Natural Ingredients for Energy Dietary Supplements

The sale of energy supplements can be challenging. While a majority of manufacturers promote products made with approved ingredients, an unfortunate few make headlines every year because their products contain unapproved stimulants-stimulants that often really work.
Energy supplements made the legal way won’t provide dramatic results like certain unapproved stimulants, but manufacturers do have a great variety of ingredients to work with. These ingredients are safe and researched, and they are more closely related to plant life (if not plants themselves). What they lack in dramatic energy effects they make up for with extra nutrients and factors to benefit overall health and wellness.
Some of these ingredients are widely available, and others are more difficult to source in large quantities, which makes premium pricing possible. A number of energy ingredients are not based in Western science; rather, they developed their reputations from traditional healing practices, as is the case with adaptogens.
“Adaptogens are natural substances that are very safe,” says Mark Blumenthal, founder and executive director of the American Botanical Council (Austin, TX). “One can consume relatively large amounts of these without adverse reaction, and they help the body respond to types of non-specific stress, such as fatigue, heat, cold, or exhaustion.”
The following are several ingredients that should be of particular interest to energy supplement manufacturers.
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