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I Megadosed Ashwagandha for 6 Months - Here Are My Results
I Megadosed Ashwagandha for 6 Months - Here Are My Results
I Megadosed Ashwagandha for 6 Months - Here Are My Results
Thursday 26th March 2026
Rimon shares his 6‑month megadose ashwagandha experiment, revealing its impact on cortisol, bones, motivation, and biological ageing.
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Episode Overview
- High-dose ashwagandha can strongly suppress cortisol, which may reduce stress but also flatten emotional drive and enjoyment of activities.
- Rimon recovered lost height and improved posture as part of a bone protocol where reducing cortisol, including with ashwagandha, was an early step.
- Biological and organ ageing markers worsened after six months of suppressed cortisol, despite better sleep, diet, and no caffeine.
- Healthy longevity appears to depend on stress–recovery cycles and cortisol resolution before sleep, rather than constantly low cortisol.
- Rimon now limits ashwagandha to short-term, specific situations, such as older adults with high cortisol and temporary use after overtraining.
"The goal is not low cortisol. It's actually cortisol resolution."
What can we learn from those who have battled addiction to stress rather than substances? This episode of The Wellness Messiah Podcast follows Rimon, a metabolic researcher, as he runs a bold self‑experiment: six months of high‑dose ashwagandha, completely off coffee, with strict ageing and organ tests before and after. Rimon explains why ashwagandha is so popular in wellness circles – it lowers cortisol, the stress hormone that can damage bones, muscles, sleep, and mental health when constantly high.
He shares his family history of using stress as "fuel", describing how he used to spike his own cortisol by being late to meetings, and how years of this pattern collided with the trauma of his wife’s stroke, leaving him physically depleted, shorter by almost an inch, and showing early bone loss. You’ll hear how he decided to treat cortisol as the problem, using 600 mg to 1.2 g of ashwagandha daily for six months.
At first, it felt like a win: lower cortisol, calmer mood, improved posture, and a full recovery of his lost height as part of a bone protocol. But then came an unexpected cost. As he puts it, "I became apathic... I genuinely did not care about anything." His ageing tests worsened, his organ scores slipped, and his drive to train faded. The big shift in thinking? Cortisol wasn’t the villain; chronic suppression was.
Rimon explains that health and longevity rely on stress–recovery rhythm, not flatlining stress entirely. He still sees a role for short‑term ashwagandha use in older adults with high cortisol and bone loss, or after rare overtraining days, but no longer treats it as a daily longevity tool. If you’ve ever thought the goal was simply "less stress", this story might make you ask a sharper question: are you aiming for low cortisol, or healthy cortisol resolution?