Are you one of the millions who experience excessive stress that seems to drain you of all your energy and affects your health?

Even mild to moderate levels of stress can sap your energy stores and leave you in a constant state of fatigue. Stress and health are tightly connected. You may find yourself emotionally, physically, and mentally exhausted from chronic stress and anxiety. Do not be discouraged!

Remember that stress is natural to life experience and that you have control over your bodies’ response to stress. Adapting your daily schedule to a healthy routine of nutritious meals, exercise, and stress management can help you manage your stress levels. However, this may not be enough to combat the environmental, chemical, physical and emotional imbalances.

Adding Vitality to your supplement routine can serve to support your body’s ability to balance the effects of all types of stressors. Vitality contains 9 ingredients that are derived from herbal compounds to support the body’s ability to reduce stress, enhance immunity, and provide energy. Think of Vitality as an added defense to support your body’s response to stress and find the balance you need to enjoy your life.

Vitality contains these Essential Ingredients:

• Ashwagandha Root - Supports relaxation or energy (depending on which mode your body needs), reverses the effects of stress, and protects the body from neurotoxins.
• Panax Ginseng - Boosts mental energy and function, improves mood and well-being, and protects neurons from damage.
• Astragalus Root - Reduces stress, enhances immunity, and provides relaxation or energy depending on what your body needs.
• Holy Basil Leaf - Enhances cognition, protects the brain from neurodegenerative damage, and relieves stress.
• Rhodiola Rosea Root - Improves energy, alertness, and mood while acting to boost concentration and cognition.
• Eleutherococcus Senticosus Root - Boosts the body's resistance to stress, builds up the immune system, and increases nervous system function.
• Schisandra Fruit - Improves mental performance, short-term memory tasks, increases energy levels and reduces fatigue.
• Aronia Fruit - Strengthens the immune system, improves brain health and the health of the cardiovascular system.
• Amla Fruit - Promotes memory and intelligence enhancement and protects the body against the effects of stress.
• Maca Fruit - Increases energy, vitality, and prevents adrenal fatigue while helping to manage anxiety.

Adaptogens contain powerful compounds capable of bringing balance to your body by helping build resistance to the effects of stress and providing energy or relaxation when needed.  Vitality has optimized the following ingredients to be both adaptogenic and nootropic. Read on to discover more about Vitality's incredible action on the human nervous system and the body as a whole.

Our Bodies Response to Stress

Stress is a natural human experience. In fact, our bodies are primed to manage stress through intricately designed response systems based in our complex nervous system. Stress response is directed by the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems of our central nervous system. The parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for the stress response while our sympathetic nervous system helps our bodies to rest and recover from stressful situations to regular daily functioning.

In a perceived threat or stressful event, the adrenal gland releases the stress hormones (adrenaline and cortisol) when we endure a stressful event or are under chronic stress. The hormone adrenaline causes physiological changes to occur, including an elevated blood pressure, pounding heart rate, and rapid breathing. After adrenaline levels lower in the body, cortisol levels remain in the body which results in an extended period of your body staying in a “high alert” state. People who deal with chronic stress and anxiety live their daily lives in a heightened alert state, sending messages to the brain that there is a constant threat that may endanger their lives. Thankfully, we do not have to endure these excessive stressors without assistance. Adaptogenic supplements offer our bodies vital substances that can support our nervous system and assist our system to find a much-needed balance.

Vitality’s Powerful 9: Adaptogens and Stress Recovery

Adaptogens are chemical compounds or plant extracts that enhance the body’s ability to adapt to stress while improving mental and physical performance. These remarkable natural substances help the body’s ability to adapt to stress, normalize metabolism, and restore the body’s systems to equilibrium. Adaptogens literally build up our bodies’ resistance to stress and restore balance and harmony throughout the body.

How do they work? Adaptogenic compounds work to regulate how much cortisol is released in your body in times of stress. Remember that cortisol is a hormone released to regulate our stress response. However, excessive cortisol levels in the body can lead to a weakened immune system with an increased susceptibility to infection. Adaptogens help to normalize cortisol levels in either direction when they are too high or too low. The plant compounds in Vitality contain ingredients that help you adapt to stress and move your body’s stress hormones to a balanced place. Furthermore, Vitality has included ingredients that possess adaptogenic and nootropic (enhances brain functioning) qualities.

Vitality’s formulators designed this supplement to include ingredients that work together to provide balance to the body’s systems, helping your body adapt to the effects of stress hormones while building protection against internal and external toxins.

Vitality’s Essential Ingredients

Ashwagandha

Supports relaxation or energy (depending on which mode your body needs), reverses the effects of stress, and protects the body from neurotoxins. Ashwaghanda leaf has been used for thousands of years to help treat a diverse array of conditions, especially those related to stress and anxiety. Current research into Ashwagandha is looking at its potential in improving memory and cognition.

Panax Ginseng

Boosts mental energy and function, improves mood and well-being, and protects neurons from damage. Panax ginseng has an incredible ability to maintain homeostasis or balance throughout the body, enhances physical and mental performance while resisting stress and the deleterious effects of aging.

Astragalus Root

Reduces stress, enhances immunity, and provides relaxation or energy depending on what your body needs. Astragalus root supports healthy immune function and protects the body’s cells against damage due to its antioxidant capabilities. Astragalus root also helps the human body resist the ill effects of stress thus improving emotional, mental, and physical stress responses.

Holy Basil Leaf

Enhances cognition, protects the brain from neurodegenerative damage, and relieves stress. Holy Basil Leaf has been shown in research to help the human body adapt to physical, chemical, and psychological stress while protect the organs and body tissues from toxic stress and inflammation.

Rhodiola Rosea Root

Improves energy, alertness, and mood while acting to boost concentration and cognition. This botanical adaptogen known as “golden root’ has been shown to have neuroprotective effects and helps the human body resist fatigue, stress, and depression.

Eleutherococcus Senticosus Root

Boosts the body's resistance to stress, builds up the immune system, and increases nervous system function.  Studies have shown that Eleutherococcus senticosus helps to improve disturbed sleep, fatigue, exhaustion, and restlessness in people who regularly take the supplement. Also, E. senticosus improves mental health and social functioning.

Schisandra Fruit

Improves mental performance, short-term memory tasks, increases energy levels and reduces fatigue. The plant extract of shisandra fruit can help improve memory and concentration. The extract also has been shown to improve cardiovascular health and help regulate blood glucose levels.

Aronia Fruit

Strengthens the immune system, improves brain health and the health of the cardiovascular system. Aronia fruit is incredibly rich in antioxidants and is a powerful anti-inflammatory that can help improve health, especially cardiovascular and neurological systems.

Amla Fruit

Promotes memory and intelligence enhancement and protects the body against the effects of stress.  As a powerful anti-inflammatory, Amla fruit can help improve your health and strengthen the body’s cardiovascular and neurological systems. Amla fruit builds up the immune system, improves brain health and the health of the cardiovascular system..

Maca Fruit

Increases energy, vitality, and prevents adrenal fatigue while helping to manage anxiety. Maca fruit has been used traditionally to treat a variety of ailments, including anemia, respiratory disorders, and female hormone imbalance. This fruit has neuroprotective qualities that may enhance the longevity of neurological cells.

Each ingredient in Vitality is especially formulated to enhance your overall well-being by balancing your body’s response to stress. Adaptogenic plant extracts play a pivotal role in helping your body become resilient to chronic stress, a state that will lead to excessive fatigue, anxiety, and a weakened immune system. Vitality contains eight adaptogenic and nootropic ingredients that can enhance overall well-being by balancing the body’s response to stress.  Not only will Vitality help you manage stress but this powerful supplement may also enhance your mental performance while acting to protect your nervous system from toxins.

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