Performance Lab’s brain line today is four products, and two of the names you probably searched for are gone. The old Mind page now sends you to Mind Lab Pro. The old Stim page now sends you to something called Caffeine 2. Energy and Sleep kept their names. So if you want focus with no caffeine, that’s Mind Lab Pro; a gentle caffeine pill, Caffeine 2; daytime energy with no caffeine, Energy; winding down at night, Sleep.
That’s the short version, folks.
I went through every page of the line on October 31, 2026, read each label top to bottom, and wrote it all into my notes. The renaming threw me at first (and I read these labels for fun). I typed in the old address for Mind and landed on a different product with a different price, and nobody on the page said a word about it. If that happened to you too, this is the map I wish I’d had.
Quick and important: I’m not a doctor, and none of this is medical advice. If you take any medication, you’re pregnant or nursing, you’re under 18, or you have a health condition, talk to your doctor or pharmacist before you try any of these. I’m also leaving the amounts out on purpose. How much of anything to take is a talk for your doctor, not a blog.
Here’s what I’ll cover:
- where Mind and Stim went, and what the old links open now
- what’s in Mind Lab Pro, and how much of the old Mind survived inside it
- what the trial behind Mind Lab Pro actually tested
- why Caffeine 2 is the one for coffee people
- what Energy holds, with no caffeine at all
- what’s in Sleep, and what the tart cherry study used
- the cost per serving across the whole line
- which one I’d start with
Where Mind and Stim Went
Here’s what I found when I typed the old addresses straight into the browser. The Mind product page opens Mind Lab Pro. The Stim product page opens Caffeine 2. Neither page mentions the old name, and the shop’s full product list, 23 items when I counted, has no “Mind” and no “Stim” in it anywhere.
Mind Lab Pro wasn’t new, by the way. It’s been around for years as the company’s bigger brain formula, sold on its own site. Now it sits in the Performance Lab shop too, right where Mind used to be.
I couldn’t find an announcement that Mind was retired, so I won’t call it that. What I can tell you is what the shop sells today. If you’ve got an old bottle of Mind in a drawer, the label on it still tells you what’s inside; it just isn’t what a new order ships.
READ: Performance Lab Mind vs Mind Lab Pro. Are They The Same Products?
Mind Lab Pro Took Mind’s Slot, and It’s a Bigger Formula
The old Mind was a tight little formula. It had four ingredients: citicoline, phosphatidylserine, N-acetyl L-tyrosine and maritime pine bark extract. I kinda liked that about it. Four things on the label means you can actually look each one up.
Mind Lab Pro has 11. And here’s the part that surprised me: all four of the old Mind’s ingredients are in there. Citicoline, phosphatidylserine, N-acetyl L-tyrosine and pine bark extract all made the trip. On top of them sit bacopa and lion’s mane (mycelium and fruit, the label says). Then L-theanine and rhodiola, plus three B vitamins: B6, B9, B12.
Every amount is printed on the label. There’s no proprietary blend hiding anything, which is more than I can say for half the brain products I’ve bought myself. You get two capsules per serving and 30 servings in a bottle, and there’s no caffeine in it.
Bigger isn’t better by itself, though. More ingredients in the same two capsules can mean less room for each one, and that’s the exact thing I check every time: what the studies used next to what’s in the capsule. I did that ingredient by ingredient in a separate post, so I won’t repeat it here.
READ: Every Mind Lab Pro Ingredient, and the Dose the Research Actually Used
The Trial Behind Mind Lab Pro, Read Closely
The product page says Mind Lab Pro was tested in three human trials. That’s more than most brain supplements can say, honestly. But I always read the paper, not the banner, and the memory trial is the one most people quote.
It came out in 2023 in the journal Human Psychopharmacology, from a team at the University of Leeds. 49 healthy adults finished it: 36 took Mind Lab Pro and 13 took a placebo, for 30 days. Everyone took a standard memory test (the Wechsler Memory Scale) at the start, then again after the 30 days. The Mind Lab Pro group improved on every memory subtest. The placebo group improved on two of them too, which happens when people take the same test twice.
Now the fine print. The paper calls the design “pseudo randomised,” not fully randomized. The two groups were very different sizes. And the product page itself says this study was funded by Performance Lab Group, the parent company, and that a second one was too. None of that makes the result fake. It does make it a starting point and not the final word, and I’d love to see a bigger trial run by someone with no stake in the bottle.
Caffeine 2 Is the One for Coffee People
Caffeine 2 is the old Stim idea under a new name. Each capsule holds natural caffeine from robusta coffee seeds plus L-theanine. Then there’s L-tyrosine, with four B vitamins: riboflavin, B6, folate, B12. Turns out the reviews of Stim I could find list the same three headline ingredients.
The pairing makes sense to me. L-theanine is the calm-making amino acid in tea, and caffeine plus theanine is one of the better studied combos in this whole field. Each capsule carries roughly half the caffeine of an 8-ounce cup of brewed coffee, which the FDA puts at about 80 to 100 milligrams. That’s the label talking, not a suggestion.
Here’s my one real warning. This is a caffeine product. If you already drink coffee, tea, soda or energy drinks, it all adds up across the day, and the label itself puts a cap on how many capsules to take in 24 hours. Caffeine late in the day wrecks sleep for a lot of people, me included. If you have a heart condition, high blood pressure or anxiety, or you take any medication, ask your doctor before adding more caffeine to your day.
READ: L-Theanine Nootropic Review
Energy Has No Caffeine at All
This one confuses people because of the name. Energy isn’t a stimulant. The label says caffeine-free, and it’s built around the parts of your cells that make energy, the mitochondria.
It has six ingredients: acetyl L-carnitine, R-lipoic acid, coenzyme Q10, PQQ, magnesium malate, and a little black pepper extract (BioPerine), which is there to help absorption. Two capsules per serving, 30 servings per bottle. The page suggests it for mornings or before a workout.
You probably won’t feel it the way you feel a coffee, and honestly, I’d be suspicious of anyone who promised that. CoQ10 is something your body makes on its own, and ALCAR and lipoic acid are ingredients with real research behind them, mostly in specific groups of people rather than tired-but-healthy office workers. If your energy has been low for weeks, I’d see a doctor before I bought anything. Low iron, thyroid trouble, poor sleep and plenty of other things look exactly like “tired,” and none of them get fixed in a capsule.
Sleep Leans on Tart Cherry and Magnesium
Sleep has the shortest label of the four. Magnesium (as bisglycinate and taurate) and Montmorency tart cherry, then L-tryptophan plus lemon balm. That’s it. No melatonin pill and no caffeine, and the label says it’s not habit-forming.
The tart cherry is the part I wanted to check, because it’s the one with the best-known study. In 2012, researchers in the UK gave 20 healthy adults tart cherry juice concentrate or a placebo drink for 7 days. On the cherry juice, melatonin in their urine went up, and their sleep trackers showed an average of 34 more minutes of sleep a night.
Here’s the catch, and it’s my favorite kind of catch. The studies used juice. Diluted concentrate, twice a day. Sleep uses a concentrated cherry powder in a capsule. That may or may not behave the same way, and nobody has run that trial on this product that I could find. 20 people for a week is also a small study, and a cherry juice company helped find the volunteers.
One more thing. If you’ve been sleeping badly for more than a few weeks, please tell your doctor before you reach for any sleep product. Snoring, waking up gasping, or being wiped out after a full night are worth a real checkup.
READ: Montmorency Tart Cherry – Info, Benefits, Dosage, Side Effects, and More
The Cost Per Serving, Side by Side
I always do this math, because a big monthly number hides what a single day costs you. These are the one-month prices on the shop on October 31, 2026, before any subscription discount.
Mind Lab Pro is $69 for a month, so about $2.30 a serving. Energy is also $69, about $2.30. Caffeine 2 is $44 for 30 capsules, about $1.47 each. Sleep is $44 too, about $1.47 a night. There was a holiday sale running the day I checked, and the Mind Lab Pro banner quoted $1.56 a day on a longer subscription, so you can pay less if you commit up front.
Buy all four at full price and you’re spending $226 a month. That’s a lot of money to put on something you haven’t tested one piece at a time. Which brings me to the last part.
Which One I’d Start With
Just one. Never two at once, and never the whole line. If you start four products on the same Monday and feel better by Friday, you’ve learned nothing about which one did it. My rule has been the same since 2021: one new thing, four weeks minimum, same sleep and same coffee, and I write a verdict down even when the verdict is “did nothing.”
If your problem is focus and you don’t want caffeine, Mind Lab Pro is the obvious one, and it’s the only product in the line with its own published trials. If you already drink coffee and want a smoother version, Caffeine 2 is the cheapest place to start, but count it toward your caffeine for the day. If you’re a coffee-free person who wants a daytime product, that’s Energy. If it’s sleep, start with your doctor and your bedtime habits, and Sleep comes after that.
Where the Brain Line Stands Now
Performance Lab’s brain line is now four products. Mind Lab Pro and Caffeine 2 cover the thinking part of your day; Energy and Sleep cover the rest. Mind’s four ingredients live on inside Mind Lab Pro, and Stim’s idea lives on in Caffeine 2. Every label shows its amounts, which I give them credit for, and only Mind Lab Pro has trials of its own, even if they’re small and the company paid for them.
Pick one, run it for four weeks, and check with your doctor first if anything in that safety note above fits you. Got a question about one of these labels? Leave it in the comments, I read every one. That would be it folks!
