Ingredients — YOUR BUSINESS · Eight things, every one named

// THE FORMULATION PHILOSOPHY

Real things, at real doses.

The first version of Your Business had twenty-two ingredients. The version we ship has eight. Every cut was deliberate: if it doesn't have a measurable physiological effect at the dose we're willing to put in a daily drink, it doesn't go in the bag.

We pay extra for it. Lion's mane at 1,000mg is roughly four times the standard "supplement bag" dose — most products use 250mg because that's the marketing minimum. We use the dose the studies use, not the dose that lets us put a mushroom on the front.

The same applies to the electrolyte side. 1,400mg of total electrolytes is more than a sports drink, less than a hangover IV bag — calibrated for the kind of person whose hydration debt is real but not extreme.

Everything else — the freeze-dried fruit, the hibiscus, the monk fruit — is there for flavor. We don't pretend the peach has functional benefits. It tastes good. That's its job.

// THE EIGHT

Eight ingredients. That's it.

Every actives concentration is on the box, on every product page, and right here. Linked Latin names so you can verify against the literature.

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Lion's Mane

hericium erinaceus

Cognitive lift without the buzz. Backed by clinical research on focus, verbal recall, and nerve growth factor expression. Sourced from a Pacific Northwest fruiting body, never mycelium-on-grain.

1,000mg / serving

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Cordyceps

cordyceps militaris

Steady physical energy — the mushroom that's been quietly powering Olympic distance runners since the '90s. Cultivated, not the rare wild Tibetan species. Standardized for cordycepin.

800mg / serving

L-Theanine

amino acid

The molecule in green tea that smooths caffeine — except we use it without the caffeine. Pharmaceutical-grade Suntheanine, not green-tea extract.

200mg / serving

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Magnesium glycinate

magnesium chelate

The bioavailable form. Helps with muscle recovery and the kind of focus that doesn't come at sleep's expense. The amount most folks are deficient in by Wednesday.

300mg / serving

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Sodium chloride

salt

The cleanest electrolyte ratio: 900mg sodium per serving, which is the dose your kidneys actually need to absorb water properly.

900mg / serving

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Potassium citrate

potassium chelate

The pair sodium needs to do its job. 500mg per serving — about a banana and a half — at a 2:1 sodium ratio that matches sweat composition.

500mg / serving

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Hibiscus + real fruit

hibiscus sabdariffa

Tart, bright, supports vascular relaxation. Where the color comes from, naturally. Paired with freeze-dried peach + ginger; the freeze-dry happens at the same farm.

120mg + 1.4g fruit

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Monk fruit

siraitia grosvenorii

The whisper of sweetness, no glycemic impact. We use it to lift the fruit, not to mask anything. 80mg per serving — a small dose.

2g sugar total

// SOURCING

Where each actually comes from.

// LION'S MANE + CORDYCEPS

The mushrooms come from Oregon.

Both species are cultivated by Oriveda Mycelia outside Eugene, Oregon — the only Pacific-Northwest mushroom farm we found that grows fruiting body, not mycelium-on-grain. Mycelium-on-grain is what most cheap supplements use; it has roughly a tenth of the active beta-glucans.

We pay about 4× the wholesale price of the cheap version. Worth it for what it does.

— Oriveda Mycelia · Eugene, OR · Certified organic, 3rd-party β-glucan tested

// THE FRUIT + GINGER

Peach and ginger, freeze-dried whole.

Texas Hill Country peaches from Vogel Orchards in Stonewall, freeze-dried at a small operation in San Antonio. Ginger root from Hawaiian Ginger Farms on the Big Island, dried within 24 hours of harvest to keep the volatile oils intact.

Whole-fruit freeze-drying is what gives Your Business its actual peach taste — most "peach-flavored" drinks are using ester chemistry that approximates the smell.

— Vogel Orchards (TX) + Hawaiian Ginger Farms (HI) · Whole-fruit FD'd at Lone Star Cryo

// THE ELECTROLYTES

Salt and potassium, not synthesized.

Sodium from Real Salt's Redmond, Utah deposit — an ancient seabed mined for unrefined sea minerals. Potassium citrate from Jungbunzlauer in Pernhofen, Austria, certified non-GMO, derived from the citric acid fermentation of beet molasses.

Magnesium glycinate from Albion Minerals in Layton, Utah — the original chelated-mineral patent holder. Higher cost, dramatically better absorption.

— Redmond Real Salt (UT) + Jungbunzlauer (AT) + Albion Minerals (UT)

// NEVER IN THE BAG

What's not in here.

A short list of things every other powdered drink seems to need. None of them earned their place in Your Business.

Maltodextrin

The cheap bulk filler. Spikes blood sugar harder than table sugar. Not in any flavor.

"Natural flavor"

The catch-all phrase that hides anywhere from one to two hundred undisclosed compounds. We use real fruit instead.

Sucralose / Aspartame

No artificial sweeteners. Monk fruit only, at the lowest dose that still works.

Synthetic dyes

The pink in the hibiscus version is real hibiscus. Red 40, FD&C Yellow 5 — never.

Citric acid (synthetic)

Most "citric acid" is mold-derived. We use real citrus juice powder for tartness instead.

Caffeine (in core line)

The flagship is 0mg caffeine. Sunrise, our morning blend, has a small amount of green-tea caffeine — disclosed.

Stevia

Stevia hits a metallic note for some palates. We tested it for six months, then dropped it.

"Proprietary blend"

The phrase that lets brands hide actives doses. Every milligram on our label is named.

// THIRD-PARTY TESTED

Every batch, tested.

Every production run gets a Certificate of Analysis from Eurofins (a third-party lab). We test for heavy metals, microbial counts, and active-ingredient potency — and we publish the COA for every lot on the website.

If a batch fails any of the four limits below, we destroy it. That's happened twice in eight years. Both times it was a contamination on the cordyceps; both times we ate the cost.

Heavy metals (Pb, As, Cd, Hg)≤ 0.5 ppm

Microbial count (CFU/g)≤ 10,000

Lion's mane β-glucan content≥ 30%

Cordyceps cordycepin content≥ 0.3%

Eight things.Every one named.