Next time your anxiety flares up with a vengeance, maybe try a... sour sweet?!

While it’s not a cure by any means, if you struggle with anxiety or panic attacks , therapists and doctors alike have shared the quick trick could briefly stop them in their tracks.

There are dozens of videos online from a range of medical professionals highlighting that eating something very sour, whether a sweet or something else, could help alleviate anxiety or even stop a panic attack in its tracks.

In one video , Dr Joe Whittington, an A&E doctor known as Dr Joe MD on social media, described it as “one of the coolest ways to break a panic or anxiety attack”.

“How sour? The more sour, the better,” he noted.

Why does this work?

As you can imagine, scientific literature on sour sweets’ impact o

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