How Reishi Will Help You Deal With Stress

Reishi Mushroomis a powerful adaptagen.There are certain sorts of herbs that may help us deal with stress, and handle stress more effectively and better. Essentially what an adaptagen does is it is going 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" reply. So what reishi goes in and does is says, OK, it'd take 5 units of stress to throw you into "fight or flight," so lets bump that up to 7. 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 two or three minutes.

So basically you are able to handle more stress, and if you do stress, the process is far more efficient and effective so you're not in "fight or flight," you're not in stress, you're not in adrenal fatigue for as long. So that the entire process could be like this when you start out, and then over the course of time it begins to shrink down and shrink down and shrink down and get much smaller and much littler till you really get back to a point that's healthy. because we're not intended to be stressed all of the time, we're not meant to be just tripping out and stressing about things all of the time. We are meant to just be relaxed and calm, and then OK, something is leaping out at us.

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

So I can remember when I was about maybe 21 or so, maybe a little bit earlier–it was 2003, 2004. I would notice situations that would stress me out, and I didn't realize it at the time that I was stressing, but I would feel a pain in my lower back. It would be kind of tingly and kind of hurt, and it would trickle and tingle all the way up to the back of my neck, and I would get kind of lightheaded and just feel really tense and anxious.

So after about a month of taking reishi on a regular basis, and I noticed the pains in my back started to go down, started to be less, and I noticed I started to feel more in the flow, more able to handle what was going on in the situations that were presenting themselves to me. What happened was I started taking it and I kept taking it on a regular basis–consistent basis–because I saw the benefits, and I knew how amazing it was. Eventually, the stress started to just melt away. My situation didn't change, it actually got worse, but what happened was that my body changed, my biochemistry changed

I feel a bit like reishi is one of the best anti-stress herbs from my private personal experience, both from what I've done and seen in my own body, and also what I've seen from consulting and working with and training folk during the last five years. By

Brandon Daemon is a herbalist, teacher, and ardent blogger who has dedicated his to constant learning and education. You can learn more about reishi mushroom by visiting http://hyperionherbs.com