Unfortunately anxiety attacks are poorly understood because both patients and professional therapists tend to believe wrongly that anxiety attacks are caused by false or irrational beliefs and attitudes. Yet is is very difficult to pinpoint the thought of idea in the mind that triggers an anxiety attacks. The remarkable thing about anxiety attacks that they occur out of the blue and they are difficult to predict except in cases of phobias, where the fear reaction has become associated with a specific environmental event.


However all sufferers of anxiety agree that they cannot be controlled by rational means.


Most people overlook the fact that anxiety attacks are cause by an underlying biological disorder that is related to hypoglycemia. This is a sugar handling disorder, like an allergy to sugar, that interfere with the proper metabolism of sugar into biological energy called atp.


This energy is required for the body to manufacture the feel good neurotransmitter such as serotonin.


When the brain is deprived of biological energy it is threatened with starvation and will send a hormonal message to the adrenal glands to squirt adrenaline into the system. Adrenaline is a hormone that converts sugar stores in the body - glycogen - into glucose to feed the brain again.


But adrenaline is also the fight/flight hormone responsible for unpredictable and uncontrollable anxiety attacks.


Hypoglycemia can be treated without recourse to drugs by adopting the hypoglycemic diet.