Did Peat every comment on anxiety-associated behaviors like nail-biting, hair-pulling, pacing, tongue-chewing, etc.?
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Just wanted to know if Ray ever mentioned these behaviors in any way. I have made good progress in not biting my nails or chewing my tongue these days (yes, I do all the things in the question) not the others though (still doing a lot of pacing and pulling out my hair unfortunately). But I wanted to know if there was a link between metabolism and these behaviors. I have improved my metabolism a lot but I still struggle with these things and need some ideas on how to completely stop these behaviors for good.
Any ideas would help a lot?
All these behaviors slowly started in early adolescence due to high stress from social situations in my life at that time. My weight-gain started at the same time as well. I've really improved my metabolism, but I don't know what to do to really move forward on conquering these behaviors for good as I've been improving my health...
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Have you considered NAC?
N-acetylcysteine for Hair Pulling, Skin Picking, and Nail Biting“All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison.” - Paracelsus (c. 1493–1541)
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@secondkelping Anything that lower stress could help. Pregnenelone, magnesium, salt, baking soda, glycine etc.
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@DavidPS hey, I'll try this and report back if it works. I had heard of NAC benefits, but I never expected it to be linked to reducing these issues.
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@secondkelping - Great, I am curious about your results.
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Remove or solve the stressor.
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Serotonin contributes heavily to these sorts of behaviours in addition to things like bruxism etc, I find the need to bite my nails reduces a lot if I take Cypro.
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@DkJoe2
True. There's a fluorinated serotonin releasing agent, can't remember the name, that induces OCD-like behaviors in studies.
