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Energy drinks.
Most of us have tried them, and some of us have tried them all. Every week another choice seems to pop up, promising everything from a little “oomph” enhancement to a metabolism increase to an “illegal” amount of taste.We swallow them down because we want the boost, not because they taste anything near good, many of us foregoing coffee for a chemical concoction because of it’s supposed higher caffeine content.
Not to disappoint you, but the amount of stimulant in that sugar-and-piss liquid may be lower than its advertisers would have you believe.
A recent study found that many energy drinks have about the same caffeine content as an 8 oz cup of coffee, dismissing the notion that every drink with the word “energy” attached to it is a better deal than buying a quick cup of java on your way to class.
While the information is interesting, it’s not enough to keep me permanently away from the Red Bull. I now know which drinks aren’t worth it, but giving up the strange, almost hallucinatory feeling of unnatural energy RB provides is not something my body is willing to do right now, especially with school just around the corner.
It tastes like crap, it’s completely unnatural, but it gets the job done…without the often unfortunate coffee consequence of an immediate visit to the porcelain throne.
So, the moral? You’re probably better off buying coffee, unless you want to do something chemically intense to your body. In that case, stay away from lame choices.
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Tea, coffee, cola, energy drinks and chocolate share the same nerve toxin (stimulant), caffeine. Caffeine, which is readily released into the blood, triggers a powerful immune response that helps the body to counteract and eliminate this irritant. The toxic irritant stimulates the adrenal glands, and to some extent, the body’s many cells, to release the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol into the blood stream.
If consumption of stimulants continues on a regular basis, however, this natural defense response of the body becomes overused and ineffective. The almost constant secretion of stress hormones, which are highly toxic compounds in and of themselves, eventually alters the blood chemistry and causes damage to the immune system, endocrine, and nervous systems. Future defense responses are weakened, and the body becomes more prone to infections and other ailments.
The boost in energy experienced after drinking a cup of coffee is not a direct result of the caffeine it contains, but of the immune system’s attempt to get rid of it (caffeine) An overexcited and suppressed immune system fails to provide the “energizing” adrenaline and cortisol boost needed to free the body from the acidic nerve toxin, caffeine. At this stage, people say that they are “used” to a stimulant, such as coffee. So they tend to increase intake to feels the “benefits.”
Since the body cells have to sacrifice some of their own water for the removal of the nerve toxin caffeine, regular consumption of coffee, tea, or colas causes them to become dehydrated. For every cup of tea or coffee you drink, the body has to mobilize 2-3 cups of water just to remove the stimulants, a luxury it cannot afford. This applies to soft drinks, medicinal drugs, and any other stimulants, As a rule, all stimulants have a strong dehydrating effect on the bile, blood, and digestive juices.
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I don’t get an oomph from coffee. I don’t get it from tea, I don’t get it from apples or Red Bull. In fact, the only thing that gives me an energy buzz is a life-threatening amount of glucose pills.
Having said that, Red Bull tastes freakin AWESOME, the sugarfree variety has only 7 calories, and after a while Coke starts getting on my nerves.
To each their own!
I’ve opted to avoid soda’s and energy drinks and just take a caffeine pill and drink lots of water.
Actually, sugar-free red bull has 10 calories
Well some energy drinks don’t just have caffeine, they also have a ton of Vitamin B(3,6,12,etc) and that’s something that coffee doesn’t have. I personally am a fan of Mountain Dew’s AMPd Energy but there is a lot of sugar in it.
I also like the FUZE Juices, especially the Peach Passion Mango flavor, which for the record has over 500% of your daily B12 intake and no caffeine. It also has no sugar either, but still has 220 calories per bottle.
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