Most people don’t have an energy problem. They have a foundation problem.
You can sleep a bit better, eat a bit cleaner, stay active, and still feel off. Low energy, brain fog, stress, and that constant sense of running on empty don’t always come from a lack of effort. They often come from systems that aren’t fully supported.
That’s why quick fixes rarely solve the issue long term. They can help you push through the moment, but they don’t change how you feel day to day.
MTE was built around an idea of supporting the systems that drive energy, mood, focus, and recovery so that feeling good becomes your baseline, not something you have to chase.
An Energized Approach to Wellness: Paraxanthine Replaces Caffeine
How do you boost energy in a way that supports wellbeing instead of stress? We first have to eliminate caffeine from the mix. But we still need something that will help us wake up, focus in, and feel good.
Enter: paraxanthine. Despite its unintelligible name, it’s a very simple compound with many benefits, none of which include making you feel anxious with an upset stomach, tossing and turning all night.
Paraxanthine is one of the three major metabolites of caffeine, which means that when caffeine is broken down in the liver, paraxanthine is produced. It accounts for over 80% of metabolized caffeine.
Like caffeine, it provides an energy and focus boost. Unlike caffeine, it doesn’t provide jitters, irritability, IBS issues, or a crash. It’s all the good things about caffeine (and more) without the bad.
Paraxanthine is an Informed Ingredient Certified compound exclusively made by enfinity®. It follows a different metabolic pathway that doesn’t include those other two caffeine metabolites, which are largely responsible for the side effects of caffeine. In addition, it stays shorter in your system, which means there’s a smaller chance of disrupting sleep.
The studies are quickly stacking up to support these claims, including studies and reviews that observed paraxanthine:
- Improve energy and focus without causing stimulant side effects.
- Increase levels of extracellular dopamine.
- Demonstrate neuroprotective effects on dopaminergic cells.
- Reduce stress/anxiety.
- Boost cognition better than caffeine.
- Demonstrate low abuse liability.
Foundational Benefits: Support for Sleep & Gut Health
There is no such thing as healthy energy without healthy sleep. Our society almost admires people sleeping 5 hours a night to get 2 hours in the gym before they spend 10 hours at work, come home, cook dinner, help the kids with homework, send those late-night emails, and finally sit down well after sunset. This hustle mentality is very unhealthy.
Sleep is integral for your mind and body to perform at their best. Just a few consequences of sleep deprivation include:
- Hampering your body’s ability to produce cancer-fighting cells.
- Increasing your risk of heart attack or stroke.
- Compromising your body’s immune system.
- Injuring your ability to regulate your emotions.
- Causing problems with focus, attention, and memory.
And then there’s your gut health. More than just wanting to create a healthy coffee alternative that doesn’t upset your stomach or strip your gut of its good bacteria, we wanted something to support gut health. Your gut is semi-literally a second brain. It even has its own nervous system that interacts with your actual brain.
Clinical research has observed:
- Stress-induced exhaustion improve by over 40% with the introduction of probiotics into the system.
- Probiotic yogurt consumption result in improved mood.
- Symptoms of common mood disorders improve with a probiotic supplement.
On the other side of the same coin, studies have shown that a poor/disrupted microbiome can:
- Impair synaptic transmission, especially in the hippocampus.
- Promote neuroinflammation, diminishing the immune system.
- Disrupt/damage the body’s ability to maintain a healthy stress response.
So, how can we support energy, gut, and sleep at the same time?
Sleep and digestive health are foundational to wellness, no matter who you are. You can’t say you’re providing a healthy alternative to coffee if it’s still going to ignore those things. So we decided three things:
- No caffeine
- No added sugars or fake sugars
- No weird chemicals
By starting here, we ensured that MTE wouldn’t overstimulate, upset the stomach, and ruin your sleep. So we looked for nootropics and adaptogens that would support sleep, as well as a companion ingredient to support gut health:
- L-theanine promotes relaxation without drowsiness, reduced time to fall asleep, and improved sleep quality in research settings.
- GABA promotes calm focus and reduced sleep latency in studies.
- Chicory (Inulin) offers digestive support, immune system support, and anti-inflammatory actions.
- Spirulina increases healthy gut bacteria, reduces inflammation, and lowers cholesterol.
Jitter-Free Energy: Feeling Focused, Not Overwhelmed
Paraxanthine bypasses all the bad parts of caffeine and also performs better at the good: energy, attention, cognition, and mood. To support paraxanthine, we researched nootropics and adaptogens known to promote these processes without triggering a stress response or causing spikes and crashes.
You can already see how GABA and theanine support focus by being anti-stress and pro-sleep, but so do several other ingredients in our paraxanthine energy drink:
- Ashwagandha: Ashwagandha is an adaptogen with many benefits. In studies, it’s been shown to boost cognitive performance, energy levels, metabolic function, decision-making, recovery, digestion, and more.
- Amaranth: In studies, active compounds in amaranth have demonstrated anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activity, the ability to lower blood pressure and cholesterol, and support for cell health.
- Maca: In studies, maca has been observed to boost libido, improve athletic performance, increase endurance, and reduce the physical effects of stress.
Most of the natural energy boosters out there don’t affect energy support directly, but indirectly. Think about it like a car that’s desperately in need of a tune-up: you can put the highest-quality fuel you want in there, but if the brakes are worn and the oil’s turned to sludge and the timer belt’s about to go, it’s not going to run well.
Likewise, you can drink all the caffeinated energy drinks you want, but if your gut health is hurt and you’re not sleeping well, that energy isn’t going to feel clean or calm or clear.
That’s why drinks that rely on caffeine, stimulants, and sugars don’t result in pro-focus, feel-good energy. To get what you’re looking for, you’ve got to make sure your body is running smoothly first. Then the path is clear for natural, innate energy support.
Mood Support: Fighting Stress & Reactivity
In addition to the energy and focus-supporting ingredients that use multifaceted paths to free up and generate energy in the body, we also wanted to include nootropic mood support with adaptogenic stress support, because these would also contribute to better energy, better sleep, and just better well-being overall.
In our research, we landed on:
- Eleuthero: In laboratory settings, eleuthero was observed to increase resistance to infection, improve sleep duration and quality, decrease effects of stress on the thymus and spleen, and suppress stress-induced gastric ulcers.
- Saffron: Studies have shown saffron’s potent and diverse bioactivity, especially in the hippocampus, reduces symptoms of disorders with chronic low mood, suppresses various physical effects of chronic stress, and acts as a free radical scavenger.
These ingredients support your body’s natural defense mechanisms, scavenging and eliminating harmful toxins, protecting brain health, and promoting healthy sleep and gut.
Just like energy is a consequence of other systems functioning correctly, mood issues and anxiety are often byproducts of the effects of stress. Supporting a healthy stress response supports your day-to-day affect, experiences, and emotions.
A Feel-Good Formula Without Added Sugars or Artificial Sweeteners
MTE is the science-backed version of an immunity tonic. In fact, many of MTE’s ingredients, like ashwagandha, amaranth, eleuthero, and saffron, have been used in traditional medicine for centuries, even millennia.
A mix of that experiential evidence and the empirical data accumulating in clinical settings has helped us find a formulation that supports well-being. And that goes hand in hand with a sustained, feel-good energy that doesn’t mess with your sleep, your mood, or your gut.
But we’ve gotta make it taste good, too, especially because many of these adaptogens, nootropics, and superfoods don’t taste all that great. The compounds that make their bioactivity so potent also tend to taste really bitter. So bitter that in our initial taste testings, we had to take breaks.
Obviously, we couldn’t turn to sugars, fake sugars, or artificial flavors to cover those bitter greens because what are all the healthy ingredients for if you’re just gonna stuff in some synthetic sugars and carcinogenic colors at the end?
The Problem With Artificial Sugars
Here are some things research has indicated about the dangers of artificial sugars:
- Sucralose: One of its hydrolysis products mutates genes. When cooked at high temperatures, it releases toxic chloropropanols, alters insulin activity and blood sugar, increases the risk of weight gain, diabetes, and heart disease, and disrupts the gut microbiome.
- Aspartame: Increases the risk of overall cancers, breast cancers, and obesity-related cancers. Increases risk of hypertension, cardiac events, and metabolic syndrome. Increases risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and leukemia.
- Acesulfame: Impairs hippocampal function (learning and memory). Decreases cellular activity and viability. Reduces protective activity in neuronal cells. Similar increases in cancer risk as aspartame.
What’s Behind Artificial Flavors and Additives
Despite the FDA approving several thousand food additive compounds as safe, they also include restrictions on them. Which, to us, would point out that they’re actually not that safe. In fact, academic literature in modern food bioengineering indicates that food additives like artificial colors, flavors, stabilizers, and preservatives can increase the risk of:
- Learning disabilities
- Tumors
- Migraines
- Kidney damage
- Sleep disturbance
- Digestive upset
So, synthetic stuff just wasn’t the way to go when it comes to accomplishing the refreshing flavor of our final product. But then the question was, how do we accomplish making MTE taste awesome without sugar bombs? Sure, sugar’s natural. But not everything natural is good for you.
Why MTE Uses Stevia Instead of Sugar
The CDC says sugary drinks are the biggest culprit of added sugar in US diets. Drinking sugary beverages regularly is associated with weight gain, obesity, type 2 diabetes, liver disease, tooth decay, heart problems, kidney disease, and gout. Besides that, sugar adds empty calories to your day and often upsets your stomach.
MTE is sweetened instead with stevia leaf extract. It’s a completely natural, 0-calorie sweetener that’s full of antioxidants, has not been shown to raise blood sugar, and doesn’t have a CDC page about how bad it is.
In fact, it may even provide support in the prevention and treatment of obesity and metabolic syndrome.
Try a Science-Backed Formula that Supports Way More Than Energy
We are out here trying to disrupt a several-billion-dollar industry with a simple caffeine-free energy and wellness drink. It’s all about clean ingredients, science-backed adaptogen stacks, natural energy boosters, and a focus on foundational wellness: that’s what makes the best healthy drink for energy and focus.
And just like feeling great and being healthy is for everyone, MTE can support your well-being whether you’re looking for a clean pre-workout drink or simply something that makes a day at the office more productive without feeling overwhelmed. Try MTE to discover a better way to unlock more than energy.