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BrewNectar Brain + Gut is a caffeine-free nootropic stick pack. One per day, into any coffee or beverage. Each stick delivers citicoline (500 mg), L-Theanine (200 mg), Lion’s Mane at 10:1 concentration (500 mg, roughly 5 g raw equivalent), three adaptogens, prebiotic fiber, and a heat-stable probiotic. Subtly sweet with a mild almond note. Contains no nuts. 28 stick packs per box.
Active: Citicoline (as Citicoline Sodium) 500 mg, L-Theanine 200 mg, Lion’s Mane Extract 10:1 500 mg, Rhodiola Rosea Extract 300 mg, Ashwagandha Extract 10:1 300 mg, Cordyceps Militaris Extract 10:1 300 mg, Prebiotic Fiber (Inulin from Chicory Root) 2 g, Bacillus coagulans 1 Billion CFU, Vitamin B6 4 mg, Vitamin B12 9.6 mcg.
Other: Natural Flavors, Stevia Leaf Extract.
Caffeine-free. Nut-free. Vegan. Non-GMO. Sugar-free. Gluten-free.
Tear. Pour into 8–12 oz of any coffee, tea, or beverage — hot or iced. Stir 15 seconds (hot) or shake in a sealed cup (iced). Dissolves completely. No grit, no residue, no blender. One stick pack daily.
Free shipping on all orders. Ships within 24 hours via USPS Priority Mail (2–3 business days). 30-Day Keep-the-Box Guarantee — don’t love it? Keep the box. Full refund, no return shipping, no restocking fee. Cancel anytime with one click.
Reading the same paragraph three times and still not knowing what it said.
Opening a new tab instead of starting the thing that actually matters.
The 2 PM wall — the work is still there and you aren’t.
The third coffee that does nothing except make you anxious.
Walking into a room and standing there, waiting for the reason to come back.
Ending a full day of being busy with nothing you’d actually call finished.
A brain running on broken sleep, an inflamed gut, and no raw material for its own neurotransmitters is doing exactly what it should under those conditions. You can’t willpower your way out of a supply problem.
And it starts working on the first morning.
Open one stick pack.
Into any coffee, tea, or beverage — hot or iced.
15 seconds. Dissolves completely. No grit.
Works with your local roaster. Your espresso. Your iced cold brew. Your office Keurig. Nothing about your morning changes.
The Mechanism
Mushroom coffee asks you to wait eight weeks before anything happens. We built the formula so something is working from the first cup — and the rest compounds underneath.
L-Theanine + your caffeine
L-Theanine peaks around 30–50 minutes, raising alpha brain-wave activity and modulating GABA and glutamate. It takes the jittery edge off caffeine without blunting alertness. Alert calm instead of wired.
Rhodiola Rosea
The fastest-acting adaptogen in the stack. Anti-fatigue and cognitive benefits emerge within roughly two weeks. This is the phase where the afternoon wall stops showing up.
Ashwagandha + Cordyceps + the gut
Ashwagandha works on sleep — the upstream cause. Cordyceps lands at the three-week mark. The probiotic and prebiotic are rebuilding the gut environment across this same window.
Lion’s Mane
Hericenones and erinacines promote nerve growth factor synthesis. Human trials run 12–16 weeks. One trial found gains disappeared four weeks after stopping — honest justification for staying subscribed.
Citicoline (CDP-choline) drives phospholipid metabolism and neurotransmitter synthesis. It activates biosynthesis of structural phospholipids in neuronal membranes, increases cerebral metabolism, and raises noradrenaline and dopamine levels in the central nervous system.
A Harvard Medical School / McLean Hospital study used 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 4 Tesla to look directly inside the frontal lobes of 16 healthy adults after six weeks at 500 mg/day. In the anterior cingulate cortex: phosphocreatine up 7%, beta-nucleoside triphosphates (largely ATP) up 14%, and the phosphocreatine-to-inorganic-phosphate ratio up 32%. These are direct measurements of cellular energy inside a living human brain.
A separate 12-week RCT in 100 healthy older adults at 500 mg/day found significant improvements in episodic and composite memory. Another 12-week RCT in adults aged 35–75 found improvements in sustained attention, mental energy, and reaction time.
When you'll notice: Some acute attentional effects within hours. Full accumulation over 4–6 weeks.
Caffeine blocks adenosine receptors and raises noradrenaline — driving alertness and, at higher doses, jitter. L-Theanine raises alpha-wave activity and modulates GABA and glutamate, damping the anxious-arousal side without touching the alertness.
A meta-analysis of 10 acute randomized trials found the L-Theanine/caffeine combination improved alertness and attentional-switching accuracy. Alpha waves recorded in occipital and parietal regions within about 40 minutes of a 50–200 mg oral dose. 200 mg is the canonical pairing with a standard ~95 mg cup — the classic 2:1 ratio.
When you'll notice: 30–50 minutes. First cup. Calm-focus window roughly 2–3 hours.
Contains hericenones and erinacines — compounds that promote nerve growth factor (NGF) synthesis and may support neuroplasticity.
Mori’s trial in adults aged 50–80 at 3 g/day found improvements at weeks 8, 12, and 16 — gains gone at the 4-week follow-up after stopping. Typical mushroom coffee runs ~250 mg. Our 500 mg at 10:1 is roughly 5 g raw equivalent — above what the successful trials used.
When you'll notice: 8–16 weeks. The Four Clocks framework means other ingredients carry you through the wait.
Adaptogenic modulation of the HPA axis and monoamine pathways. Buffers stress-cortisol peaks rather than suppressing baseline cortisol.
Three independent RCTs across distinct fatigued populations. Olsson 2009 enrolled 132 patients with stress-related burnout over 12 weeks. Separate trials in night-shift physicians and military cadets found objective improvements in calculation speed and error rate.
When you'll notice: Around two weeks; some acute effects within hours.
Every focus product asks a sleep-deprived brain to perform harder. This one works on the reason it’s depleted. Take it in the morning; the payoff shows up in how you sleep and how you wake.
A meta-analysis of five RCTs in 400 participants found a significant effect on overall sleep quality. Sleep efficiency improved from 75.6% to 83.5% over 10 weeks. Not recommended during pregnancy or breastfeeding.
When you'll notice: 4–8 weeks.
Cordycepin is an adenosine analogue reported to activate AMPK, promoting mitochondrial biogenesis. Most mechanistic work is cell and animal models.
An RCT in 28 healthy adults: after three weeks, VO2max improved by ~11% versus no change in placebo. One week wasn’t enough — three weeks was.
When you'll notice: ~3 weeks.
Essential cofactors in homocysteine metabolism, energy metabolism, and normal neurological function. Deficiency in either produces fatigue and cognitive symptoms directly.
When the gut microbiome is disrupted, bacterial components activate immune cells and trigger pro-inflammatory cytokines, which increase the permeability of both the gut barrier and the blood-brain barrier. Microbial metabolites — short-chain fatty acids produced when bacteria ferment fiber — cross the blood-brain barrier and modulate neurotransmission directly. The gut is a genuine input to how clear your head feels.
Bacillus coagulans is a spore-forming probiotic. The spore coat is why it survives what kills conventional strains. Documented as stable through the processing and storage conditions of brewed coffee and tea. In vitro, spores showed 92% survival through simulated digestion and adhered to human colonic cells at roughly 5× the rate of L. acidophilus controls. Holds GRAS status. Shelf-stable at room temperature. Non-GMO.
A prebiotic fiber that feeds beneficial gut bacteria, notably Bifidobacteria. Pairing a prebiotic with a probiotic is the standard approach: one adds beneficial bacteria, the other feeds what’s already there.
The category’s persistent complaint: earthy, bitter, gritty. A daily habit you dislike is a habit you drop.
~95 mg in drip coffee versus ~50 mg or less in typical mushroom coffee. You feel worse on day one. That’s the opposite of what you paid for.
Typical mushroom coffee runs ~250 mg per mushroom against trials that used 3 g/day. You can’t get a research-level result from a fraction of a research dose.
Lion’s Mane trials measure at weeks 8, 12, 16. Cordyceps needed three weeks. Even done right, mushrooms alone are a long game — and there’s nothing in the tub to carry you through the wait.
Compare the benefits of research-backed nootropic syrup vs. mushroom coffee alternatives.
Every stick is identical. No scoop, no guessing, no “heaping teaspoon” variance. Tubs and pouches are where underdosing hides.
Individually sealed. A tub of powder oxidizes a little more every time it’s opened. Stick 28 is identical to stick 1.
Fits a pocket, a laptop sleeve, a carry-on. Works with hotel coffee, airport coffee, the office machine, your in-laws’ Keurig.
Unlike a syrup or a liquid, nothing to spill or store.
Tubs of mushroom coffee occupy the coffee slot. A stick pack occupies no slot at all — it joins whatever’s already there.
BrewNectar Brain + Gut is a caffeine-free nootropic stick pack. One per day, into any coffee or beverage. Each stick delivers citicoline (500 mg), L-Theanine (200 mg), Lion’s Mane at 10:1 concentration (500 mg, roughly 5 g raw equivalent), three adaptogens, prebiotic fiber, and a heat-stable probiotic. Subtly sweet with a mild almond note. Contains no nuts. 28 stick packs per box.
Active: Citicoline (as Citicoline Sodium) 500 mg, L-Theanine 200 mg, Lion’s Mane Extract 10:1 500 mg, Rhodiola Rosea Extract 300 mg, Ashwagandha Extract 10:1 300 mg, Cordyceps Militaris Extract 10:1 300 mg, Prebiotic Fiber (Inulin from Chicory Root) 2 g, Bacillus coagulans 1 Billion CFU, Vitamin B6 4 mg, Vitamin B12 9.6 mcg.
Other: Natural Flavors, Stevia Leaf Extract.
Caffeine-free. Nut-free. Vegan. Non-GMO. Sugar-free. Gluten-free.
Tear. Pour into 8–12 oz of any coffee, tea, or beverage — hot or iced. Stir 15 seconds (hot) or shake in a sealed cup (iced). Dissolves completely. No grit, no residue, no blender. One stick pack daily.
Free shipping on all orders. Ships within 24 hours via USPS Priority Mail (2–3 business days). 30-Day Keep-the-Box Guarantee — don’t love it? Keep the box. Full refund, no return shipping, no restocking fee. Cancel anytime with one click.
Don't just take our word for it. Here's what people are saying after making BrewNectar part of their daily ritual.
<p>I tried three different brands over two years. They all tasted like wet cardboard and I never noticed a difference. This goes into my regular coffee, tastes like a slightly sweet almond latte, and I actually felt sharper by the end of the first week. Cancelled my mushroom coffee subscription the same day I reordered this.</p>
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90-Day Supply
<p>I’m on planes three weeks a month. Having single-serve sticks means I never miss a day — hotel coffee, airport coffee, whatever. My focus has been noticeably more consistent since I started, especially on long-haul days.</p>
Purchased
90-Day Supply
<p>I used to take Lion’s Mane, L-Theanine, and a probiotic as separate pills every morning. This replaces all of them, goes right into my coffee so I never forget, and the doses are actually higher than what I was buying individually.</p>
Purchased
90-Day Supply
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