adaptogens are going to reduce cortisol so for instance ashwagandha is very potent suppressor of cortisol

indirectly increase testosterone but probably through suppression of cortisol

it lowers cortisol should probably be taken late day not early day

four to six hundred milligrams prior to exercise

whole goal of exercise is to trigger the adaptation through a spike in cortisol

one of the goals rhodiola rosea's very interesting
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compound because it's an adaptogen in that it greatly reduces perceived effort and allows for greater power output and endurance output

suppressing cortisol so 200 milligrams of rhodiola rosea prior to say a resistance training workout or even on one of your terrain days you will notice you have more Vigor

you can just go longer and your perceived effort is much lower and it's kind of striking what is it doing now this is interesting it's kind of
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striking how after the workout you don't feel as depleted that perhaps the main reason I started taking is I found I could train harder but then I suffered quite a lot from a post-exercise dip in energy especially if I ate big meal

I no longer experience that if I take rhodiola rosea I'm 30 to 60 minutes before workout the effects of it last about four hours

clearly having an effect on the central nervous system by reducing the total amount of adrenaline that's
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released or the efficacy of adrenaline epinephrine during high intensity effort or lung duration effort

effectively means is you're in principle one is able to generate the same amount of effort without the same amount of energy depleting neurochemicals I mean epinephrine norepinephrine help you generate energy but there's always a trough afterwards always and so if you can generate the same amount of physical output in the absence of x amount of adrenaline or norepinephrine then you're
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essentially better off it also seems to catalyze recovery better

ashwagandha let's just say someone's taking it before sleep would they want to cycle off of that how would you think about cycling if recommended yeah low dose of ashwagandha you know 25 50 milligrams a day taking continuously no problem

actually think ag-1 has low dose of ashwagandha in it but when people are taking ashwagandha to offset high stress of you know mental or physical stuff or both for a period in life I'd say after about two weeks you want at least two weeks off you really don't want to suppress cortisol chronically unless there's some clinical reason for that yeah rhodiola rosea is probably the best addition to my kind of physical performance stack that I've added in a long time and it's really striking

you normally would and you take Rodeo Rose and you don't really notice much of an effect you know you might try and increase the dose slightly and and give it another go and what was the dosage range 200 milligrams 200 million is what I'll take and I found that to be really striking
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now

are you still taking the tonkat Ali and the fedosia agrestis

in brief what are these two things do tongat Ali is an Indonesian ginseng there's a Malaysian version too but you want the Indonesian one

if you want to pursue these effects which are it's known to decrease sex hormone binding globulin which frees testosterone which is important in both men and women
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it turns out in women there's more testosterone circulating in a healthy woman post-puberty woman than there is estrogen

Peter Tia taught me this if you normalized for nanograms per deciliter women have more testosterone than estrogen healthy women do so testosterone is associated with libido ability and desire to generate effort mood Etc in men and women

best way to describe testosterone's effects are it makes effort feel good

Tonga Ali frees up more testosterone so it mild libido enhancer for some more extreme
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for others increases energy will increase you know feelings of well-being and typically the dosages are 400 milligrams a day in single dose or divide doses with or without food taken early in the day before noon or 2 pm

can increase energy you don't want to disrupt your sleep

fedojia aggresses is a Nigerian shrub it's taken from a Nigerian shrub

stimulates the release of luteinizing hormone which is going to
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come out of the pituitary and in women will stimulate anything that comes from Downstream of luteinizing hormone in the ovary typically estrogen maybe even testosterone to some extent

in men it will increase testosterone output from the testes by way of increasing luteinizing hormone maybe subtle increase in estrogen as well this is important men hear that something increases estrogen

keep in mind that if you flat line your estrogen so if men are taking an astrozole or crushing
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their estrogen their libido is going to be zero

cognitive ability will be diminished estrogen is important in both men and also cardio protective

isn't it cardio protective the endothelial cells we think of our blood vessels and Our arteries and capillaries as tubes but they're really tubes imagine Silly Putty kind of rolled out Play-Doh made into little flat sheets and then rolled up to comprise those two so it's many many endothelial cells that make up those tubes and the flexibility of those tubes
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is very important obviously you don't want them rigid that you need them to expand and contract as needed and estrogen is important for for some of that signaling leading to that malleability of the endothelial cells

dojo agrestis is typically taken in dosages of 300 to 600 milligrams per day with or without food