Calm Your Body with Mood-Mellowing Nutrients

The full speed ways we live these days are for certain unhealthy for our bodies. The hours spent at a terrible traffic, commuting every day to get to our jobs and back to our homes, the hour spent in line at the store. All this makes us more irritable, anxious and impatient.

People are more nervous and less patient every day. You can fight negative moods by boosting your neurotransmitters, the brain chemicals that help shape how you feel emotionally and determine your reactions to stress.

Problems occur when you don't get enough rest and sleep, skin meals, or succumb to fast foods and thus shortchange yourself of the basic building blocks your body needs to make those neurotransmitters. How do you build a solid foundation for emotional stability? In addition to a healthy diet and balance lifestyle, these supplements stand out for their ability to improve moods and increase your resiliency to stress.

In the holidays vacation stress is not an exception, there are a lot of things to do, family to visit and a lot of hours to spend in the mall searching for Santa's gifts. Add these nutrients to your diet to calm down your body.

L-theanine: An active component found in green tea, this amino acid increases the brain's alpha waves, a state often achieved by meditation, so you become deeply relaxed but mentally alert. You can generally feel its effects within 30 minutes; it can last 8 to 12 hours. It doesn't cause drowsiness but does improve the quality of your sleep. Try 200 to 500 mg daily.

Magnesium: This essential dietary mineral reduces all kinds of muscle spasms or twitches, but especially those related to anxiety. Take 200 mg once or twice daily.

B-complex vitamins: It's a natural anti-stress vitamin; this vitamin helps in smoothing the mood. Take a high potency vitamin B complex every day that provides 25 mg of B1, B2, B3, and B6.

Passionflower: This herbal remedy helps a lot especially when you can't settle down to sleep. Use 60 drops of passionflower tincture in a small amount of water.