Shopper's Guide•Focus & Energy
6 things my boyfriend noticed before I did
Summary: I didn't think anything had changed. He did, and he kept saying so, until I made him try it himself. Here are the six things he noticed, and what was actually behind each one.
Here's all 6 👇
1. He noticed my to-do list was done by 8am
We were on a snowboarding trip and I'd already cleared everything I meant to do that day before he'd finished his coffee. He didn't say anything nice about it. He said, what is going on with you. Which, from him, is the nicest thing he could have said.
2. The confidence he kept commenting on
I told him it was the Alpha-GPC and he looked at me like I'd made the word up. It's a choline compound that has been studied for attention and mental clarity rather than for stimulation, which is why the clarity doesn't come with a racing feeling. Superfocus uses GeniusPure Alpha-GPC at 350mg, which delivers 315mg of alpha-GPC — the same amount used in the study.
Kerksick et al., 2024: a single 315mg dose of Alpha-GPC roughly doubled the improvement in Stroop test scores compared with placebo. Research relates to the Alpha-GPC ingredient, not to Nello or to this product.
3. Locked in on whatever I was doing
His word, not mine. That's the lion's mane, a mushroom extract studied for cognitive support over weeks rather than hours. Superfocus has 500mg per serving from the fruiting body, as a 4:1 extract. It's the slowest thing in the drink to notice and the one I'd miss most if it were gone.
4. The mood was the tyrosine
The part he noticed most was that I was in a good mood at 7am on a cold morning, which is not historically my brand. The biggest ingredient in Superfocus by weight is N-Acetyl-L-Tyrosine at 1,000mg. Tyrosine is the amino acid the body uses as a building block for dopamine. That's the one I'd credit, if I had to pick.
5. I hate pills too. It's a drink.
His actual objection was that it sounded like a lot to take, and he's right, it would be. It isn't pills. Everything above, plus rhodiola, L-theanine, 75mg of caffeine and your B vitamins, is in one packet you stir into water. Every amount is on the label and third-party tested.
6. It tastes like fruit punch, not like a supplement
He tried it expecting the chalky thing and got fruit punch instead. Zero sugar — it's sweetened with monk fruit and stevia. There's a caffeine-free version if you'd rather have the rest without the caffeine. He drank mine and then asked where to get his own, which is how I ended up writing this.
