Mood-Enhancing Nutritional Supplement with Pine Bark and Ephedra
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current nutritional supplements rarely provide simultaneous benefits for improving mood states while maintaining physical and mental performance.
Innovation Solution
A nutritional supplement combining pine bark extract and Ephedra plant material, along with additional ingredients like green tea, caffeine, and niacin, formulated to enhance mood states and metabolic rates, packaged as a drink, capsule, or powder.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If nutritional supplements are formulated to improve physical and mental performance, then performance benefits are achieved, but mood state improvement is not simultaneously provided
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple ingredients with different functions into a single supplement formulation. Specifically, it merges performance-enhancing ingredients (caffeine, green tea extract, niacin, B6) with mood-improving ingredients (L-tryptophan, 5-HTP, GABA, L-theanine) to create a unified product that delivers both performance benefits and mood state improvement simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The supplement formulation is designed to perform multiple functions: enhancing physical performance, improving mental performance, and improving mood states. Each ingredient contributes to one or more of these functions, making the supplement universally beneficial across multiple performance and well-being dimensions.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple ingredients are combined to achieve multiple benefits, then functional versatility is improved, but formulation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The supplement formulation is segmented into distinct functional groups: performance-enhancing ingredients (caffeine, green tea extract, niacin, B6) and mood-improving ingredients (L-tryptophan, 5-HTP, GABA, L-theanine). This segmentation allows for systematic organization of multiple ingredients, making the complex formulation more manageable and easier to optimize while maintaining versatility.
Data Source
AI summary
Nutritional supplement compositions for mood enhancement are disclosed. A nutritional supplement composition can include one or more of plant material from pine bark, plant material from a species of the genus Ephedra, caffeine, green tea, octopamine, quercetin, trimethylglycine, yohimbine, and niacin. Some nutritional supplement compositions may affect heart rate, blood pressure, and/or resting metabolic rate when ingested. Related processes are also disclosed.