Product Overview
Just in from Roots Apothecary. Recommended for people who carry higher levels of mental and physical tension as a result of stress and anxiety.
Get help with mood and cognitive control, adrenal balance, calm mental and physical tension. 60ml 2 oz bottle
Let's face it, life is stressful. But our health, wellness and performance are largely defined by our ability to navigate these inevitable obstacles and push forward without accumulating the damages of chronic stress.
Stress pushes your mind-body in the sympathetic nervous system to respond to a perceived threat. If the stress response is consistently being triggered, the consequence becomes maladaptive as resources are literally diverted away from the processes that define health, wellness and performance. By design, stress changes the mind-body from a proactive to a reactive state.
Proactive (parasympathetic) processes like digestion, detoxification, cellular and tissue repair, learning, neurogenesis, etc. are given fewer resources in order to prioritize reactive (sympathetic) state. This is fight or flight and it's only designed to run for a short period of time in response to a perceived threat. When stress is chronic, your mind-body doesn't return to a proactive state of resource allocation. more energy is used to fuel fight or flight (or freeze) than immune system, building new brain cells, repairing tissues, absorbing and processing nutrition, learning, etc.
IN THE BOTTLE
- Rhodiola Rosea- adaptogen. mental & physical endurance
- Ashwagandha - adaptogen. adrenal balance. calm cortisol response
- Valerian Root - calm nervous system
- Holy Basil - adaptogen. calm nervous system
- Oat Straw - calming nervous system, adrenals and liver
- Skullcap - calming nervous system
- Passion Flower - calming nervous system
- Lemon Balm - calming nervous system. especially in the gut.
*Certified Organic Herb
OTHER INGREDIENTS
- certified organic cane alcohol (approx. 40%). gluten-free.
- certified organic vegetable glycerin
THE DAILY ROUTINE
The Anxiety Tincture should be taken consistently to build cumulative balance or “holistic momentum” toward lowered baseline tension and stress.
Most clients find success with 2x-3x full droppers 2x-3x daily. The first serving is typically taken mid-morning and the second is taken shortly after lunch. For people who carry high tension into the evening, a third serving should be taken in the early evening. We don't recommend taking first thing in the morning. A cortisol increase when you first wake up is important for setting the circadian rhythm. Let your mind and body “boot up” first thing and take the anxiety tincture at the end of your morning routine (ideally no earlier than 1 hr after waking up).
AS NEEDED
For some clients, the Anxiety Tincture is more calming than they want on a daily basis. These clients keep anxiety tinctures on hand only for exceptionally high-stress days. If you’re using the Anxiety Tincture only when you feel manifestations high-tension stress ramping up, take 3x-5x full droppers to calm your mind - body and keep you out of deeper states of tension.
Nervous system relaxation takes approx 20 min after serving. If high-tension stress isn’t smoothing out after 20 min, take another 2x full droppers.
It’s not recommended to exceed 8x droppers in a 12hr period. If you’re using the Anxiety Tincture “as needed”, we highly recommend that you implement a daily adaptogen routine to strengthen resilience in your stress pathways. The goal is to reduce the frequency and intensity of high tension stress and you really need consistency to accomplish this. We recommend taking the ashwagandha tincture 2x daily (morning and afternoon) as a daily adaptogen and using the anxiety tincture as needed when you feel high tension stress ramping up.
