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This user submitted for the same company 2 days ago[1] and was subsequently flag-killed, it's no surprised that they sponsored to write this article for TechCrunch as well.

Their product is Bacopa + L-Theanine + Caffeine, which other than the caffeine, shows little nootropic properties. L-Theanine has only been weakly shown to relax people, and has had no scientific consensus that it improves attention.[2] Bacopa has only 1 study citing any enhancements from attention, but those people had ADD; the only positive was a majority consensus that bacopa enhanced memory, but required significant (4-6 weeks) dosage in order to see measurable results.[3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9028594

[2] http://examine.com/supplements/Theanine/

[3] http://examine.com/supplements/Bacopa+monnieri/

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