 Next question is from Cole Kosnick. Are there any proven benefits to taking ashwagandha? Yeah, that's that's actually a pretty well studied supplement. It's got lots of benefits. It raises testosterone in men with low testosterone And it's got this it's also it's also in your green juice you're talking about it It is it's in the organized green juice they put or ashwagandha in there And it's got this hormone balancing effect to where it's called an adaptogen because the negative effects that you get from a lot of stress Can be quite blunted by supplementing with ashwagandha It's almost like it gets your body to utilize cortisol better So your body doesn't raise cortisol as much those these studies that Where it'll lower cortisol and high stress individuals you see studies showing that it improves recovery and Strength and muscle gains and athletes. It's one of those few like natural supplements that has a pretty good effect Now there may be cases where you don't want to take ashwagandha I think if you have like a night shade Allergy or intolerance you probably don't want to supplement with ashwagandha, but it's it's like okay So you're not ginseng is for for Chinese medicine like ginseng is like the king You know of supplements or herbs or whatever in Chinese medicine ashwagandha is like that for herovetic medicine It's one of its like vitality libido energy strength Recovery improves sperm motility and sperm production in men. So it's a pretty Phenomenal supplements one of the few it's one of the things that you'll probably if you have everything else dialed in This is a herb like what kind of plant is this? I don't remember. I don't know what looks like I know it is a root root Yeah, I know it smells it's I think in fact Yeah, if you do the pure I've had the pure stuff which blows my mind in the liquid Yeah, the liquid. Oh, it tastes like a like alcohol. I think if I'm not mistaken rubbing alcohol They called it I think if I'm not mistaken in herovetic medicine they call like horse piss or something like that It smelled really bad or they make comments. Yeah, I have I have the dropper at home I had I got that before we started working with organifi and they're they're green juice and it's like oh my god It's it's gnarly. Yeah, it's not a root Doug. Yeah, it's a root. Yeah, there it is right there Like like ashwagandha's like horse pee or horse something because it was like this funny now Do you what what's your thoughts on maybe that's why you feel so good on the green juice? Do you think that that may be playing as much or more of a role than the fact of you just getting your vegetables that you That's all of it. It's all I love ashwagandha. It's it's a supplement that I'll cycle in To my supplement regime, you know, it's really good with ashwagandha is a stimulant because it's got that natural stress balancing effect So if you're taking like a really strong pre-workout take like a little bit of ashwagandha with it And you get this nice balancing effect I notice recovery from it really like I can definitely increase my volume if I'm supplementing with ashwagandha So it's a it's a very interesting supplement if you have Issues with cortisol You may want to get advice from a practitioner an expert because I'd know it definitely can change the way your body Utilizes cortisol, which may be one of the reasons why it's known as this kind of adaptogenic herb But yeah, it's one of those if you think it'd be equal in terms of like mushrooms and they're sort of Adaptegenic yeah, cordyceps type of an effect or is it a little bit even greater the studies are better with ashwagandha right now Oh, really? Yeah, you know, it's what's interesting though With herbs is that they can have a pretty interesting different effect from person to person so like Red they call red panics ginseng right that's the like the real because there's American ginseng said those aren't real ginsengs They call them that but the real ginseng is this red panics kind of Chinese ginseng and it's got this You know supposed to be stimulated stimulating effect and it's got adaptogenic properties I take ginseng and I feel I don't feel good It makes me hot and feverish and I feel kind of bogged down I had a Chinese Herbalist tell me that it was because I had a lot of yang energy and it just makes your yang go up even more and so I was unbalanced. That's the way they explained it Rodeola can do that hot right and how somebody described something like that right? Yeah, Rodeola is like that too Rodeola is a stimulants got great Studies Rodeola can make me feel like crap too. I feel like shit when I take that Yeah, I've tried that so many times thinking you and I both. Yeah, it can do that to me too ashwagandha I feel great, but again, it's there's a it's interesting with some of these herbs How was some people they can feel great and other people can't and the reason why I'm saying this is don't do what? I did which is you know when I was younger I would read these studies and I would take the supplement and I'd be so hard headed about it So I'd be like I feel like crap, but I'm gonna keep taking it not realizing like oh It's probably this this herb that I'm taking that's supposed to be great But it's making me you should find us like a super woo-woo person and come on here and like break down like all the herbs You know the problem Yeah, yeah, someone like who's like a woo-woo and all of it You know they just be like what's his name our functional practitioner guy that we've had on a couple times Oh, would you be able to break it down with you raw Steve? Dr. Cabral? Yeah, he's an expert You know what the problem is is that if they talk in aromatic terms or they talk in Chinese medicine terms People will scoff it. Well, that's it. They're gonna talk about like who cares. We'll take care of that But I see what I want to do is I want to see like the actual You know double blind placebo controlled studies and I want some to break those down. There's a lot of them, right? That's what I mean But I want somebody somebody who knows that yeah that can tell us like like you just that's a great question like what would What is considered better cordyceps or ashwagandha now? You gave kind of your personal opinion on that but I love someone to say like oh no There's way more research to support this for these reasons and I mean we cool to have someone like that I'm with you on that Hey, if you enjoyed that clip you can find the full episode here Or you can find other clips over here and be sure to subscribe