Nootropics are sometimes referred to as “smart drugs”, “cognitive enhancers” or “brain supplements”, (in fact the word “Nootropic” originated in Greece, translates to “Towards the Mind”) In short, they are compounds that are both neurologically active and directly or indirectly enhances cognitive potential via increased capabilities. For example, reflexes, memory (both short and long term), energy, motivation, productivity, focus, mood lifts (states of wellbeing) and learning potential.

Romanian psychologist and chemist Dr. Corneliu E. Giurgea, the founding father of nootropics, was the first to attempt to define them. He developed six key criteria to qualify substances as true nootropics.

1. Enhancement of memory and learning

2. Improved cognition under stress

3. Protection of brain cells (neuroprotective)

4. Facilitation of cell-to-cell communication

5. Backed by human research demonstrating brain bioactivity

6. Absence of usual pharmacological effects of psychotropic drugs

A lot has changed since then, with the modern definition being any supplement that helps the brain in any way. This has created a large amount of supplements now categorized as Nootropics and the list is constantly growing. In fact, most people have been taking one of the most widely used Nootropics every day for decades. I’ll give you a hint… it’s in your morning cup of coffee. That’s right! Caffeine!

An imbalance at any step – neurotransmitter synthesis, release, or uptake – may cause an imbalance across-the-board, resulting in disrupted emotions and cognition.

Nootropics may optimize neurotransmitters by:

• Supplying brain chemical precursors
• Promoting neurotransmitter synthesis
• Enhancing receptor sensitivity
• nhibiting neurotransmitter breakdown

The human brain is an intensely energy-demanding organ. It consumes about 20% of the body’s total energy reserves. There are two main reasons as to why your brain needs so much! (It’s a really needy organ)

1. Maintenance – Neurons are in a constant state of death and genesis, growth, and injury, requiring high levels of energy to upkeep.
2.  Management – Even healthy neurons require abundant energy to ensure they are properly signaling, receiving, and processing information.

If the body is unable to provide enough energy to the brain, or if the brain’s metabolic efficiency falters, then symptoms of brain fog and mental fatigue may surface. Furthermore, low brain energy levels are consistently linked to various states of cognitive decline and brain degeneration. This is where BrainRise comes in.

Nootropics may support brain energy by:

• Enhancing metabolic activity of mitochondria, the powerhouses of brain cells (and other cells).
• Helping to transport fatty acid material into brain cells, where they fuel mitochondria.
• Increasing cerebral uptake of oxygen and nutrients, supplying the brain with “fuel” for energy production.

Synaptic transmission, or cell-to-cell communication, occurs when one neuron transmits brain chemicals (neurotransmitters) to another neuron.
Think of neurotransmitters as “information” carriers: Depending on the type of information being transmitted, the receiving neuron may respond in any number of ways – yet ultimately transmits that particular message further to other adjacent brain cells, until the desired cognitive outcome is achieved.
Relevant neurotransmitter types and their respective associations in relation to cognitive performance include:
An optimized neurotransmitter status is one that bears not only a healthy reserve of each neurotransmitter but healthy neurotransmitter receptors, in addition to several other auxiliary factors – e.g., intrasynaptic enzymes.

An imbalance at any step – neurotransmitter synthesis, release, or uptake – may cause an imbalance across-the-board, resulting in disrupted emotions and cognition.

Nootropics may optimize neurotransmitters by:

• Supplying brain chemical precursors
• Promoting neurotransmitter synthesis
• Enhancing receptor sensitivity
• Inhibiting neurotransmitter breakdown

While there are numerous individual Nootropics to target almost any brain related task, the process of “stacking”, (which is the bringing together of multiple Nootropics that synergize well with each other and potentiate each other) creates the best results. It’s not easy to create the perfect stack as there is a lot of trial and error (especially if you don’t know what you are doing) and it can get expensive as well.This is why we created BrainRise, a perfectly tailored and meticulously formulated Nootropic stack to combat a large number of brain related issues at once.

BrainRise is the culmination of a lot of hard work with experts in the nutraceutical field. It is a stack that was made with the common person in mind. Our best nootropic is a combination of 7 powerful brain enhancing ingredients that will improve your motivation, productivity, focus, energy, enhance creativity, help with your stress and enhance your overall cognitive processing. It is your productivity side-kick.

When creating a nootropic stack the main goal is to decide what you want from it overall and then set out to achieve it. We wanted to take the best brain boosting supplements, mood boosting supplements, the best supplements for mental clarity, and the overall best cognitive supplements, and use the best ingredients out of each (including some others that we weren’t finding in other similar nootropic stacks). The result was a blend of timeless natural ingredients and the best that modern day science has to offer. Then we found a way through a whole lot of research with top experts in the field, trial and error, and a lot of time, to create a blend that synergizes in the best possible way to make every ingredient harmonize with each other and be able to help the largest number of people possible.

With BrainRise you get the immediate benefit of cognitive enhancement to put you into the zone when you need it most and the long-term overall brain health. Our stack is a universal nootropic stack. Others on the market seek to only focus on one or two tasks in mind, but BrainRise reaches out to your entire brain to offer full optimization to promote a peak performance mental state.

Upon taking BrainRise during periods of mental fatigue or brain-fog, or when you just don’t feel as sharp as you need to be, you’ll notice a very subtle mood-lift, enhanced energy, and before you even realize it, you’ll be locked into whatever given task you need to accomplish. BrainRise isn’t like being hit over the head with a hammer. You won’t start sweating and have your heart pounding out of your chest like a college kid after his 8th dose of Adderall.

Its effects will come to you often without you really noticing until you take a second to realize that you feel different, a sort of eureka moment of “Hey, I feel great! I don’t feel tired and lazy anymore, I feel lasered in!” It is a subtle but powerful effect and that’s how it was designed, to get you operating at your best version. BrainRise helps bring the flow state to you.