Adaptogen

You have nootropics, which are compounds designed to boost cognitive focus and mental clarity without the jitters of heavy caffeine.

And perhaps most relevant to the social and nightlife scene, you have the rise of adaptogens.

Adaptogens.

I see that buzzword everywhere on menus right now.

Yeah.

Hence the stumbling and the memory loss.

Exactly.

Adaptogens, on the other hand, are botanical substances like L-theanine, ashwagandha, or kava that help the body actively manage its stress response at a cellular level.

Yeah.

Adaptogens help everything.

But is that a good way of understanding

what an adaptogen does? Or is there a better way to explain it?

So now you just stay in a constant spend state.

Adaptogens, what they actually do in the body is they increase the production of those glucocorticoid or off buttons in the brain.

So it actually allows the body to calm back down if it needs to.

Meditation also does the same thing when they do research on how meditation actually calms the nervous system.

Do you wanna tell them about some books that could be interesting if they wanted to look into a bit more about mushrooms?

Yeah, well, uh, so Medicinal Mushrooms by Christopher Hobbs is usually my, my first go-to book, and then I wanted to also mention the book Adaptogens by David Winston.

That is also a, a wonderful-

A juicy-

And I can remember when...

The book called Adaptogens, Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief came out.

It's by David Winston and Stephen Mames.

And I just devoured it.

Cancer Diagnosis,

Adaptogens for a Long Life, and a Fundantly Well Companion Course.

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