Nootropics in Drinks – Enhanced Cognitive Performance Is Just a Sip Away
Modern lifestyles are demanding, particularly mentally, with increasing daily stresses and concerns. Academic and career competition and pressure are also intense, with ongoing peak mental performance necessary to get ahead. Unsurprisingly, the demand for cognitive enhancement tools and supplements is growing to fuel and support efficient and enhanced brain function, rest, and recovery.
Among the available tools are nootropics or smart drugs, which are also garnering keen interest from biohackers. Synthetic racetams, such as piracetam and modafinil (Provigil), play a part, but interest in natural brain-boosting ingredients is burgeoning. Naturally occurring substances may avoid side effects such as high blood pressure, blurry vision, a raised heart rate, circulation issues, insomnia, and addiction.
What Are Nootropics?
Nootropics are any substances that may have a positive effect on mental skills. They range from the caffeine in our daily coffee and tea to FDA-approved drugs for Alzheimer’s, such as donepezil, and for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), such as Ritalin.
The rise in smart drugs is mainly seen in supplements. However, the best results are not achieved through a pill alone. They are achieved with a holistic lifestyle, including a nutrient-dense diet, stress management, and adequate, good-quality sleep. Nootropics may help users think more clearly and possibly reduce the chances of age-related cognitive decline. Like caffeine, these substances wake the brain up, allowing it greater access to neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine to boost learning and short-term memory.
Numerous extracts and nutrients have been researched. They include ginkgo, ginseng, guarana, lemon balm, and turmeric. They also embody promising creatine monohydrate, green tea and matcha, vinpocetine, green coffee bean extract, L-theanine, CDP-choline, Lion’s Mane mushroom extract, and traditional Ayurvedic bacopa monnieri.
To make supplementing with nootropics more convenient and enjoyable, beverage manufacturers have started adding these potentially boosting active ingredients to their functional drink products, or “smart drinks.”
Nootropic Beverages
With the rise and continuing expansion of functional beverages, smart drinks offer refreshment, flavor, cognitive enhancement, and other healthful properties offered by their clean, natural ingredients. Well-known nootropic components include:
- Ginseng: This herb is an adaptogen that may help improve vitality and cognitive functioning and fight fatigue and stress.
- Green Tea contains the amino acid L-theanine, which can relax while enhancing attention and focus, especially when combined with caffeine.
- Matcha: Essentially highly concentrated green tea, matcha offers more nootropic L-Theanine plus potent antioxidants.
- Lemon Balm: This mint is known to help reduce anxiety and stress and may also help promote mental focus and clarity.
- Lion’s Mane Extract: These mushroom extracts may help promote brain function and health, including boosting concentration, cognition, and memory by increasing nerve growth factors. It may also enhance digestion and overall wellness.
- Turmeric: The active ingredient in turmeric, curcumin, provides neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory properties, which may help enhance cognition, memory, and mood.
Smart beverages often include other potentially stimulating and health-supporting ingredients such as chamomile, guarana, ashwagandha, B vitamins, magnesium, iodine, and berry anthocyanins.
While these remarkable natural substances work hard for consumers, makers must only use high-quality, pure, approved extracts and other ingredients. This effort aligns with the nootropics concept and consumer demands for more responsible and cleaner sourcing, production, and labeling. Insisting on organic components may also help boost the efficacy and potency of the constituents.
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