The DARK SIDE of Ashwagandha

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today we’re going to talk about the Dark Side of ashwag gandha first let’s talk about the light side of ashwag gandha it’s a powerful herb I take it periodically which I’m going to talk about I don’t take it all the time but ashwa Ganda has been around for a very long time and it has everything to do with stress it helps to reduce stress it helps to reduce anxiety especially if you have nervousness it can actually lower cortisol it can increase V2 Max this is why a lot of athletes take it it can increase testosterone and because it lowers cortisol it can help you sleep especially if you’re getting up right around 2:00 or 2:30 in the middle of the night and it’s good for Recovery it’s good to help lower your blood sugar and help with insulin resistance so it’s going to help you lose weight you don’t want to take ashanda if you have a hyper thyroid condition like Graves disease for example why because ashwag gandha speeds up the thyroid and so if you already have a hyperfast thyroid we don’t want to speed it up more also because it lowers blood pressure if you have low blood pressure you probably don’t want to take it because it’s going to push your blood pressure lower and also if you have low cortisol you probably don’t want to push cortisol even lower than it is right now and of course if you’re pregnant or breastfeeding I wouldn’t recommend taking it if you’re sensitive to the night shades I wouldn’t recommend taking it if you have a genetic problem where you have too much iron then I probably wouldn’t take it too let’s kind of roll into kind of the big thing that people are talking about online when you take too much of it for too long you can end up in a situation with the feeling that your motions are flat okay you just kind of feel kind of a little bit numb might say it’s too much serotonin but we don’t really know but I have a theory on it the phytochemicals in ashwagandha are basically defense molecules and so the plant has generated and created those molecules to help defend against other insects things like that so it’s really a pesticide so you’re probably wondering like then why are we consuming it because a small dose of this molecule apparently creates some really positive effects on our body like exercises of stress why would you want to damage or create microinflammation in your muscles right when you exercise well because the body then adapts and becomes stronger probably the same thing’s happening with Asanda it creates a little bit of stress it causes our body to adapt and become stronger thus the term adaptogen most of the people that you hear this from are people who have taken it for a bit too long and higher doses when you start getting into doses like 1,000 milligrams a day 2,000 3500 milligrams a day that’s when you might start having some issues and this is why I recommend keeping it at around 600 milligrams per day and breaking it up into 300 milligram uh doses take that for a bit and then now let’s talk about the duration I wouldn’t recommend taking it for more than two months at a time and then start back up so that way the body doesn’t get used to it and you don’t create this chronic stimulation of certain receptors that could be a problem and then you can back off of it for a while and then cycle back on it but the overall benefits from mhag gandha are so huge I don’t want to throw the baby out with the bath water now since we’re talking about stress if you have not seen this video on the acur pressure points that I teach people to release stress accumulated stress you should check it out I put that video up right here