Cracking Addiction
How Your Gut Impacts Anxiety: Exploring the Surprising Brain-Gut Connection
11 Jun 2025
Ever felt gut feeling vs anxiety and wondered how can you listen to your gut feeling when you have anxiety and OCD? In Cracking Addiction: Anxiety & The Gut, Dr. Ferghal Armstrong unravels the gut brain connection behind anxiety gut feeling. Discover how the gut brain axis and enteric nervous system—your “second brain”—link mental health to digestion. Struggling with relationship anxiety or true gut feeling? This video reveals how to calm down anxiety gut feeling naturally!Dr. Armstrong dives into the vagus nerve and mental health, showing how the gut microbiome and mood are tied through serotonin production in gut—90% of your serotonin comes from your gut, not your brain! Learn how gut health and anxiety connect via leaky gut anxiety, inflammation and mental health, and the gut brain axis. Stress and gut health can worsen anxiety disorder, but probiotics for anxiety, fiber rich diet gut health, anti inflammatory gut foods, and omega 3 for brain health offer relief.Packed with holistic approach anxiety tips, this episode explores coping strategies like cognitive behavioral therapy gut strategies, mindfulness for anxiety, and DBT TIP skills to manage stress management gut issues. Dr. Armstrong shares how foods for gut bacteria and a fiber rich diet gut health can boost mental health and digestion. Curious about how to calm down anxiety gut feeling or distinguish intuition from anxiety disorder? This video has answers.Whether you’re exploring gut health and anxiety or seeking a holistic approach anxiety, this science-backed guide delivers. Download our FREE mental health tools infographic—link in the show notes! Subscribe for more mental health insights! Share your anxiety gut feeling story below! Chapters00:00:00 Gut Feelings: How Your Brain and Belly Are Connected00:00:50 The Enteric Nervous System: Your “Second Brain”00:01:31 Serotonin, Gut Microbiota, and Mental Health00:02:15 Three Routes from Gut to Brain: Neural, Hormonal, Immune00:03:01 Chronic Inflammation: The Link Between Gut, Anxiety, and Depression00:03:47 Treating the Mind Helps the Gut—And Vice Versa00:04:22 Simple Gut-Healthy Habits: Diet, Movement, and More00:05:17 Final Thoughts: Why Supporting Your Gut May Reduce Anxiety#GutFeelingVsAnxiety #GutBrainConnection #MentalHealth #AnxietyGutFeeling #HolisticApproachAnxiety
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