Ashwagandha Supplements

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Hello, I was wondering what was the best ashwagandha supplement for people with ADHD and needing more focus? I heard this can really help. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you. submitted by /u/Training_Crab_3904 to r/PeterAttia [link] [comments]

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not exaggerating. himalaya, some KSM-66 branded thing from amazon, a couple of other random brands. tried them all. some for 6 weeks, some for 3 months. kept telling myself i just needed more time. felt absolutely nothing from any of them. so i started digging into why. and what i found is honestly kind of infuriating. the ashwagandha market in india is massive right now. 673,000 monthly searches globally for ashwagandha as of this year. "cortisol detox" is a growing search term. brands know people are desperate and burned out and looking for something that works. so what do they do? they put ashwagandha on the label at whatever dose looks impressive and sell it. here's what they don't tell you: the dose in most products is below the studied therapeutic range the actual clinical trials that showed ashwagandha reduces cortisol by around 30% used KSM-66 standardised extract at 300 to 600mg daily. most indian supplement brands, including the well known ones, use 100 to 250mg. the ingredient appears on the label. the biological effect doesn't appear in your body. that's not a coincidence, it's a cost decision. "ashwagandha root extract" on a label means almost nothing unless the label tells you the withanolide percentage, which is the active compound responsible for the adaptogenic effect, you have no idea what you're actually getting. an unstandardised extract at 300mg could contain negligible amounts of what actually works. you're paying for a label, not a product. ashwagandha alone doesn't fix a broken cortisol rhythm this one took me longest to understand. if your sleep is disrupted, your gut health is poor, you're magnesium deficient, and you're working 60 hour weeks, a single adaptogen capsule taken inconsistently is a coping mechanism not a solution. the body needs a protocol not a pill the processing method matters and almost no brand does it properly classical ayurvedic ashwagandha was never just dried root powder in a capsule. it was processed through specific methods that changed the bioavailability of the compounds. bhavana processing specifically, where the herb powder is saturated in its own medium repeatedly over multiple cycles, is what the texts described. it concentrates active compounds in a form the body actually recognises and absorbs. almost no modern brand does this. it's slow, expensive, and can't be done at industrial scale without cutting corners what finally worked for me was finding a brand that actually followed classical processing, specified the sourcing, and used proper formulation ratios. took longer to find than it should. made a real difference once i did the broader point though is that india has a genuine burnout crisis. 59% of indian employees experiencing burnout according to mckinsey, 3x the global average. the wellness industry's response has been to flood the market with underdosed, poorly processed supplements with great branding and we keep buying them because we're exhausted and desperate and hoping something will finally work if you've tried ashwagandha and felt nothing, you probably didn't try actual ashwagandha. you tried a label with ashwagandha written on it those are very different things submitted by /u/Helpingotherssurvive to r/Ayurveda [link] [comments]

L-theanine is the best example of supplement use. I'm an anxious guy who's very ambitious and insecure. I have to push myself so hard to go out of my comfort zone. I repeat Jung's "where your fear is, there your task is" to convince myself to go. What if you have a pill to take that makes you more likely to confront your fear. And then you see yourself survive it, even if it didn't go as planned or you learn you're more inadequate than you thought (you still have upped your capacity). And honestly, when you aren't as stressed, you mess up less because you care about approval less. Of all the supps it receives the highest points for stress and anxiety along with ashwagandha on supplement finder. https://www.tacticsplus.com/supplement/l-theanine I took ashwagandha, and honestly couldn't notice the difference people claim it makes. And its effects aren't immediate like l theanine. Hopefully I'll be able to afford Thorne's one over NOW's later as the brand has a higher quality score (4.9/5 compared to NOW's 3.9) on SF. Maybe it'll have a better effect. Who knows. Onward and upward. submitted by /u/hydrogenblack to r/Supplements [link] [comments]

I’m looking for supplement recommendations that are actually great but not the usual mainstream stuff everyone already talks about. Not talking about the standard: creatine whey magnesium glycinate omega 3 vitamin D caffeine ashwagandha I mean the more “hidden gem” supplements that made a noticeable difference for you personally in things like: energy focus sleep recovery mood stress training performance libido overall wellbeing Especially interested in supplements that: have surprisingly solid science behind them are underrated/not heavily marketed people only discover after being deep into supplements for years Would also love to hear: what effect you noticed how long it took dosage any side effects or things to watch out for Basically: what’s your “why is nobody talking about this?” supplement? submitted by /u/Balphaallthetime to r/Supplements [link] [comments]

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24M Florida, train 5x a week. Last April my T came back at 480 ng/dL which is technically "in range" but garbage for my age and I was tired of it. Spent the next 12 months getting monthly bloodwork while running every popular natural T booster I could justify alongside actual lifestyle changes. Ended this April at 870. The data on what actually moved the numbers vs what was a complete waste is honestly kinda damning for the supplement industry. Methodology fwiw. Monthly draws at LabCorp through Ulta Lab Tests, $45 each, fasted, between 7-9am, same morning of the month roughly. Tracked total T, free T, SHBG, E2, LH, FSH. ~$540 on draws for the year and easily the best money I spent the entire time. Ok so what actually worked. Sleep. By a mile the biggest variable in the whole dataset. Leproult & Van Cauter 2011 in JAMA had young guys sleep 5 hrs a night for a week and T dropped 10-15%, equivalent to like 15 years of aging in 7 nights. My data was almost embarrassingly consistent with this. Months where my Oura averaged under 6.5 hrs my T came back 60-100 ng/dL lower than my 7.5+ months. Every single time. You can do everything else right and bad sleep will undo it. Bodyfat. Went 18% to ~13% on a slow cut over 6 months. T went up about 150 ng/dL in that window alone. Mechanism is aromatization in adipose tissue, less fat = less T converting to E2. My E2 went from 36 to 22 pg/mL across the cut, free T went up disproportionately. If you're above 20% and your T is bad, you basically don't have a supplement question, you have a body comp question. Heavy compounds. Squats and deadlifts twice a week, 3-6 rep range. The acute T spike from a single lifting session is real but doesn't matter for your morning trough numbers, which is what your bloodwork captures. What mattered was strength progression over months. Once my deadlift was at 1.8x bw the T floor had clearly shifted up. Cutting alcohol on weeknights. Months where I hit 0 drinks Sun-Thurs ran measurably higher than months I had 2-3 weeknight beers. Not subtle. Partly sleep architecture damage, partly direct testicular effects. Didn't cut it entirely, kept Friday/Sat social, just stopped the casual weeknight thing. Now the supplements. Some did stuff, most didn't. Vitamin D3 5000 IU w/ K2 MK-7. My 25-OH D was 22 ng/mL at baseline despite living in Florida (I work indoors, sue me). Pilz et al. 2011 in Hormone and Metabolic Research gave overweight men 3,332 IU daily for a year and saw real total T increases, but only in vitamin D deficient guys. Follow-up by Lerchbaum 2017 in JCEM found basically nothing in men with already-normal D. So this only works if you're deficient. I was. T came up roughly 50 ng/dL across the months I got my D from 22 to 55. Cheap, easy, closest thing to a free win in the entire stack. Zinc 25mg, 4 days a week. Prasad's old work in Nutrition journal (1996 iirc) showed dietary zinc restriction in young men dropped T from like 39.9 to 10.6 nmol/L over 20 weeks, which is wild and most people haven't actually read it. Same logic as vitamin D, only matters if you're deficient or marginal. My RBC zinc was low normal. Modest 30-50 ng/dL bump after correcting. Don't megadose tho, chronic high-dose zinc above 50mg depletes copper and you dig a hole pretty fast. Ashwagandha KSM-66 600mg, during a 3 month rough patch at work. Wankhede 2015 in J Int Soc Sports Nutr ran 57 young guys on 600mg KSM-66 with resistance training for 8 weeks and saw ~15% T increase. Mine bumped maybe 40 ng/dL during the cycle. But. And this is the part I never see talked about on this sub. Around week 10 I started getting noticeable emotional flatness. Like things I should have been hyped about just felt muted. Cycled off, mood came back in maybe 3 weeks. It's real, I wasn't imagining it, and I remember reading it shows up in some of the smaller studies if you dig but I can't pull the cite right now. Anyway. I'd run it again for a finite stress period but it's not staying in my permanent stack. Probably the most underreported side effect in the whole adaptogen space. Boron 10mg, weekdays only. Naghii 2011 in J Trace Elem Med Biol gave 8 healthy guys 10mg boron daily for a week and saw 28% increase in free T and 39% drop in E2. n=8 is tiny so I didn't expect much. My free T did go up roughly 10% across two months I tested it with a small E2 drop. Cheap as dirt, no side effects, kept it. Ok now the part that's going to piss people off. Stuff that did literally nothing on my labs: Tongkat ali (LJ100), 400mg for 8 weeks, ran it twice. Maybe a 20 ng/dL bump, well within my month-to-month noise. The human data is mostly small studies in stressed or hypogonadal men, not healthy guys with normal-ish T. The hype on this sub vs the actual evidence is almost funny. Fadogia agrestis, 600mg for 6 weeks. Literally zero on every marker. The whole hype train is built on rat studies and there's real liver toxicity signal in those same rat studies that nobody on this sub seems to want to talk about. The Huberman bump put this stuff everywhere but the human evidence is essentially nonexistent. Not running it again. D-aspartic acid. The 2009 Topo paper got everyone excited, every follow-up in trained men since has been null. Mine matched. 12 weeks, nothing. Tribulus terrestris. Did nothing in 8 weeks. The few "positive" studies are in men with sexual dysfunction measuring libido, not healthy guys with bloodwork. It's been a marketing scam for like 25 years and people still buy it. Fenugreek 500mg. Some libido stuff maybe, no T change on labs. The "T increase" claims are usually free T measured after libido bumped, mechanism probably isn't actually androgenic. ZMA. Did nothing that my zinc and magnesium weren't already doing separately. It's just zinc + mag + B6 with a fancy name and a markup. Pine pollen, generic "T support" caps with proprietary blends, anything with no exact doses on the label. All of it. If a brand won't show you the dose of every ingredient it's hiding underdosing, full stop. The thing nobody on this sub wants to hear. Sleep, bodyfat, lifting heavy, alcohol restraint. That's 80% of natural T optimization. Full stop. Supplements are at most a 10-15% bump on top of that, and only the ones tied to actual nutrient deficiencies (D, zinc) reliably move anything. Ashwagandha during stress is real but the side effect tail is worse than people admit. Boron is cheap so why not. Everything else is mostly marketing wrapped around one underpowered study and a confident YouTuber. If you're under 35, sleeping 5 hrs, sitting at 22% bf, doing only cardio, and stacking 4 T boosters, you're optimizing the wrong layer of the system entirely. Fix the lifestyle and your numbers will move more in 6 months than any "natural booster" stack will move in 2 years. It's not even close. Honestly the most useful thing I did all year was just the monthly bloodwork itself. Without that data I would have credited 3 different supplements with effects that were actually just the body fat dropping or sleep finally getting consistent. You can't separate signal from placebo on this stuff without real numbers, period. Curious if anyone here has run a longer stretch on Tongkat at higher doses (600+) and seen real bloodwork movement, mine was flat at 400 both runs but the hype is persistent enough I wonder if dose actually matters more than duration here. Disclaimer: Formatted & spell-checked by ai, experience, research, & findings are entirely my own. submitted by /u/Timely_Ad8989 to r/Biohackers [link] [comments]

came across a blog post by some guy who tried ashwagandha, shilajit and safed musli for 3 weeks after turning 40. belly fat, stress, low energy, cortisol issues. pretty relatable stuff honestly. what got me wasn't his results though. it was the comments section where people kept saying they tried the same herbs and felt nothing. so i started digging into why the same herb works dramatically for some people and does absolutely nothing for others. and the answer kept coming back to one thing. processing. most ashwagandha on the market is just root powder in a capsule. you swallow it, your body extracts maybe 10-15% of what's useful and the rest passes through. the classical texts never described it this way. ashwagandha was always processed, either through milk, ghee or its own plant medium over multiple cycles. the processing is what makes the compounds bioavailable. without it you're essentially eating expensive dirt. this is called bhavana in classical ayurveda. herb powder repeatedly soaked in a specific liquid medium, dried, soaked again, multiple cycles. concentrates the active compounds in a form the body can actually absorb. time consuming, cannot be done at industrial scale without cutting corners, so almost nobody does it. i started looking for brands that actually follow this and honestly most don't even mention it. the ones that do are usually small, not very well known. found one called jeevrasa. been using their rakshaya for immunity and the difference from generic giloy tulsi capsules was noticeable around week 5-6. they apparently have an ashwagandha tablet coming using the same bhavana process which i'm genuinely curious about because ashwagandha processed this way is supposed to be a completely different experience from the standard root powder everyone sells. anyway the broader point is. if you've tried ashwagandha and felt nothing, you probably tried the wrong version. not the wrong herb. the wrong version of it. the guy in the blog got results. most people don't. processing is probably why. submitted by /u/Helpingotherssurvive to r/Ayurveda [link] [comments]

i want to preface this by saying i thought i was being smart. i was tracking everything, listening to the right podcasts, buying quality brands. i was not being smart. at my peak i was running creatine, omega-3, vitamin D with K2, magnesium threonate, ashwagandha KSM-66, fadogia agrestis, tongkat ali, zinc at 50mg daily, copper to offset the zinc, lion's mane, a B-complex, and CoQ10. $350/month. i had a whole system. then i got a comprehensive bloodwork panel. not the basic one. a real one. and the results were not what i expected. copper: flagged low. because the zinc at 50mg daily was suppressing it. been taking that dose for months thinking i was supporting testosterone. turns out i was slowly depleting a mineral my body needs for actual enzyme function, immune response, and collagen production. B vitamins: way too high. intracellular, not serum. the kind your doctor doesn't run by default. i had neurological tingling in my hands that i'd been ignoring for weeks. you know what causes that? B6 toxicity. which i had. from supplements i was taking because i thought more was better. the fadogia: i'd been taking it based on essentially one rat study where the rats showed liver toxicity at the human-equivalent dose. i think about that now and feel genuinely stupid. one rat study. daily. for months. so what happened when i dropped everything? i kept creatine (5g, decades of evidence), omega-3 high EPA, vitamin D at 3000 IU with K2 MK-7, and magnesium glycinate before bed. switched from threonate because glycinate works better for me personally and costs half as much. total monthly spend: about $45. i feel better. not a little better. noticeably, clearly, actually better than i did on the $350 stack. the tingling is gone. sleep is deeper. i have actual emotions again (ashwagandha blunting is real and nobody talks about it enough). bloodwork came back clean across the board. i also started doing the boring stuff. 8 hours of sleep non-negotiable. cardio 5x a week. protein at 1g per pound. cut alcohol to basically never. morning sunlight. i know. but the gap between "$350/month stack plus okay habits" and "$45/month basics plus actually dialed lifestyle" is not close. they're not even in the same universe. this sub, and the podcast ecosystem around it, has a way of making you feel like you're always behind. like there's always one more compound. and that feeling is what got me to $350/month with nerve damage and a crashed copper level while thinking i was being optimized. get comprehensive bloodwork. not the basic panel. look at what's HIGH, not just what's low. and maybe be honest with yourself about how many things you're running because you have real data versus because a pod ad made it sound necessary. i've been writing more about this stuff over on my substack linked in my profile, if you're curious to go deeper it's there. anyway. i'm genuinely curious if anyone else has done this. pulled way back and felt better. based on the DMs i get when i mention this in comments i don't think i'm the only one. i think a lot of people in this space are quietly spending a fortune, feeling nothing, and too deep in to admit it. EDIT: if you’re here because you’re researching supplement side effects, bloodwork results, or whether your stack is actually helping, this is the short version of what i learned the hard way: • high dose zinc supplementation (50mg+) can cause copper deficiency, which is linked to anemia, immune dysfunction, and neurological issues like numbness and balance problems • excess vitamin b6 (common in b complex, zma, and multivitamins) can cause peripheral neuropathy, including tingling, burning, or numbness in hands and feet • more supplements does not equal better health. stacking can create imbalances, toxicity, and unintended interactions • bloodwork should include intracellular vitamins and minerals, not just standard panels • many popular testosterone boosters (like fadogia agrestis) have limited human evidence and potential safety concerns what actually worked better for me: • minimal, evidence based stack (creatine, omega 3, vitamin d + k2, magnesium) • prioritizing fundamentals: sleep, diet, exercise, sunlight, and alcohol reduction • regular bloodwork to guide decisions instead of guessing if you’re currently taking multiple supplements and not feeling better, or feeling worse, it may be worth asking: “do i actually need this, or am i just optimizing blindly?” submitted by /u/Timely_Ad8989 to r/Biohackers [link] [comments]

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Hit my 30s and feel like my body just gave up. Work stress, gym recovery takes forever, sleep is trash. Wake up tired, drag myself through the day, can't focus. Used to bounce back in my 20s. Now one bad night ruins the whole week. Tried cutting alcohol. Better sleep helps but stress still there. Cortisol through the roof probably. Buddy recommended ashwagandha. Said it helps with the "wired but tired" feeling. Been trying these ones for a month - gummies with ashwagandha, L-theanine, and magnesium. Not a magic pill but definitely takes the edge off. Sleep feels deeper. Less brain fog. Still figuring it out though. What's your go-to for keeping it together? Supplements? Therapy? Just raw dogging life? Curious what actually works for guys here. Use code GUMMYRED30 if you wanna check out the ones I'm using. submitted by /u/Chrelled to r/AskMen [link] [comments]

So I've been taking Nutricost KSM-66 Ashwagandha root extract for a while now. I ended up pouring 3-4 out and noticed this one that was smaller and white. WTF lol submitted by /u/CoolCatNTopDawg to r/mildyinteresting [link] [comments]

edit: I read this post and ended up buying Alpha core 8 in 1 and i've already noticed a huge difference in how I feel! https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterAttia/comments/1ldu92d/best_ashwagandha_brands/ I've heard Dr. Attia talking a lot about ashwagandha, and I kinda want to try it. The only thing that's stopping me is i'm a little bit confused on what type to get and which brand may be the most reputable? There's a ton of b.s. posted online and I don't want to get the wrong thing or waste my money. Anybody have any suggestions? submitted by /u/Miserable-Coffee-138 to r/PeterAttia [link] [comments]

Got into the whole health optimization thing after new years, following biohacking influencers and fitness people posting their supplement routines. Started simple with vitamin D cause I work remotely. Then magnesium, ashwagandha for stress, zinc, pre-workout, and some herbal focus thing from amazon. Ended up taking like 8 different things twice a day. By August my stomach was completely screwed. I started getting heartburn at first then it continue to bloating, cramps, exhaustion even though I was "doing everything right." Thought maybe it was food intolerance or something. Finally saw my doctor last week and she checked everything and told me I'd been poisoning myself. Had to stop everything. My gut is wrecked now and I need probiotics to fix it. Wasted $400 over six months thinking I was being healthy. Don't mix random supplements without talking to a doctor first. Learn from my dumbass mistake. TL;DR: Mixed around 7 supplements for the past months not being aware of what I was putting in my body, destroyed my gut and wasted $400. Zinc blocked copper, bad interactions, sketchy Amazon stuff. Always check with doctors first." submitted by /u/LividLawfulness4962 to r/tifu [link] [comments]

Hello everyone! I've been taking ashwagandha for anxiety for a while and it's been great. I take a week or two off it every 30 days because I heard of bad experiences of taking it over 90 days. I think this cycle works great but during those weeks I'm off I do have a rise in anxiety and insomnia. Not always to panic attack levels but sometimes I do. I tried taking it for longer but then after 30 days or so I don't really feel the effects anymore. I walk 3-4 miles every day, taking a few break days here and there, and do self care to manage my stress as well but sometimes my anxiety disorder just acts up for no reason or over reacts to stress. Have been trying to quit nicotine (vaping) as well. submitted by /u/dotdedo to r/Supplements [link] [comments]

I’ve been researching Ashwagandha lately and keep coming across mixed reviews on supplements and their effectiveness for men. Some people say it helps with stress, sleep, and energy, while others mention benefits for strength and testosterone. Since there are so many brands and types (capsules, powders, gummies), I figured Reddit and this subreddit would be the best place to ask real people what’s actually worked for them. What’s the best Ashwagandha supplement you’ve tried, and what kind of benefits did you personally notice? Thanks submitted by /u/netzodus to r/Supplements [link] [comments]

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a supplement that can help lower blood pressure quickly — ideally something that can be felt or measured from the very first day, similar to how Ashwagandha works for stress and anxiety. I’m aware long-term management involves lifestyle changes and possibly medication, but I’m curious about short-term effective supplements that actually produce noticeable effects fast (within hours or a day). Has anyone experienced immediate drops in blood pressure with things like: Magnesium (citrate, glycinate?) L-arginine or beetroot CoQ10 Potassium Omega-3 Or any other that worked fast for you? I’m not on BP meds right now, just tracking it with a home monitor. Any input or personal experience is appreciated! Thanks in advance. submitted by /u/zaico1 to r/Biohackers [link] [comments]

3 years ago I was constantly sick so I started a multi vitamin for immune support. I’ve always been a bad sleeper so I also started magnesium and occasionally melatonin. Had some bloodwork and my vitamin D and iron were low so I added that too. Somewhere down the line I got more symptoms then relieve so I tried anything and everything to feel better again. A multi vitamin doesn’t hurt right? And if it’s water soluble there’s no issue, you pee out all the excessive amounts. I’ve also taken l-lysine and selenium for the constant colds and that seemed to help for a long time too. But then out of nowhere I got symptoms like hot flashes, insomnia, excessive thirst and peeing a lot, my hair and skin started to change, neurological symptoms like tingling, stiff neck, even my periods started to change. So I switched it up and took some multi vitamins for hormonal issues instead. Also added ashwagandha because I was starting to get overemotional and stressed out. I went down a rabbit hole where I learned too much zinc is bad for copper, so yup added copper too maybe that was what’s wrong. The symptoms were so bad doctors started to look for CANCER, then thyroid disease but they couldn’t find anything except my igM and neutrophils being off indicating my immune system couldn’t work for me anymore the way it should. Kept pushing the doctor to look at my thyroid again and again because I started to become convinced it’s that. He refused but wouldn’t test my vitamins either. Then I did bloodwork on my own at a third party to see all my vitamin levels and almost everything came back way too high❗️Especially the B vitamins are too high, they suppose to be water soluble (I been told that over and over) but that is where my neurological symptoms, hot flashes, fertility issues and excessive peeing come from. Magnesium is too high which gives me a stiff neck everytime I try to take it and it stole a lot of calcium. Folate is over the top which gives me insomnia for maybe at least 2 months because the test that has been done is intracellular. I’ve been told that some multi vitamins, or any vitamin the formulation can be too high than your body needs and before you know it you’re overdosing, which gives you symptoms. What I’m trying to say is, please do your BLOODWORK FIRST! I learned my lesson that just because it’s “vitamins” it can, and will definitely hurt you when it’s too much and give you symptoms and before you know it you’re spiraling thinking you have a horrible disease but you don’t. I stopped taking everything and feel much better already except for the insomnia, all the hot flashes and excessive sweating/peeing is gone. God I wasted so much money on supplements and they’re all in the bin now, and I also blame this subreddit for it 😂 submitted by /u/Interesting_Name_990 to r/Supplements [link] [comments]

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I feel so much more focused — last month I completed a solo hike of The Ridgeway, and yesterday I actually managed to make a phone call to book my first session at the ROKTFACE climbing wall! submitted by /u/ForestGoldMiner to r/TwoSentenceHorror [link] [comments]

I'll try to condense the first part of this and get to the important details, but a little background information is needed to tell the full story. Around May 1st, I started itching from head to toe. I thought that I was having an allergic reaction, so after it didn't subside in a few days, I went to urgent care. At this time, I hadn't noticed that I didn't have a rash, because excessive scratching had broken capillaries and I had mistaken those for hives. They were not. Urgent care gave me steroids and sent me on my way. The itch went away for a week and then returned. No rash, no hives. I went to my PCP, who said it was because my skin was too dry, told me to stop showering daily, and gave me another steroid shot. This steroid shot did not start working immediately. I stepped up my skincare game and the itch finally stopped. Until July. The itching started again. Went back to the PCP. He said that my skin wasn't too dry, maybe it's allergies. Gave me another steroid shot and told me that I needed to figure out what was causing this because I couldn't just keep coming back for steroid shots every other month. Told me to take antihistamines. I requested a complete metabolic panel at the suggestion of a friend who is also a doctor. That was a Tuesday, about three weeks ago. Test came back on Friday morning. Bilirubin, ALT, and AST were all slightly elevated. I sent my PCP a message in the portal asking for next steps. No answer. Called and left a message in the afternoon, no answer. By 5 pm, I was in so much pain. The itch was burning my skin and I had not slept at all the night before. Finally got a hold of him, he said that the test results didn't look concerning to him and to take an antihistamine. I said no antihistamine had worked. I was taking an h1 and h2 blocker. He prescribed a stronger antihistamine. (Yes, I will be finding a new PCP). Did not sleep at all that night and had my husband drive me to the ER the next morning. Total bilirubin was at 2.7 (which was what was causing the itching, normal range is 1.1), ALT was 442 (normal range is below 64), AST was 240. Ultrasound showed no bile duct obstructions and healthy gallbladder (I have a family history of gallbladder disease). I was given cholestyramine to help reduce the bilirubin and referred to a liver specialist. After convincing the Hepatologist that I was not a junkie alcoholic that traveled to exotic locations, he begin asking me other questions. Family history of liver disease - no. How much do you drink - only one drink a night with dinner on Fri, Sat, Sun. Do you take any herbal supplements? - yes. Ashwagandha, Valerian Root, 5-HTP, Turmeric. Was told to stop taking all herbal supplements immediately and begin daily blood tests. Monday's test they took 12 vials of blood, to rule out pretty much everything that could harm your liver. I was bruised for two weeks from that. The itching got better, but my ALT and AST just kept going up and up. I started researching everything that I was taking, which led me to the study that came out of Iceland earlier this year. By Friday, my liver levels were still rising, which was super frustrating, because I was doing everything that they told me to. I was also focusing on eating foods that were supposed to be good for your liver. Which was difficult, because I had absolutely no appetite. The NP said that a lot of times the enzymes will continue to go up, peak, and then start trending down. But, they were worried because my levels were still climbing and the lab was closed during the weekend. I also had zero energy, which also worried them. So, I got to go to the hospital. During COVID. Which I do know I did not have because they stuck the swab up my nose. Let me tell you, you never want to hear: 'you hopefully won't need one, but we want you to go to the hospital where we do liver transplants just in case.' They did mention that my blood results showed my liver was still functioning properly, which was hopeful. They stuck me in an MRI to rule out any obstructions that hadn't shown up on the ultrasound. I had to get my blood drawn every 12 hours to monitor my levels. Saturday, they didn't let me have any food OR WATER until 2 pm when they ruled out doing a biopsy for that day, which gave me the worst headache I've had in my life. Then they didn't get approval from the doctor to give me ibuprofen until almost 10 pm. My AST and ALT levels peaked on Saturday. ALT was 1514 and AST was 572. Every morning, I would have to wait to hear if they wanted do a biopsy that day. Luckily, Monday morning my levels had dropped enough that, not only were they not going to do the biopsy, they were sending me home. So, I was diagnosed with Drug Induced Liver Injury. The liver team said that they had seen previous cases associated with Ashwagandha, Valerian Root, and Turmeric, but didn't pinpoint any of the three as the specific cause. The resident working with the liver team said that when your liver enzyme levels get that high either they peak and trend downward or you go into liver failure. The liver doctor said that they had seen a couple of otherwise healthy people end up needing transplants from supplement use (didn't mention which specific ones) and that I should consider myself lucky. I'm home now and feeling better. I'm only allowed to take my prilosec, the liver meds they gave me, and melatonin. They won't even let me take my birth control until my levels go back to normal. Last Thursday, my bilirubin had gone down to .8 (within normal range!), AST to 90, and ALT to 500. I go back for another blood draw on Thursday. Weekly blood draws are much better than daily (or twice daily). My poor veins had so many holes in them. So, I've been going down the rabbit hole researching every little thing I'd taken the past three months. I found a form that you could submit a report to the FDA if a supplement had caused a serious issue. While filling out the form, I clicked over to Amazon to get the exact name of the Ashwagandha brand I had been taken. Then I noticed it. I purchased it on April 21. Which means it arrived around April 23. A week before the first itching event. Curious, I clicked on the reviews. Almost all of the one and two star reviews mention itching. Several also mention high liver enzymes. Dozens and dozens of reviews. This has to be the culprit. There's too much data here. I've been taking Ashwagandha for a couple years now, but it had been the first time that I had bought the NOW Supplements brand. In the past I had used Organic India, Swanson, and even Spring Valley without issue. My doctor has advised me to no longer take Ashwagandha. Which sucks because it did a great job at calming down my ADHD brain so that I could sleep. But, I thought would be prudent to warn others. You do not want to experience this itch. Trust me. TL;DR - Lots of words to say that I ended up in the hospital with Drug Induced Liver Injury. Evidence points to NOW Supplements brand Ashwagandha as the cause. submitted by /u/skinonfirethrowaway to r/Supplements [link] [comments]