Day 26 * 30 Day Anxiety Challenge

Day 26 of the 30 day anxiety challenge with Kyle McMahon

30 Day Anxiety Challenge, Day 26: Assess Your Diet

Day 26 of the 30 day anxiety challenge with Kyle McMahon

Today is Day 26 of the 30 Day Anxiety Challenge! There is only a few days left and you will have learned 30 different ways to help manage your anxiety and panic! What a huge accomplishment!

Don’t forget to mark off your success from Day 25 on your  Anxiety Challenge Tracker.

Now, let’s get started with Day 26 of learning how to manage our anxiety and panic!


DAY 26 CHALLENGE:       Assess Your Diet

How It Helps Anxiety:

Did you ever notice a queasy stomach when you’re feeling anxious? Have you noticed when you are stressed that you don’t feel like eating at all?  The reason for this is the link between our stomach and brains. Scientists are finding more and more evidence of an extremely strong link between our guts and our emotional health. Essentially, our stomach is made up of living bacteria which sends signals to the brain. This also works in the opposite direction. When you begin thinking about being hungry, the brain sends a signal to the stomach which releases acids for digestion.

Oxford neurobiologist Dr. Phillip Burnet told Huffington Post,  “Prebiotics are dietary fibers (short chains of sugar molecules) that good bacteria break down, and use to multiply. Prebiotics are ‘food’ for good bacteria already present in the gut. Taking prebiotics therefore increases the numbers of all species of good bacteria in the gut, which will theoretically have greater beneficial effects than [introducing] a single species.”

Dr. Burnet is saying that research is pointing towards an decrease in general anxiety by taking more prebiotics. Prebiotics can be found in foods such as onions, garlic, asparagus, bananas, apples, oats and flaxseed. This is just as important as regularly eating foods with probiotics such as yogurt, raw cheese, miso and apple cider vinegar. The prebiotics help the probiotics to flourish and both of these work in tandem to significantly boost your mood and help relieve and prevent anxiety and panic.


How To Meet Todays Goal:

Take 15 minutes or so to completely assess your diet. The challenge today isn’t about switching to a strict diet. What you’re looking to do today is to see what changes you can implement in your daily diet to help you manage your anxiety and panic. 

  • Are you drinking 8 glasses of water each day?
  • Can you incorporate leafy greens?
  • How much sugar are you consuming? Can you limit this?
  • Can you cut out or limit caffeine?
  • Can you switch to whole grain breads?
  • Can you add fish?
  • Can you add yogurt?
  • Can you cut back on alcohol?
  • Have you gotten your blood work done recently?
  • Are you deficient in any vitamins?

Wrap-Up:

Take stock of your eating habits and your diet to see what you can limit or eliminate or even add to help you manage anxiety and panic.

Join us in the private Facebook group for support of others doing the 30 Day Anxiety Challenge.


Additional Resources:

Article:  How Your Gut Flora Contributes To Anxiety (Suzy Cohen)

Article: The Gut – Brain Connection (Harvard)


Explore Further:

BOOK: Food – Mood Solution: All – Natural Ways To Banish Anxiety, Depression and Stress – by Jack Challem 


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