How It Works…
So, how does cordyceps work? Two ways…
First, cordyceps helps support the adrenals. How? Because it’s an adaptogen. As you may know, an adaptogen is something that creates balance within the body. So, if you have too much of one hormone and not enough of another, it helps balance the two out. And it helps keep stress in check. As I mentioned earlier, the adrenals pump out cortisol to help you deal with stress.
But if stress is prolonged and chronic, the adrenals begin to get weaker. Over time, this depletes your body’s levels of cortisol. And when cortisol levels are low, any kind of stressful event can take its toll on your body, organs, and tissues.
Well, the good news is, cordyceps helps your body adapt to stressful events. If your cortisol levels have been depleted, it helps bring your levels back up to cope with the stress.
And second, this is the real amazing part, cordyceps boosts levels of the energy molecule, ATP. ATP is the single most important factor when it comes to energy. Everything we do depends on our levels of this crucial molecule.
So, the more ATP we have, the more energy we have… and the longer we can perform at physical activities. And cordyceps has been tested in clinical studies. Take a look at what some of these studies found…
In one study, researchers took a group of elderly people and put them on exercise bicycles. They then gave half of them cordyceps and gave the other half a dummy pill. At the end of the 6-week trial, they re-tested them all again.
Result: The people taking the dummy pill stayed largely the same. But the people taking cordyceps improved on every single measurement! This included things like how much energy they generated when pedalling on the bicycle… how much oxygen they were able to process… how quickly they could walk a mile and more!
- In another study, researchers tested the swimming times of a group of rats. They then gave them cordyceps and tested them again. Result? After getting cordyceps, the rats could swim 73% longer.
- In still another study, researchers found that patients who took cordyceps had an average increase in energy levels by 55%!
- And in yet another study published in the medical journal, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, researchers found that cordyceps boosts the ability of the cells to process oxygen by 50%!
That’s nothing short of remarkable. Can you imagine what a 50% boost in oxygen utilization can do for your energy? You’d have energy all day, every day. And you’d have much less fatigue too.