what's up guys it's another review video today and we're gonna be looking at the popular supplement
from dreamily lucid dream leaf 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 compound
which can help you regulate stress they make you feel calmer they make you feel happier and
they generally sort of keep your body a certain level of stress you know it might and it's like
a thermostat you're you if you take adaptogens I help you keep your body at a certain level of
stress make sure that when things happen that would normally stress you out day it brings you
back down makes you calm and that's how they work their data Jones right they adapt to you so really
I just want 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 dream leaf 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 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 Oh obviously ashwagandha withania somnifera and i
think i'm saying that right but basically the way this works the way ashwagandha works okay
the idea is you take them anytime throughout the day you could take nothing else until two o'clock
don't take one of these when you feel stressed and it will start to work or you could take it
at the very start of the day with your normal nootropic stack and it would work throughout
the day the actual reason and the way these do work is that they contain cone a chiral occuring
choline and various amino acids which help to regulate your stress levels that help to balance
out your hormones and make sure that you don't experience huge spikes of stress okay now that
being said my opinion is that you shouldn't take these if you need to have a stress response okay
so an example might be say a few 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 really 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 okay 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 nootropic 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 that 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 if you say if you have something important where you need to perform it in a 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 a actual gander 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 a 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 effect at
all that I have to Delaware off anyway it's a Nash with naturally occurring compound and it's
very easy to use you just take it where the 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 that's 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 how to later calm and look for the supplements
post it'll be all obviously in one the links there and that's pretty much it I'll see you next time