I’m always on the lookout for ways to gain an advantage and get the most out of life. I don’t mean this in a “hustle-bro,” “grind for life” sort of way.
As of this writing, I’m 40 years old with a wife and kids. That type of life is not only impossible but also unappealing.
Rather, what I’m looking for is a way to lock in when I need to, and let loose when it’s time to chill, relax, and recharge with my friends and family.
I want to accomplish the former without any hard stimulants—I already drink enough coffee, and I enjoy the occasional Celsius—and I want to accomplish the latter without alcohol, as I’ve been sober since December 23rd, 2013.
One day while browsing my X feed, I noticed that the founding of Ramp Health was following me, and they produce a very interesting supplement called “B4” that seemed to hit both birds with one stone.
When I messaged him about trying it out, he told me to hold off for about two months, as he was in the middle of a rebrand. I admit I thought that was strange, but I didn’t realize the rebrand was also a product redesign.
Ramp Health has become The Outgoing Co., and B4 has become Outty.
These changes are not just in name, but in formula and company goals, and reflect something that I’m guessing TJ Biongiorno—the founder—figured out after over 35,000 people used his product:
This is good at what I wanted it to do, but I can make this even better
That “something else” is what I describe as “focus without the jitters,” “extroversion without alcohol,” and “controlled, sustainable motivation.”
The rest of this article will review Outty, why it’s something that people who want to be outgoing without drinking need, and how it’s also dramatically improved the quality and quantity of my work.
But to appreciate all those improvements, you first have to understand how the original B4 was set up and what it likely accomplished.
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B4 and Ramp Health
Currently, Ramp Health redirects to the new Outgoing Co site, but the old marketing angle of B4 was, “B4 is a caffeine-free, custom-formulated nootropic stack designed to help with social anxiety and promote enhanced cognition & verbal fluency to assist in priming your physiological state for any social setting.”
The original B4 had seven ingredients:
L-Theanine: The Noise Filter
L-theanine helps quiet mental noise without slowing you down. It works by smoothing out the brain’s excitatory signals, which reduces background stress while keeping your mind clear and engaged.
What this feels like is calm alertness. Your thoughts are less scattered, you’re less anxious, and it’s easier to focus and communicate—especially in conversations or mentally demanding situations. You’re relaxed, but not dulled or sleepy.
Emoxypine (Emoxypine Succinate): The Anxiety Killer
Emoxypine helps keep your brain balanced under stress. It supports the systems that decide when your mind should speed up and when it should slow down.
Emoxypine activates both glutamate and GABA. Glutamate is the brain’s primary excitatory neurotransmitter, responsible for learning, memory, and mental activation—it’s what turns thoughts “on.”
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the brain’s primary inhibitory neurotransmitter, responsible for calming neural activity and preventing overstimulation—it’s what keeps those thoughts from running out of control.
In the brain, glutamate acts like a gas pedal, pushing alertness and mental activity, while GABA works like the brakes, helping you stay calm and in control.
Stress is like hitting a patch of ice.
The brakes don’t work, the gas pedal causes you to lose control, and you can’t get any traction no matter what you do—a crash is right around the corner. Except instead of this being a car, it’s your emotional state.
Emoxypine helps steady that balance. It keeps the “gas” from being pressed too hard while making sure the “brakes” still work when you need them. It’s like the anti-slip system in a car when you hit a patch of ice. The result is a calmer, more even mood when you’re stressed.
Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis): The Social Ease Agent
Lemon balm helps you sustain calm feelings by slowing the breakdown of GABA, the brain’s main calming neurotransmitter. It does this by inhibiting GABA-transaminase, the enzyme responsible for clearing GABA after it’s been used.
By helping GABA’s calming signals last a bit longer, lemon balm can reduce nervous tension and help you feel more at ease—often without the heavy, drowsy feeling associated with stronger sedatives.
Eria Jarensis Extract: The Drive Regulator
Eria Jarensis is believed to act as a TAAR1 agonist, a receptor that regulates monoamine systems such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin. Rather than directly dumping more neurotransmitters into the brain, the way traditional stimulants do, TAAR1 activation appears to fine-tune how these signals are handled, improving efficiency and balance.
The result is a mild boost in motivation and alertness that feels smooth and controlled rather than jittery or overstimulating.
Ashwagandha: The Stress Buffer
This is probably the most well-known ingredient on the list. Ashwagandha helps your body handle stress more efficiently instead of just masking it. It works by supporting healthy cortisol levels—the hormone that rises when you’re under pressure—while also reinforcing the brain’s calming systems that keep stress from spiraling.
What this feels like in practice is stressful situations that feel easier to manage, and once they pass, you calm down faster rather than staying wound up.
Agmatine Sulfate: The Mood Anchor
Agmatine sulfate is a metabolite of the amino acid arginine that plays a regulatory role in the brain and nervous system. It helps modulate stress signaling, support healthy neurotransmitter balance, and improve blood flow.
Agmatine sulfate helps protect your mental energy when stress starts to wear you down. It works by dialing back overactive stress signals in the brain and supporting healthier blood flow, which helps keep your thinking from feeling strained or depleted.
The idea is that it leads to a more stable mood and less mental fatigue, especially during long or demanding days. You’re less likely to feel mentally “fried” by stress, and it’s easier to stay steady and clear-headed as pressure adds up.
Oroxylum indicum extract (Sabroxy®): The Focus Amplifier
Oroxylum indicum extract (Sabroxy®) is a plant-based compound known for its nootropic effects on focus and motivation. Rather than stimulating the nervous system directly, it works by enhancing dopamine signaling and supporting neural plasticity, helping the brain stay engaged, adaptable, and mentally efficient.
What this feels like is clearer thinking and easier engagement with tasks. You’re more mentally present and motivated to work through problems, but without the nervous energy, jitters, or anxiety that often come with traditional stimulants.
I didn’t get a chance to try the old B4, but based on the ingredients, I would guess that B4 made a person feel locked in, slightly energized, yet relaxed.
More specifically, it likely reduced background anxiety and self-consciousness while sharpening attention and verbal fluency, putting users in a mentally “on” state without the jitteriness of caffeine or the emotional looseness of alcohol.
In other words, the original B4 appears to have been designed to reduce the internal friction that makes social interaction and focused work feel effortful—quieting the nervous system just enough to stay present and engaged, while still maintaining control and clarity.
Two user reviews of the old B4 formula more or less confirm my thoughts:
- “I enjoyed using this formula before sitting down to do work (both deep focused work, and busy work). I found it really easy to get and stay focused, even during mundane work.”
- “The ‘mood bump’ you get after taking it was noticeable, and I’d likely attribute that to the eria jarensis, agmatine, and sabroxy. These ingredients all provide a boost in monoamine signaling, but it’s not overwhelming like you took a stimulant. Combine that with the calming effect from the rest of the ingredients and it’s a fantastic combo. The best way I can describe the effect it had on me is it promoted ‘a unique calm alertness’.“
- “It put me in a slightly euphoric state, and I ended up having a very productive 2 hours of creative writing intermixed with my usual daily correspondences.”
- My final test was drinking it about 2 hours before I went live on Twitter (this was the night before last). I fielded questions for about 45 minutes. Did it help? IT DID. I’m well-practiced with rapid-fire Q&As, but I felt mentally sharp the entire time, with no mental fatigue. Excellent. This stuff WORKS.
Clearly, the stuff works as intended, but an interesting use case came up—apparently, word got out that it makes a pretty good non-stim pre-workout.
Looking at the ingredients, I can see how people might reach that conclusion given the agmatine sulfate and its effects on nitric oxide, but the rest of the formula seems almost anti-pre-workout.
With that said, let’s take a look at what the two old reviews said about it through this lens.
“One of my favorite (and least expected) use cases was as a pre-workout nootropic. I had heard from others that they really enjoyed it pre-workout, but I was skeptical because it should in theory have an inhibiting effect. This wasn’t my experience though, I was locked in my whole lift and was hitting PRs”
On the other hand, Alexander Cortes says, “I did want to see what would happen if I used it before a workout, so the next day I mixed with an energy drink (a zero carlorie monster specifically, they only have 140mg of caffeine). Similarly, I felt good, although with the added caffeine edge of increased adrenaline release. It was a good workout (it was a leg day). I would not suggest it as a preworkout perse, but the “Im feeling good vibe” clearly was present.”
My best guess is that some people struggle with working, out not because they lack physical energy, but because their mood and motivation are misaligned with the task. When you’re anxious, distracted, or self-conscious, working out can feel harder to start and not rewarding enough to keep you going.
There are a few ingredients in the old B4 formula that could plausibly make working out more enjoyable.
Eria Jarensis, agmatine sulfate, and Oroxylin A (Sabroxy®) all influence monoamine signaling—particularly dopamine and norepinephrine—which are closely tied to motivation, reward anticipation, and task engagement.
Rather than acting like a pre-workout, these ingredients likely made the effort feel more rewarding and less aversive, increasing the likelihood that someone would enjoy training once they started. And if you’re having fun, you’ll feel more motivated to do it.
At the same time, L-theanine, lemon balm, ashwagandha, and emoxypine would have reduced anxiety and emotional friction by enhancing GABAergic signaling and stress tolerance.
In other words, it makes you calmer, less worried, and reduces your self-consciousness to negligible levels.
When the “noise” of your nervous system is lower, it’s easier to work out and focus, so lifting in the gym becomes more of an immersive experience instead of something to fight through.
Ironically enough, in the pre-workout context, the original B4 wasn’t increasing performance by ramping you up and giving you more energy—it was doing almost the opposite.
B4 was great, but hit a ceiling
The great thing about the original B4 formulation is that this exact same mechanism—more motivation, less worry, and silence from your inner critic—applies just as much to social situations as it does to work or training.
In fact, when I spoke to the creator of B4, he was very clear that its original purpose was to help people socialize without alcohol—liquid courage without the liquid, so to speak.
And that was the real strength of the original B4. It wasn’t about energy enhancement or stimulation; it was about mood and motivation regulation—lowering anxiety just enough to stay present, while boosting engagement enough to actually want to participate.
But it’s also where the original formula hit its ceiling.
B4 was good at calming the nervous system and gently sharpening focus, but it wasn’t fully optimized for people who wanted to move fluidly between different states: focused work, social interaction, and relaxed connection—without relying on caffeine or alcohol to get there.
So with Outty and The Outgoing Co., TJ Biongiorno didn’t just rebrand—he rebuilt the formula around that insight.
I’ve now tried Outty in a variety of environments: deep work sessions, social settings, and situations where I’d normally feel the pull toward either caffeine or alcohol. And the best way I can describe it is this: it feels like a deliberate upgrade of everything B4 was trying to do.
If B4 helped quiet anxiety and boost engagement, Outty goes further—producing a state that’s anti-anxiety, pro-social, and supportive of sustained focus and motivation, without tipping into overstimulation or emotional blunting.
To understand why that’s the case, you have to look at how the formula itself changed.
What the New Outty Formula Removed — and Why That Matters
Before we talk about what Outty added and enhanced from the old B4 formula, let’s talk about what it removed.
Looking at the transition from B4 to Outty, the omissions aren’t random—they reflect a shift away from broad, sometimes blunt tools toward ingredients that more precisely support the specific states Outty is trying to create.
Emoxypine (Emoxypine Succinate)
Emoxypine was a strong anxiolytic and neuroprotective compound, but it also carried a tendency to emotionally “flatten” some users when paired with other calming ingredients.
Removing it likely helped preserve emotional responsiveness and motivation, especially in social settings where too much dampening can feel disengaging rather than calming.
Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis)
Lemon balm is effective at reducing anxiety through GABA-transaminase inhibition, but it can be mildly sedating and motivation-blunting for some people. My guess is that removing it was done to reduce the risk of lethargy or emotional softness, especially when the goal is relaxed engagement rather than passive calm.
Ashwagandha
Ashwagandha is a powerful adaptogen, but its broad effects on cortisol and stress hormones can sometimes reduce emotional intensity or drive with regular use.
Agmatine Sulfate
Agmatine has interesting antidepressant and nitric oxide–related effects, but it also blurs the line between nootropic and performance supplement. This is the ingredient that led many users to treat B4 like a pre-workout, which was not the creator’s intention, and sorta distracts from the goal.
Removing agmatine appears to be a conscious move away from the unintended “pre-workout” identity and toward a more purely cognitive and social-use profile.
Eria Jarensis Extract
Eria Jarensis provides stimulant-adjacent monoamine support and is often perceived as energizing. Excluding it reduces the risk of jitteriness, tolerance, or overlap with caffeine, which is important for a product positioned as an alcohol and stimulant alternative.
The transition into the new Outty formula
The Outgoing Co. didn’t remove these ingredients because they were ineffective. In fact, most of them worked exactly as intended.
The issue was one of precision, not performance.
Several components of the original B4 were excellent at reducing anxiety or boosting your motivation to be social, but they did so in ways that were either too broad, too dampening, or too easily misinterpreted as performance enhancement rather than social and cognitive support.
As user behavior revealed new edge cases—like treating B4 as a pre-workout—the limits of the original formulation became more obvious. Ingredients that blurred the line between calming, stimulating, and enhancing physical performance began to work against the core goal: creating a reliable, repeatable mental state that supports social ease, clear thinking, and sustained engagement without caffeine or alcohol.
Outty represents a deliberate narrowing of focus.
Rather than stacking multiple agents that reduce anxiety or boost motivation in overlapping ways, the new formula prioritizes state control.
You can move more easily between focus, social presence, and relaxed connection without overshooting in any direction.
In other words, the redesign wasn’t about doing more. It was about doing exactly what was needed and nothing that wasn’t.
What the New Outty Formula Does Differently
Taurine (2000 mg): The Nervous System Stabilizer
Taurine forms the foundation of Outty’s new formula. It supports calm, steady energy by helping regulate nervous system activity and cellular signaling, especially under mental or emotional load.
You don’t feel revved up, but you also don’t feel flat. It’s easier to stay mentally present for longer periods without feeling fried, shaky, or overstimulated.
L-Theanine (1000 mg): The Noise Filter
Outty also increases taurine from 600 mg to 1000 mg, which meaningfully changes how it supports mental resilience under stress. Taurine isn’t a stimulant or a sedative—it’s a regulatory amino acid that helps stabilize neuronal signaling, manage calcium flow in brain cells, and buffer the nervous system against overstimulation.
At 600 mg, taurine offers light support for stress modulation. At 1000 mg, it reaches a threshold where its calming and protective effects become more noticeable, especially during prolonged cognitive load. This higher dose improves the brain’s ability to stay steady under pressure, reducing mental fatigue, irritability, and that wired-but-tired feeling that builds over long days.
What this feels like is emotional steadiness and mental endurance. You’re less reactive, less drained by stress, and better able to maintain focus over time—not because you’re being pushed, but because your nervous system is better supported.
GABA (140 mg): The Overthinking Brake
The old formula relied on indirect calming mechanisms—ingredients like L-theanine, taurine, and magnesium that encourage the brain to produce or use calming signals more efficiently. That approach works well, but it depends on the user’s baseline neurochemistry and stress load.
Adding GABA changes the strategy. Instead of only supporting the system that creates calm, the new formula supplies the brain’s primary inhibitory neurotransmitter itself, giving an immediate braking signal when mental activity starts to run hot. This is especially useful for people who are prone to rumination, overthinking, or stress-induced mental loops.
The advantage is speed and reliability. GABA provides a fast, noticeable reduction in mental noise, while the surrounding ingredients—L-theanine, taurine, magnesium acetyl-taurinate—help that calming signal integrate smoothly rather than sedate or flatten cognition.
Magnesium Acetyl-Taurinate (100 mg): The Calm Nerve Support
The new formula likely adds magnesium acetyl-taurinate to help you remain calm without dulling cognition. Magnesium is a crucial element for helping your nervous system chill out.
Also, this works synergistically by binding with taurine to improve its bioavailability and direct its effects toward the nervous system rather than muscle relaxation or sedation.
The acetylated taurine component also supports stress buffering, making this form especially well-suited to handling cognitively demanding situations.
Rhodiola Rosea (400 mg): The Stress Shield
Rhodiola helps your body respond to stress more efficiently, rather than suppressing it outright. It supports resilience under pressure without pushing stimulation.
Stressful moments don’t drain you as quickly, and you recover faster after they pass.
DL-Phenylalanine (500 mg): The Mood Lifter
DL-phenylalanine supports mood and motivation by contributing to dopamine and endorphin pathways. Unlike stimulant-adjacent compounds, it works upstream, helping effort feel more emotionally rewarding.
Magnolol (100 mg) + Honokiol (100 mg): The Edge Softener
These compounds come from magnolia bark and are known for their calming, anxiolytic properties—without heavy sedation. They work alongside GABA and theanine to reduce emotional tension.
This pair does a lot of the work that lemon balm and emoxypine used to do—without emotional flattening or the illusion of being a pre-workout.
Pure Oroxylin A (25 mg): The Focus Amplifier
In the old B4 formula, Oroxylum indicum extract (Sabroxy®) was used to support focus and motivation by broadly enhancing dopamine signaling and brain adaptability. Because it’s a standardized whole-plant extract, its effects were intentionally smooth and balanced—helping with mental engagement and learning without pushing stimulation too hard.
The tradeoff was that the effect was subtle for some users, especially during long or mentally demanding work sessions.
The new Outty formula replaces that approach with pure Oroxylin A, the primary active compound responsible for Sabroxy®’s cognitive effects. Rather than working indirectly through a blend of plant flavonoids, pure Oroxylin A acts more directly by slowing dopamine reuptake, allowing dopamine to stay active longer in the brain.
This creates a clearer, more noticeable sense of motivation, task salience, and mental drive without relying on stimulants.
How does Outty taste?
If you don’t get the water mix right, it’s going to taste like a watered-down version of non-alcoholic wine. Yes, they make non-alcoholic wine, and if you’ve never had it, you’re missing out.
The best way to describe non-alcoholic wine is like good natural grape juice, but without the sugar to balance out the tartness.
I haven’t drunk alcohol in 13 years, so I actually can’t remember exactly what a wine cooler tastes like, but I think Outty tastes like that—if you get the water right.
In my first try, I got this horribly wrong. I filled my 18-ounce glass up with water to mix it in. While it didn’t taste bad, it was nothing to write home about—at all.
The packaging recommends 12-18 ounces. I find it tastes much better and more like a non-alcoholic mixed drink if you go closer to 12 than 16.
It’s also delicious when you put it over ice. I even mix with a little sugar-free Red Bull, and that’s great too.
How much does Outty cost?
One bag, which comes with 15 sticks, is $59. However, sign up for the subscription, and it drops to $35 with free shipping. From a selling standpoint, that’s genius.
Now your first thought might be, “I don’t plan on being in situations where alcohol is an option 15 days a month.”
Now, if that’s what immediately, you’ll get even more from Outty because drinking every 2 days is serious work and—I’m gonna keep it real with you—you need to cut back.
In all seriousness, almost no one has just one drink.
If you’re having people over to your house who are sober, sober curious, or just looking for something tasty to drink, you will quickly go through all 15 packs.
And you will want more—especially if you get that water mix right, put it on ice, and find a nice non-alcoholic mixer to go with it.
Honestly, getting the $35 is more practical. And even if you don’t host people or take them with you to the bar because you don’t go there in the first place, there are a number of interesting use cases you have for Outty beyond an alcohol substitute.
The next section covers some of the ways I used Outty
My Experiences With Outty
I’ve tested Outty in four specific areas:
- Doing deep writing work
- Right before winding down for bed
- As a pre-workout supplement
- Playing chess/studying European Portuguese
Some of those scenarios are obvious, while others might seem misplaced, but I swear there is a method to the madness of these testing scenarios.
I did not test Outty in the situations they are marketed to help most in, which is socializing sober.
I’ve been sober since Dec 23rd, 2013, and aside from the odd football game I watch with my friends, I’m never in bars. Oh, and I’ve been married for 13 years, so I’m definitely not in nightclubs.
While I definitely don’t have an issue with anxiety and talking to people, I occasionally have found small talk annoying, but more in a “I have a pebble in my shoe” sorta way, not “my leg is broken, and I can’t walk at all.”
I say all this to say that I found the use cases that are most applicable to my life, and from those, I can make a pretty good guess about how Outty will affect you if you’re going to use it as a stand-in for alcohol—and you definitely should.
But I wanted you to have that in mind for the rest of the review.
Now the use cases.
Using Outty For Deep Work
I write for a living. Between my own content, content for other people, SEO optimization for websites, and private projects, I easily log 30,000 words a week—and that’s on the light end.
To keep up with that kind of output while also having a toddler and training at the boxing gym, I need to be locked in.
Not hyped. Not jittery.
Just mentally present and able to sit with the work long enough to make progress. My biggest problem isn’t a lack of ideas—it’s friction. That subtle resistance that shows up when you open a new document, and your brain would rather do anything else than put words on the page.
Outty makes that friction noticeably smaller.
What it seems to do—based on how it feels and how the formula is structured—is reduce mental noise while selectively supporting motivation and engagement.
Instead of forcing energy, it helps my brain stay on task once I start. I’m less likely to tab-hop, less likely to check my phone, and more likely to stay inside the problem I’m working on.
That’s why I’m glad The Outgoing Co. continues to market Outty as a nootropic, because it genuinely functions like one—a great one that’s also delicious.
I can focus and produce without leaning on caffeine or nicotine gum, which matters a lot when I’m working late after my wife and son are asleep. There’s no adrenaline edge, no wired feeling—just sustained attention and less of a need to will myself to keep going.
I also need to be clear about what it doesn’t do.
If I’m truly exhausted and trying to squeeze out a few hundred words on fumes, Outty doesn’t override that. I’ve tried.
I just end up wanting to go to bed, which is probably the correct response anyway. But if I have baseline energy, it reliably helps me extend my productive window and, more importantly, enjoy the process of using it.
That’s the difference between stimulation and support. Outty doesn’t create energy—it helps you use the energy you already have more effectively.
Outty as a Sleep Aid
When I told TJ that I had used Outty as a sort of sleep aid and that it helped me relax, he was genuinely surprised. His exact response was, “Oh snap. I thought the rhodiola might hurt. But that’s cool to hear.”
That reaction makes sense. Rhodiola is typically considered an adaptogen that supports alertness and stress resilience, especially under cognitive or physical load. It’s not something you’d normally associate with winding down before bed.
What I suspect made the difference is that Outty’s formula isn’t built around stimulation. In situations where I was already primed for sleep, the ingredients that reduce mental noise and emotional friction—particularly L-theanine and the broader calming structure of the stack—seemed to outweigh any activating effect from the rhodiola.
Instead of pushing me “up,” Outty helped my nervous system settle.
To be clear, I took it when I was already naturally getting sleepy. I don’t want to give the impression that Outty will knock you out or make you want to crawl into bed.
It’s not designed to do that. What it is designed to do is make it easier to relax—and I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t always show up to bedtime in a relaxed state.
It’s rare that I lie down without my mind spinning: thinking about word counts, unfinished projects, how I’m going to fit my workouts in, or when I’ll carve out time to land new clients and pay the bills.
I’m generally good at keeping anxiety in check, but bedtime has always been the hardest place to fully let go.
If you’re someone who worries at night or has trouble shutting your mind off enough to rest, Outty may help smooth that transition.
You probably would benefit from using a grounding sheet too, so that’s worth checking out.
I suspect this is also part of what makes it such a compelling alternative to alcohol—because for a lot of people, drinking isn’t about chasing a buzz. It’s about quieting the noise, easing self-consciousness, and giving yourself permission to relax.
Outty as a Pre-Workout Supplement
Now we’re at the use case that Outty accidentally inherited: a pre-workout.
I’m far from a biochemistry expert, but I know enough to know that neither B4 nor Outty was designed to function like a traditional pre-workout supplement.
There’s no stimulant load, no adrenaline spike, and nothing in the formula aimed at directly increasing strength, endurance, or physical output.
I’ve written before about my experiences using Morning Would as a non-stim pre-workout, and that led me to learn a lot about how stim-based and stim-free formulas work through completely different mechanisms. Looking at Outty’s ingredient list, nothing about it says, “This is going to help you lift heavier or train harder.”
That said, I understand why some people still reach for it.
If you’re someone who struggles to feel motivated to start a workout, the inclusion of pure Oroxylin A makes that more understandable.
Oroxylin A supports dopamine efficiency and task engagement, which can make effort feel more appealing once you get moving. And if your issue is staying mentally present in the gym, the same clarity and focus-supporting effects can help you stay locked in between sets.
Neither of those problems really applies to me. While I no longer box for a living, I just fought again this summer, and motivation or focus in the gym has never been an issue. Still, I’ll admit that when I trained after taking Outty, I felt noticeably upbeat about being there. Then again, I’m usually excited to train anyway, so I’m not going to overstate the effect.
I can see how someone might use Outty as a pre-workout, but buying it for that purpose alone would be a mistake. There are better products on the market if your primary goal is physical performance. However, if what’s holding you back from training is mental friction rather than physical energy, Outty can help lower that barrier.
It doesn’t turn your workout into something it’s not. It just makes showing up and staying engaged feel easier—and that’s a very different role than a true pre-workout supplement.
Outty as a Learning Aid
This one surprised me—and honestly, it’s a benefit The Outgoing Co. probably isn’t emphasizing enough.
For context, I’m currently learning European Portuguese. My wife is Portuguese, and this year I finally decided to stop splitting my attention between languages. I’d spent a long time chasing B2-level Spanish, but at some point, it made more sense to go all-in on Portuguese.
Of course, “abandoning” Spanish for Portuguese is easier said than done. The countries sit right next to each other, and the languages share a lot of surface similarities—but they’re spoken very differently. Portuguese, especially European Portuguese, sounds nothing like it looks on the page. The challenge isn’t vocabulary as much as processing speed, pronunciation, and real-time comprehension.
That’s where Outty came in unexpectedly.
When I practice Portuguese while using Outty, I’m noticeably quicker in my responses, and my comprehension feels smoother. I’m not translating as much in my head. I’m reacting. Conversations flow more naturally, and I recover faster when I miss something or make a mistake.
I wasn’t even planning to test Outty as a learning aid. But while researching the updated formula, I realized why this makes sense. Pure Oroxylin A—one of the ingredients in Outty that wasn’t in the original B4—has been linked to improvements in verbal fluency, cognitive flexibility, and task engagement. Those are exactly the mental skills you need when learning a new language, especially one that requires you to think and respond quickly in social contexts.
If a product is designed to help people feel more comfortable socializing—speaking, responding, staying mentally present—it follows naturally that it would also support language learning. You’re calmer, less self-conscious about making mistakes, and more willing to stay engaged in real-time conversation.
Outty doesn’t make you magically fluent. But it does make the learning process feel less effortful and more natural—and that’s often the difference between practicing consistently and giving up halfway through.
Final Verdict on Outty
If you want to stop drinking, this is better than just switching to non-alcoholic beer and coffee.
That’s what I did when I stopped drinking 13 years ago, and while it worked for me, I’m a naturally more outgoing person who never needed alcohol to socialize. I just abused it.
But if you’re someone who needs alcohol to feel less awkward at social events, Outty not only tastes great, but its ingredients help you get over the initial awkwardness.
If you do deep work that requires focus and/or creativity, then this is a no-brainer to pick up.
Not just because it’s going ot help you focus, but it’s always going to keep you motivated, locked in, and more resilient to the stress of the work you’re doing.
And it will help you learn a few new skills.
I don’t recommend it for going to sleep unless you have trouble going to sleep, specifically because you have a lot on your mind. If you decide to use it as a pre-workout, mix it with a real pre-workout.
If you found this article helpful, I’d love for you to pick up a big using my link here, or any that are scattered through the page.
