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The Best Adaptogens For Health and Fitness
What are adaptogens? How do you use them? Do they actually work?
They are a standard part of traditional medicine. However, in North America, they often get dismissed as a useful tool for supporting your health.
In this article, I explain what they are, how they work, and review some of the health benefits of adaptogens. I also highlight some of the best adaptogens for you to start with.
Don't Be Misled or Misleading
As you'll see, adaptogens can be helpful for almost everyone. But they're not magic.
I'm tired of people making exaggerated claims about supplements, essential oils, and other health products. Though these natural products can help to support your health, they don't work if your nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle choices are a disaster.
As I say in one of my Tom Nikkola 365 messages:
Subscribe to Tom Nikkola 365 to get quick tips like this every day.
Many of the health problems people face today, including stress, low libido, low testosterone, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, etc. are the result of poor nutrition, lifestyle, and exercise (or lack of it) choices.
An adaptogen will have little to no effect if:
* you lack sleep* you don't get to the gym and workout* you hang around with energy-sucking, pessimistic people* you don't eat enough protein to support your body's recovery needs
Just taking a supplement, essential oil, or adaptogen isn't going to fix the problem.
At a minimum, you need to be consistent with The First 3 Habits of VIGOR(ESS) Health. Then, in terms of supplements, start with The Foundational Five before investing in adaptogens.
If you're not willing to tackle that stuff first, don't waste your time and money on adaptogens. And please...don't get suckered into buying something from someone who's selling you a solution to your problems that's just a pill or powder. Especially if they don't follow the fundamental health habits above themselves.
Assuming you have those habits in place, using adaptogens each day is a great way to further support your health, so let's keep going and find out why, and then which ones to use.
What are Adaptogens?
Adaptogens help your body maintain metabolic balance. For example, if you feel overly excited or anxious, an adaptogen may have a calming effect. In you feel low or down, it could have an excitatory effect.
For those familiar with Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine, adaptogens are nothing new. For those who’ve grown up with conventional, Western medicine, they might sound too good to be true.
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What are adaptogens? How do you use them? Do they actually work?
They are a standard part of traditional medicine. However, in North America, they often get dismissed as a useful tool for supporting your health.
In this article, I explain what they are, how they work, and review some of the health benefits of adaptogens. I also highlight some of the best adaptogens for you to start with.
Don't Be Misled or Misleading
As you'll see, adaptogens can be helpful for almost everyone. But they're not magic.
I'm tired of people making exaggerated claims about supplements, essential oils, and other health products. Though these natural products can help to support your health, they don't work if your nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle choices are a disaster.
As I say in one of my Tom Nikkola 365 messages:
Subscribe to Tom Nikkola 365 to get quick tips like this every day.
Many of the health problems people face today, including stress, low libido, low testosterone, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, etc. are the result of poor nutrition, lifestyle, and exercise (or lack of it) choices.
An adaptogen will have little to no effect if:
* you lack sleep* you don't get to the gym and workout* you hang around with energy-sucking, pessimistic people* you don't eat enough protein to support your body's recovery needs
Just taking a supplement, essential oil, or adaptogen isn't going to fix the problem.
At a minimum, you need to be consistent with The First 3 Habits of VIGOR(ESS) Health. Then, in terms of supplements, start with The Foundational Five before investing in adaptogens.
If you're not willing to tackle that stuff first, don't waste your time and money on adaptogens. And please...don't get suckered into buying something from someone who's selling you a solution to your problems that's just a pill or powder. Especially if they don't follow the fundamental health habits above themselves.
Assuming you have those habits in place, using adaptogens each day is a great way to further support your health, so let's keep going and find out why, and then which ones to use.
What are Adaptogens?
Adaptogens help your body maintain metabolic balance. For example, if you feel overly excited or anxious, an adaptogen may have a calming effect. In you feel low or down, it could have an excitatory effect.
For those familiar with Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine, adaptogens are nothing new. For those who’ve grown up with conventional, Western medicine, they might sound too good to be true.