 Hey guys it's Dr. Alex. I thought I would share a very profound experience I had that really changed my life regarding anxiety and the power of Chinese medicine, specifically Chinese herbs. I thought I would share one of the most impactful experiences of my life with Chinese medicine regarding anxiety. Now I had been one of the few students that was working to put himself through school meaning I worked half time in a full-time doctoral program which had about 30 credit hours per term and I've always had a good work ethic but I've always been someone who has a tendency to kind of run himself into the ground. After my third year of school I had started experiencing anxiety symptoms which started off initially as a sensation of feeling like I had drank five cups of coffee but never having had coffee that day or just not being able to sleep because my heart was racing where I was having palpitations or I could feel just my pulse in my neck and my ears in my head or waking in the middle of the night or waking multiple times in the middle of the night or just only being able to sleep five or six hours instead of the regular seven or eight hours. Now around this time I had reached kind of a breaking point where I was waking up only after being able to sleep three hours a day and at that point the anxiety symptoms had gotten to a very severe degree where a lot of people are not functional at that stage, myself included. Now I'd seen a couple of different Chinese medicine practitioners and it was helping but nothing was really making the difference so around this time I revisited one of my original professors, my original mentors and what we did was we actually took a bulk formula meaning we prepared the formula in the ancient traditional way which is raw, stovetop, boiled and this dosage is about five times higher than anything you would be able to take with powdered granules. I had been suffering for nine months of this to the point where I thought I was going to have to drop out of school. I was a little bit scared for my safety and I thought I was going to have to go home and drop out of school with only six months left of my doctrine you know the thing I'd always wanted to do so this was kind of my home stretch, my last straw and we made that formula and 36 hours later I had my first night of regular sleep where I went to bed, I didn't feel anxious, I slept through the whole night and I woke up feeling rested the first time in over nine months and that showed me how powerful Chinese herbs can be when used properly and at the right dosage. So anxiety is one of the most common conditions I treat and I treat a lot of people who are on antidepressants or I help a lot of people get off antidepressants successfully but in this workshop that I have coming up it's all about understanding what anxiety is from a Chinese medicine standpoint versus the biomedical standpoint and I'm going to juxtapose both side by side so in this workshop not only is it going to be one piece me talking but the other piece is going to be experiential I'm going to bring a formula we're going to smell the herbs we're going to taste the herbs we're going to prepare the bulk formula in the same way that I've prepared at the ancient way and we're going to taste it and you're going to get to see what it does to your body and where you feel it where you see it going to and you can feel the effect it has on you so I thought this would be very cool one part educational workshop one part experiential to try the herbs smell the herbs get acquainted with them now this workshop is limited to just nine people I've just rented somebody's bungalow in Marina Del Rey so it's nine people it's just fifty dollars just covers the cost of renting the place and it's going to be on January 15th so a week from this Saturday and it's going to be from 1230 to 230 so about an hour of me talking and an hour of us preparing the formula and then q and a etc so if this is appealing to you you can check out the link below this video because again it's only limited to nine people I've already extended the invitation to three to a fake in it so technically it's about five or six left so this is my very first live workshop local wellness workshop it'll be great to see some of you in person and if that resonates or connects here in Los Angeles just click that link below and your spot is officially reserved when you buy that pass all right all right guys catch you soon