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Aloe Vera & Ashwaganda are a well-known adaptogens. An adaptogen is something that boosts the body’s natural ability to adapt to external changes and resist illness. It has to power to balance the body’s system, stimulating the defense and adaptive mechanisms of the body. This allows you an increased ability to cope with stress (physical, emotional and environmental stress like pollution). It also supports with mental focus and encourages a balanced mood.
Adaptogens are a unique group of herbal ingredients used to improve the health of your adrenal system, the system that’s in charge of managing your body’s hormonal response to stress. Adaptogens strengthen the body’s response to stress and enhance its ability to cope with anxiety and fight fatigue, slowly and gently, without jolts or crashes. They’re called adaptogens because of their unique ability to “adapt” their function according to your body’s specific needs.
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How do adaptogens work?First of all, stress is a hormonal response that may have been responsible for helping some of your own ancestors escape from hungry lions (or maybe even face them!). This is commonly called your “fight or flight” response. Today, most of us don’t have to worry so much about lions. However, most modern-day stresses are ongoing. When your adrenal system remains in a constant active state, it throws your body out of balance. Constant stress can wreak havoc on your body, especially on your digestive system and energy levels.
Adaptogens work a bit like a thermostat. When the thermostat senses that the room temperature is too high it brings it down; when the temperature is too low it brings it up. Adaptogens can calm you down and boost your energy at the same time without over stimulating. They can normalize body imbalances. By supporting adrenal function, they counteract the adverse effects of stress. They enable the body’s cells to access more energy; help cells eliminate toxic byproducts of the metabolic process and help the body to utilize oxygen more efficiently.
Ashwagandha has been used for thousands of years in Ayurvedic medicine. It is used to help increase vitality, energy, endurance and stamina, promote longevity, and strengthen the immune system, , improve learning, memory, and reaction time, and reduces anxiety and depression without causing drowsiness. It enhances thyroid and adrenal function. This herb has been shown in studies to have as strong an anti-anxiety and anti-depressant effect as leading name brand medications. Premature aging is associated with increased oxidative stress.
Ashwagandha is powerful at reducing tension and stress on the brain and nervous system. Bringing down the number of damaged cells caused by stress by 80%. Its has been shown to support the regeneration and reconstruction of nerve cells and synapses. This suggests that ashwagandha could help reverse states of brain and nervous system degeneration. In the largest human trial using ashwagandha the herb was shown to reduce cortisol levels up to 26%. Chronically elevated cortisol increases inflammatory and degenerative processes in the body.
Taurine is an amino acid which plays a major role in the brain as an “inhibitory” neurotransmitter & neuromodulator. This means it helps to calm or stabilize an excited brain. It stabilizes nerve cell membranes thus depressing the firing of brain cells & dampening the nerve cell action of the excitatory amino acids, glutamate, aspartate, & quinolinate. It has also been found useful in some cases of migraine, insomnia, agitation, restlessness, irritability, depression, hypomania/mania.
Taurine can significantly reduce anxiety, while helping to improve mental focus. Similarly, it is believed to play a role in activating receptors in the brain’s thalamus, located deep in the brain’s center. Here taurine helps to regulate transitions between sleep and wakefulness, promoting sleep and relaxation. Norm Shealy, MD, PhD, a pioneer in holistic medicine, and author of Ninety Days to Stress Free Living, reports that he has identified taurine deficiency in 88% of his patients with depression.
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Aloe Vera is often touted for its ability to help with digestive issues, including irregularity, both diarrhea and constipation, indigestion, irritable bowel syndrome, acid reflux and heartburn. The reason it works is because of its cleansing effect on the digestive tract. It not only works on the colon and bowels, but the entire length of the digestive tract, helping to keep it functioning properly. Poor digestion is related to many diseases. A properly functioning digestive tract is one of the keys and foundations of health. Aloe also helps to decrease the amount of unfriendly bacteria and in our gut keeping your healthy intestinal flora in balance. Aloe Vera is also a vermifuge, which means it helps to rid the body of intestinal worms.
Aloe Vera can help your body cope with the changes that occur in the world around you, actually helping you to adapt to these changes rather than fight against them. This is why it’s considered an adaptogen. The sort of stress that Aloe Vera can help with is both emotional and physical, allowing you to focus better in hectic times, as well as handle physical stresses to the body without escalating the problem.
Disease cannot manifest in an alkaline environment. Most people are living and subsisting on mostly acidic foods. For great health, remember the 80/20 rule – 80% alkaline forming foods and 20% acidic. Aloe vera is an alkaline forming food. It alkalizes the body, helping to balance overly acidic dietary habits.
Aloe Vera can detoxify the body, as it helps so many different parts of the body do their job better. You’ve already got detoxifying organs in place, such as the liver and kidneys, and Aloe Vera will support them in their roles.
Aloe Vera can help strengthen your immune system due to its antibacterial and antiseptic properties, as well as helping it on a molecular level. When the blood is oxygen rich, it automatically provides nutrients within the cells more proficiently. These healthy cells ensure your body’s ability to ward off infections, thereby strengthening your immune system. It has the capability to neutralize harmful bacteria; its rejuvenating properties work within your body to keep it fresh and active throughout the day.
Aloe is an immune enhancer because of its high level of anti-oxidants, which help combat the unstable compounds known as free-radicals, contributing to the aging process.Aloe Vera is a: Disinfectant, Anti-biotic, Anti-microbial, Germicidal, Anti-bacterial, Anti-septic, Anti-fungal & Anti-viral. Aloe Vera prevents the growth of disease-causing microorganisms and act as a team to provide antimicrobial activity thus eliminating many internal and external infections, also active against bacteria.
People who have high levels of vitamin C do not show the expected mental & physical signs of stress. What’s more, they bounce back from stressful situations faster than people with low levels of vitamin C. In one study researchers subjected 120 people to a stress test. Half of those studied were given 1,000 mg of vitamin C. It was noted that higher levels of cortisol and high blood pressure were significantly greater in those who did not get the vitamin supplement.
Cortisol is a hormone released by the adrenal glands in response to stress. Cortisol triggers the “fight or flight” response to stress. But like many emergency-alert systems, the stress response comes at a considerable cost.
Among other effects, frequent exposure to high levels of stress hormones exhausts the body’s physical resources, impairs learning and memory, makes people susceptible to depression and ages the body prematurely.
When you are faced with a stressful situation, your vitamin C is rapidly used up in the production of cortisol. In adrenal fatigue, your adrenal glands “panic” when they don’t have enough vitamin C available, and they release MORE cortisol. This not only increases your immediate anxiety, but as this state of high cortisol is prolonged, it wreaks havoc on your blood sugar, blood pressure, and contributes to the dreaded accumulation of belly fat. When Vitamin C is readily available in your body, your release less cortisol, which means you feel less stressed and it repairs the damage to your body by any cortisol released. Cortisol, can age you very quick, resulting in hair loss, grey hair, wrinkled skin, fatigue and weak and painful joints and bones.
Our Vitamin C comes with FREE alkaline powder that is specific to alkalise/neutralise the ascorbic acid so that the acid in the Vitamin C is harmless in your body when ingested. Most, if not all Vitamin C available on the market today are not neutralised. You are doing more harm than good to your body. We are the only company in South Africa to have this available to the public.
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