There were entire months this past year where I swear the only reason I didn’t completely lose my cool was because of adaptogens. As a typical 30-something battling monthly hormone fluctuations, work, classes, and a myriad of other first-world problems, I can be pretty strung out.
And I’m not here to tell you that taking herbs has totally cured me of that (I’m still a nutcase), but it’s definitely helped. To the point where my partner can tell the mornings when I don’t take my “powdered things” or drink my “pee-pee jar” (which is actually an herbal infusion, not a jar of pee).
All of which is to say, I’m a firm believer in the power of taking adaptogens for stress management. And for anyone out there who’s just starting to dip a big toe into the wide world of herbalism, adaptogens offer a relatively safe point of entry. Here’s what I can tell you about them.
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