Are supplements enough to reduce cortisol?

[Whatever]

I’m going through a very stressful era and I’m fairly sure the cortisol is damaging my eye area, making it look harsh and low trust.

I got some magnesium glycinate (400 mg) and L-theanine (200 mg) to take every night, will this be enough or is it just cope and waste of money?

 

[Yeti]

I’m going through a very stressful era and I’m fairly sure the cortisol is damaging my eye area, making it look harsh and low trust.

I got some magnesium glycinate (400 mg) and L-theanine (200 mg) to take every night, will this be enough or is it just cope and waste of money?

Take high mg Ashwaganda. Helped my stress a lot not cope IMO.
Take fish oils it’s pretty well known to reduce cortisol

 

[yochico_yojordan]

you build tolerance to L-theanine like caffeine, it's not great for daily use in my opinion. I use it 2-3x per week preemptively if I know I am doing something stressful (social event, presentation, trouble sleeping, etc.) I alternate with kava kava root as well.

like yeti said ashwagandha is good, specifically KSM-66. Take 600 mg/day, ideally 300/morning and 300/night. It's not like L-theanine or kava which act temporarily but immediately. It takes weeks to kick in and lowers your baseline cortisol.

magnesium glycinate is great for reducing physical symptoms of stress and promoting sleep but I haven't heard of 400 mg doses before, is there a reason you're going high? if you're a big guy or have heavy physical symptoms it makes sense but standard is 200

 

[Whatever]

you build tolerance to L-theanine like caffeine, it's not great for daily use in my opinion. I use it 2-3x per week preemptively if I know I am doing something stressful (social event, presentation, trouble sleeping, etc.) I alternate with kava kava root as well.

like yeti said ashwagandha is good, specifically KSM-66. Take 600 mg/day, ideally 300/morning and 300/night. It's not like L-theanine or kava which act temporarily but immediately. It takes weeks to kick in and lowers your baseline cortisol.

magnesium glycinate is great for reducing physical symptoms of stress and promoting sleep but I haven't heard of 400 mg doses before, is there a reason you're going high? if you're a big guy or have heavy physical symptoms it makes sense but standard is 200

Thanks for the info. It’s my living situation and work that has got me like this, but I have serious plans to change it and just need to make it through until then, so I’m not that worried about long term tolerance.

400 mg magnesium glycinate is what the label on the bottle says, but I’ll take it down to 200.

 

[hej1377]

Try tren and injectable hydrocortisone

 

[TheManTheCave]

I’m going through a very stressful era and I’m fairly sure the cortisol is damaging my eye area, making it look harsh and low trust.

I got some magnesium glycinate (400 mg) and L-theanine (200 mg) to take every night, will this be enough or is it just cope and waste of money?

Just become stoic