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What's That Rash? · Ashwagandha: what's the evidence? · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

We'll dig into them in a second.

I think one thing that would be good to highlight really early on if we're talking about benefits is to talk about some risks.

because there are some potential serious health risks from this supplement as well.

Yeah, I think there's sometimes a sense that something natural is either good or benign.

It's either doing you good or it's not doing anything.

But what you're saying is if it has the power to do good, it has the power to do evil also.

Let's talk about the claims.

Wayne kind of summarized some of them in his email.

Basically, what I've been able to find is there's claims around improved sleep, stress and anxiety reduction, improving cognition, improving athletic performance, and boosting testosterone in men.

Is there anything there I've missed?

But you just said if something could have an effect somewhere, it could have an effect somewhere else.

It's plausible that this could do all of these things.

Okay, so some pretty big claims here.

Whenever we're thinking about something with anti-cancer properties, the hype meter goes all the way up to 11.

Let's start with the crux of Wayne's question, which is really about stress and anxiety.

What do we know?

And then one of the things, we didn't say it explicitly before, but there's a lot of recommendations around not taking this supplement for more than about 12 weeks at a time because that can increase your risk of the liver side effects that you mentioned before.

So it's not like you kind of go on this as an alternative to going on a long-term drug.

Like this is a short-term maybe help.

Okay, so I'm getting a bit of a hand wavy outcome with the stress and anxiety reduction that perhaps there's a signal there, but it's hard to say what the long-term effects are.

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