What Is Ashwagandha?

The trendy adaptogenic herb is easy to buy. Here’s what the data says.

Jeremy Glass
Elemental
Published in
3 min readMay 3, 2019

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WWhen Wyatt Brown, a member of the research team at Examine.com — an independent database of nutrition and supplement research — first tried ashwagandha, he says the herb had an extremely potent calming effect. “I wouldn’t have wanted to be driving or operating heavy machinery at that time,” he says.

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