Mission Drinks White Paper
Please see our white paper HERE. It is an independent efficacy analysis of Mission blends by Dr Polkinghorne et al August 2019.
This special report will aim to determine how the particular ingredients included in MISSION’s range of products impact the following four concepts affecting athletic performance:
- Beating the crash (providing an alternative to high-sugar, high-caffeine energy drinks by promoting metabolic flexibility to prevent the “hitting the wall” phenomenon).
- The use of low dose caffeine as an ergogenic aid.
- Improving cognitive performance.
- Reducing inflammation to hasten recovery.
This introduction focuses on possible alternatives to the high-sugar and high-caffeine elements of available energy drinks that aim to improve athletic performance.
To do this, we introduce the concept of “beating the crash”, and specifically how MISSION could promote metabolic flexibility by switching from reliance on carbohydrates to a greater reliance on fats for the provision of sustained-energy in athletic performance, avoiding the crash from high-sugar energy drinks.
We also discuss the use of caffeine as an ergogenic aid and the merits of using low-
dose caffeine supplementation to improve performance as opposed to the high-caffeine content in other energy drinks, avoiding the caffeine crash.
Later, this report also highlights the mechanisms of how certain individual ingredients might improve both performance-determining cognitive outcomes and time to recovery by mitigating inflammatory damage.