V1 Nutra Cotton Candy Grape

V1 has created quite the name for themselves throughout the years for their high quality, premium pre-workout powders. Their V1 4.0 Pre-workout certainly brings a lot to the table. Featuring clinical doses of ingredients touted to enhance blood flow, endurance, energy, and focus in the gym, 4.0 certainly brings a lot to the table. It's important to note that 4.0 does so with only 200mg caffeine, which makes this a great option for daily use!

While we're at it, let's dive head first into this doozy of a formula, shall we?

Supplement Facts

Blood Flow and Performance

V1 Nutra 4.0's obvious strong suit is blood flow, and let me tell you, it's loaded! It starts off with 8,000mg L-citrulline; an amino acid and precursor to the holy grail of blood flow enhancing compounds, nitric oxide. Nitric oxide expands blood vessels through a process called vasodilation. This mechanism allows more blood to be delivered to your muscles, and also removes waste products on its way out. As blood is the carrier of oxygen and nutrients to muscle tissue, increases in blood flow proves to be especially beneficial for exercise performance.

To stack onto that, 4.0 features a clinical dose of Nutrition21's patented ingredient, NooLVL. It acts similarly to L-citrulline, but also has documented nootropic effects as well. These include increases in selective attention, focus, cognition, processing speed, and accuracy. One of our personal favorites here at Goated!

V1 4.0 also features 250mg of CitraPeak, a plant-based NNB Nutrition ingredient that's been shown increase thermogenesis. This mechanism expands blood vessels and allows more blood to circulate the body. It also is rich in antioxidants, which promotes endothelial relaxation (the inner lining of blood vessels) to once again, increase blood flow. For a further thermogenic effect, 4.0 features 20mg ProGBB which will further dilate vessels.

Other ingredients used to enhance blood flow in V1 4.0 include L-norvaline blocks an enzyme that breaks down arginine, which leads to higher levels of nitric oxide within the body. To round off the blood flow complex, 4.0 features 2500mg betaine anhydrous which acts as an osmolyte to promote hydration.

Energy

To kick off this energy complex, V1 4.0 keeps things simple, yet efficient. The intention of this pre-workout is to provide a well-rounded, lower stimulant pre-workout that's safe for daily use. And boy, does it do exactly that.

V1 4.0 packs 200 of caffeine anhydrous; everyone's favorite central nervous system stimulant that increases energy, focus, and thermogenesis. For the second and final ingredient in this energy complex, V1 4.0 features 100mg of the xanthine derivative, theobromine. It provides longer-lasting energy and also plays a role in preventing crash.

Focus

V1 4.0 places a heavy emphasis on the focus aspect within this product. To kick off the focus complex, V1 4.0 features 1600mg NooLVL. As previously mentioned, NooLVL is a patented ingredient developed by Nutrition21 that poses significant nootropic effects. NooLVL has been extensively researched in gamers, and the results are astounding!

A study conducted in a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study derived of healthy men and women who spent five or more hours playing video games each week showed that supplementation with 1,600mg NooLVL increased energy, focus, selective attention, accuracy, and sped up reaction time. And these effects take place fast; in approximately fifteen minutes!

V1 4.0 also includes 1,500mg L-tyrosine; an amino acid that increases dopamine and noradrenaline levels within the body. Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter that promotes focus, cognition, and provides a slight euphoric feel. Tyrosine is one of the most popular nootropic ingredients on the market and is particularly useful when supplemented before bouts of acute stress, like working out. This makes it an especially beneficial addition to a pre-workout powder, which is why V1 opted to utilize its benefits in V1 4.0.

It would be challenging to formulate a solid focus complex without mentioning acetylcholine. Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter that increases focus, cognition, and muscle contractions; because of this, increases in acetylcholine proves to be especially beneficial for performance training. V1 opted to use 750mg DMAE within their 4.0 formula, which indeed is an acetylcholine precursor and poses the previously mentioned benefits of increased acetylcholine. How it does so is not quite understood. It's believed that DMAE crosses the blood-brain barrier, is then methylated into choline, and finally acetylated to form acetylcholine.

V1 4.0 also features a clinical dose of CognatIQ to increase BDNF levels. BDNF serves as a neurotransmitter modulator and plays a role in neuronal plasticity, which is essential for memory and learning. Studies suggest that BDNF enhances neuronal growth and also modulates dendritic growth. To stack on to that, BDNF also plays a role in protecting the heart and vasculature from disease processes along with aiding in prevention of neurological diseases.

To round out the focus complex, V1 4.0 features 200mcg of Huperzine A; an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor that prevents the breakdown of acetylcholine. As previously mentioned, acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter thats been shown to increase focus, cognition, and muscle contractions. Huperzine pairs especially well with acetylcholine precursors such as DMAE, which can be found within this formula. 

Miscellaneous

Finally, V1 4.0 features a clinical dose of NuLiv Science's patented absorption ingredients, AstraGin. AstraGin has many benefits and works well in almost any formula. It's mechanism is fairly simple; it increases the number of transporter proteins present in the gut. These transporter proteins are responsible for carrying nutrients to the wall of the intestine, which are then absorbed into the body to be utilized. 

Studies show that AstraGin significantly increases the absorption of arginine, lysine, glucose, creatine, beta-alanine, choline, citrulline, BCAA's, carnitine, and fatty acids. It essentially makes the ingredients in a product more bioavailable, which allows more of said ingredient to be absorbed and put to use.

Details

V1 Cotton Candy Grape is currently available on V1's website for $52.99 for 30 full servings. 4.0 is available in eleven flavors: 

1. Cotton Candy Grape
2. Strawberry Banana
3. Artic Beast
4. Blue Hawaiian
5. Gummy Shark
6. Ice Pop Slushy
7. Mango Peach Rings
8. Strawberry Margarita
9. Slaughter Punch
10. Candy Cantaloupe
11. Wildin' Watermelon
12. Blue Raspberry
13. Gushin' Gummy

Athlete codes (code STOLL) are available for 15% off (linked here)

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