Why Morning Would Is Superior To Early Bird Morning Cocktail

Hello ladies and gentleman. Over the last coupla weeks, you’ve seen us dismantle some fierce foes. First we took down Prime, and after that, we explained to you why you should go for a glass of Morning Would rather than needlessly abuse caffeine. But today, we are going after our fiercest rival yet: EarlyBird Morning Cocktail. 

Early Bird (the company) is absolutely insane. These guys are doing numbers. They push more volume than Escobar in Narcos at the peak of his Columbian empire… okay, maybe not thaaaat much - but check this out:

1 million bottles of Blood Orange Mimosa since 2019. Can you say social proof? Don’t care if they are our rival - you gotta respect their success. But is their formula really that great? Let’s take a look. 

Morning Would Vs EarlyBird Morning Cocktail

Off the rip, we notice a few things we already don’t like. Namely, two proprietary blends: the EarlyBird Clean Energy Blend and the EarlyBird Motivation Blend. 

Just Say No To Proprietary Blends

If you didn’t know, prop blends suck. Why do they suck? Because the creator of the product can use them to obfuscate what is actually with their product. Let us explain.

Here is the guidance directly from the FDA’s website (21 CFR 101.36(b)(2) and ©):

“You must identify proprietary blends by use of the term "Proprietary Blend" or an appropriately descriptive term or fanciful name. On the same line, you must list the total weight of all "other dietary ingredients" contained in the blend. Indented underneath the name of the blend, you must list the "other dietary ingredients" in the blend, either in a column or linear fashion, in descending order of predominance by weight. These ingredients should be followed by a symbol referring to the footnote "Daily Value Not Established." Dietary ingredients having RDIs or DRVs must be listed separately and the individual weights declared.”

“In descending order of predominance by weight” Hmm. What do you think that means? 

Let’s use EarlyBird as an example. The EarlyBird Clean Energy Blend above is a total of 575 mg. Per the FDA guidance, these must be listed in descending order of weight so of that 575 mg, L-Tyrosine has the highest weight and L-Theanine would have the lowest. 

There’s the rub. 

L-Tyrosine could be 567 mg, and then each subsequent ingredient could be 1 mg after that adding up to 575 mg. While that’s not what we are suggesting EarlyBird is doing, many, many, supplement companies have been caught doing this in the past. 

There are soooo many reasons you want to avoid proprietary blends:

1. You are likely not getting efficacious doses

2. Companies can skimp on useful ingredients and give you only filler/additives

3. BS Marketing Techniques “the Magic Motivation Formula”

4. Lack of transparency/trust

There are nine ingredients in the prop blend. Nine. 

And even though the ingredients in the blend aren’t all that bad, you simply don’t know what you are getting. For example, in Morning Would, we use 1 g of L-Tyrosine which we plainly state right on the bottle. 

Not only are we transparent about what we are using, we feel 1 g is a much better dose than whatever is in the EarlyBird Blend, which we know, at maximum, is no more than 575 mg or, a little over half 1 g. 

The more likely scenario is that they use something like 200 to 250 mg of L-Tyrosine so they can hit you with 100 to 200 mg of PurCaf which is just organic caffeine (1), but we will never know because they are using prop blends. 

Now, we want to take a second here to acknowledge why a company would use a prop blend and it’s pretty simple. Thieves. You see… companies might use prop blends to intentionally obfuscate their label because this industry is full of thieves looking to rip off any product they can. It’s just a risk we chose to take. We value Transparency and Trust over anything. 

The Magic Motivation Formula

Now, while the Clean Energy Blend is decent at best (probably just a caffeine substitute), the Motivation Blend is just plain bad. 

While it might be personal conjecture, nobody here at Morning Would HQ has had any good experiences with Ashwagandha on a long enough timeline.

And since it’s the first ingredient of a three ingredient prop blend, we know that it has the highest percent of that 500 mg. Could it be 100 mg, 200 mg? We don’t know.

We didn't even mention the performance benefits yet...

But even if it was 498 mg, we would argue that it’s not the best ingredient. Ashwanganda has some solid evidence for reducing anxiety. We don’t know if it improves motivation. 

Not only that, but if you take it for too long, you can start to become anhedonic. Nothing but a joyless zombie unable to see the joys of life (rare but can happen).

Of course, this Motivation Blend could simply just be another way to add caffeine. The third ingredient is Coffee Berry (2). 

Morning Would Motivation Ingredients

If you wanna feel motivated, stop abusing stimulants. Use them when the time is right: competition, PRs, athletic events. We are the first to admit we love coffee, but you don’t need to be jacked up on caffeine to go to the office, or every day in the gym.

That’s one of the reasons we left caffeine out. We wanted you to have the choice of when you want to use it. But while we left out caffeine, we did not leave out energy, focus and motivation. 

Take a look at L-Tyrosine, Betaine Anhydrous, Huperzine A, Alpha GPC. That’s stimulant free motivation right there.

Morning Would gives motivation without the crash. 

Supercharged Hydration?

The last thing left to cover between Morning Would and EarlyBird is the hydration formulas. The thing is - there isn’t too much to say. The formulas are transparent on both supplements and the facts are the facts: Morning Would is just a bit better than EarlyBird.

EB Hydration Formula

MW Hydration Formula

The most notable difference between the two is that we don’t use calcium. In fact, most hydration beverages don’t use calcium. And that’s because you don’t really sweat out calcium as much as sodium, potassium or magnesium.

Calcium is good, don’t get us wrong, but we felt Magnesium was more important. As for sodium and potassium, we simply give more. 80 and 100 mg more per serving, respectively. 

If you want to know more about electrolytes, check out what we did to Prime. 

Conclusion

In the end, EarlyBird appears to us to be just another caffeinated beverage. The prop blends prevent us from knowing what exactly we get in each serving, but we do know it's probably a decent amount of caffeine. Nothing wrong with that - if it’s what you want. 

But we here at Morning Would want more for you. We list each and every ingredient on the bottle and can defend every dose down to the very end.

There’s no hiding behind labels here. On top of that, we didn’t even go through half of our ingredients and the formula is still better than EarlyBird.

So if you want a stim-free hydration beverage that has God tier mental clarity and recovery, be sure get yourself a bottle. 

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PS - If you don’t believe us, check out some of our recent testimonials.