That shaky feeling is no character fault

You wake up, make coffee, and within twenty minutes you feel something. Awake, yes. But also restless, your mind is racing faster than your work. Then, sometime between ten and two, you crash, and you feel like you need more coffee. Most people draw one of two conclusions from that: I'm just bad in the mornings, or I need more coffee. Both are wrong. You're reacting normally to something that's half-finished.

Your body needs An alarm is already set for the morning

I didn't know this for eight years: in the first 30 to 45 minutes after you open your eyes, your cortisol levels surge. It's one of the sharpest increases your body experiences all day. Cortisol has a bad reputation as a stress hormone, but this is exactly what it's for. It's your built-in alarm clock, and your body sets it itself every morning. And precisely at that moment, while that natural alarm is going off, you make coffee. You're setting a second alarm next to an alarm that's already ringing. Coffee provides one thing: caffeine. That presses your accelerator, but there's nothing in coffee that holds the steering wheel. That's why your first coffee does less than you hope, and your second does more than you want.

In green tea there is caffeine never alone

Here's the answer, and tea drinkers have known it for thousands of years.

Green tea also contains caffeine, quite a lot in fact, but almost no one says "I'm trembling from green tea." That's because there's something else growing in that leaf: L-theanine, an amino acid that naturally occurs alongside caffeine. In the plant, they are never separated. There is no L-theanine in the coffee bean.

If you've ever thought "I just can't handle caffeine well," then you've never tried it in combination with L-theanine.

Only 25 cups of tea drinking is not the solution

That was my first thought: I'll just drink tea. That didn't work for me, and this is why:

A cup of green tea contains about 28 mg of caffeine and about 8 mg of L-theanine. That's not the ratio we're looking for; it's almost exactly the inverse.

The ratio you want is 1 part caffeine to 2 parts L-theanine, and to achieve that with tea, you'd have to drink 25 cups, with seven hundred milligrams of caffeine (but enough L-theanine). That's not solving the problem; that's making it worse.

Mo contains 100 mg of caffeine and 200 mg of L-theanine, derived from green tea, precisely that ratio and quantified in milligrams on the label. And it contains something else your coffee doesn't: five electrolytes, 482 mg per serving: sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, and chloride.

You haven't had anything to drink for eight hours, so you don't just wake up tired; you wake up dehydrated.

"But I love my coffee."

Okay, because this isn't about giving up coffee completely. I still enjoy an espresso now and then myself, purely because I like it. The difference lies in that one moment: the first one, on an empty stomach, when your cortisol is already peaking. That's the cup that costs you the most and yields the least. Just replace that one with Mo and you'll notice the difference without having to give anything up (though you'll probably feel less need for coffee after Mo).

And it's even easier than making coffee: one level scoop in water, hot or cold, a quick shake, and it's done. No pills, no machine, no waiting. At €1.04 per serving, it costs you less than a quarter of that cappuccino on the go, and you know exactly what's in it.

And if you don't notice anything, it costs you nothing

Mo was developed with nutritionists, produced in the Netherlands, and independently tested in a lab. If you don't notice a difference after 14 days, you'll get your money back. Less than 0.5% of our customers use this option, but it's there so your first pouch isn't a risk.