Living with chronic stress at work or at home is an all-too familiar scenario for many of us these days. Excess stress can create hormonal imbalances that lead to premature aging and an obesity-like condition.

Chronic daily stress (i.e. work, school or constant worrying) can rapidly deplete the brain's serotonin reserves, causing depression, low stress adaptation, sleep disturbances and excessive cravings for sweet and starchy foods. A few common signs of weak adrenal function are; overeating and weight gain, low feeling of energy, fatigue, irritability, chronic tiredness, oversleeping and frequent immune system rundown.

By using the Ultimate Anti-Stress on a regular basis – in the evening – you can aid your body's ability to replenish from the day's unrelenting stress toll and wake up feeling refreshed.

Accumulating body fat through stress

Aside from all of the unrelenting problems excess cortisol can create upon our biochemistry, chronically high levels of the hormone can also cause unwanted accumulation in body fat stores through the following mechanisms:

• By creating stress-induced hormone imbalances—that lead to an obesity-like condition characterized by an excessive accumulation of abdominal fat. This condition creates excessively high cortisol levels along with lowered levels of our most abundant steroid hormone-dihydroepiandosterone (DHEA). By competing with DHEA, cortisol creates an enhanced atmosphere conducive to fat accumulation in the stomach region.
• By causing the brain to send out hormones that trigger a chain reaction within the enzyme systems that affect fat cells. Researchers believe that one of the enzymes directly affected is the very one responsible for storing fat in the fat cell— lipoprotein lipase or LPL. In relation to excess stress, LPL directs the majority of fat to be stored within the abdominal region.
• By stripping away the most metabolically active tissue in the body—muscle. If there isn’t a supply of new protein (amino acids) in the system, cortisol can make extra glucose from our own body’s tissues in a process called gluconeogenesis.
• By creating ravenous cravings due to an imbalance in various neurotransmitters—primarily serotonin. Chronic daily stress (i.e. work or school) can rapidly deplete serotonin reserves, causing the brain to send out ravenous cravings for sweet starchy foods in order to self medicate.

Each 2 Capsules Contain:

• Ashwagandha Extract (Withania somnifera) (3% Withanolides) ...375 mg
• Valerian Extract (Valeriana officinalis) (root) (0.8% Valerenic Acid) ...300 mg
• Citrus Bioflavonoids ...200 mg
• Lyophilized Adrenal Tissue ...75 mg
• Quercetin ...50 mg
• Rhodiola Extract (Rhodiola rosea) (root) (3.5% Rosavins) ...25 mg
• Black Pepper Extract 1:5 (Piper nigrum) (fruit) (95% Piperin) ...1.25 mg

This product does not contain any dairy, artificial colours, sugar or additives.