Bananas found to cure public speaking fear

After years of study, multi-award winning Bournemouth-based entrepreneur Dee Clayton has found the cure for Glossophobia or speech anxiety. No one has to feel nervous or worried about public speaking any longer! You may think it all sounds bananas and that’s because it is -because bananas are rich in potassium they can help overcome presentation anxiety.

It all started, Clayton says, in 2015 when she read on the BBC website that “We use it [potassium] to help generate an electrical charge which helps the cell function properly. It helps keep your heart rate steady, it helps trigger insulin release from the pancreas to help control blood sugars, and more importantly, keeps blood pressure in check”. Shortly after she saw The Daily Mail had published an article entitled “How a banana a day can keep strokes at bay”.

The time was ripe to experiment on a bunch of public speaking clients, to see if using bananas could peel back the layers of public speaking anxiety. But with more than 1,000 varieties of bananas, the research took longer than expected and her timetable slipped.

Today Dee finally shares the research which shows split results. Clients in the Brown group who spread ripe bananas on gluten-free toast every morning fared slightly better than those in the Yellow group who ate theirs with custard. Both groups outperformed the control group.

Dee warns “Don’t eat too many though” – as the BBC website warns: “if the level of potassium in the body is too low or too high it can result in an irregular heartbeat, stomach pain, nausea and diarrhoea”… just the very symptoms public speaking anxiety brings on in the first place!

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