 What's up guys? It's another review video today and we're going to be looking at the popular supplement from Dreamleaf, Lucid Dreamleaf. They've sent me something called Ashwagandha. Now this is a supplement which I've mentioned in previous videos because this is a very special type of supplement. It's an adaptogen. And like I said before adaptogens are naturally occurring compounds which can help you regulate stress. They make you feel calmer, they make you feel happier and they generally sort of keep your body at a certain level of stress. You know, imagine it's like a thermostat, if you take adaptogens they help you keep your body at a certain level of stress. Make sure that when things happen that would normally stress you out, it brings you back down and makes you calm. And that's how they work. They're adaptogens, right? They adapt to you. So really I just wanted to explain a bit more about this. This is the bottle that you can see here. Obviously it's very nicely designed, nice logo, just the same logo here as Lucid Dreamleaf, which is the owl eyes, I think that's really cool. Firstly a couple of things that I just thought I'd point out very, very obvious things which you might be interested in. These are vegetarian capsules. I'm a vegan myself, so I like that. Obviously vegetarian, for things like this I make an exception because you know, you can't be perfect all the time and it's quite hard to actually get a supplement, especially a good one with a vegan coating instead of a vegetarian. That being said, these pills are very easy to take. These are very small. I don't know about you guys, but I find it quite hard to swallow big pills, especially multivitamins, especially if they're not coated. They taste horrible. However, these, these are fine because they're tiny. You can swallow them with a glass of juice, smoothie, whatever it is. So the actual full name of this is, obviously it's Ashwagandha, withenia somnifera, and I think I'm saying that right. But basically the way this works, the way Ashwagandha works, OK, the idea is you take them any time throughout the day. You could take nothing else until two o'clock in the afternoon, take one of these when you feel stressed and it would start to work, or you could take it at the very start of the day with your normal, new tropic stack and it would work throughout the day. The actual reason and the way these do work is that they contain naturally occurring choline and various amino acids, which help to regulate your stress levels. They help to balance out your hormones and make sure that you don't experience huge spikes of stress. OK, now that being said, my opinion is that you shouldn't take these if you need to have a stress response. OK, so an example might be say if you were about to do a really important exercise, maybe you were about to have an important match and you needed a sudden boost of adrenaline and all these sort of stress hormones. That's an example of a time you need to feel stressed, right, because it helps you perform better. With Ashwagandha, it levels that out so you would feel calmer. Now, there's a debate as to what would be better. OK, so let's say if you had a really important basketball match, right, and just before your match normally you pump yourself up, maybe you do a shot of energy drink or have a coffee or take a new traffic or something like that. If you took Ashwagandha before, it would obviously negate those effects and make you feel calm. So there's a debate as to whether you'd want to feel calm and level headed in an important match like that, or whether you'd want to have the adrenaline and the sort of energy rising, which would make you, in theory, be able to perform better as it has done throughout history, the fight or flight response. So really what I'm saying is you can decide. Say if you have something important where you need to perform in an intense, short-focused burst, like a sports match or something like this, a fight maybe, then maybe it's not a good idea to take Ashwagandha before because it will calm you down and make things less intense. It depends on whether you want to have a calm, level-headed approach or whether you want to have an adrenaline-fuelled burst of energy. That being said, most of us don't have important sports matches every single day. So this is basically fine. You know, there's almost no side effects at all that I'm aware of anyway. It's a naturally occurring compound and it's very easy to use. You just take it with or without food with some water. You don't even need to use the water. I just can't swallow pills without drinking some sort of liquid at the same time. So I hope this has been helpful for you guys. If you would like to get a great price, I have links in the description for this. Or you can go to howtoliter.com and look for the supplements post. It'll be all obviously in one of the links there. And that's pretty much it. I'll see you next time.