Level Up Your Energy and Focus: Minerals for Gamers
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Can minerals make you a better gamer?
Yes! There’s a reason the top competitive gamers focus on health. Research shows that gaming is surprisingly taxing on your brain and eyes, especially if you play a lot.
A good mineral supplement can help. It supports things like reaction time and prolonged focus, ensuring you perform at your best.
If you want to take your gaming to the next level, consider a mineral supplement. Here’s how topping up on minerals before you play can make you a better gamer.
Gaming Uses A Lot of Brainpower
Many people think of gaming as a laid back hobby. In reality, it demands more from your brain than you might think.
Gaming uses a lot of parallel mental processes, including:
Focus
Reaction time
Mental clarity
Rapid decision making
Calm under pressure
In addition, gaming requires unbroken, continuous attention. Over time, that kind of focus starts to tax your brain.
In a 2023 study, people who played video games for just 30 minutes showed cognitive fatigue and impaired decision-making, compared to those who were mentally fresh. [ * ]
Consistent gaming can also affect your cognition more than you’d expect.
A 2024 study looked at mental burnout in 453 gamers who played multiple hours a day. Nearly 40% of them scored high on measures of cognitive burnout, with symptoms including physical exhaustion, decreased motivation, and faster mental fatigue. [ * ] Another 28% had moderate burnout scores.
The good news is all that focus makes your brain stronger. A 2024 study found that well-rested competitive gamers had better attention and spatial memory than people who didn’t play video games. [ * ]
However, if you want to take advantage of that enhanced cognition, you have to make sure your brain isn’t depleted. Burnout will make you slower, not faster—which is why it’s so important to replenish your brain’s resources with minerals.
Gaming and Eye Strain
It’s not just your brain. Gaming is also hard on your eyes, especially when you play for multiple hours at a time.
A 2019 study looked at eye function in young people during a 4-hour gaming session. Over the course of the session, participants developed visual impairments, including: [ * ]
Eye strain
Visual discomfort
Decreased blink rate, a sign of eye fatigue
Impaired ability to focus on close-up objects
Impaired coordination between eyes
Decreased ocular muscle control
A 2023 study found similar results: people scored much higher on eye fatigue and dryness scores after gaming for multiple hours. [ * ]
Prolonged screen time fatigues your eyes. Competitive games where you’re constantly scanning the environment, like first-person shooters, are especially taxing. Frequent, focused eye movements tire your eyes faster. [ * ]
Finally, continuous exposure to blue light—like the light screens produce—strains your retina and cornea, causing inflammation that can physically age your eyes. [ * ]
How Minerals Help You Play Better
A mineral supplement can strengthen your brain, taking your gaming to the next level. It can also support your eyes, easing the effects of eye strain and blue light exposure.
Minerals improve brain function in several ways, including:
Reaction time . A 2008 study found that a daily full-spectrum mineral supplement improved reaction time in young people. [ * ]
Mental energy. A 2020 study found that a full-spectrum mineral supplement reduced tiredness after a single dose. [ * ] Participants took minerals daily and maintained higher energy levels throughout the 28-day protocol.
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Prolonged focus . A 2022 study found that a full-spectrum mineral supplement improved attention and sustained focus. [ * ] Conversely, a 2014 study found that deficiencies in iron, magnesium, or zinc can impair focus. [ * ] It’s important to have plenty of all three if you want to stay engaged during longer gaming sessions.
Several minerals can also help with digital eye strain:
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Selenium is a powerful antioxidant. It protects your eyes from oxidative stress, which can reduce inflammation from eye strain. [ * ]
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Copper guards against inflammation in your optic nerve, according to a 2013 review. [ * ]
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Zinc helps maintain your retina, the part of your eye that’s vulnerable to blue light from screens. A 2023 study found that taking zinc may prevent retinal damage due to prolonged blue light exposure. [ * ]
BEAM Minerals: Perfect for Gamers
Gaming takes more out of you than you think, especially your eyes, focus, and energy levels. BEAM Minerals make it easy to support your body with fast, effective mineral replenishment.
Spray Insta-Lytes™ on your face, eyes, neck, or temples for an instant refresh during long hours in front of screens. It helps relieve eye strain, boosts your energy, and keeps you feeling sharp through every level.
Add in a 1-oz. shot of Electrolyze™ before you play to support hydration, focus, and faster reflexes, without caffeine or sugar crashes. Once you feel the difference, you won’t want to game without them.
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FAQs
Can I take BEAM Minerals with my other supplements?
Yes, in fact, BEAM Minerals will enhance the bioavailability of all your other supplements.
What is the difference between Micro-BOOST™ and Electrolyze™?
Electrolyze™ is primarily composed of Fulvic Mineral Complexes . Fulvic complexes are small molecules that provide inter-cellular transport for nutritional elements into the cells and carry bio-waste out of the cells. Fulvic complexes are flavonoids , which provide many benefits in the body.
Micro-BOOST™ is primarily composed of the Humic Mineral Complexes . Humic complexes are large molecules that are extra-cellular, meaning they do not enter the cells but stay outside the cells. They are highly-charged molecules that attract, through their electrical charge, bio-waste, free radicals and heavy metals. They ultimately carry bio-waste out of the body. Thus, we call them “Nature’s Janitor”.
How many milligrams (mg) of an electrolyte (Potassium, Magnesium, Sodium, Calcium, etc.) is there in BEAM Minerals?
The quantities of each element in BEAM Minerals products are measured in “parts per million” (ppm), rather than the “milligrams” (mg). Here is the information which usually helps to understand the difference:
Milligrams (mg) vs parts per million (ppm)
In comparing our products to other supplements, people want to know how much of an electrolyte is in our products (like potassium, magnesium, sodium, calcium). Usually they are looking for an amount in milligrams (mg).
We have a hard time answering that question, because the electrolytes (and other elements) in BEAM Minerals products are measured in parts per million (ppm). So how can consumers compare?
The answer is a little complex, but here’s the high points.
The electrolytes in BEAM Minerals products are provided in “trace” amounts that are completely dissolved and thus 100% bio-available, immediately introduced into your circulation when you consumed them and will produce and active effect.
When you take a 320mg pill of magnesium, your body is only able utilize about 12-20% of it as it takes some time because your body has to digest it first. Whatever is not dissolved gets processed out of your body.
When you take a capful of liquid Electrolyze™ and/or Micro-BOOST™, you receive approximately 5.22 ppm of magnesium in which 100% of the magnesium is immediately available to your body. In addition, an important to know is that the magnesium in BEAM Minerals products stay in your system much longer building up healthy levels as you continue to take it daily.
