Anecdata: based on a blood lab I was horribly GABA deficient, which explained my weekly (out of the blue) panic attacks. She put me on a hero dose of 1000mg dai

Anecdata: based on a blood lab I was horribly GABA deficient, which explained my weekly (out of the blue) panic attacks. She put me on a hero dose of 1000mg daily and the panic attacks immediately stopped. After a year I stopped supplementing and haven't had panic attacks since. I'd probably still be on Xanax if I had gone to a doctor first (to be clear, I would have had the naturopath not worked out). A friend of mine had issues with irregular menstruation: months with nothing, and doctors weren't able to help. The same naturopath identified a deficiency by ways of a blood lab, and those problems have also been solved. Naturopaths are a worthwhile starting point, the one I visited could even prescribe if all else failed, but I'd walk out if one didn't start with a blood lab/science.