Coffee has long been known to help awaken you and enhance focus – it is one of the world’s most beloved functional beverages! But did you know there are nootropic coffee blends such as DIRTEA’s Mushroom Coffee Super Blend that go beyond just tricking your brain into feeling alert? These premium Arabica blends contain Lion’s Mane mushroom extract and B vitamins in order to do exactly this.

Coffee is a beverage composed of the roasted and ground seeds from the Coffea plant, commonly consumed throughout the world as the primary source of caffeine, a psychoactive alkaloid. Caffeine is known for its invigorating effects due to its positive inotropic and chronotropic effects on the central nervous system; stimulating mental alertness and arousal while increasing physical performance and endurance; additionally it serves as a mood enhancer by inhibiting breakdown of acetylcholine neurotransmitters in short term memory by inhibiting breakdown neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine neurotransmitters acetylcholine neurotransmitters acetylcholine receptors on cells located near these nerve endings.

A typical cup of coffee typically contains around 95mg of caffeine, acting as a natural stimulant by inhibiting adenosine receptors in your brain and countering its arousal and sleepiness effects to keep you awake during the day. Any remaining caffeine is converted to paraxanthine which has less of an adverse impact on heart rate, blood pressure, gastrointestinal side effects than caffeine and reduces anxiety levels over energy boosts alone. With more consumers opting for healthy and natural products over energy boosts alone, functional cold brew coffee with adaptogens and nootropics is increasing rapidly – something functional cold brew coffee with adaptogens and nootropics is becoming popular due to stress management and cognitive health rather than energy boosts alone.