Plant-based support for energy, focus, stamina and daily vitality
Energy Formula is a plant-based herbal energy supplement formulated with 14 botanical ingredients selected for their traditional associations with energy, alertness, stamina, focus, and resilience.*
The formula combines cacao bean, kola nut leaf, yerba mate leaf, guarana seed, damiana leaf, Panax ginseng root, ginkgo biloba leaf, tribulus root, suma root, fo-ti root, eleuthero root, green tea leaf, ashwagandha root, and rhodiola root.*
Unlike a single-ingredient energy supplement, Energy Formula brings together several botanical categories in one convenient formula. The blend includes naturally caffeinated plants, traditional adaptogens, roots, leaves, and other botanicals to provide a broad plant-based approach to everyday vitality.*
What is Energy Formula?
A multi-botanical supplement for everyday energy
Energy Formula is an herbal supplement designed for adults who want nutritional and botanical support for everyday energy, mental alertness, physical stamina, and an active lifestyle.*
It comes in convenient vegetarian capsules, providing an alternative to preparing individual herbal ingredients or relying on sugary ready-to-drink energy beverages.
The formula can be incorporated into a morning routine or another appropriate part of the day when additional botanical support for alertness and vitality fits your lifestyle.*
Energy Formula benefits
Energy and vitality
Energy levels can be influenced by many factors, including sleep, nutrition, hydration, physical activity, stress, and overall health.
A balanced wellness routine provides the foundation for maintaining normal energy throughout the day.
Energy Formula combines botanicals traditionally associated with energy and vitality.* Panax ginseng, guarana, yerba mate, kola nut, and rhodiola contribute different botanical traditions to the formula's overall energy-support profile.
Focus and mental alertness
Botanical support for demanding days
Mental alertness depends on adequate rest, balanced nutrition, hydration, and normal nervous-system function.
Maintaining healthy daily habits can support your ability to stay attentive during work, study, exercise, travel, and other mentally demanding activities.
Several ingredients in Energy Formula have traditionally been incorporated into preparations associated with focus and mental alertness.*
Ginkgo biloba, Panax ginseng, green tea, yerba mate, and guarana contribute distinct botanical components to this aspect of the formula.
Stamina and endurance
Supporting sustained physical and mental activity
Stamina refers to the ability to sustain physical or mental activity over time.
Regular exercise, appropriate recovery, sufficient nutrition, quality sleep, and adequate hydration are fundamental for developing and maintaining endurance.
Energy Formula contains several botanicals traditionally associated with stamina and physical endurance.*
Ginseng, rhodiola, eleuthero, suma, and tribulus give the formula a diverse botanical profile for adults interested in maintaining an active lifestyle.
Energy for active lifestyles
Botanical support alongside exercise and recovery
People who exercise regularly or maintain physically demanding routines often pay particular attention to energy, stamina, and recovery.
Nutrition before and after physical activity, sufficient sleep, hydration, and appropriate training volume remain important foundations for physical performance.
Energy Formula can complement those habits by providing a concentrated botanical blend centered around vitality and stamina.*
It may fit into a broader wellness routine for adults who want convenient plant-based support for active days.
Stress resilience and adaptogens
More than stimulating botanicals
Adaptogens are botanicals traditionally used in herbal wellness practices in relation to the body's response to everyday physical and mental demands.*
Energy Formula contains several herbs commonly discussed within this category, including:
Ashwagandha
Rhodiola
Eleuthero
Panax ginseng
These botanicals give Energy Formula a component focused on resilience and vitality rather than relying exclusively on naturally stimulating plants.*
This distinction makes Energy Formula a diverse blend of both energy-oriented botanicals and herbs traditionally associated with adaptation to everyday stress.
Antioxidant support
Plant compounds beyond energy and stamina
Many botanicals naturally contain polyphenols and other compounds with antioxidant activity.*
A diet rich in colorful fruits, vegetables, herbs, teas, and other plant foods remains an important way to obtain a broad variety of these compounds.
Green tea, cacao, and several other ingredients in Energy Formula provide naturally occurring polyphenols and phytonutrients.*
Their presence adds another botanical dimension to a formula primarily centered around energy, alertness, focus, and stamina.
Does Energy Formula contain caffeine?
Naturally caffeinated botanicals
Yes. Energy Formula contains several botanicals that naturally provide caffeine.*
Kola nut, yerba mate, guarana, and green tea are recognized botanical sources of naturally occurring caffeine. Cacao also contains methylxanthines, including theobromine.*
Because of this ingredient profile, Energy Formula should not be considered a caffeine-free or stimulant-free supplement.
People who are sensitive to caffeine should consider these naturally caffeinated ingredients when evaluating their overall daily caffeine intake.
Kola nut and natural caffeine
A traditional stimulating botanical
Kola nut is a traditional botanical source of caffeine and has historically been incorporated into preparations intended to promote alertness and vitality.*
Within Energy Formula, it contributes to the formula's naturally stimulating botanical profile.
Yerba mate and alertness
A traditional South American botanical
Yerba mate is a South American botanical traditionally prepared as a beverage.
Its leaves naturally contain caffeine and other plant compounds, making yerba mate a popular ingredient in supplements and beverages formulated around energy and alertness.*
Guarana and energy
A naturally caffeine-rich seed
Guarana is a plant native to the Amazon region whose seeds naturally contain caffeine.*
Because of this characteristic, guarana commonly appears in herbal energy supplements and beverages formulated around alertness and vitality.
Green tea and caffeine
Caffeine plus naturally occurring polyphenols
Green tea leaves naturally contain caffeine as well as catechins and other polyphenols.*
This combination of naturally occurring caffeine and plant compounds makes green tea a common ingredient in formulas centered around alertness and energy.
Adaptogenic herbs in Energy Formula
Panax ginseng
Panax ginseng has a long history of use in traditional Asian herbal practices and is commonly associated with vitality, stamina, and mental alertness.*
It remains one of the better-known botanical ingredients used in energy- and performance-oriented supplements.
Rhodiola
Rhodiola is traditionally used as an adaptogenic herb and is commonly associated with endurance, resilience, and the body's response to physical and mental demands.*
Its role in Energy Formula complements the formula's more directly stimulating botanicals.
Ashwagandha
Ashwagandha is another traditional adaptogenic botanical.*
It is widely incorporated into contemporary herbal products centered around stress management, resilience, and general vitality.*
Eleuthero
Eleuthero, sometimes called Siberian ginseng, is botanically different from Panax ginseng.*
It has traditionally been used in herbal preparations associated with endurance, stamina, and resilience.*
Additional botanicals in Energy Formula
Cacao bean
Cacao bean naturally provides cocoa compounds, including theobromine and polyphenols.*
Theobromine is a methylxanthine related to caffeine, although the two compounds have different properties.
Damiana
Damiana is a traditional botanical incorporated into herbal preparations associated with vitality and general wellness.*
It adds another leaf-based botanical to the formula's diverse ingredient profile.
Ginkgo biloba
Ginkgo biloba leaf has traditionally been used in herbal practices focused on cognitive and circulatory wellness.*
Its inclusion adds a botanical component traditionally associated with mental alertness and healthy circulation.
Tribulus
Tribulus is a traditional botanical that has been incorporated into herbal preparations associated with physical vitality and athletic wellness.*
Suma root
Suma root is a South American botanical traditionally used as a tonic herb.*
It has historically been associated with vitality, endurance, and general physical wellness.
Fo-ti root
Fo-ti, also known as He Shou Wu, has a long history of use in traditional Chinese herbal practices.*
It has traditionally been associated with vitality and longevity.
Energy Formula vs. Electric Greens Combo
Targeted energy support vs. broad greens nutrition
Dherbs Energy Formula and Electric Greens Combo are both plant-based supplements, but they have distinctly different purposes.
Energy Formula combines 14 botanicals with an emphasis on energy, alertness, focus, stamina, and resilience.* Its ingredients include naturally caffeinated plants such as guarana, yerba mate, kola nut, and green tea, along with adaptogenic botanicals including rhodiola, ashwagandha, eleuthero, and Panax ginseng.*
Electric Greens Combo focuses instead on plant-based nutritional support. Its 12-ingredient formula includes alfalfa, kelp, spirulina, chlorella, moringa, barley grass, wheat grass, parsley, nettle, gotu kola, spinach, and oatstraw.*
Choose Energy Formula when your primary goal is targeted botanical support for energy, focus, and stamina.
Consider Electric Greens Combo when you want a broader greens supplement centered around plant-derived nutrients and everyday nutritional wellness.*
Energy Formula vs. Multi-Vitamins and Minerals
Energy-focused botanicals vs. daily nutritional support
These products may both complement an active lifestyle, but they approach wellness differently.
Energy Formula is specifically centered around botanical ingredients traditionally associated with energy, mental alertness, stamina, focus, and resilience.*
Dherbs Multi-Vitamins and Minerals is designed for broader daily nutritional support. Its formula combines 10 nutrient-rich plants and algae, including kelp, alfalfa, amla, hemp seed, black seed, goji berry, moringa, spirulina, dulse, and Irish moss.*
Choose Energy Formula when you're specifically looking for an herbal energy supplement.
Consider Multi-Vitamins and Minerals when your priority is obtaining broader plant-derived vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients as part of your daily nutritional routine.*
Multi-Vitamins and Minerals may contribute to general vitality, but it is not formulated around the same naturally caffeinated and adaptogenic botanical profile as Energy Formula.
Energy Formula vs. a cup of coffee
Multi-botanical formula vs. a familiar caffeinated beverage
Coffee and Energy Formula can both provide caffeine, but they are not equivalent.
Coffee primarily provides caffeine along with naturally occurring coffee polyphenols and other compounds.
Energy Formula combines several naturally caffeinated botanicals—kola nut, yerba mate, guarana, and green tea—with adaptogenic and traditional wellness herbs including Panax ginseng, rhodiola, ashwagandha, eleuthero, ginkgo biloba, suma, tribulus, damiana, and fo-ti.*
The key difference is therefore the formula's botanical diversity, not an absence of caffeine.
People who already drink coffee, tea, energy drinks, or other caffeinated beverages should consider their total caffeine intake when adding Energy Formula to their routine.
Energy Formula vs. conventional energy drinks
Herbal capsules vs. ready-to-drink energy products
Energy Formula provides an alternative format for people who prefer vegetarian capsules instead of a ready-to-drink energy beverage.
The formula uses botanicals associated with energy and alertness alongside traditional adaptogenic herbs rather than relying on one botanical alone.*
Energy Formula does, however, contain naturally caffeinated ingredients. Choosing a botanical supplement does not automatically mean choosing a caffeine-free product.
When comparing Energy Formula with an energy drink, consider the complete ingredient list, caffeine sources, serving directions, and how each product fits into your overall daily routine.
Energy Formula and an active lifestyle
Supplements should complement the fundamentals
An energy supplement cannot replace the foundations of physical and mental performance.
Regular movement, sufficient calories and nutrients, adequate protein, hydration, quality sleep, and appropriate recovery all contribute to maintaining normal energy and stamina.
Energy Formula can be incorporated into this broader approach as a convenient source of multiple botanical ingredients.*
It may be particularly appealing to adults who prefer capsules over sugary energy drinks and want a plant-based energy formula combining stimulating and adaptogenic botanicals.
Energy Formula and daily focus
Support for busy and mentally demanding days
Long workdays, study sessions, travel, workouts, and demanding schedules can place greater emphasis on maintaining normal alertness.
Regular breaks, adequate sleep, hydration, balanced meals, and effective stress management remain important strategies for maintaining concentration and mental performance.
Energy Formula provides several botanicals traditionally associated with alertness and mental clarity.*
Ginkgo biloba, Panax ginseng, yerba mate, green tea, and guarana contribute to this aspect of the formula.
Why choose an herbal energy supplement?
Multiple botanical approaches in one formula
Herbal energy supplements provide an alternative to conventional ready-to-drink energy products.
Energy Formula uses a multi-botanical approach and comes in vegetarian capsules, providing a convenient way to incorporate several traditional herbs into your daily supplement routine.*
Rather than relying on a single ingredient, the formula combines:
Naturally caffeinated botanicals for alertness and energy.*
Adaptogenic herbs traditionally associated with resilience.*
Botanicals associated with stamina and physical vitality.*
Plant compounds and polyphenols that contribute additional nutritional diversity.*
This combination distinguishes Energy Formula from both single-ingredient caffeine supplements and general daily nutritional formulas.
Who may be interested in Energy Formula?
Plant-based energy for busy and active adults
Energy Formula may appeal to adults looking for plant-based support for:
Everyday energy
Mental alertness
Focus and concentration
Physical stamina
Endurance
Active lifestyles
Daily vitality and resilience
It can fit into routines involving work, study, exercise, travel, or other activities requiring sustained attention and activity.*
People who are particularly sensitive to caffeine or who already consume substantial amounts of caffeine should take the formula's naturally caffeinated ingredients into consideration.
100 vegetarian capsules per bottle