Ashwagandha

[JAG10]

Anybody try this? Dr O recommended trying this for glutamate stabilizer, mild connectivity issues. She suggested trying one month, then if no change try GABA for one month, then if no change AdreCor, then 5-HTP. We had tried 5-HTP before and results very similar to SSRI; great immediately then turned south after a week or so. These suggestions are in ascending potency order with ashwagandha being lowest.

[LNN]

Dr M started DD on a supp a month ago to help with some insomnia and adrenal support and it contains ashwaganda as a significant ingredient. Her insomnia has improved a lot - but hard to say if it's the supplement or the fact that she learned to go to sleep without a night light and now that her eyes have nothing to look at, she gets bored and falls asleep quicker.

 

I hope it works for you!

[beeskneesmommy]

I have not given Ashwaganda to DS, but I have been using it myself, nightly, for a long time! It helps take the edge off for sleep. I have also tried GABA, at hlaf a dose in the morning, which made me uncomfortable and clammy to start, then mellowed me out, then cause extreme thirst and fatigue by the afternoon.

[JAG10]

How long before taking Ashwagandha did either of you notice any difference? Waiting a month without seeing any difference will not be easy for me. Patience is not one of my virtues

[LNN]

I started it a week before we went on vacation. On vacation, she slept better - but...was alo exhausted from full days of activities and went to bed late. This was the week, when none of us, sharing one hotel room, wanted a night light. Thus, she learned to do without. The week we got home, she continued to get to sleep easier, in the dark. So if it was the Ashwaganda, I'd say sometime during week 2.

[JAG10]

Thanks Laura!

 

I was reading some on Lasko's website.....don't you wonder what she DOES eat??? That's a daunting list, I must say.

[LNN]

I assume you mean Yasko even tho the "smart" phone decided you meant Lasko? Yes, there are many times I read her stuff, Lynch's stuff and I think "get real! These are kids we're talking about! Are they supposed to survive, let alone thrive, on cardboard?"

 

You can't eat rice because it contains arsenic, you can't eat most fruits if not organic because they absorb so many chemical sprays, tomotoes have been engineered to have no flavor, most corn is GMO... I live in a somewhat rural area and there is one farm a few miles away that sells organic produce - for about two months of the year. Unfortunately, my picky eaters don't like most of what they sell. So I have a hard enough time limiting processed foods. To restrict things further based on methylation no-no's?

 

I read thru all the "suggestions" and then I ignore a lot of it because it just isn't practical for my family. If you're not careful, you can become afraid to eat anything! For all I know, the ashwaganda has been sprayed with pesticides. You can only do so much. I do my best, hope for the best and then console myself with the knowledge that my failings will keep a therapist employed when my kids are older and need to emotionally heal themselves from the scars of having to take a dozen supplements a day in their childhoods.

[JAG10]

I agree with you. It's not realistic at all to me.