3 Best Personalized Supplements to Reduce Stress and Anxiety
Amanda is your typical career woman with a young family...
Her morning begins an hour before the rest of her family as she readies herself for another busy day. After lunches are made, homework packed in bags and kids put on the bus for school, it’s a crazy winter commute and an hour in traffic before she arrives at the office to a to-do list that is longer than her arm...
She was recently promoted and is an expert in her field. She loves her job but between troubleshooting client issues and working on exciting new projects she barely has time to grab a muffin and a coffee at her desk while switching between the fifteen open windows on her desktop.
At the end of her workday she drives another hour home in the dark and serves leftover pizza to her kids before she and her husband divide and conquer to get one kid to swim practice and the other to karate...
While she is out she rushes to the store to pick up some groceries and run a couple of errands...
Before she goes to bed she puts on a load of laundry and folds another that has been sitting clean in the basket for four days. She throws a roast into the instant pot and collapses in front of the TV to help her wind down before she falls asleep...
She wakes up between 2 and 3 am and only falls back to sleep minutes before her alarm goes off at 6am before it all begins again…
This is just another normal day…
Amanda loves her life, career and family. She is generally happy…but sometimes she feels depleted…anxious and irritable. Lately she finds that she is catching more colds and she is hitting snooze on the alarm more frequently. She finds it hard to relax and mentally wind down...
With normal days like this is it any wonder that stress and anxiety are two of the top conditions that Canadians are desperately looking for additional support?
With the cumulative stressors of busyness, lack of sleep, lack of exercise, and on-the-go nutrition we need to ensure that we are doing everything we can to support our bodies and minds before we get to a point of illness and disease.
Simple supplemental changes which can do wonders for increasing your resiliency to stress and reducing your symptoms of anxiety include incorporating three of the most effective supplements for buffering the effects of stress – Ashwagandha, Rhodiola and Omega 3 Fatty Acids.
These supplements can be safely and effectively used to buffer feelings of stress... and calm feelings of overwhelm, irritability and lack of focus.
Ashwagandha is used in herbal medicine as an adaptogen to help increase energy and resistance to stress including mental and physical fatigue related to stress. Apoptogenic herbs are especially powerful because they adapt to what the body needs them to do by normalizing responses and bringing the body back into balance.
A therapeutic dose is 300-600mg/day. This product is great for those who need a super effective buffer against stress and who feel like their energy and immune function are not where they should be.
Rhodiola is used in herbal medicine to help support cognitive function such as mental focus and stamina. It is also an adaptogen and is used for temporary relief of symptoms of stress.
A therapeutic dose of rhodiola is 150-300 mg/ day. This product is perfect for those who need extra mental focus to help them prioritize and decrease their mental load.
Omega 3 (available as both plant and fish source) will help to promote healthy mood balance, cognitive health and brain function. The active ingredients of DHA and EPA work together to give the body what it naturally needs for optimum health. A therapeutic dose is 1500-3000 mg per day of combined EPA and DHA. This product is great for overall health and specific stress symptoms of low mood and feeling sluggish.
Stress is often considered to be the root of all disease so when you take the right supplements to support your stress you are supporting both your current and future health.
Calming your stress response can lead to better sleep, improved resistance to illness and the desire to make healthier choices such as eating well and exercising. All of these factors will then work together to continue to improve your response to stress.
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