Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

What if your anxiety isn’t in your head? 😳 Dave Asprey explains…

6 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this interview, Mona Sharma highlights the growing prevalence of anxiety disorders among adults and children, noting rising prescription rates that have failed to curb the problem. She asks Dave Asprey how individuals can shift from feeling anxious to feeling aligned and how brainwave science can illuminate this process. Asprey explains that anxiety stems from three core "F-words": fear, food, and friend (community). He advises starting with fear by using a meditation‑based "reset process" to turn off triggers, then addressing nutritional gaps that keep the body in a state of perceived hunger, and finally cultivating social connections through clubs, yoga classes, or serving others. By increasing peace, proper nourishment, and meaningful community ties, he claims anxiety can be reliably resolved.

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It kind of really just makes us aware of how many people day to day are operating with stress and anxiety. The numbers are now showing the levels of anxiety related disorders amongst adults and children, the amount of prescription drugs that are being written year after year, and it's not working like the numbers are going up. Your book, you talk about shifting from feeling anxious to feeling aligned. How do people shift from feeling anxious to align? And how can they use brainwave science to really understand what's happening?
If you have anxiety, your F words are off. So, so you can have fear or peace, which is the opposite of fear. And this is the biggest source of energy. So you move out of fear by turning off your triggers with the reset process from heavily meditated. And then the next source of anxiety is food. So you might think you're eating healthy, but you probably aren't fully nourished in the right way and you haven't trained your body to be perfectly safe and comfortable whether your stomach is full or empty. The next F word is friend, community. Like have some friends. And if you're saying, but I'm lonely, there's an epidemic of that people, they're not members of clubs anymore. So go to a yoga class, find a tribe, and do whatever it takes to do that and serve them. And funny enough, when you serve your community, it nourishes you as well. So it's about more peace, less fear, more nourishment, less hunger and cravings, and less loneliness and more connection. And that will resolve anxiety reliably. But start with fear, start with triggers.