Anxiety And Panic Attacks

Is relieving stress a simple matter of chewing more gum? A new study reveals that chewing gum has been found to reduce stress and anxiety in people who chew it. The study may be of particular interest for who follow developments in panic and anxiety disorder.

People have been searching for ways to fight stress for years. Most commonly, the ways we use to do this primarily include cigarette smoking and chewing gum. But, until recently, there was never any research studies to back up the thought that chewing gum might actually result in reduced stress levels – until now.

In addition to relieving stress and anxiety, researchers found that people who chew gum also showed an improvement in alertness and in their ability to multitask.

Although, some of the researchers involved in the sturdy were from the Wrigley Science Institute (yes the one formed by Wrigley Chewing Gum manufacturers), this is nevertheless an interesting area of study that surprisingly has been neglected by many researchers. This study was headed by PH.D., Dr. Scholey, a behavioral and brain scientist who teaches at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. His goal was to study how chewing gum affected moods, anxiety, cortisol levels, and stres in the subjects.

Cortisol is produced by the body’s adrenal gland. In times of high stress, cortisol levels in the body spike as the body goes into it’s “fight or flight” mode. When the body is in a relaxed state, the cortisol levels in the body decrease. This ability to measure cortisol levels in the body makes it the perfect type of marker to use in determining the amount of stress a person is experiencing. Dr. Scholey’s research determined that when a person chews gum, at least in the laboratory setting, his cortisol levels decrease.

Dr. Scholey’s study only involved about 40 participants, making it a comparatively limited number from which to extrapolate results to the overall population. The average age of the study’s participants was 22 years. And the testing was performed with the help of the Defined Intensity Stressor Simulation (a.k.a. DISS) which, is used by many researchers as a standardized method of measuring stress related physiological responses in a laboratory setting. In this particular study, the cortisol levels, and the degree of alertness, were measured before the participants begin to chew gum and again as they were chewing the gum.

Based on the results of the study, chewing gum had a definite affect on the stress levels of the participants involved – but how much? The tests showed that those who chewed gum reduced their levels of anxiety by almost 17 percent when under mild stress and by almost 10 percent when under moderate stress.

The difference in levels of performance was even more dramatic as the gum chewers performed 67% to 109% better than the non-gum chewers.

In the past, there have been many studies on the influence of scents on anxiety and stress. This research study, however, did not focus on the type of gum chewed, therefore it’s  not known whether flavor of the chewing gum made a difference in the results.

So what can we derive from this particular research study? We can pretty much predict what the chewing gum manufacturers will derive from it. They will, no doubt, rush out to use the study to convince people to chew more of their gum. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. From a consumer standpoint, however, we’ll have to wait to see what unfolds in follow up testing to determine if we all should start chewing gum.

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