NOTE:  Always be your own health advocate.  If you have chronic health conditions or are taking medications for chronic illnesses, consult your physician before considering any natural remedies. 

Adaptogens are herbs and plants from all over the world that balance the hypothalamic-pituitary endocrine axis. In other words, they balance your brain and hormone system.  When your hormonal system is imbalanced, it can lead to adrenal Fatigue, thyroid issues, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. (11).

 ADAPTOGENS by Maines and Winston is an excellent book:

“In the 1990s, a group of scientists, comprised of Hildebert Wagner, George Wikman and Alexander Panossian, performed many studies on adaptogens and proposed the following definition: adaptogens are natural bioregulators that increase the ability to adapt to environmental factors and avoid the damage caused by those factors. In fact, the advantage of adaptogens are they minimized the bodily response to stress, reducing the negative reactions during the alarm phase and eliminating, or at least decreasing, the onset of the exhaustion phase that is part of the so-called general adaptation syndrome “(16)