Back in 2007 I had my first anxiety attack. When it happened, I didn’t know what it was, I was feeling like dying. The acute chest pain, trouble breathing… I went to the cardiologist and after some tests he told me that my heart was perfectly healthy and that my issue was anxiety.

I received a prescription for Xanax. I took half a pill and never touched that monstrosity again. I felt dizzy, not in control, disconnected and not caring about anything. So my decision was to stick with anxiety rather than surrender my will power to Xanax.

Since then, not knowing what do with stress and anxiety fed the very feelings I was trying to avoid. I tried exercise, herbal teas, mediation and other remedies, but the results were just temporary.

It was when my wife started to have her own issues with anxiety that I got serious about it. Stress and the feeling of not having a way to get better is debilitating. We started to feel tired and depressed. Perhaps not clinically depressed, but getting close.

Over and above that, she was complaining about “brain fog”, which we thought was related to gluten and sugar consumption (candida cleansing, anyone?). So we were not going through a fun time in terms of stress, lack of energy, and poor focus.

One evening I was reading an article about nootropics, and how some people use them to increase their performance at work. There are many types, from boutique chemicals, to traditional herbs.

It was at that time that we decided to start reading existing literature about traditional herbs, vitamins and aminoacids. We chose a couple dozen of the ones we thought could help with the focus, stress and brain fog issues and started testing combinations on ourselves.

After many months of testing, we chose a formula that has worked wonderfully for us. When we tried it, we felt less fatigue, more focused and less stressed. As if a storm cloud had dissipated and we were finally able to be ourselves once again. The causes of stress in our lives have not changed; family, work, etc., are still there, what is different is that we don’t suffer excessive stress, we feel balanced.

We called our formula B-YOU. It contains 3 vitamins from the B Complex, along with Aminoacids and some Herbs, and although we can’t guarantee that you will experience the same effects, we encourage you to try it.