STRESS LESS
Need exercise? Just need to maintain? In top form?
May/June 1999
By STEVEN FOSTER
No matter your physical state, adaptogens can help
your body meet each day’s challenges.
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AS MOST OF US KNOW all too well, everyday life
presents a lot of stress. Even basic survival skills—solving small
problems, filtering a barrage of mental and physical
stimuli—contribute to stress levels. And if you exercise regularly,
you know the health benefits of your physical fitness regimen, but
you also know how difficult it can be to recover from one evening’s
overzealous workout.
Not all of this stress is unhealthy, certainly. Yet any type of
stress requires a healthy body in order to stay balanced. A clue to
maintaining equilibrium—helping your body stay in peak form—can be
found in the experiences of Russian cosmonauts. If you think that
daily stressors are tough on the body, try spending months in
space. How did the Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov endure 429
days on the space station Mir—the longest time period any human has
spent in orbit? Part of the answer may be that, since 1961, when
the Soviets launched Vostok, the first manned space flight, Russian
cosmonauts have relied on a class of herbs known as adaptogens.
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