Designed by world-leading neuroscientists, SENTIA Spirits are a revolutionary line of functional beverages that offer the desirable effects of alcohol without compromise. SENTIA Spirits are powered by our “GABA blend,” a carefully researched combination of potent botanicals. Together, the ingredients in the GABA blend work to enhance your brain’s naturally occurring GABA, opening the door to greater sociability and human connection.
GABA (or gamma-aminobutyric acid) is a compound found in nearly all life on earth. Whilst GABA has many roles in the human body, in the brain it functions as a neurotransmitter. GABA modulates brain and central nervous system activity, causing feelings of relaxation and calmness, opening the door to a sense of ease in social situations.
HOW IT WORKS
SENTIA Spirits are designed to increase the effectiveness of the calming effects GABA provides. GABA Spirits do not raise your GABA levels, nor do they contain GABA itself as an active ingredient. We do not use GABA as an active ingredient because ingested GABA cannot pass from your bloodstream through what is known as the blood brain barrier (BBB), and then on into your brain. Instead, SENTIA Spirits contain active ingredients that can pass the BBB and modulate the effectiveness of the GABA naturally produced by your brain.
The SENTIA Spirits “GABA blend” that has two major components. “GABA enhancers,” which increase the effectiveness of your brain’s natural GABA and “bio-enhancers,” which help absorption of GABA enhancers from your gut, into your bloodstream, and then across the blood brain barrier.
OUR FOUNDERS AND MISSION
Professor David Nutt founded SENTIA Spirits in 2020 to offer consumers a choice beyond alcohol and alcohol-free. We produce a range of GABA enhancing alcohol alternatives that contain a carefully selected blend of all-natural, plant ingredients, to aid relaxation & promote human connection.
Professor David Nutt is a world leading psychiatrist and neuropsychopharmacologist, specialising in the study of the brain, drugs, addiction, anxiety, and sleep. David co-founded SENTIA Spirits with David Orren to fulfill their shared vision of offering safer, better choices for adult social drinkers.