The playbook
Mix it yourself.
Dose-first guides — every ingredient weighed, every number printed, the exact opposite of a prop blend label.
The $100 lab bench
Read this page like a Supplement Facts panel — every item disclosed, every number printed, nothing hidden inside a blend. The full bench, itemized at street prices.
Read the guide →Make your own pre-workout
The average top-100 pre-workout prints 18 ingredients and discloses the doses of barely half — 44.3% sit inside proprietary blends. This page prints every number: four ingredients, four doses, $0.67 a serving.
Read the guide →Brew your own energy drinks
No prop blends, no hidden doses — the energy-drink label is already a recipe. Here it is weighed out: every ingredient, every dose, every cost. ≈ $0.40–0.60 per liter against a $2–3.50 can.
Read the guide →Fill your own capsules
The opposite of a proprietary blend: a capsule you filled yourself, dose weighed and written on the jar. Cost of entry — a $20 machine and $15 per thousand empties. First disclosure: capsule sizes are volumes, not milligrams.
Read the guide →DIY electrolytes & sports drinks
Read the panel before the price tag: 1,000 mg sodium, 200 mg potassium, 60 mg magnesium — the flagship electrolyte brand discloses every dose, which means the only proprietary thing in a $1.50 stick is the markup.
Read the guide →The bench
Under $150, all in.
The seven-piece starter kit — a milligram scale, capsule machine, jars and desiccant. Costs less than two tubs of branded pre-workout; pays for itself inside a month.
- Milligram scale~$25
- Kitchen scale~$12
- Capsule machine$18–40
- Empty capsules~$15 / 1,000
- Mortar & sifter$5–15
- Amber jars + desiccant$15–25
- Labels + log~$5
- ~$75–120 all-in — under $150 with a first ingredient order
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