Bryan Johnson· Author
um ashanda or um extra virgin olive oil or um things like um acaros but that's a prescription thing so it's a bit harder to organize and you get side effects with that that's the nice thing about ashanda you don't really get side effects um you can it can exacerbate depression a little bit in some people specifically the anhedonia symptom of depression because it's an anti also has an anti-anxiety effect so it um in one randomize control trial they used it for anxiety um and it had a decent effect there but in some people uh in some case reports or um kind of comments on forums or hearing from um hearing from people personally it can exacerbate if you have depression already it can exacerbate it a little bit it's kind of like blunting your anxiety response uh so then if you're already super blunted on your anxiety response like you you just have depression but you don't have anxiety Then it can like push that down a little bit more in some ways is no one knows the mechanism of action but that's seems to what's happening but it's not a super common side effect