Recently a new word has begun to enter the vocabulary of botanists, herbal researchers, pharmacologists,
and sports medicine practitioners.
That word is “ADAPTOGEN”!
Adaptogens are natural substances found in a few rare herbs.The word ‘adaptogen’ was coined as far back as 1947,
by Russian scientists, and is used to describe the unique effect certain herbs have in increasing the human body’s natural resistance to physical and emotional stress, fatigue, depression and illness. Adaptogens help balance the body when it is under the influence of stress, and they do it in a restorative rather than curative manner.
Adaptogens heighten the general resistance of the human body to infections, chemical poisons and stress,
as well as safely increasing muscle strength and mental capacity.”
Adaptogens have three distinguishing qualities:
1. They catalyze a non-specific response in the body to increase the body’s resistance to stress on a cellular level.
2. Their effect is to balance and normalize the body’s systems leading to a greater overall health.
3. They are completely non-toxic and have no harmful effects no matter how long they are used.
Diets rich in adaptogenic nutrients have been scientifically proven to
have extraordinary effects on the human body, physically, mentally
and emotionally, and to provide benefits you cannot get from anything
else in the modern western diet.