Product Review

Adaptogens are substances that increase the body's ability to dynamically shift gears when new demands are placed on us. Adaptogens mobilize our internal reserves strength, lessening the severity of the initial shock of the alarm phase which occurs as the body desperately tries to gear up to deal with a new threat. They also keep the body from overreacting to the stressor, thus avoiding, reducing, or delaying the exhaustion phase: the burnout that comes when the body's resources are unsustainably "strip-mined" in response to stress. Instead, true adaptogens extend the poorly named phase of resistance, that golden zone in which the body's energies and capacities are optimally mobilized to adapt to new challenges.