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One Scoop. Three Reasons.

You won't feel it right away. But Your Brain will.

Daily creatine plus brain-protecting, enhancing, and repair ingredients. One scoop, daily.

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Real Customers. Real Results.

Katie Cummings, Michigan
Jimmy Lambert, Miami
Jon Davis, Toronto
Jack Schierholz, Boston
Ian MacKay, Buffalo
Max Sasson, Vancouver
One formula. Three reasons people take it.

Which one is you?

Same tub, same five ingredients — but the reason people start it usually falls into one of three places. Tap the one that sounds like you.

Contact Athletes

Protection from hits.

You brace your body for impact every game. Almost nothing protects your brain the same way. Headstrong pairs your daily creatine with ingredients studied for supporting the brain's resilience under repeated physical stress.

High Performers

Clarity that lasts all day.

Back-to-back meetings and travel don't stop because your focus did. Headstrong replenishes the exact chemistry that focus runs on — no caffeine, no crash, no 2pm wall.

Long-Term Brain Health

Protect it before you need to.

Memory and cognitive decline don't start the day you notice them. Headstrong is a daily habit — like a multivitamin — built to support memory and protect your brain while it's still sharp.

Real people. Real fog. Real relief.

What people just like you
are saying.

From the guy taking hits every shift, to the exec running on fumes by 2pm, to someone just trying to stay sharp for the next thirty years — real feedback from real Headstrong customers.

★★★★★

"I take enough hits over a season that I started thinking about my brain the same way I think about my knees. Headstrong is the only thing on the shelf actually built for that, not just another pre-workout with a nootropic dumped in."

MIKE R.Men's league hockey · Verified buyer
★★★★★

"I'm not an athlete, I run a 12-person team and my fog hits at 2pm like clockwork. I used to just push through it foggy. A few weeks on Headstrong and that afternoon crash basically disappeared. No jitters, no crash later."

Priya D. — Product LeadBay Area tech · Verified buyer
★★★★★

"I'm 54 and honestly started this because I want to still have my head about me at 80. It's not dramatic — I just take it every morning with my coffee. But my memory for names and details has genuinely gotten sharper since I started."

Robert T. — Recreational GolferAge 54 · Verified buyer
Understand the gap

Your brain takes three kinds of stress. Nothing else protects against all of them.

Impact — repeated physical contact and the oxidative damage it leaves behind. Fatigue — cortisol, depleted dopamine, and a brain energy system running short after hours of demand. Time — the slow decline that starts decades before anyone notices it. Sports nutrition has spent 40 years optimizing bodies and completely ignoring the organ that decides how well those bodies actually perform, recover, and last.

✕Pre-workouts and energy drinks spike you, then drop you into worse shape than before
✕Recovery stacks cover protein, hydration, sleep — never the brain itself
✕No other formula is NSF Certified and built to protect, enhance, and repair the brain in one dose
0/30+
Sports nutrition brands with an NSF Certified, brain-first daily formula — before Headstrong
Every other brand treats the brain as an afterthought — one token nootropic bolted onto a protein or creatine base, never at a clinical dose, never independently verified, never built for impact, fatigue, and long-term decline together.
The dose comparison

Full clinical doses. Sub-clinical doses don't clear brain fog.

Most brands include a fraction of the studied dose so they can list an ingredient on the label. That's not enough to actually move the needle on brain fog. Every ingredient in Headstrong is dosed at or above the level used in the research it's based on.

Headstrong — % of clinical dose
Typical competitor — % of clinical dose
Creatine
Monohydrate
~64%
Lion's Mane
Mushroom
Not included
Ashwagandha
KSM-66®
~45%
NAC
Not included
L-Tyrosine
~30%

Competitor figures reflect commonly available formulas at typical published doses as a category average, not a named product. Full ingredient sourcing on request.

The cost reframe

Buying these five ingredients separately, at these doses, runs $80–113 a month — and none of it comes independently verified. Headstrong is all five, NSF Certified, for $31.99/mo with subscription.

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Team Headstrong  ·  NFL  ·  Philadelphia Eagles

By the fourth quarter my legs weren't the problem anymore. My head was. Headstrong changed that.

Carson Steele
NFL Running Back  ·  Team Headstrong Athlete
Why Headstrong exists

Built by a scientist who studies fatigue.
Demanded by an athlete who lived it.

Headstrong was not invented in a boardroom. It was built because one professional athlete lived brain fog from the inside — and a PhD sports scientist had spent two decades studying exactly why it happens.

Co-Founder  ·  Chief Science Officer
Dr. Darren Burke
PhD, Sport & Exercise Science

Darren spent two decades in elite sports nutrition research, studying how the brain holds up — or doesn't — under sustained physical and mental load, and testing products for the biggest brands in the world. He kept seeing the same gap: everyone was formulating for the body under fatigue and nobody was formulating for the brain under fatigue. He previously founded and scaled a sports nutrition company from zero to category leader.

"Fog isn't in your head. It's a chemistry problem. So we built a chemistry solution."
Co-Founder  ·  Active Professional Hockey Player
Evan Nause
Professional Hockey Player  ·  Co-Founder

Evan did not build Headstrong because it was a good business idea. As an active professional hockey player, he lived the fog firsthand — brain fog that didn't clear, mental fatigue that outlasted physical recovery, focus that wasn't there when he needed it late in a game. Nothing on the market addressed it, so he built the product himself.

"I knew exactly what I was feeling. So we built the product that didn't exist."
Protect. Enhance. Repair.

Five ingredients.
Every one earning its place in the scoop.

No proprietary blends, no underdosed fillers. Every ingredient at its clinically-studied dose, independently verified by NSF Certified for Sport — built to protect your brain under physical stress, enhance focus under mental stress, and support repair over the long run.

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Creatine Monohydrate

Your brain runs on ATP just like your muscles do. Under physical impact, sustained exertion, or mental demand, the brain's rapid-energy reserves (phosphocreatine) run low — and creatine has been studied for supporting brain energy resilience under exactly that kind of stress. A full 5g clinical dose keeps that energy system topped up.

Protect · 5g
ii
Lion's Mane Mushroom

Studied for its support of Nerve Growth Factor (NGF), which is tied to neuron health and long-term cognitive clarity. It's the ingredient working on repair — supporting the brain's own maintenance systems day after day, not just masking fatigue in the moment.

Repair
iii
Ashwagandha KSM-66®

Chronically elevated cortisol — from training stress, contact, or a demanding schedule — is one of the most common root causes of "I can't think straight" days. KSM-66 is clinically studied to help lower cortisol, protecting your baseline instead of just powering through it.

Protect
iv
NAC — N-Acetyl Cysteine

Precursor to glutathione, the body's primary antioxidant. Physical impact and intense exertion both generate oxidative stress in neural tissue — the kind of cellular damage that accumulates over a season or a career. NAC helps clear that oxidative load and build resilience against it recurring.

Protect
v
L-Tyrosine

Precursor to dopamine and norepinephrine — the two neurotransmitters that deplete first under sustained stress or fatigue, and the ones directly responsible for that "can't focus" feeling. L-Tyrosine replenishes the raw material for both, so focus holds instead of collapsing under load.

Enhance
NSF Certified for SportNo banned substancesVeganMade in the USA
NSF
Certified for Sport
Third-Party Independently Verified
Third-party verified

The standard that actually means something.

Most professional leagues and NCAA programs require it. If you compete — and especially if you get tested — this is the standard that protects you. And if you're not an athlete, it's still the fastest way to know a brand's dosing claims are real, not marketing.

✓
No banned substances from the WADA prohibited listTested against the full prohibited substance database
✓
No heavy metals above safe thresholdsLead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium — independently tested
✓
Label accuracy — stated ingredients at stated dosesDosages verified, not just claimed
✓
Required by most pro leagues and NCAA programsThe certification athletes who get tested depend on
Carson Steele
Philadelphia Eagles
NFL
Brandon Johnson
Pittsburgh Steelers
NFL
Mackie Samoskevich
Florida Panthers
NHL
Louis Crevier
Chicago Blackhawks
NHL
Sophie Shirley
Boston Fleet
PWHL
Adisyn Coffey
Chicago White Sox
MLB
The value case

Five ingredients.
One scoop.
$31.99/mo.

Creatine Monohydrate$18–25/mo
Lion's Mane Extract$22–30/mo
Ashwagandha KSM-66®$18–24/mo
NAC$12–18/mo
L-Tyrosine$10–16/mo
Bought separately  ·  No NSF$80–113
Headstrong  ·  NSF Certified$31.99
per month with subscription (20% off $39.99)  ·  all 5 ingredients at clinical doses
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Headstrong
  • Formulated to target the actual causes of brain fog — not just mask it
  • NSF Certified for Sport — independently verified doses
  • Zero caffeine, zero crash — works whether you're on the field or at your desk
  • Skip, pause or cancel anytime — no lock-in
  • 30-day money-back guarantee
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Questions answered

Questions people ask.

A mix of factors: elevated cortisol from stress or training load, oxidative stress in neural tissue after sustained exertion, depleted dopamine and norepinephrine, and a brain energy (ATP) system running short after hours of demand. Headstrong's five ingredients are each chosen to target one of these directly.

That's exactly the scenario Headstrong is built for. Because it works on the underlying causes of fog rather than a caffeine spike, most people find the 2–3pm slump gets noticeably shorter and shallower within a few weeks.

Neither. It's a daily formula with five ingredients at full clinical doses — no caffeine, no stimulant spike. It's built to reduce the causes of brain fog over time, not to make you feel wired for an hour.

No stimulants. No caffeine. Nothing that spikes and crashes. You can take it any time of day without disrupting sleep.

Headstrong is NSF Certified for Sport, which means every batch is independently tested against the full WADA prohibited substance list. No banned substances, no surprises.

Yes. Brain fog from training and brain fog from a demanding job come from overlapping causes — cortisol, oxidative stress, and depleted focus chemicals. The formula was developed with elite athletes but the underlying science applies to anyone under sustained mental or physical load.

Creatine and NAC in particular have been studied for supporting the brain's energy reserves and antioxidant defenses under physical stress. Headstrong pairs those with the same NSF Certified rigor you'd expect from any product you put in your body before contact — full transparency, clinical doses, nothing hidden in a blend.

Yes — that's one of the three core reasons people take Headstrong daily. Lion's Mane is studied for supporting Nerve Growth Factor and long-term neuron health, and the full formula is designed as a daily habit — like a multivitamin — rather than something you take only when you feel foggy.

Most people notice improvements in focus and afternoon energy within two to four weeks of daily use, as the ingredients build up and address the underlying causes rather than delivering a one-time spike.

Your first tub ships immediately, billed $31.99 monthly — 20% off the $39.99 one-time price. Skip, pause or cancel any time before the next billing date — no fees, no phone call.

One scoop. Every morning.

Protect it.
Sharpen it. Keep it.

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