{"id":150672,"date":"2023-07-09T02:38:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T06:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/?p=150672"},"modified":"2023-07-08T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T19:17:10","slug":"lavender-for-generalized-anxiety-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/150672","title":{"rendered":"Lavender for Generalized Anxiety Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lavender for Generalized Anxiety Disorder\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5iYxJEkZiD4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“Lavender for Generalized\r\nAnxiety Disorder” Lavender oil,\r\ndistilled from lavender flowers, is most often used\r\nin aromatherapy and massage. Despite its popularity, only recently have scientifically-based\r\ninvestigations have been undertaken into its biological activity, however. There have been small-scale studies\r\nsuggesting a benefit from lavender massage, but maybe it’s the massage,\r\nnot the lavender. There was a study on patients\r\nin intensive care comparing massage with odorless oil\r\nto massage with lavender oil, and through patients\r\nmassaged with lavender oil did say they felt less anxious\r\nand more positive, there were no objective differences\r\nfound in terms of blood pressure, breathing, or heart rate.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFrankly, maybe the lavender was just\r\ncovering up the nasty hospital smells. Subsequent studies\r\nusing more sensitive tests did find physiological changes, though. We know, for example, the smell\r\nof lavender changes brain wave patterns, but what effect does this have? Well, it makes people\r\nfeel better, and perform math better, faster,\r\nand more accurately, whereas the smell of rosemary,\r\nfor example, seemed to enable folks\r\nonly to do the math faster \u2014not necessarily\r\nwith greater accuracy. What if you\r\neat lavender flowers, or in this case take capsules\r\nof lavender-infused oil so you could double-blind the study\r\nto compare lavender head-to-head to a drug like valium,\r\nlorazepam, known as Ativan, for generalized anxiety disorder? Generalized and persistent\r\nanxiety is a frequent problem and is treated with benzodiazepines,\r\n“benzos”, or downers like valium. Unfortunately, these substances not only\r\nmake you feel like you have a hangover, but have a high potential\r\nfor drug abuse and addiction, so they decided to give lavender a try. The drug Ativan certainly\r\nreduces anxiety… but so does lavender. By the end,\r\nyou couldn’t tell which was which! And in fact, among those\r\nthat responded to either, the lavender\r\nseemed to work better.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pexels.com\/photos\/6951508\/pexels-photo-6951508.jpeg?auto=compress&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;h=650&amp;w=940\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSince lavender oil has no potential\r\nfor drug abuse and causes no hangover effects, it appears to be an effective\r\nand well-tolerated alternative to benzodiazepine drugs for the amelioration\r\nof generalized anxiety. One cautionary note, however. There was a case series published\r\nin the New England Journal of Medicine. Prepuberty gynecomastia\r\nlinked to lavender. Reports of young boys exposed\r\nto lavender-containing lotions, soaps, hair gel, and shampoo,\r\nstarting to develop breasts, which disappeared after these\r\nproducts were discontinued, suggesting that lavender oil\r\nmay possess hormone-disrupting activity. Indeed, when dripped on estrogen receptor\r\npositive human breast cancer cells, lavender does show estrogenic effects\r\nand a decline in male hormone activity, though it’s unknown if similar reactions\r\noccur inside the body when lavender flowers\r\nor lavender oil is ingested.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5iYxJEkZiD4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As found on YouTube<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/flywait.darekw.hop.clickbank.net\/\">SeanCooper🗯 The Shyness &amp; Social Guy<\/a> \u21dd The 3 WORST Mistakes You Must AVOID If You Want To Overcome Shyness (PLUS: 1 weird trick that targets the root biological cause of shyness so you can stop being nervous, awkward, and quiet around people\u2026) By Sean Cooper, The Shyness &amp; Social Anxiety Guy. The fact that you\u2019re reading this article tells me you may have already reached a point where you feel your shyness is NOT going away on its own\u2026 or you fear it\u2019s getting worse and worse. And I don\u2019t want you to waste one more day living a life where you feel left out, bored, or depressed because you don\u2019t have the relationships which would make you happy. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve put together this page to help you avoid the worst mistakes that keep many people stuck with shyness for years\u2026 often giving up hope of ever improving as you watch other people have interesting \u201cnormal\u201d lives without you. Yet this doesn\u2019t have to happen.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/flywait.darekw.hop.clickbank.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ibb.co\/1X2nJhG\/732d01adf780998f105af3460737a431.jpg\" alt=\"732d01adf780998f105af3460737a431\" width=\"160\" height=\"116\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; “Lavender for Generalized Anxiety Disorder” Lavender oil, distilled from lavender flowers, is most often used in aromatherapy and massage. Despite its popularity, only recently have scientifically-based investigations have been undertaken into its biological activity, however. There have been small-scale studies suggesting a benefit from lavender massage, but maybe it’s the massage, not the lavender. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/150672\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lavender for Generalized Anxiety Disorder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,138,468],"tags":[34232,696,35625,53295,41536,58541,35187,55513,60155,60478,60159,490,60469,60477,56645,60485,60471,34199,60458,35174,41850,60150,60475,60468,59895,53181,60165],"class_list":["post-150672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","category-community","category-health-care-policy","tag-addiction","tag-anxiety","tag-aromatherapy","tag-ativan","tag-benzodiazepines","tag-blood-pressure","tag-brain-waves","tag-breast-cancer","tag-breast-development","tag-breast-disease","tag-breast-health","tag-cancer","tag-cognition","tag-endocrine-disruptors","tag-estrogen","tag-gynecomastia","tag-heart-rate-variability","tag-hormones","tag-lavender","tag-massage","tag-medications","tag-mens-health-2","tag-puberty","tag-rosemary","tag-side-effects","tag-valium","tag-womens-health-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/htmlF_IMG_64a960f9440c1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150722,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150672\/revisions\/150722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}