiety?

Caffeine temporarily reduces the effects of a chemical called adenosine in the brain, which regulates the amount of calcium your neurons receive.  When flooded with calcium, your nervous system can go into overdrive causing your heart to race, feelings of nervousness or restlessness, and mild headache or stomach pain.

In a study conducted by Yale University and the National Institute for Mental Health, researchers discovered that the majority of people given a high dose of caffeine (about 8 cups of coffee worth) experienced caffeine panic attacks.

  The physical symptoms of anxiety are very similar to those of too much caffeine.  If you’re already predisposed to having an anxiety disorder, you can easily interpret the physical sensations caused by caffeine as the beginnings of a panic attack.

Click here to get more tips on how to end panic attacks without medication

Treating Panic Attacks Without Medication

Here is a simple exercise to help with anxious feelings:


There’s a fine line between anxiety and feelings of excitement. Instead of robbing you of your confidence and drive, anxiety can actually motivate and excite you.


When you feel anxious, accept the way you are feeling in that moment. Instead of getting upset by the anxiety, decide to turn it to your advantage. You can turn your nervous energy into excitement and stimulation by pretending you have just finished a strong cup of coffee! Just like caffeine, anxiety stimulates your nervous system.

 Under its influence your mind is more alert and your body is primed for action, so why not take advantage of all that extra energy buzzing around your system and pretend it is simply the result of a caffeine kick?


If you wake feeling anxious don’t analyze the way you feel, rather decide to let the nervous energy become your new kick-start to the day. Feel how alive and alert your body and mind are because of the anxiety. 


You could go exercise, clean the house, or get that report written. Do anything at all to channel that energy into something constructive. What you must not do is turn that energy inwards and worry about it. Turning inwards and analyzing the way you feel only creates more anxiety.


 Instead, push the energy outwards and move with it. Work in tandem with the nervous energy and what you will find is that it quickly transforms from feelings of fear into excitement.


So the next time you feel anxious, simply pretend you have just had a big cup of coffee and then channel that nervous energy to your advantage. This exercise is another example of how a small change in perception can transform the way your anxiety feels.

This Is The Key To Being Panic Attack Free….

You Must Learn To Break The Fear Of Having Another Panic Attack Or You Will Never Experience Complete Freedom From Anxiety

-The anticipation of a panic attack starts the wave cycle of anxiety in motion.

-The foundation of a future panic attack is laid hours before you actually experience one.

-The slightest stress trigger will then launch the full blown panic attack into motion.

-Panic manifests itself in approximately 20 minute wave like formations.  (read more here)