In this piece I'm going to talk of how reishi mushroom has helped me adapt and deal with stress.

Reishi is a potent adaptogen. And there are specific types of herbs that will help us to deal with stress, and handle stress better and more effectively. Essentially what an adaptogen does is it goes in and it modulates our access between the hypothalamus, the pituitary, and then the adrenals, which is what is controlling our stress reply, controlling our “fight or flight” response. So what reishi goes in and does is claims, okay, it'd take 5 units of stress to throw you into “fight or flight,” so lets bump that up to seven. Now it's going to take you 7 units of stress before you actually go into “fight or flight.” And when you go into “fight or flight,” rather than it lasting for five, 10 minutes, let’s shrink that down to 2 or 3 minutes.

So essentially you are able to handle more stress, and if you do stress, the process is far more effective and efficient so you are not in “fight or flight,” you are not in stress, you're not in adrenal fatigue for as long. So that the full process might be like this when you start out, and then over the course of time it starts to shrink down and shrink down and shrink down and get much littler and way smaller until you get back to a point that's healthy. Because we're not intended to be stressed all the time, we're not designed to be just tripping out and stressing about things all of the time. We are meant to just be relaxed and calm, and then okay, something is leaping out at us.

When we're stressed, we want to react. We need to get out of the situation, and then we want to go straight back to being calm. But most of us are living in a low-grade, adrenal fatigue of low- grade, “fight or flight” all of the time, and we never really get a opportunity to really relax and just let that stress go.

I feel a bit like reishi is one of the finest anti-stress herbs from my private experience, both from what I have done and seen in my body, and also what I have seen from consulting and working with and coaching folks over the past five years.

Brandon Daemon is a herbal expert, teacher, and enthusiastic blogger who has dedicated his to continuing learning and education. You can find out more about reishi mushroom by going directly to http://hyperionherbs.com

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