Despite current popularity, adaptogens have been used in Eastern medicine for hundreds of years. The term adaptogen is derived from the Greek word “adapto”, which translates to “adjust”. In the late 1940s, Dr. Nicholas Lazarev created one of the first clinical definitions for the term. He defined adaptogens as, “substances that allow the body to counter adverse physical, chemical, or biological stressors by raising nonspecific resistance toward such stress, thus allowing the