Brandon shares his results from his  four week experiment taking L-Theanine and Caffeine. He shares the specific protocol that offers an alternative to Adderall that  increases concentration, focus and productivity.

He also shares some scientific studies done with L-Theanine and caffeine that backs up the results.

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L-Theanine used in Brandon's Experiment
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Studies Mentioned in the episode:

1. Effects of l-theanine on attention and reaction time response
   Journal of Functional Foods, Volume 3, Issue 3, July 2011, Pages 171-178. Url:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756464611000351
    
2. Effects of L-Theanine Administration on Stress-Related Symptoms and Cognitive Functions in Healthy Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial
   Nutrients. 2019 Oct; 11(10): 2362. Url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6836118/
    
3. Effect of Green Tea Phytochemicals on Mood and Cognition
   Current Pharmaceutical Design Journal, Volume 23, Issue 19, 2017, Page: [2876 - 2905]. Url: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28056735/
    
4. The combined effects of L-theanine and caffeine on cognitive performance and mood
   Nutritional Neuroscience Journal, Pages 193-198 | Published online: 19 Jul 2013. Url: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18681988/
    
5. Caffeine Enhances Memory Performance in Young Adults during Their Non-optimal Time of Day
   Frontiers in Psychology Journal, 14 November 2016, Sec. Cognition.
    
6. Caffeine: Cognitive and Physical Performance Enhancer or Psychoactive Drug?
   Current Neuropharmacology, 2015, 13, 71-88.

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About Ahmed Elsamadisi
Ahmed Elsamadisi is the Founder and CEO of Narrator.ai, a data modeling platform allowing companies to make better business decisions with their data.

He started his career at Cornell’s Autonomous Systems Laboratory building algorithms for autonomous vehicles and human-robot interaction. He then joined Raytheon to develop AI algorithms for missile defense, focusing on tracking and discrimination.

In 2015, Ahmed joined WeWork as the first hire on their data team. He built their data engineering infrastructure and grew the team to forty data engineers and analysts.

Since staring Narrator Ahmed has graduated the from the startup accelerator Y Combinator in 2017 and was named in Forbes's 30 under 30 list of 2021.

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Shanna Nardone is a Certified Life Coach and the founder of Maternal Grove. Her company is focused on self discovery, empowerment, and individual growth, with a foundation of over a decade of marketing, communications, and engagement work for various corporations.

As a woman, wife, mother of two, entrepreneur, and more, Shanna learned first hand the importance of finding acceptance within herself to live a spacious and balanced life. She chose to stop allowing societal pressures to define what it meant to be a “good mom” and started living an authentic life for herself.

Shanna’s belief is that all maternal figures have the same right to live a personally fulfilling life as the rest of the members of the household do.

Her mission is to support other maternal figures in rediscovering and reconnecting with themselves, creating boundaries, prioritizing themselves and their time, and exploring new outlooks to live their best lives. Shanna continues to share her developed tools and services to maternal figures, consistently empowering them to shift from surviving to thriving in their everyday lives.

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