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Ashwagandha works best taken in the evening.
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By Arun AgrahriLast reviewed
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Evening, for most people. Taken at night it targets cortisol and sleep, often paired with apigenin. Some take it in the morning instead, for daytime anxiety. The timing follows what you want from it.
Ashwagandha is worth taking.
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Ashwagandha works best taken in the evening.
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Take ashwagandha in the evening if you want it for cortisol and sleep. Andrew Huberman, on his own show, says to restrict it to later in the day and not before exercise, and he pairs it with apigenin in the evening. Peter Attia's night routine adds glycine and magnesium threonate. It is also named for better sleep.
One daily stack, built for daytime stress resilience, takes ashwagandha in the morning with the other morning pills. The split is about what each person wants from the herb, not about whether it works.
Ashwagandha can make you drowsy at higher doses, which argues for the evening for most people. Cycle it too: 30 days on, then off.
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