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What is the difference between Qualia Mind® and Qualia Focus®?

Qualia Mind® & Qualia Focus® are both fast-acting, research-backed nootropics designed to support a range of important cognitive skills, including alertness, motivation, attention (e.g., focus, concentration), and memory.* We believe that Qualia Focus delivers exceptional value and stands on its own as a great nootropic; however, it does not offer the premium nootropic experience of Qualia Mind. 

While Qualia Mind and Qualia Focus are designed to support some of the same cognitive areas, Qualia Mind was formulated to also support a wide range of additional cognitive skills, such as executive functions, emotional resilience, and skills within an area called social cognition. And, Qualia Mind was designed to offer more robust support for processes and functions involved with attention, accuracy, and focus in stressful environments and demanding situations, as well as support for hearing and vision.*

So, at a high level, Qualia Mind (1) is formulated to supply a much broader range of brain essential nutrition, (2) more holistically supports a wider range of cognitive skills, and (3) offers more robust support in areas involved in neuroplasticity, long-term brain health, and stress resilience. We believe Qualia Mind can do this because it has (1) a larger number of ingredients—Qualia Mind has 32 ingredients, while Qualia Focus has 14, (2) the suggested number of capsules to take is more (3-6 for Qualia Mind and only 2 for Qualia Focus), and (3) Qualia Mind’s higher price allowed us to include a combination of quite a few high cost ingredients that won’t be found together in nootropic doses in products at the Qualia Focus price point (such as Nutricog®, PQQ, Cognizin® Citicoline, Alpha-GPC, Phosphatidylserine, Lutemax Brain, and Rhodiola rosea).*

Because of the combination of capsule count and price, while both products have similar cores—the powerful nootropic pairing of theanine and caffeine, Celastrus paniculatus seed extract (the “intellect tree”), nootropic and adaptogen herbs for memory and stress support, and B-vitamins—there’s quite a bit of difference between the two products. This starts with what we use to supply caffeine, which is arguably the favorite ingredient among neurohackers for supporting alertness, energy, processing speed, reaction times, and motivation. Qualia Focus uses anhydrous caffeine (which is the most studied and commonly used type of caffeine among neurohackers and athletes), while Qualia Mind uses a blend of Organic Coffeeberry® Whole Coffee Fruit Extract, guarana seed extract, and anhydrous caffeine, because this blend also provides brain-supportive antioxidants and polyphenols. *

Both Qualia Mind and Focus include herbs and nootropics designed to support healthy functions like acetylcholine neurotransmission, neuroplasticity, and synaptogenesis, which are important for promoting cognitive skills such as focus, learning, and memory. But Qualia Mind offers far more support in these areas. It has the two nootropic forms of choline (e.g., Cognizin® Citicoline and Alpha-Glycerylphosphorylcholine [alpha-GPC]), and the clinically studied Nutricog® (Terminalia chebula fruit extract and Boswellia serrata gum resin extract) to offer more support for acetylcholine neurotransmission. Qualia Mind also contains more support for optimal synaptogenesis and neuroplasticity—these are critical functions for learning and memory—with the inclusion of ingredients such as Lion’s Mane mushroom and taurine.* 

While both Qualia Focus and Qualia Mind are formulated to support healthy dopamine signaling—critical for motivation and learning—Qualia Mind offers much more support, by including a dopamine precursor (N-Acetyl-L-Tyrosine) and dopamine signaling supportive botanical extracts including Saffron, Polygala tenuifolia Root, and Sabroxy® that are not included in Qualia Focus.*

We also designed Qualia Mind to be a go to product when it comes to supporting healthy brain aging. Because of this, Qualia Mind places more emphasis on a number of areas that are important to enhance long-term brain health, including mitochondrial support (which is why it has Pyrroloquinoline Quinone [PQQ] and Acetyl-L-Carnitine), nerve cell membrane fluidity and health (which is why Qualia Mind contains Phosphatidylserine, Lutein, and Zeaxanthin), and neuroprotection. It’s also an upgrade when it comes to stress support, with ingredients like Phosphatidylserine and Rhodiola rosea.* 

Which one should you buy? If you can afford it, Qualia Mind is our most comprehensive and premium product. If cost is an issue, Qualia Focus is a powerful product and we're delighted to be able to offer it as an option.

NOTE: Qualia Mind and Qualia Focus are not intended to stack together. 

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.  This product is not intended to diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease.

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