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Breaking the Habit Loop: Living Life With Less Stress with Dr. Jud Brewer

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How Do You Deal With Anxiety?

Anxiety is uncomfortable. And our brain says that's uncomfortable and we'll make it go away. So we do something and it's typically in the form of distraction. These are, these become temporary distractors that can actually make things worse. My patient ironically had health anxiety because he had a fatty liver. He had hypertension. He had obstructive sleep. All of this was due to him, you know, being at a very unhealthy weight. I send him home with our own running anxiety app. Just start mapping out your habit loops around anxiety. This was my loop. The first thing he said when he came back: Hey, Doc, I lost 14 pounds.

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