In our fast-paced world, stress has become a constant companion, one that can erode mental clarity, drain energy, disturb sleep, and disrupt resilience. But what if certain plants and mushrooms could help your body adapt more gracefully to stressors, calming the overactive alarms while fortifying your systems against burnout? That is the promise of adaptogens: botanical allies long used in traditional systems of medicine and now undergoing serious scientific inquiry.