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🗓️ 30 November 2024
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Ashwagandha is a potent adaptogen that helps you adapt to stress. It’s a cortisol modulator, so if your cortisol levels are too high or too low, ashwagandha can help bring them to normal levels.
Ashwagandha benefits include the following:
•Helps lower cortisol naturally
•Supports sleep
•Improves exercise endurance
•Anti-inflammatory
•Boosts testosterone
•Protects the brain against stress
•Supports hormones, including the thyroid hormone
•Anti-cancer properties
Siberian ginseng is beneficial for mood and physical endurance but does not compare to ashwagandha’s hormone-balancing effects. Panax ginseng is also helpful for exercise endurance and cognitive function, but ashwagandha is better at dealing with stress-related anxiety, especially when dealing with a chronic problem.
Rhodiola is good for stamina and is a natural energy booster, but it doesn’t reduce stress or anxiety. Holy basil helps calm the body and improves sleep, but ashwagandha has more benefits.
Matcha root improves energy and sexual function, but ashwagandha has these benefits plus more stress-reducing benefits. Reishi mushrooms improve cognitive and immune function and also provide a calming effect, but unlike ashwagandha, they don’t affect cortisol.
Ashwagandha has a comprehensive cortisol regulation effect and can help people with chronic cortisol stimulation and the problems associated with it.
Ashwagandha is best taken in the evening with your last meal. It’s also beneficial to cycle your ashwagandha use. Try using it for 6 weeks at a time, followed by a 2-week break.
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0:00.0 | Ashwaganda is a game changer. It's considered next level. It's the ultimate adaptogen on steroids. |
0:07.2 | Ashwaganda helps you adapt to stress. Now, when we talk about stress, we're talking about the |
0:11.9 | adrenal glands in relationship to the hormone called cortisol. What's unique about asherganda, |
0:16.7 | it's a cortisol modulator. Now, what the heck does a modulator mean? It means that if you're |
0:21.9 | producing too much cortisol or not enough cortisol, it can bring you to a normal level. So many |
0:29.2 | people, when they go through chronic stress, the receptors for cortisol become downgraded |
0:35.0 | or blunted to the point where they're pumping out all this cortisol, |
0:38.7 | but it's not creating the effect that they want. Aschaganda allows that connection to work |
0:44.4 | better and it helps to regulate the amount of cortisol so there's not too much or too little. I'm |
0:50.3 | going to get into why Ashwaganda is the best adaptogen compared to all others, |
0:54.9 | as well as some practical things to help you know how to take it, when to take it, what to |
0:59.5 | take it with, etc. |
1:01.1 | Ashwaganda has been around for a very long time used by many different cultures, and the |
1:06.9 | question is, what's in Ashwaganda that's doing all this magic? |
1:10.2 | This compound is very similar |
1:12.2 | in structure to a steroid hormone. When the plant goes through stress, this compound is triggered |
1:19.4 | and it grows in a certain amount. So it basically helps the plant survive. We can extract that |
1:25.7 | compound that's in that plant and use it for our own benefit. |
1:29.5 | Generally speaking, it helps to prevent the high spikes of cortisol. It definitely helps sleep. |
1:34.9 | It helps you have endurance with exercise. It's a powerful anti-inflammatory. It can help you build up |
1:40.1 | testosterone. It protects our brain against stress. it helps other hormones, including the thyroid hormone, |
1:46.2 | and it even has anti-cancer properties. Now, I want to go through and compare Ashwagana's effect |
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