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High Potency Saffron Extract Capsules

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  • Improves Mood
  • Improves Cognitive Function
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Research Snapshot

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Over 45 research studies

Page Last Updated 09/10/2024

Product Usage

Dose Dose

30mg (One Capsule)

Dose Timing Dose Timing

Flexible

How to Take How to Take

With Or Without Food

Dose Frequency Dose Frequency

1 Time Daily

Summary

Saffron Extract, known for its culinary uses, may improve mood, support cognitive function, offer neuroprotection, and help maintain balanced oxidation levels by reducing oxidants and increasing antioxidants.

Benefits

Time to notice full effects: 2-3 Weeks (With Acute Effects)

  • Oxidation Oxidation
  • Mood Mood
  • Neuroprotection Neuroprotection
  • Cognition Cognition

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Why Should I Take Saffron?

Most of us know Saffron as a spice in delicious dishes like paella, or middle eastern sweets. However, a little known fact about saffron is that it also has major beneficial effects on cognitive function, mood and even appetite!

Saffron partially achieves this by blocking the reuptake of serotonin, which over time will increase total levels of serotonin throughout the brain. Since serotonin is involved with mood, enhancing its levels can have a very nice mood brightening effect. Furthermore, serotonin also controls many aspects of our appetite, and increasing serotonin levels helps dampen our appetite. This makes it a great supplement for both weight loss and mood!*

What is Saffron?

Crocus sativus, also known as saffron, is one of the most highly praised spices in the world. It also happens to be one of the most expensive spices on the planet! For good reason too, growing saffron is an incredibly arduous process, as is collecting the stamens from the plant which is where the incredible flavors, aromas and bioactives are located. Within these stamens, we find a very unique collection of bioactives which don’t appear anywhere else in nature. These compounds are crocin, crocetin, picrocrocin and safranal.

Saffron is most widely used for its unique coloring properties. This is part of the reason why it is heavily featured in paella, in order to give the dish a distinctive color. The majority of this coloring activity is due to the fact that the crocins are carotenoids, and like many other carotenoids have a very unique red-orange color. Thus, it is no surprise that our extract has a bright red color to it, because it is standardized to 7.5% Crocins!

Let’s now dive deeper into the benefits of saffron!

Saffron Benefits & Uses

  • Promotes mood*
  • Decreases appetite*
  • Promotes eye health*

A Highly Praised Spice

Not only does saffron provide joy through its use in cooking, the coloring agents that make saffron such a highly praised spice, are also the same compounds that bring joy through neurochemical means! The crocins quite selectively block the reuptake of serotonin. This means that serotonin can stick around a little longer which then causes an overall elevation in brain serotonin levels. Serotonin is a very important neurotransmitter when it comes to mood, so elevating its levels can have a mood elevating effect. With saffron this certainly seems to be the case, and it has actually been widely used as a mood brightener for a very long time!

Serotonin also plays a major role in controlling our appetite. The higher brain serotonin levels get, the more dampened our appetite becomes too. Thus, it is no surprise that saffron is a very popular herb for helping to lower appetite. Paired with its mood elevating effect, it is easy to see why saffron is a popular weight loss herb. Perhaps this is also one reason why saffron is featured in various different dishes, the crocins that you are consuming in a meal could trick you into thinking you ate a bigger meal!

You’ve likely heard that carrots are good for your eyesight at some point in your life, and while this is not entirely true, the saying is based on the fact that carrots contain high levels of carotenoids. Not all carotenoids have an effect on eye health, but a lot actually do have quite a positive effect. The crocins are one class of carotenoids that do indeed seem to have beneficial effects on eye health. In fact, multiple clinical trials on saffron have indeed shown that saffron, through its crocins content, can help promote eye health!

With its effect on mood, appetite and eye health, it becomes clear that saffron is not only a highly praised spice, it is also a highly praised supplement!

Saffron Stacks

The Mood Stack: Saffron + Horny Goat Weed Capsules

Looking to support mood? Look no further than Saffron and Horny Goat Weed! Horny Goat Weed is perfect for mood elevation while also providing a relaxing effect that we think pairs perfectly with Saffron. Make sure to pick up this stack today!*

The Decreased Appetite Stack: Saffron + Rhodiola crenulata Capsules

Rhodiola crenulata is the perfect addition to Saffron because of its appetite regulating effects but also its support to cognitive and cellular function. This is not a stack you want to miss!*

The Eye Health Stack: Saffron + AvailOm® High DHA Powder

As one of our newest fish oil supplements, AvailOm High DHA pairs flawlessly with Saffron. Did you know that retinas actually contain high amounts of DHA? This means that by supplementing with both AvailOm and Saffron, we create the ultimate eye health stack!*

Saffron Dosage

As a dietary supplement, take one 30mg capsule of Saffron daily.

Saffron Reviews

To gain more insight, see the Saffron reviews and experiences below.

Where to Buy Saffron

Nootropics Depot offers 60ct. and 180ct. jars of high quality Saffron. Nootropics Depot’s Saffron has been lab-tested and verified for both product purity and identity.

 *Attention: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Reviews

  • 5
    Mood & Focus Boost

    Posted by Freddie on 1st Aug 2024

    I've found this saffron extract to be a very effective mood booster, especially if I take it consistently. I tend to be overly sensitive to many prescription antidepressants -- they're too strong for me -- but this extract seems to have a very gentle & mild antidepressant effect that is not overstimulating or unpleasant to me. I also find it to be very helpful on days when I want/need a break from my Adderall prescription. It doesn't come close to replacing Adderall, so don't get the wrong idea, but it does help eliminate some of the brain fog and lack of focus I experience when not taking my script. I would definitely recommend taking it with some regularity, though, if you want to see the most benefit from it, as it seems it needs to build up a little bit in your system to be effective. (At least that's been my experience.) Thanks for carrying this product! It's been very helpful for me!

  • 4
    saffron

    Posted by John Crowley on 22nd Feb 2024

    Seems to brighten my mood. And enhances the anti-depressant medication I take.

  • 5
    These smell so good

    Posted by Benjamin Bridgeford on 16th Dec 2023

    and they always make me burp which is nice because I taste it. I look forward to my saffron burps.

  • 5
    I'd recommend it

    Posted by Matt on 7th Nov 2023

    I am someone who either does not respond or has little response to most nootropics. This saffron I have now taken for almost two months. It definitely positively impacts my mood and, as a result of that, slightly boosts my sociability. I know it won't be for everyone, but if those two benefits sound like what you're looking for, give it a try.

  • 5
    Life changing

    Posted by Nas Miles on 3rd Oct 2023

    I think a lot of the reviews are confused by placebo effect as saffron shouldn’t have effects that can be felt within a few days. In most studies saffron only reaches full efficacy after 6 weeks. It works like a natural ssri and a MAOI. It may be useful for mood, definitely useful for stress. It follows the same pattern that we see with a lot of other mood compounds- for most people it won’t make much difference, but for some it can be life changing. I’m one of the latter. I take 2 pills a day. It greatly improved my self-esteem and quieted my negative thoughts. This resulted in a boost to motivation, happiness and social ability. I was finally able to cure my lifelong social anxiety. It also has a range of other health benefits such as being an antioxidant and improving insulin sensitivity. I really recommend everyone with stress try this nootropic as a first line as it’s practically a side effect free SSRI and MAOI. Take a proper course (at least 4wk) and curb your expectations; you won’t “feel” this like a cup of coffee. It works behind the scenes like an SSRI for example. Zinc may improve its efficacy as it can potentiate the ssri like effects. Other than zinc, I also recommend vitamin D and K, vitamin b as methyl-folate (high dose, 15mg/day, no other form), and EPA (1.5g/day). This is the most rigorously tested natural anti stress stack that stands up to the most rigorous meta analyses. But it’s expensive.

  • 5
    High Potency Saffron

    Posted by Jeff on 30th Jan 2023

    Excellent product.

  • 5
    Quality Product

    Posted by LuRae on 21st Jan 2023

    Holds up to its promise. I prefer this to other options because it’s pure saffron not mixed with other things.

  • 3
    Didn't Work For Me

    Posted by Michael S on 9th Jan 2023

    This product gave me a strange brain fog for someone reason. Maybe it's too potent for me? I seem to respond better to standardized saffron supplements at 0.3% safranal. It still could be worth a try, since it definitely produces an effect.

  • 5
    High Potency Saffron

    Posted by Unknown on 29th Dec 2022

    This definitely works. It is especially helpful in the dark days of winter when sunshine is limited.

  • 3
    mild for me

    Posted by James on 3rd Dec 2022

    I am not sure if it makes much of a difference in my day, I do not feel any different. BUT, I added it to my morning stack and I've never had a bad day yet. I think that maybe I feel a little bit less introverted around other people but I am not sure. We're all wired differently and I think that I personally don't react much to this one but I am glad that other reviewers found benefits to using it.

  • 5
    Saffron Review

    Posted by Jeff J on 15th Oct 2022

    This Saffron is a great product. It works for anxiety and pain.

  • 5
    Effective!

    Posted by Eli on 7th Sep 2022

    Good for anxiety and at a nice price

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