Adaptogen

And when I look back before I actually looked at adrenal sort of health, I think that's where the link was.

I'm not sure how much adaptogens can help with that, so I utilize rhodiola and ashwagandha.

Adaptogens is basically plant-based material which mellow out the adrenal response to your environment.

And I found when people have that, they respond much better.

But again, I only started suggesting fasting or prolonged fasting to people where I really feel like their adrenals are really solid and they have a very good cortisol or low cortisol levels at nighttime.

The next thing I'm sipping on is the Bioptimizers Mushroom Breakthrough.

So this is packed with adaptogens.

Adaptogens are basically, they come from mushrooms.

And they're the adaptogenic mushrooms, not the, okay, let's have a good time mushrooms.

When we're stressed out, our salt stores and our mineral stores, our vitamin stores get eaten up.

So we need to replenish those little glands that sit on top of the kidneys.

So I'm a huge fan of adaptogens.

So this is what I'm sipping on this morning.

That was one of my favorite books.

And then there's another book called Adaptogens by a guy named Donald Yance.

who is, he goes really into the science.

It's a bigger book and it has a lot of other things.

Yeah.

Chitauri is an adaptogen, so it's in that same class of herbs as ashwagandha.

Adaptogens help us adapt to stressors.

The stressors that we have today may not be the same stressors that were 2,000 years ago in India and Pakistan, the Indus River Valley.

They're different, but stressors all the same, and that's the thing.

And then seconds later, it's grazing again and chewing and totally relaxed as soon as the danger is gone.

That does not describe us.

Adaptogens help us to get to that point.

It's inhibiting too much estrogen formation from the testosterone.

And then there's three mack daddy adaptogens.

Adaptogens are old Chinese and Ayurvedic hormones.

Some of these are South American.

Not hormones.

Go tour the factory.

Oops, All Adaptogens.

It does sound like a lot of fun.

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