Ingredients & Nutrition

Stimulants can be excellent performance enhancers. They can provide an edge when you need it or just a boost when you’re feeling drowsy. The ancient herb Yerba Mate is both intensely stimulating and intensely healthful. It’s been honored since ancient times by the people of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, where it was treated as a sacred gift from the gods and even used as currency at certain points in history.  

  If you flip to the ingredients list of your sports drink, gel, or bar, you’ve likely seen a few of these sweeteners on the list: tapioca syrup, sucrose, maple syrup, stevia, etc. If they’re all just aiming to sweeten a food, then why do so many types of sweeteners get used? Because in performance nutrition, sweeteners serve more purpose than just enhancing flavor...

Why is it so difficult to just eat while you run? Or rather, to just not eat while you run? It should be simple, righ...

Oxygen is both essential and powerful. Every cell depends on it, but it also liberates free radicals that wreak havoc on the body and may contribute to fatigue and inflammation from exercise.

Today is a great day to feel blue, well even if you’ve been feeling blue all month that’s okay because July is National Blueberry Month. Tiny, juicy, and full of antioxidants, the blueberry certainly deserves more celebration than just a single month, but here we are and the flavors are explosive.  

Do you know the difference between a Natural Flavor and an Artificial Flavor? Sounds easy enough to decipher and most answers lean to petroleum... which is mostly correct. It turns out that the main difference is the fact that natural flavors are just a good way of enticing customers, whereas the term “artificial” definitely makes most of us run for the hills! But nutritionally, they are the same thing. Let me say that again, artificial and natural flavors, are the SAME THING nutritionally! 

MUIR Energy makes use of Yerba Mate to give you the boost and mental alertness that you need to fuel your adventure!

I can honestly say that using Muir Energy is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made for my nutrition as an endurance athlete—no more burps, no more upset stomach, and no more of the bad kind of runs while out on the trails.

As a professional mountain guide, I have to take good care of my body: plenty of sleep, lots of exercise, and — as much as possible — real, nourishing foods. But as much as I value home-cooked meals, I’m often living out of a tent or a duffel bag. In the past twelve months, I’ve spent more than a hundred days in the mountains! It’s not easy to find portable, shelf-stable sources of energy that aren’t packed full of chemicals — and that’s why I’m such a fan of Muir Energy. The gel packets are easy to throw into my parka pocket or backpack. The ingredients are things I can pronounce. And my body feels so much better when I’m not eating neon-colored slime.