ELEMENT 06 OF 08
Caffeine + L-Theanine
The most studied stimulant on earth, paired with the tea amino acid researched for smoothing it out.
Performance research commonly uses 3 to 6mg of caffeine per kilogram of bodyweight; 200mg is a typical single dose. Theanine studies pair 100 to 200mg with a similar caffeine dose.
THE SUBSTANCE
WHAT IT IS
Caffeine is the most widely consumed stimulant in the world and one of the few supplement ingredients with genuinely deep evidence behind it. L-theanine is an amino acid found almost exclusively in tea leaves. The two occur together naturally in green tea, which is where researchers first got interested in the pairing.
THE EVIDENCE
WHAT THE RESEARCH focuses on.
Caffeine is most studied for alertness, perceived effort and short-duration exercise performance, with hundreds of trials behind it. The caffeine plus theanine combination has been studied mainly on attention tasks, with several trials reporting a calmer subjective experience than caffeine alone. The 1:1 ratio in CARNAGE mirrors ratios common in that research.
Education, not medical advice. We describe what studies measured, never what a capsule will do for you.
THE FORMULAS
FOUND IN
The real products that carry this element, with the dose straight from the target label.
Doses shown are OnWhey target label values. The line is in development; every batch we sell will ship with a published certificate of analysis.
NO RUNAROUND
STRAIGHT QUESTIONS
Why pair caffeine with L-theanine at all?
Trials on the combination report the alertness of caffeine with fewer of the edgy subjective effects. That research is why CARNAGE runs the pair at 200mg each instead of stacking more stimulants.
How late in the day can I take CARNAGE?
Caffeine has a half-life of roughly 5 to 6 hours, so a 2pm dose still leaves meaningful caffeine in your system at 8pm. Past mid afternoon, switch to NIGHTBURN or ZEROCRASH; we built them stimulant free for exactly this reason.
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