Dr. Josh Axe
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I mean, based on my study of Chinese medicine and Ayurveda.
But overall, I do think that can happen.
Or you just stop seeing the benefits because your body has had so much of a compound.
It's not... And we know this...
People probably experience this the most with a lot of sleep compounds.
Like a lot of times people will notice, hey, I took the sleep supplement one night.
Wow, it really helped.
Second night, third night, but after a week or so, they're like, ah, it's just not affecting me anymore.
We see that with theanine a lot, GABA a lot, some of those sort of things.
And adaptogens, some adaptogens might have a similar, you know, similar thing.
I think reishi is an adaptogen.
Reishi mushroom is one of the best you could take forever, pretty much.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's amazing.
I mean, it's very good for sleep, very good for lowering cortisol, anti-cancer.
So it's a good one.
I mean, most people today take it in capsule form or a tablet.
I mean, they take it as an actual reishi mushroom.
But historically, it was done as a decoction, which is a type of tea.