THIS is the Most Powerful ADAPTOGEN in The World - How it Works and Why it’s THE BEST

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so what is the most powerful adaptogen well what is an adaptogen an adaptogen is something that helps you cope with stress it helps you stabilize something called homeostasis so it’s your body’s adjusting to the environment so if you stood up really fast right and you get dizzy that’s not adjusting to your environment your body should be able to quickly shift your blood pressure and shift the blood up into your brain so you don’t pass out or let’s say you run up the stairs right your body should adapt to that and you shouldn’t go unconscious so if there’s a problem in your ability to adapt to stress then an adaptogen can help you but most adaptogens focus on increasing your resistance to stress and the most powerful adaptogen that i know is ashwagandha ashwagandha does a lot but in this video we’re going to primarily focus on how it can help someone with stress it’s been around for a couple years like 3 000 years many different cultures have used ashwagandha for all sorts of things but primarily most people use it to cope with stress the main chemical compound in ashwagandha that is responsible for this stress adaptation is with analytes and with analytes is kind of like a a category of 300 different similar compounds so what happens when you take ashwagandha is you start feeling calm you feel like you can cope better and i’m going to talk about why number one it helps to modulate or control something called the hpa axis this communication between the hypothalamus pituitary and your adrenals okay so let’s say you experience stress right so stress is received by the body and the hypothalamus is like the owner of the football team that sends the message to the coach which then sends the message to the quarterback to give the play out to get everyone on the same page so in other words these hormonal communications are all about getting the body ready or adapting to a stress response and then once the hormone does its job adapting the body to stress then a signal is sent back turning off this mechanism and this is the problem with chronic stress that message never comes back to turn things off and so we have this chronic elevation of cortisol now what’s really cool about ashwagandha is it can help to turn off cortisol and another hormone called dhea now when i talk about turn off i’m not talking about completely i’m talking about reducing it to a certain amount and so ashwagandha in various studies i think there’s like roughly about 41 different studies just on stress alone but there’s a lot of other studies on a lot of different aspects of what it can do but in this one study which i’m going to put down below it can help reduce cortisol and dhea now the thing about cortisol cortisol does not cause you to be stressed out sometimes people say boy my cortisol is too high it’s stressing me out or my adrenals are overactive and stressing me out no it’s the stress that’s causing the adrenals to pump out more cortisol cortisol is there just to adapt your body to stress it’s doing its job and the problem is if you’re under sustained stress it’s just not very healthy to have your body in this state so let’s just take a peek at what cortisol does okay this is just some of the things that it will do number one i already mentioned this um it responds to stress it doesn’t cause stress it’s just adapting your body to a stress state so the first thing it’s going to do it’s going to increase your blood sugars okay this is called the flight or fight mode it’s a stress mode like if there is a lion chasing you you can either fight them or run away so it’s quick energy it’s increase or mobilize your blood sugars the problem with chronic stress is that sugar then will trigger insulin and convert to belly fat and a lot of other problems like high triglycerides high cholesterol and also it can burn out the pancreas and even cause diabetes if there’s enough of this cortisol being pumped out the other thing that cortisol will do it’ll turn off certain things in our body that are not necessarily related to this present time threat okay so it temporarily turns off your immune system so it just shuts the thing down this is why people take prednisone for example which is a synthetic cortisol for anything inflammation autoimmune diseases allergies poison ivy skin problems lung infections etc etc so the immune system is temporarily put on pause okay the other thing that cortisol will do is it decreases the sensitivity to insulin now this is not a good thing we want insulin very very sensitive so it can regulate your blood sugars so if it makes insulin less sensitive it actually creates insulin resistance what your body’s trying to do it’s trying to prevent tissues from using glucose so it’s trying to conserve and use that glucose for energy now it also will increase sodium and water retention this is why when people are stressed they’re just like a fluid-filled sac especially in their ankles at the same time it increases potassium excretion so your body is getting rid of potassium and retaining sodium this is why when you’re under stress for a period of time you become even more potassium depleted and you hold on more sodium so this is just another reason why potassium is so important during a stress state so but what do people do when they’re stressed they eat salty crunchy carbs right like potato chips or other chips things like that what are they doing you’re increasing more blood sugar and more salt retention when cortisol goes up we also get a spike in gastric acid so you may find that your stomach has like acid reflux or just heartburn and if stress goes on long enough that can irritate and create inflammation in your stomach and that’s called gastritis this is one of the reasons why stress can actually create an ulcer and actually damage in your stomach but not just in your stomach it can also damage the brain so chronic stress can actually cause some major damage to your hippocampus so then you start losing memory and the ability to learn and your cognitive function all right let’s go back to this right here so ashwagandha can lower cortisol to a certain degree as well as dhea what is dhea it’s kind of a precursor for cortisol and other hormones so this is elevated during stress and guess what ashwagandha actually can help lower this which is a good indication that your body is less stressed if you have a lesser amount of dhea that’s still within the normal range and you have a lesser amount of cortisol so based on this study which is a double-blinded placebo test they found lower am cortisol so lower cortisol in the morning there is also lower dhea in the morning there is a slight increase in testosterone because stress does shut down testosterone so the fact that it raised was is a good thing also ashwagandha increased endurance okay so you can go longer when you exercise it increases strength okay because one of the things that stress does is it makes you weak and ashwagandha is really good for someone that feels weak after stress like let’s say for example you had some immune infection and you’re trying to recover from that because when you feel really weak ashwagandha is a really good thing to increase the strength or let’s say you’ve been under a lot of stress for many days and you’re not sleeping that well ashwagandha can help raise your strength so you at least don’t feel weak and ashwagandha showed significant improvements in emotions so ashwagandha has a tendency to bring you up so you’re not stuck in this stress state now if you wanted a really good ashwagandha product i did put a link down below in the description check it out now since we’re on the topic of stress you have to see this video on stress it is very very important i put it up right here check it out