Gisele Bündchen Says She Cured Her Panic Attacks and ‘Severe’ Depression by Changing Diet
Gisele Bundchen is reflecting on her "long journey" to overcoming "severe" depression and anxiety when she was younger. https://t.co/HaNT2Qvgoz
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Gisele Bündchen is reflecting on her long journey to overcoming severe depression and anxiety.
"I had no idea that it was correlated with my lifestyle, and food was a big part of it,"
It wasn’t until her early twenties that she began to experience debilitating panic attacks.
“I didn’t know what to do. One of the worst things about panic attacks is the intense fear that you’ll have another one. I wanted to feel better … so I found this amazing naturopath and he said to me, ‘Gisele, we have to change your diet.’ And I was like, ‘Diet, what does that have to do with panic attacks?’ And he’s like, ‘No, it has everything to do with it,' I told him about my day. I drink, I smoke, I have coffee - and he said ‘Listen … stop right there.’ He says, ‘You’re not sleeping. You’re in different time zones all the time. You’re eating, like, terrible all day.'”
Bündchen’s naturopath essentially prescribed her a regimen of three things: changing her diet, getting at least eight hours of sleep and exercising daily - a lifestyle change that ultimately helped her mental health and overall well-being.
“I became a different person. I started practicing meditation. I started practicing yoga. I started practicing breath work. It was a long journey.”
According to the Cleveland Clinic : panic attacks are sudden, intense feelings of fear that cause physical symptoms like a racing heart, fast breathing and sweating and may feel like you’re having a heart attack", They are typically treated with therapy, medication or a combination of both, and differ from anxiety attacks in the sense that they come on suddenly.
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