I spent $1,369 on nine bottles before I found this
I am not someone who buys supplements. That is what makes the number embarrassing.
1The number I did not want to add up
I added it up once, which I do not recommend. Nine bottles. One thousand three hundred and sixty nine dollars, over about two years. It had never been a number before that. It had been a receipt here and a receipt there, and not one of them felt like anything at the time.
Linda's own accounting, over roughly two years.
That is the part I would want someone to understand. None of it felt reckless. Thirty dollars is not reckless. Forty is not reckless. I bought every one of them at the end of a week where I had decided something had to change, and buying something felt like changing something.
I could not tell you all nine names now, which I know is not a great look. They were not brands you would have heard of. They were whatever came up when I went looking. Whatever had the reviews and the right words on the front.
I was not loyal to any of them. I think I was loyal to the feeling of having done something about it.
2Why every bottle gets six weeks
Every bottle asks for six weeks before you are allowed to say it did not work.
So I waited. Six weeks, then another six. And at the end of it I would be standing in my kitchen trying to work out whether I felt any different or whether I just badly wanted to. I could never tell. That was the whole problem. I could never tell.
And then I would buy the next one, because the alternative was deciding I was back where I started.
3What finally changed
What finally changed was not that I found a better bottle. I stopped looking for a bottle.
Someone mentioned saffron to me. I do not think they meant anything much by it. But I went and read about it afterwards, properly, which I had genuinely never done before. Not a brand. The actual ingredient. That was new for me, reading about the thing itself instead of reading the front of a box.
And then I found you could get it as something you mix into water and drink. That mattered more than it should have. Every bottle I had ever bought was one more thing to remember. This was just a drink.
I know that sounds small. It was not small. It was the first one I actually kept taking.
4What I had been getting wrong
Nothing I bought was fake. That took me the longest to accept, because it would have been easier if it was. The ingredients were real. The amounts were not.
A label can put a name on the front that has real research behind it, and then put a fraction of the studied amount on the back. The front is what sells it. The back is the part that would have told me, and I never once turned it over.
5The number I wish I had known
So I went and looked at what the studies had actually used. They keep landing in the same place. Roughly 28 to 30mg a day of a standardised extract.
Mood Mod has 30mg. Not a sprinkle of it so it can go on the label, the amount the studies actually used, in every stick, along with 200mg L-theanine and 100mg magnesium glycinate.
I turned the bag over before I bought it. That was the first time I had ever done that.
What I noticed came on slowly, and that is the reason I believe it. I had just spent two years wanting to feel something and being perfectly willing to imagine it. I know exactly what that feels like. This was not that.
My mood is better. Not managed. Better. And it is more than mood, it is something more general that I still cannot put one word to, which is annoying when you are trying to tell somebody about it.
It is not a dramatic story. I would be suspicious of a dramatic story.
6What I would say if you asked me
Do not expect anything in week one. The research ran four to eight weeks and honestly that is about how long it took before I stopped checking and just noticed.
And you do not have to stop taking whatever you already take. That was the thing I kept getting wrong. I treated every new bottle as a replacement for the last one, when none of it ever needed to be all or nothing.
Where to start
Pick your supply
The trials ran four to eight weeks, so 40 days is where we point people. Every option is a subscription you can pause, skip or cancel at any time.
Buying once. 2 bags save 5% and 3 bags save 10% automatically at checkout.
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How long before I notice anything?
Longer than you want. The human trials ran four to eight weeks, and that is the window to judge it on. If you are looking for something that works this afternoon, this is not it.
Can I take it with what I already take?
It is a drink mix, not a replacement for anything. That said, if you take prescription medication, are pregnant or nursing, talk to your doctor before starting this or any supplement.
What if it does nothing for me?
Tell us within 30 days of delivery and we will refund your first order in full, opened or unopened. You do not need to send an opened bag back.
Am I locked into a subscription?
No. Pause, skip a delivery, change the interval or cancel from your account at any time, including before the second order ships.
What is actually in it?
Per stick: 30mg affron® saffron extract, 200mg L-theanine, 100mg magnesium glycinate, plus B vitamins and electrolytes. Sugar free, caffeine free, orange cream flavour.
Linda bought Mood Mod at retail and was not paid for this. Individual experiences vary. *These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Consult a physician before use, particularly if you are pregnant, nursing, or taking medication.
