Everyone needs a little pick-me-up now and then. Wouldn't it be great if you could get a healthy all natural lift of both energy and mood without worrying about the consequences and crash later? The physicians and chemists at Function Drinks shared your sentiment and created Function Alternative Energy: the first all natural time release formula that provides elevation of mood and energy for six to eight hours. Thanks to the proprietary ingredients and the special pharmacokinetics (or metabolism) of Function Alternative Energy, you avoid the harsh take off and landing associated with traditional synthetic energy drinks. Function Alternative Energy is perfect for a long day on the mountain, on the beach, on the job, in the studio, or a long night anywhere. Drink Function Alternative energy whenever you need to have fun, feel good, be productive, be creative, or be on your game.

Function Alternative Energy is 100% natural with a low carbohydrate base sweetener which utilizes all natural evaporated cane juice. It does not contain the harsh synthetic stimulants glucaronolactone or L-taurine which are hallmarks of artificial traditional energy drinks. Function Alternative Energy employs several organic South American rainforest plant extracts: catuaba, yerba mate, guarana, caffea, muira pauma, and epimedium (icarriin). Each of these extracts are known for their stimulant and mood lifting properties (and in some cases they're regarded as potent aphrodisiacs in traditional medicine!), and each has a different rate of onset and length of effect in the body.

To understand how Function Alternative Energy works, one must first understand the concept of pharmacokinetics. Pharmacokinetics is the rate at which a functional dietary ingredient is absorbed into the body from the gastrointestinal tract, distributed within the body, metabolized to inactive metabolites, and eliminated from the body. The longer this process from ingestion to inactivity takes, the longer the "half life" of a given functional ingredient (half life means the length of time until only 50% of a given functional ingredient is active within the body). Functional ingredients with short half lives have a rapid onset of action but are eliminated quickly (have a short window of effect). Functional ingredients with long half lives generally take longer to take effect but last longer (have a longer window of effect). Function Alternative energy contains four different classes of functional ingredients each with different half lives. The effect is a smooth immediate elevation of mood and energy that lasts for hours and hours without a crash.

Function Alternative Energy.s proprietary formula contains a system with four broad functional classes: (1) tropane alkaloids [where alkaloid means a plant-derived amine molecule] (catuabine A, B, and C), (2) xanthine alkaloids (natural caffeine, mateine, guranine), (3) betaine alkaloids (muirapuamine), and (4) the chromanone (molecule that contains a 5 carbon, 1 oxygen ring attached to a benzene ring) icariin (epimedium). Each one of these four functional classes has unique properties and half lives. By design, the classes take effect sequentially, giving you a sustained mood and energy platform for six to eight hours without a harsh crash.

Function Alternative Energy also contains a full complement of the B complex vitamins, zinc, and vitamin C which play a role in energy source mobilization within the body. Function Alternative Energy is the 100% natural, healthy, time released energy formula.

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