Rhodiola rosea, yeah, rhodiola rose, impressive supplement. So please tell me more about this because I have heard in my conversations with athletes over the years of people using this for various endurance purposes, altitude acclimation, but I don't know if any of that has any foundation. Rhodiola rose is a very interesting compound because it's an adaptogen in that it greatly reduces perceived effort and allows for greater power output and endurance output, as you pointed out a moment ago. But it does not do that by suppressing cortisol. So 200 milligrams of rhodiola rosea prior to, say, a resistance training workout, you will notice you have more vigor, you can just go longer, and your perceived effort is much lower, and it's kind of striking. What is it doing now? This is interesting. It's kind of striking how after the workout you don't feel as depleted. That perhaps the main reason I started taking is I found I could train harder, but then I suffered quite a lot from a post-exercise dip in

energy, especially if I ate a big meal. I no longer experience that if I take rhodiola rosea 30 to 60 minutes before a workout. The effects of it last about four hours. So, what's happening during that workout? It's clearly having an effect on the central nervous system by reducing the total amount of adrenaline that's released or the efficacy of adrenaline (epinephrine) during high-intensity effort or long-duration effort. So, what this effectively means is you're, in principle, one is able to generate the same amount of effort without the same amount of energy-depleting neurochemicals. I mean, epinephrine and norepinephrine help you generate energy, but there's always a trough afterward, always. And so, if you can generate the same amount of physical output in the absence of x amount of adrenaline or norepinephrine, then you're essentially better off. It also seems to catalyze recovery better. I would not take it more often than just before training, however, because there are a few studies showing

that the effects of it can kind of taper off if you're taking it all day, every day. Rhodiola rosea is probably the best addition to my physical performance stack that I've added in a long time, and it's really striking. I mean, I think so much so that people could try it, and it really does seem to work the first time and every time for me. If it doesn't work for you the first time, if you, you know, all other things being equal, you got a decent night's sleep, you're doing everything the same way you normally would, and you take Rhodiola rosea, and you don't really notice much of an effect, you know, you might try and increase the dose slightly and give it another go. And what was the dosage range? 200 milligrams? 200 million? Yeah, that's what I'll take, and I found that to be really striking. Now, I'm not going to take that before like a long Sunday jog or a hike. I mean, I might, but chances are I'm

not gonna do it before leg workout. I'm gonna do it before I hit workout. I'm mainly doing it to make sure that I can train really hard and then go do other things really hard too. Again, that's not a competitive athlete. I loathe the experience of training really hard and then feeling like I gave everything to that training session and therefore I don't have much energy or focus to give to the other anything else. Yeah.

Neuroscientist: RHODIOLA ROSEA Benefits

Neuroscientist: RHODIOLA ROSEA Benefits