Tag: adaptogens

  • Reduce Stress & Increase Focus with Adaptogens

    Adaptogens are herbs or foods, that increase the body’s ability to cope with and adapt to stress. Adaptogens are a unique group of herbs & plants that can help to improve or maintain the health of your adrenal system – which in turn impacts upon immune-function and mental health. They are also used to enhance focus…

  • Adaptogens for Burnout & Stress (2022)

    Adaptogens for Burnout & Stress (2022)

    When it comes to training and fighting, it’s all about getting the edge while remaining physically and mentally healthy. I don’t want to fill my body with crap, but I do want to make sure I am at peak fitness and that my mind is sharp and ready. All athletes know that diet and nutrition…

  • Sleep Deprivation & Insomnia – Some Helpful Tips (hopefully)

    *For Informational Purposes only* Everyone I know is struggling with sleep at the moment, oh and me too – a little. Wake up for a pee and can’t get back off to sleep… Chronic sleep deprivation can result from or result in (confusingly) depression & anxiety, and obviously takes its toll physically too. Here are…

  • Therapeutic Treatments / Interventions For Cognitive Decline/Alzheimer’s disease

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221920/ Really interesting study, looking at non-pharmaceutical interventions and their impact upon cognitive decline: The first 10 patients who have utilized this program include patients with memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), or subjective cognitive impairment (SCI). Nine of the 10 displayed subjective or objective improvement in cognition beginning…

  • Rhodiola rosea – Adaptogen

    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0944711300800550   Rhodiola rosea in stress induced fatigue — A double blind cross-over study of a standardized extract SHR-5 with a repeated low-dose regimen on the mental performance of healthy physicians during night duty V. Darbinyan1, *, , A. Kteyan1, A. Panossian2, E. Gabrielian2, G. Wikman3, H. Wagner4   Study Summarise: 56 healthy young men who worked night…