Functional Drinks? They’re Drinks that Get Busy for Your Health!
WillPowders is here to put the fun in functional drinks. Let’s go!
Trying to pep up energy with ‘monstrous’ energy drinks and hoping they’ll give you wings? Been there. Cue the crash.
Trying to rev up for the party with alcohol? Maybe it’s time to stop painting the town red and paint it with WillPowders dots instead? Focus and clarity never saw more functional drink spots before their eyes! That’s some cellular magic right there! See, you could have been pampering your gut and dodging the hangover all along …
Summertime and the living is easy … Drinks with benefits? Now we’re talking!
Functional drinks are wellness drinks - cheers to that!
You gave up the 7 teaspoons of sugar in a can of regular coke a million years ago. Now you give the sweeteners in ‘diet’ drinks the side-eye too. You’ll have none of that stripping away your vitality.
Have you noticed there’s also been a change of lingo too, lately? We no longer go for a bevvy or a few scoops (unless we’re reaching for a WillPowders Disco Scoop, of course) and unless someone has made our water smarter, we swipe left.
Yes, once we drank for just hydration (like, how old school is that?) and now we’re seeking out drinks that work harder.
Sun’s out, guns out: functional drinks are ammo to do more than hydrate
In general, functional drinks help you access energy, focus or gut health through added “active” ingredients. But, at WillPowders, you know we like to add some POW (the clue’s been in our name all along) so we go the extra mile. We love a nootropic stack, for sure!
We’ll give you energy without the jitters, focus with clarity and calm and gut health with absolutely no gut-wrecking sugar nasties. Overtime, drinking functional drinks from our range, or building your own functional blends from our ingredients, can even help elevate mood, prolong fasting, get you to the gym, repair, keep your spark up and there are absolutely no nasties hidden away in there. Phew!
Let’s do functional drinks and summer WillPowder style!
First up - we do them all in drink sachets or capsules so you can bring your own
Rip. Tear. Pour. Functional beverages wherever and whenever:
- Hydrating ElectroTide, plus a toxin flush. Fancy!
- Energising MCT Oil and Brain Powder for nootropic drinks or a pre workout drink. Don’t stop me now!
- Repairing Bovine Collagen. Clean. Award-winning. Swiss.
- Gut loving, mood boosting Kombucha. Watch me now!
And pop ‘em like it’s hot (or British Summer damp - let’s be real!):
- Relaxing L-theanine benefits of Calm. You’re a smoothed operator!
- Rise and Shine for the liver - just in case you want that tipple. Three before and three after an indulgence.
Never mind half-ful, let’s get your glasses brimming with functional drinking:
Need hydration? We've got an electrolyte drink for that!
Cherry for the cheers? Watermelon (without the) sugar? Citrus grove in a glass? That’s ElectroTide flavours nailed down. But we don’t just drink them because they’re delicious.
- Postwork out recovery? ElectroTide
- Replacing lost macrominerals? ElectroTide
- Magnesium, chloride, phosphorus, calcium, sodium? Spark of life? ElectroTide
Of course, many recovery drinks boast electrolytes to replace lost minerals, but they also ooze sugar or artificial sweeteners. While they might replace electrolytes, they’ll also cause sugar spikes, sugar crashes, wreckage for your gut microbiome or they’ll fill your body with chemicals it doesn’t recognise - aspartame, sucralose, saccharin? Your cells are crying, WTF’s this? And don’t even get us started on the sucralose bloat.
Are electrolytes good for recovery?
Good question. Nerves, muscles, bones, DNA, enzyme functions and fluid balance all rely on the electrolytes we’ve put in ElectroTide. Short answer: yes!
ElectroTide’s diuretic ingredients also mean puffy ankles can puff off! Dandelion and Horsetail extracts both help the body get rid of excess fluids. Let Toni, one of our lovely customers who’s shared her story with us, tell you more. You can’t say fairer than her journey to dodge the water bloat!
Need natural energy drinks? You're at the right bar …
Nootropics? Practically the name of a cocktail, right? Minus the alcohol and the sugar, obviously. Nootropic drinks can help energise.
Need a keto energy drink? MCT Oil provides energy for your brain. You can whizz this stuff into drinks (you’ve been lacing your WillPowders Coffee with it forever). Put the funk disco energy of MCT into drinks and they become functional beverages for your keto lifestyle, too. But, unlike wine goggles, it won’t make Kim from Accounts more attractive - thank your heavenly stars for that!
Not feeling it at the annual neighbourhood BBQ?
Schlepping off to a grilling in damp and thundery summer weather is no-one’s idea of fun, but sometimes it’s got to be done. Take a Brain Powder before you go and you’ll be firing (nootropically speaking) by the time you get there. One drink sachet in 330ml of water (fizzy, if you fancy being fancy) and, suddenly, rearranging Colin’s grill for maximum efficiency seems like a neighbourly thing to do - move over, Col, mama’s going in!
Brain Powder can also get you to the gym before you do a three point turn and say, I can’t be frigging bothered! Talk about revved up!
Choose the mojito flavour brain powder? You’ve got yourself a non alcoholic mojito with none of the sugar and all of the added energy zing. Plus taurine, which may provide the biological groundwork to help support the neural infrastructure needed for long term memory.
So, when someone quizzes and asks questions like what’s taurine in energy drinks and, are energy drinks bad for you? You’ll be able to share the good news that ours contain potentially useful ingredients for memory, a dash of natural energy and no sugar or artificial sweeteners.
That’s right, it doesn't sound like alcohol to us either!
Smug points all round!
Gut Loving Kombucha - or is that kom’boost’cha?
Kombucha and gut health go hand in hand. And, it’s the most grown up of non-alcoholic drinks. Arguably, it’s the busiest of functional drinks with its crowd of billions of bacteria partying in a glass. Practically a festival! All that good bacteria is looking for a new home - could it be your gut? We think it should be!
Choose from Fresh - dry, crisp and clean, Light - sweet, floral and clean or Warm - aromatic, warm and spicy.
At WillPowders, LPC-37 is our probiotic of choice. It’s backed by science to bring you extra kombucha benefits:
Gut health drink? Seems like a gut-brain axis drink to us!
Calm
Green tea and L-theanine go hand in hand. But we don’t all like green tea and some of us don’t react well to the quercetin in it. It can cause headaches and nausea - no thanks. With Calm, we just bring you what you’re looking for - that chill out vibe - by isolating nerve soothing L-theanine. You don’t even have to put the kettle on!
For calm drinks, just add Calm. Easy, right? Sipping the soft drink of your choice in a shaded corner of the cafe garden? Decant a couple of Calm Capsules in there and you’re riding waves of tranquility. No white water rafting the hangxiety the rest of your girl gang will have after three wines. Now who’s the cool one? You are!
L-theanine benefits are many
Let’s browse the science:
- “A single dose of L‑Theanine had significant positive effects on brainwaves, salivary cortisol, and self‑reported state anxiety compared to the placebo… indicative of relaxation in the brain.” Yes it was a randomised triple blind placebo test.
- Stress, sleep, focus in your sights? “Supplementation for 28 days was safe and significantly decreased perceived stress and light sleep, improved sleep quality and enhanced cognitive attention…”
- Never mind functional drinks, let’s look at executive function (whether you’re your own boss or working for the boss, cognition’s where it’s at for those tricky tasks) “Participants demonstrated a 21.79 % and 21.33 % improvement in Stroop test correct reaction time after 14 and 28 days, respectively…”. Help yourself to some speed and accuracy gains!
We’re kind of thinking that you don’t get the above from a glass of pinot …
Functional drinks? Let’s mix and match and make some functional mocktails …
We love a good recipe at WillPowders HQ. But Sex on the Beach and Slippery Nipples are dead to us. Here’s how we’re rolling:
WillPowders Pina Colada Mocktail: you’ve got yourself a non alcoholic pina colada with added collagen repair and MCT Oil energising - fancy glass optional, you do you.
Cherry Lime Energiser: energise with ElectroTide and repair with award winning bovine collagen.
L-Theanine Relaxation Fizz: for a cool, Calm focus, this calming, hydrating and focussing mocktail’s the one to fix for a Friday lunch (or any day with a ‘y’ in it, to be fair).
Yup - you’re living it up in the age of wellness drinks and functional beverages
Get you and your health bev-olution!
- Want to sip to switch mood on demand? From Calm to revved-up. Chin, chin!
- Take a gulp and go from couch potato to gym bunny. Get it down your neck!
- And, because you take no prisoners, you’re taking gut health and repair along for the ride in our Mixer. Thanks, Kombucha and Collagen. Cheers to you!
- Complicated cocktails? Nah, you prefer a hangover dodging approach and opt for energising elixirs like electrolytes or a nootropic stack! Saluté!
- Want to travel and not have to worry about what’s on offer at the makeshift bar? You've got your Tipple Tin for that - BYO never got more empow(d)ered!
- And, if you do hop off the wagon for an evening of grape or grain, you’ve got Rise and Shine Indulgence Recovery offering some wraparound liver protection
