The Easy Food Hack That Could Keep Your Stress Levels In Check

by Ellen Vora, MD on Aug 16, 2019 / Share

Originally published in Well + Good

These days, we go into a stress response too readily, and one of the things that puts the body into a stress response is a blood sugar crash. So many of us are walking around hangry, and if you really start to track your anxiety and panic symptoms, they’re usually around the time when you’re going through a blood sugar crash.

About the Author Ellen Vora, MD

Ellen Vora, M.D., is a holistic psychiatrist practicing with Frank Lipman, M.D., at the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in NYC. "I take a functional medicine approach to mental health, which is a root-cause approach to understanding and treating illness."