Ashwagandha | KSM-66®

One capsule a day, with food. Most people take it with dinner or in the evening, since that suits the way it works — but morning is fine if that's easier to remember. What matters far more than timing is taking it every day.

Usually somewhere around week two, and sleep is normally the first thing people mention. It builds — there's nothing to feel on the first night, and anything promising otherwise is selling you something else. Most of the research measured its overall results and findings at eight weeks.

Have a quick kōrero with your GP or pharmacist first. That's not us being cautious for the sake of it — ashwagandha can interact with thyroid medication, sedatives, and some blood pressure medicines, and your doctor knows your situation. If you're pregnant or breastfeeding, give it a miss.

For most people, none. A very small number may get mild stomach upset when they start, which usually settles if you take it with a proper meal rather than a snack. If anything doesn't feel right, stop and talk to your GP.

Then it's not for you, and that happens. We'd rather you knew that than kept buying it out of habit. Our promise between you and us , is you give it a proper eight weeks, and if nothing's shifted, tell us and we'll refund you. You've got a full year.

Because most of what's on the shelf doesn't tell you what's in it. Cheaper extracts stretch the yield with leaf, and very few state their withanolide content because it's low. Ours is KSM-66 — root only, 5% or higher withanolides, 600mg a capsule, and 22+ human clinical trials on this exact extract. 90+ overall studies just on this extract . You're paying for the version the research was actually done on.

Sixty capsules, one a day, so two months. Thats 8 weeks worth , the exact time most of the research measured . Long enough to start feeling all the effects. There's no need to cycle off if its working for you — the human trials ran continuously, including one over twelve months.

Ashwagandha has been given to women in Ayurveda for centuries through the years when everything shifts, and the modern research has looked at the same ground — perimenopausal and menopausal women, their sleep, and how steady their days feel. It's not a treatment for anything. But it's one of the reasons a lot of our tribe are women in their fifties.

Yes, and plenty of the tribe do. The gold in the morning, ashwa in the evening. They're doing different jobs — one for the body, one for the being — and there's nothing in either that clashes.

Ashwagandha has been used in Ayurveda as a vitality tonic for a very long time, and KSM-66® has been studied for sexual wellbeing in both men and women. It's not what most people come to it for, but the research is there.