Mission Statement: CrowdDoing.world's Foods.& Herbs for Stress,Sleep & Anxiety Initiative aims to give people agency by educating people about their options with regards to their natural remedies for these aspects of their mental health. We do so by analyzing scientific research and clinical evidence, gathering new evidence through data science and citizen science, and recommending to individuals optimal combinations of teas, tinctures, and powders that can be used to achieve each individual's mental health goals. We conduct this research with the goal of allowing people to make informed decisions about their health and to increase access to healthy stress-coping alternatives. These healthy coping mechanisms can reduce reliance on harmful self-medication practices such as alcohol abuse or behavior likely to lead to opioid addiction.

Value Proposition:

Tinctures, teas and powders from herbal medicine combinations can represent better risk/reward ratios Through citizen science and data science over time we have the aspirational goal to meet and exceed evidence parity with regards to evidence of effectiveness for herbal medicines for stress & anxiety compared with pharmaceuticals. That mission is attractive for people to participate in as its an opportunity for global collaboration to create increasingly usable natural medicine for stress and anxiety. Each person can go upstream of their mental health challenges and adopt healthier coping mechanisms.

Purpose Statement/Goals

This collaboration allows the Medicinal Food & Herbs team of CrowdDoing to apply the information gained from research of medicinal herbs and ingredients in order to serve a population with “significantly under-diagnosed and undiagnosed” stress and anxiety. Also, through this collaboration, Farmacy Food will be able to make and sell items made from ingredients with evidence of positive health benefits. Assumptions regarding the data, population, and ingredients can be found in the other document. The goal is for CrowdDoing to collect feedback information, which can be beneficial for further research, analysis and testing. Other goals include medicinal food literacy for participants. This research aims to establish clinical evidence of effectiveness and prove that herbs can be taken as medical intervention at scale to address stress and anxiety.

Pilot Area

Overview

Farmacy Food will partner with CrowdDoing in a subsection of their menu. CrowdDoing will plan recipes for drinks, like mocktails, and meals that can fulfill the dosage requirements necessary for positive health benefits provided by the research on different combinations of ingredients. These combinations of ingredients include the following: L-arginine, Lysine, Ashwagandha, Bacopa, Turmeric, Valerian, Rhodiola, Passionflower, Lemon Balm, Chamomile, and Gotu Kola. The team will research components of the ingredients such as recommended daily intake (RDI) for L-arginine and Lysine, dosages necessary for effectiveness for the medicinal herbs, side effects, and conditions that may be addressed after consuming the ingredient. Scales that may be used to analyze the stress and anxiety include Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) scores, Hamilton Anxiety score, and Depression, Anxiety, Stress Score (DASS).

Both teams have specific concerns about the use of the ingredients. For example, CrowdDoing is mainly concerned about ensuring the recipes have a recommended dose of ingredients necessary for effectiveness. Also, Farmacy Food has concerns about using the ingredients in a culturally appropriate manner and the prices of the ingredients. When a general agreement is met concerning these concerns, both teams will give a mutual green light for the ingredient analysis and recipes. Ultimately, the chef of Farmacy Food decides which recipes to put on the menu. Once the recipe is approved for the menu, customers will be provided with a questionnaire to give feedback regarding the effects of the recipes on their health.

By CrowdDoing.world