ANXIETY TREATMENT

At Sponaugle Wellness Institute, we diagnose the underlying cause of anxiety disorders. Our goal is to treat the source of the problem, not medicate the symptoms.
Our clinical brain research has proven there are several key environmental factors playing a primary role in the increased anxiety of Americans. Anxiety disorders are now the number one mental health condition in American women. In American men, anxiety disorders are second only to alcohol and drug abuse.
The number of Americans suffering from an anxiety disorder has tripled since 1980. This drastic increase in the prevalence of anxiety disorders must be related to changes in our environment because the gene pool does not change that much in just 30 years. Reading the following information will assist you in understanding why so many of your friends and neighbors are suffering from some type of anxiety disorder.
The symptom of anxiety is actually caused by excessive electrical activity in the brain. Our clinical brain research has compared changes in brain chemistry patterns to changes on the brain scans of anxiety-ridden patients. Anxiety can be caused by female hormone deficiencies, deficiencies of calming brain chemicals and excessive toxin build up in the brain, a phenomenon excito-neurotoxicity.
What are Anxiety Symptoms?

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Normally, the anterior cingulate gyrus helps us forgive, forget and move on. However, when it becomes overactive as seen on the brain scan, we develop this type of anxiety disorder. We become hyper-focused on the negative in our life and we become more stubborn and argumentative. We also worry excessively about our future expecting nothing good to happen.
Social Anxiety

Social Anxiety & Excessive Activity in the Limbic System
The deep limbic system is approximately the size of a walnut and resides within the mid-brain. Interestingly, women structurally have a larger emotional center than men. This makes women more sensitive to emotional issues, thus, women are naturally better at nurturing children than men. When men develop a severely overactive limbic system, they become more sensitive to emotional pain, much like females.
Moodiness
Irritability
Hopelessness
Low self-esteem
Decreased motivation
Excessive guilt
Negativity
Depression

Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Panic Disorder
Glutamate is the most powerful electrifying chemical made by the brain. Patients who suffer excessive glutamate levels can experience such excessive electrical current in their brain that they literally “electrify” brain cells. Brain scientists throughout the world are in agreement that excessive glutamate activity in the brain is the primary cause of premature dementia and early Alzheimer’s disease. Patients suffering from excessive glutamate activity feel like their brain is “going to explode.”

One of our patients, Kimberly, developed Insomnia and Panic Disorder from severe Leaky Gut Syndrome. When the intestinal lining is destroyed from Candida mycotoxins, it “leaks” larger than normal food particles into the blood stream. When these foreign bodies are attacked by our antibodies, the mast cells release surges of histamine into the blood stream.
Panic disorder patients have feelings that are accompanied by intense physical symptoms such as tachycardia (racing heart rate), nausea and sweating. Panic disorder patients often develop a surge of panic when thinking about certain people or considering future events, such as work. Panic disorder is essentially derived from a much higher level of electrical current flowing through the brain than patients with insomnia and generalized anxiety disorder.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
*Sponaugle Wellness Institute cannot guarantee individual patient outcomes.
Treatment results will vary from patient to patient.