Goal-Based Guide
Two supplements have meaningful support for anxiety: ashwagandha and magnesium. It's a short list, and short for a reason: the rest of the category barely comes up. Here's what the evidence says.
Anxiety is one of the most common reasons people reach for supplements. These are the compounds with the most support for stress and cortisol reduction.
Ranked by the verdict on whether each supplement works, worked out from every counted mention. Each dot is one source: a researcher or a study.
positive partly neutral negative Each researcher and each study counts once per claim, however often they come up.
Magnesium supplements are worth taking.
8 sources: 6 positive, 2 partly
Ashwagandha is worth taking.
6 sources: 3 positive, 3 partly
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Cortisol management, from protocols on record:
This page shows you which supplements researchers agree on for anxiety. A free account opens the dose, form and timing for each supplement, with the interactions to watch. Pro adds chat answers drawn from 3,700+ hours of recorded interviews with 380 researchers and doctors, plus 48,500+ research studies, each one cited.
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