Nutrition, Mental Health, and Coronavirus: Eating Strategies to Help You Deal with Pandemic Anxiety and Stress – Kristen Allott

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Dr. Allott will provide the achievable tools to thrive while being at home!

Hope arises from the ability to have waypower (a path and support to problem solve obstacles) and willpower (identifying your goal and staying in your responsive brain versus your reactive brain).

This is a time to hold on to hope. Create goals to know that you thrived in a time of adversity, and manage our daily energy and mental clarity so when this Great Pause is turned off we have new skills and new self-knowledge to thrive.

1. 5 tenets to support the immune system

• It is difficult to enhance the immune system but it easy to suppress it
• Have a schedule, pertinent
• Maintain circadian rhythms
• Food: protein every 4 hours
• Movement: Moving your body is important for the immune system
• Be out doors: sunlight and fresh air and ‘forest bathing’ are
• Maintain relational connections while social distancing
• Learn – what do you want or what does your client want to have when the pause is over
• Put screens away before bed
• Watch alcohol and marijuana intake?
  • Handouts will be provided?

1. Managing anxiety and increasing energy and mental clarity with protein rich foods

• Reactive brain verses responsive brain
• How lizard brain treats help with anxiety, irritation, agitation, 3 am waking, PTSD symptoms in adults and children, and transitions to new activities
• Protein every 3 hours experiment
• How to read food labels to know what your energy will be in 3-4 hours?
  • Handouts will be provided

1. Help clients start cooking

• This is an opportunity to be at a clients home and help them start learning how to self-care skills such as cooking, movement, and creating a routine.?
• Help client strategize about what to cook and eat or order out and eat
  • Handouts will be provided for each topic

1. Articulate which nutrients are beneficial for reducing symptoms of anxiety, anger and depression related to the Coronavirus pandemic.
2. Assess diet, exercise, and sleep in clients to improve their level of functioning during the Coronavirus pandemic.
3. Incorporate complementary strategies to help improve your clients’ energy and mental clarity during the Coronavirus pandemic.