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What you’ll notice, and when.

Some of it the first morning. Some of it by week three. Some of it you never feel, and it matters most. Everything here comes from a human trial at or under the dose in your mug.

In order of arrival
The mug
Signal
Build
Fuel
Protect
Clear
The first hour
Focus arrives.

Coffee with L-theanine, the amino acid in green tea that takes the edge off caffeine: sharper attention and less distraction than coffee alone, from the first cup38. Rhodiola holds it up when you’re tired52.

In the mug
Coffee, L-theanine, rhodiola
The first morning
Energy, on two fuels at once.

Your brain can burn glucose and ketones side by side, and gets more from both than from either alone. The mug carries both: 5 grams of sugar, and MCT oil (a coconut-derived fat) your liver turns into ketones within the hour51. Creatine, at 9 g, fuels the brain as well as the body53. No crash at hour four.

In the mug
Sugar, MCT oil, creatine
Weeks two to four
The deeper fatigue lifts.

Rhodiola and creatine act from day one52, and rhodiola’s fatigue scores hold at two and four weeks16. Underneath, NAD+ — the coenzyme every cell uses to make energy, and which falls with age — doubles in the blood by day fourteen2, while creatine finishes loading the brain3.

In the mug
Rhodiola, creatine, NMN
Month three
Recall sharpens.

The last to arrive, on a twelve-week clock: long enough for the brain to replace nine-tenths of its energy machinery41, with lion’s mane supplying the growth signal to build it well. A protocol, not a pick-me-up.

In the mug
Lion’s mane, PQQ, creatine
Every day, unfelt
The cycle, running.

Below sensation, not below measurement. By day your cells signal for new mitochondria, build them, fuel them, and protect them; by night they clear the worn ones out. Clearing fades most with age, and spermidine measurably raised it in adults over 65, at a quarter of our dose40. One morning mug carries all five stages.

In the mug
Lion’s mane, NMN, creatine, ergothioneine, spermidine
Along the way

What else it does.

Each measured in people, at or under the amount in the mug. Who it was seen in, and by when — the marker on each card is the point on the timeline above where the trial found it.

Weeks two to four
Stress and mood

Less stress-related fatigue in adults with burnout after four weeks16, and a normal stress response restored in chronically stressed men after six27. Lower anxiety, better mood, and better sleep in healthy adults after a month23; reishi lifted anxiety, mood, and vitality scores in healthy young women over the same month55. Rhodiola, phosphatidylserine, and L-theanine were each studied at our dose.

In the mug
Rhodiola, phosphatidylserine, L-theanine, reishi
Week six
A lower heart-risk marker

Six weeks of betaine at our dose lowered homocysteine — an amino acid that tracks cardiovascular risk when high — by 12% in adults who started high25.

In the mug
Betaine
Weeks ten to twelve
Healthy glucose metabolism

Women with prediabetes handled glucose better after ten weeks of NMN, at a quarter of our dose47. Twelve weeks of creatine with exercise lowered HbA1c, the three-month blood-sugar marker, in type 2 diabetes48. Both were the main thing each trial set out to measure.

In the mug
NMN, creatine
Month three
Memory

Memory improved over twelve weeks of PQQ in healthy adults, at exactly our dose34, and over sixteen weeks of lion’s mane in older adults whose recall had begun to slip50. Where the decline had gone further, a year of erinacine A at half our dose improved cognition and daily function1. The deficit is what it corrects.

In the mug
Lion’s mane, PQQ, creatine, phosphatidylserine
Month three
Mental fatigue

Twelve weeks of ubiquinol, the active form of CoQ10, at exactly our dose left adults with everyday fatigue less tired and less sleepy after a demanding mental task35.

In the mug
Ubiquinol
Month three
Knees and joints

Active adults with knee pain after exercise felt less of it by week twelve on collagen peptides, at exactly our dose45.

In the mug
Collagen peptides
Month six
Liver and oxidative-stress markers

In adults with mildly raised liver enzymes, six months of reishi improved those enzymes and the blood’s antioxidant capacity30. Ours delivers a third more of the active triterpenes than that trial.

In the mug
Reishi
Throughout
Immune balance

Reishi β-glucan raised T-cell and natural-killer counts in 135 healthy adults, at exactly our dose29. In adults whose immune markers ran low, eight weeks of cordyceps raised first-line activity26; in women aged 60 to 80, eight weeks of reishi moved the response toward calming61. Together they push the immune system in whichever direction it needs62.

In the mug
Reishi, cordyceps, lion’s mane
Throughout
Strength

With resistance training, creatine builds strength and lean mass in young and older adults alike — the most replicated finding in sports nutrition, across several hundred trials42. Our 9 g is nearly twice the maintenance dose, set for the brain.

In the mug
Creatine
All of it, in one morning mug.
$199 for 28 days. Every dose and every study is on the Evidence page.
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