I want to show you how to dramatically reduce your cortisol stress with ashwagandha.

Now what is ashwagandha? It's an herb that's been used for 6,000 years and so it's been around

a long time and has stood this test of time with minimal side effects which I want to get into

some of the side effects that are on social media related to it. I will get to that but I want

to just tell you the benefits first. It is hands down one of the best adaptogens or herbs that

help you cope with stress as well as depression. It has been shown to increase stamina especially

with endurance when you're exercising. There's been a study with favorable results in the hormone

cortisol with the stress hormone which is reduced with ashwagandha. It's probably the reason why

it's helping shrink fibroids because it lowers cortisol. Ashwagandha also has anti-inflammatory

properties. Now here's the question. Cortisol is typically an anti-inflammatory hormone.

So if we're reducing this anti-inflammatory hormone why would you have more benefit from ashwagandha

as an anti-inflammatory? You would think a person with high cortisol would not have inflammation

because all that high cortisol is an anti-inflammatory but the confusion lies in the difference

between acute stress and chronic stress because when you're chronically stressed you have this high

elevated amount of cortisol. Very similar to when you have high levels of insulin,

you develop cortisol resistance just like you would with insulin resistance and cortisol resistance

is a situation where you have high levels of cortisol but the cortisol is not activated,

penetrated into the cell so we don't really get the benefits of cortisol. We get the opposite

sometimes and so with a lack of cortisol you'll tend to have more inflammation. So probably what

ashwagandha is doing is making cortisol more sensitive and so now the feedback loop can connect

and the body isn't had to produce so much more cortisol anymore it can be lowered. This is why

ashwagandha is also good for the immune system and cognitive benefits to improve situations like

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