Ashwagandha Extract for Weight and Stress Management in Overweight and Obese Adults

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. History of Alcohol or smoking abuse.
• •2. History of hypersensitivity to Ashwagandha
• •3. Taking nutritional or energy supplements, medication, or steroids,
• •4. Any history of drug abuse
• •5. Having any clinical abnormalities
• •6. Simultaneously participating in any other clinical trial or participated in the past three months
• •7. Participants who use medication for blood pressure, use beta-blockers, inhaled any beta-agonists, use any hormonal contraceptives, having a history of corticosteroid use within three months, participants under psychotropic medication within last 8 weeks
• •8. Participants diagnosed with any heart disease, diabetes, stroke, neurological disorders or depression.
• •9. Have clinically significant acute unstable hepatic, renal, cardiovascular, or respiratory disease that will prevent participation in the study.
• •10. Patients with depressive episode, panic disorder, social phobia, obsessive-compulsory disorder, alcohol dependency; schizophrenia and mania.
• •11. Patients with post traumatic disorder.
• •12. Have an established practice of meditation (as meditating for at least 20 minutes, three or more times per week) for three or more months.
• •13. Pregnant and lactating women
• •14. Participation in other clinical trials during previous 3 months
• •15. Any clinical condition, according to the investigator which does not allow safe fulfilment of clinical trial protocol.