Burnt Out? A Guide to Using Adaptogens to Combat Stress and Improve Your Sleep

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by BetterWild. Feeling good isn’t just about avoiding illness; it’s about steady energy, clear focus, better sleep, and lower daily stress. In this episode, the conversation explores simple, practical tools, like adaptogens and smarter caffeine use, that can meaningfully improve how we feel day to day. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, we’re revisiting one of our most talked-about moments with Tero Isokauppila. He breaks down the power of adaptogens, how they can meaningfully support health, and simple ways to start integrating them into your routine. Tero also shares his top two sleep supplements, explains how to stack adaptogens for maximum benefit, and discusses why rethinking your beliefs about sleep and cycling coffee can make a big difference. Tero Isokauppila is an expert in nutrition, health, and wellness, and the founder of Four Sigmatic, a functional foods company. He is the author of two bestselling books: Healing Mushrooms, an educational cookbook, and Santa Sold Shrooms, a children’s book for adults about the magical origins of Santa Claus, as well as Healing Adaptogens: The Definitive Guide to Using Super Herbs and Mushrooms for Your Body’s Restoration, Defense, and Performance. In this episode, Dhru and Tero dive into: The two supplements that can dramatically improve deep sleep quality (3:59) Why stacking supplements may work better than taking them alone (7:43) Simple sleep tweaks that make a bigger difference than you think (9:48) How to use adaptogens and caffeine without wrecking your energy (14:21) The key takeaways that tie it all together (24:52) Also mentioned: Full episode with Tero Isokauppila Try This: My Top Three Functional Mushrooms Try This: Step-By-Step Sleep Protocol Try This: Why You Need a Coffee Break and How to Do It This episode is brought to you by BetterWild. Right now, BetterWild is offering my listeners up to 40% off at BetterWild.com/DHRU. Support your dog’s digestion and allergy defense system today. Sign up for Dhru’s Try This Newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, Drew Prode here. We all want to feel good, of course, but what does feeling good actually
0:04.9	look like? For most of us, it's having steady energy, clear focus, and the ability to move forward
0:10.5	through the day by having the resilience to power through any stress that we encounter. And in
0:15.4	today's episode, I'm sharing a portion of my conversation with my friend, Terro Isa Coppola,
0:19.5	in which we explore some of the
0:20.9	simplest, most effective ways to support exactly that energy inside the body.
0:25.6	Terro is an expert in all things related to nutrition, health, wellness, and he's the founder
0:29.6	of the company Four Sigmaic, a functional food company.
0:32.1	He's also the author of the best-selling books, Healing Mushrooms.
0:35.1	Santa sold Shrooms, which is about the origins of Santa Claus tied
0:39.1	to magic mushrooms. Yes, you heard that right. And Healing Adaptogens, the definitive guide to
0:44.3	using super herbs and super mushrooms for your body's restoration, defense, and performance. So in
0:50.3	our conversation, Tara breaks down two of the top adaptogens he recommends for almost anyone
0:55.3	and how they can meaningfully improve sleep and stress. We also get into why stacking herbs
1:00.6	can work better than taking them in isolation and discuss smart ways to cycle on and off of caffeine
1:06.2	to work for you, not against you. This is a super practical myth-busting breakdown for anyone wanting more
1:12.0	energy, deeper sleep, or healthier relationship with coffee in their lives. Let's dive in.
1:21.8	If somebody was looking to dip their toes in the water of adaptogenic, you know, herbs, beans, mushrooms, whatever it might be.
1:31.1	And would there be one that you would elevate?
1:34.2	It might have been one that we've covered.
1:35.2	It could be one that we didn't cover.
1:37.0	Is there one of the recommendations of items that are there that is like a no-brainer
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