We make one product: Weal Focus. We started it because the ingredients that focus studies use and the ingredients on most focus supplements are not the same. Labels often use a cheaper form of an ingredient than the one that was studied. Amounts get hidden inside "proprietary blends". Mushroom powders leave out the one number that tells you what you are getting. Weal is an old word for wellbeing. We chose it because the answer here is simple: use high-quality ingredients, print the amounts, and stand behind them.
Why this exact recipe
As people age, many know the feeling. You have to read the same paragraph twice. A task that used to be easy takes a little more effort. Nothing is wrong, but staying sharp takes more work than it did. Weal Focus is made for that.
The first and focal ingredient is Alpha-GPC. Your body uses it to make acetylcholine, a chemical messenger your brain uses for attention and memory, so almost every focus formula includes some form of it. The cheap form is choline bitartrate. It is readily available and inexpensive, and it is usually what "choline" means on a label that does not say more. The problem is that the studies on choline and focus were not done with bitartrate. We use Alpha-GPC at 300 mg, which sits inside the 250–630 mg range used in published studies on healthy adults and is the high-quality form of choline.
If we print it, you can check it.
Lion's mane is the second ingredient, and it is the easiest one to get wrong. It is sold two ways. The fruiting body is the mushroom itself. The cheaper option is mycelium, the root-like part, grown on grain and ground up with the grain still in it. That is why many labels say "polysaccharides" instead of beta-glucans. Ours is 400 mg of 100% fruiting body and that percentage is printed on the pouch.
L-theanine is the third. It is an amino acid found in tea leaves, and we use 200 mg. It is there for the quality of your attention rather than the amount of it: a calm, steady kind of focus that lasts through the afternoon, instead of a jittery one.
The last two are zinc as picolinate at 15 mg and vitamin B12 at 500 mcg. These are ordinary nutrients with well-known roles in normal brain function and energy use. We use sensible daily amounts, not headline-grabbing megadoses, and we chose the forms the body absorbs well.
Five ingredients, five amounts, no proprietary blend. In a formula this simple, printing the numbers means any customer can hold us to it.
Getting hold of us
Weal Supplements is based in the United States. You can reach the people who run it at hello@wealsupplements.com. If you find something wrong on this site, whether a number, a form, or a source, please tell us. We would rather fix it than argue about it.
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For adults 18 and over. Consult a physician before use if you are pregnant or nursing, taking medication — particularly cholinergic or anticholinergic medication — or have a medical condition. Keep out of reach of children. Do not use if the seal is broken. Alpha-GPC draws in moisture — keep the pouch sealed with the desiccant inside, somewhere cool and dry.
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