Nutrition for Trauma Recovery: 3 Superfoods To Calm Adrenaline & Anxiety with Luis Mojica

The Biology of Trauma® With Dr. Aimie

How can we better manage anxiety by decreasing adrenaline levels through our food and eating habits?

In this episode, we will be talking about the major hormone of stress and trauma - adrenaline. This episode will help you better understand the important role of adrenaline in stress, dsyregulation and stored trauma. Moreover, it will give you knowledge of how to learn more about your adrenaline levels based on your eating habits and the nutritional tools for balancing adrenaline.

My good friend Luis Mojica, a somatic therapist, nutritionist and a musician is my guest for this episode.

Like me, he started noticing how his biology and nutrition were affecting somatic work, got curious and started asking questions and testing his theories on himself.

Luis came into this work through personal experience, having endured a lot of relational trauma in his personal life, he realized he used to binge eat thousands of calories in one sitting just to suppress his anxiety and social fear, until one day, by mistake, he played the guitar.

This is when he discovered co-regulation and parasympathetic response, and he set off to research other modalities that could also create the same feeling of safety and was led to the type of trauma work he does now.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• To track cravings back to childhood when we used food for internal regulation
• How eating certain types of foods can help us metabolize adrenaline
• How compulsive eating helps us regulate our nervous system
• What foods lead to experiencing perceived threats and chronic PTSD because of their effect on the adrenal glands
• How can we metabolize excess adrenaline using food
• Somatic practices that can help with accessing stored trauma in our stomach, managing cravings and digestive issues

For more information and show notes, please visit our website: https://biologyoftrauma.com/biology-of-trauma-podcast/