My psychotherapist is more favorable to herbal remedies.
So, I've decided to order the Lee Swanson Signature Line Ultimate Stress pills, 90 capsules for $34.99. They offered a free bottle of salmon oil this weekend for orders over $35.00. So, okay, I ordered 500 chlorophyll tablets for $2.49 to bring the subtotal to $37.48, plus $4.95 shipping, for a total of $42.43. No sales tax.
The Swanson product has more L-Theanine and almost as much Ashwaganda root extract as the Shaklee product.
The Swanson product has no beta-sitosterol. However, I still have a lot of SeQuester PhytoQuest Photosterol tablets left over from years ago when I obsessed about my cholesterol. This includes sitosterol, campesterol, and stigmasterol. According to the Shaklee literature, "beta sitosterol, a natural plant sterol, helps to blunt the response of cortisol, a hormone produced during physical stress." So, I don't know--there probably isn't any harm in going back to my SeQuester, which I don't think has been manufactured in the last ten years.
The Swanson product has no L-Tyrosine, but my psychiatrist said that this would have a similar effect to the clonazepam that I am taking.
The clonazepam does sound rather nasty to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonazepam
I don't quite know why MDs like to prescribe things that have nasty side effects. But, maybe after a month, I'll take myself off of it.