Our head nootropics tester James Dixon takes a look at this offering from Stonehenge Health in our full Dynamic Brain review. Find out how it stacks up below…
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It’s hard to fire on all cylinders. Life wears us down, stress gets to us, fatigue hits us. In turn, it’s hard to shake off the challenges posed by burn out, stress, anxiety and tiredness.
There are solutions, of course. Be kind to yourself, don’t take on too much, unplug from media for at least a few hours every day, lead a healthy, active lifestyle, and get plenty of rest. However, there are also plenty of supplements that can help.
In particular, nootropics can help. They are so called smart-drugs, and they can improve cognition, ring-fence long term brain health, and help diminish the effects of stress and fatigue. The market is well supplied with a wide range of fantastic options. It also has plenty of pretenders to the throne.
But which is Dynamic Brain, the subject of today’s review? Let’s find out as I test this nootropic and compare it against the market leaders in this Dynamic Brain review.
Quick Verdict: Dynamic Brain
Dynamic Brain isn’t a fantastic product. It’s not terrible, it’s OK. However, all the important ingredients are hidden behind their proprietary formula, so we have no way of knowing how well-dosed they are, and it is eye-wateringly expensive for what you get.
This is a shame. It also makes Dynamic Brain immediately redundant. There are too many fantastic options in the nootropic sphere for a sub-par offering like this to be worth buying. Save yourself the hassle and go for one of the top tier options. I always like NooCube. It’s a market leader and a byword for quality.
About Dynamic Brain
Dynamic Brain is a nootropic supplement, a so-called ‘smart drug’. As such, it is designed to improve mental clarity, cognition, focus, alertness, learning ability, and mood, diminish the effects of stress and anxiety, alleviate depression, and give you more energy, all whilst enabling longer-term brain health.
It’s made by Stonehenge Health, an FDA-approved, US-based company, who market it as a great way to overcome low concentration levels and poor memory.
The high antioxidant content in its formula is there to recharge the brain with prostaglandin, which in turn should protect it from disease.
The formula should also boost amino acid levels in the body, which should optimize neurotransmitter function, whilst perhaps even improving your brain membrane structure and fighting free radical cellular damage.
You get a good selection of vitamins and some common nootropic ingredients, like choline, bacopa, and phosphatidylserine, plus everything is natural, gluten-free, non-GMO, and fully vegetarian.
However, as above, there are some rather major flaws with Dynamic Brain. It has a good selection of some of the more common, more potent nootropic compounds on the market.
The thing is, they are hidden behind a proprietary blend, which means that we can’t see all the doses of key ingredients. This is a big no-no: you should always be able to see exactly what your money is buying and exactly what you’re putting into your body.
It’s also a bit of a limited list in terms of nootropics – what is there is good, but there are some additional common nootropics which would make it far more effective and would come close to allowing Dynamic Brain to earn its price tag.
How Dynamic Brain works
To the extent to which Dynamic Brain works, it does so the same as any other mid-tier nootropic supplement would. Its ingredients list is packed full of common nootropic compounds. All told, these should do a few things.
Firstly, they should improve cognitive energy and clarity. This means no more brain fog and no more jittery, stimulant induced energy. Rather, you should experience a feeling of calm lucidity, unclouded by the numbing effects of fatigue.
The ingredients should also lead to improved memory and learning ability, alongside improving your mood and diminishing the effects of stress and anxiety. A lot of this will come from increased blood flow to the brain, which means far more oxygen and nutrients delivered to where they are most needed.
A good nootropic should also enable long-term brain health, keeping your brain’s structure stable and healthy.
Dynamic Brain Key Ingredients
As mentioned above, though we don’t know all the doses (which is a big deal), we can see that there are some good ingredients in Dynamic Brain’s formula.
Choline
This begins with choline, which should make it into any good nootropic as a matter of course. You will see it in most formulas.
It’s a molecule that turns into the key neurotransmitter acetylcholine after absorption. It should aid learning, memory, and cognitive function, whilst also having some additional handy benefits for your liver.
However, you generally want to see CDP-choline when looking to boost brain health and cognitive function. This isn’t what you get with Dynamic Brain, which is a bit of a shame and definitely an opportunity lost.
DMAE Bitartrate
Then there is DMAE bitartrate. DMAE is another common ingredient in nootropics. Again, you will see it in plenty of the leading products. It is necessary for your body’s production of acetylcholine, which, as above, has some far-reaching benefits.
Glutamine
As an amino acid, glutamine is one of the building blocks of protein, which your body needs for a range of functions from maintaining healthy mass and structure to enabling healthy hormonal balance. Glutamine in particular shows promise for aiding in maintaining healthy immune function. It may also be useful in stressful situations.
It is a bit of an odd choice in a nootropic. It really won’t make much of a difference to your cognitive health or performance.
Green Tea
Green tea is a nice touch. Again, it brings about a range of benefits, from improving cholesterol and blood pressure levels to giving a bit of an energy boost. In this context, in a nootropic, we’re looking at it for its l-theanine content.
L-Theanine
L-theanine is another amino acid. It can promote relaxation, mitigate symptoms of stress and anxiety, and even possibly slow down cognitive decline.
However, I would like to see l-theanine as its own ingredient. We don’t know how much of most of these key ingredients go into Dynamic Brain’s formula. However, just including green tea extract will pretty much guarantee a sub-par serving of l-theanine, which is a mas