Yeah after trying it for a few weeks, it started giving me terrible nausea. It does have a decent chunk of evidence supporting it as far as sleep quality, reducing stress and cortisol. I was taking 2 ~500-600 mg pills a day, which was probably too much and causing me the nausea.

https://examine.com/supplements/ashwagandha/#dosage-information shows some clear benefits to taking it. But little is known about its long term effects (to my knowledge). Creatine remains king.

If its not on Pubmed and starts with mentioning its relevance in Ayurveda, i dont think its a credible source (i opened the link)

Theres plenty of studies supporting x, y and z being published in shit tier journals, which i wont even call academic because theyre mostly predatory, but they arent necessarily good studies. I would mostly trust only respected journals. No ashwagandha-related studies have breached the threshold of mainstream medicine. Im work in the field.

Examine is pretty well respected in distributing what evidence says and summing it up for people.

As usual @Examinecom does a great job breaking down the new study linking 'muscle building supplements' to cancer examine.com/blog/do-muscle…-Layne Norton

Also a quick search showed quite a few links to pubmed articles on Ashwagandha.

This post was edited by tommyd323 on Dec 15 2022 06:35pm

Yea but none have ever broken through to clinical practice. Trust me, if the evidence was of high quality and compelling, it would be in use.

I stand corrected in terms of Examine. I went through the abstracts some of the studies considered the most powerful(randomized controlled trials, double blind) though and these were on anxiolytic effects, and the quality of the abstracts was imo lacking, it doesnt mention statistical and clinical significance and overall the evidence is tentative imo. One of them isnt mentioned where its published and the other is from an Indian journal Its quote reasonable to assume an Indian journal could have a bias towards traditional Indian medicine.

I feel like it makes me emotionless toward my girlfriend lol
so I cycle it on and off
gains wise idk

if your goal is test increase, a study was done drinking 2 ounce onion juice everyday showing 200+% increase in testosterone, small sample size but I’ve personally been on this and noticed crazy gainz