So recently I was doing some research on certain adaptogens.

There are herbs that help you adapt distress.

And I did a thorough deep dive on Ashreganda, which is an amazing herb, but there's another

herb that's equally interesting,

especially for a certain effect that it can create

that I really didn't understand

until I really dove head first into it.

And this herb is called rhodiola. So rhodiola is an

adaptogen. It has this really interesting effect that I was just

questioning and that is this. It can help significantly reduce perceived effort after exercise.

So basically does it trick your mind into thinking that you're not tired so you can go longer if you kept going would you actually get worse

physically so this just didn't make sense to me so I'm going to show you what I found about it

which is going to be very interesting. Now just so you know

rodeola being an adaptogen it's anti stress it has an anti coughing effect it can

help you if you cough it's anti-fatigue, anti-depression, especially if that depression is more lethargy, but it can really

improve one's endurance with exercise.

So let me just first show you this one graph right here. This is

part of the study and I will put a link down below. They're comparing rodeiola to a

placebo and what you're looking at right here is just a numbered scaled on perceived effort. How much effort a person felt when they were exercising.

And so right here was after they were comparing the rodeola to the placebo after just taking it not exercising

and there was some improvement but look what happened after exercise people had more energy

less fatigue than the placebo, and this was very significant.

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