SUPPLEMENTS FOR STRESS & ANXIETY MANAGEMENT

Stress is natural physiological and emotional response of the body when faced with the challenging situations. Although stress response by body helps us deal with difficult and threatening conditions, however, uncontrolled and prolonged stressful conditions are known to be damaging to overall good health and leads to various ailments including anxiety, sleep disturbance, over-eating, loss of focus and productivity.

Supplements used for management of stress and anxiety include herbs and other chemical compounds. Each of these herbs and compounds have some of the benefits that help reduce stress and anxiety. The following table lists various herbs and compounds generally used for management of stress.

SUPPLEMENT OF CHOICE FOR COMPREHENSIVE STRESS CONTROL

From the table above we can notice that melatonin and/or valerian may help with sleep but do not address control of hormonal levels to reduce stress or overall general well-being. Whereas for a supplement of choice to control stress comprehensively, it should:

• Reduce stress levels
• Reduce anxiety
• Offer better sleep quality
• Improve mood
• Improve focus
• Improve energy levels
• Increase productivity
• Improve performance at work & school, and
• Help overall better health

From the list of herbs and compounds generally used for reducing stress as shown in table above, it is clearly evident that a single herb or compound cannot address all the aspects needed for the effective management of stress. We need a combination of both herbs and compounds that can address all or majority of the areas needed to manage stress.

IDEAL ANTI-STRESS SUPPLEMENT FORMULA

When two or more herbs and/or compounds are blended together, the final resultant beneficial effects are expected to be sum of their individual effects. However, in practice it is observed that the final effect could be either contributory and higher than sum of their individual effects (called synergistic effect) or lower than their sum effect (called antagonistic effect).

Factors that affect overall final output of a combination include the dose, ratio, purity, strength and composition of the individual components, and their interaction with each other.

When choosing an ideal anti-stress supplement formula, it is therefore important to check and evaluate if the formula has:

• Right combination of ingredients,
• Each ingredients in adequate dose and ratio,
• Pure and tested ingredients,
• Suitable and adequate strength of ingredients, and
• Synergistically acting components.

As a stress reduction formula, SanAshwa® is only branded product that uses high quality Ashwagandha, Holy Basil, Zinc and Black Pepper in right proportions. Each ingredient is tested for its quality, purity and strength. These quality and manufacturing processes are certified by NSF to be compliant with cGMP requirements. A clinical study conducted using exact formula of SanAshwa establishes the final synergistic benefits of the combination.*

Use of supplements constitute one of the elements in management of stress. An overall strategy for effective management of stress should include exercise, diet and supplements. It is also advisable to seek expert care of health care provider.