“Haven’t died yet”
So clearly we should take this as unquestionable empirical evidence and consume without worry, because gosh, it hasn’t killed Habeed! Y’know, YET !
Seriously? I thought we were fighting ignorance here. Silly me!
Yet you haven’t presented any evidence to suggest anything harmful exists in their ingredients. While I did cite a scientific study that concluded the only ingredients with potentially adverse effects are caffeine and sugar (and the OP states he gets sugarfree).
Put up or shut up - irrational paranoia has no place here.
I came in here expecting to read about an infestation under his bed.
I don’t drink them too often at all because a) they are stupid expensive and b) they don’t do anything at all for me in terms of energy. I could drink one and go straight to bed, no problem. Then again, I drink coffee, and a lot of people tend to forget that good old fashioned coffee has quite a bit of caffeine in it. Energy drinks really aren’t that impressive to me at all…neither is 5-Hour Energy. A co-worker gave me one once and I couldn’t even tell a difference at all.
Maybe these things do something to people who rarely have caffeine, but largely I think they are marketing hype, pure and simple.
There are people who don’t like coffee.
You’re right about stupid expensive. That’s what caffeine powder is for.
As I said upthread, I have a caffeine habit.
One day I ran out of pills and resorted to a 5-Hour Energy. I was only able to drink half of it because of the horrible taste, but it was enough to keep me pumped all day long and into the night. I never experience that with my cheap Kroger-brand “Stay Awake” pills. If didn’t taste like battery acid, I’d drink that stuff all the time.
So no, I don’t think it’s all hype. I just think you have a high tolerance to caffeine.
I guess. I don’t even think it’s a tolerance based on use, because I don’t drink a HUGE amount of coffee and energy drinks never had a dramatic effect, even when I rarely drank coffee.
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I drink more like 16 ounces of coffee as a “cup”, so let’s call it 300mg. So a 5-Hour energy is 2/3 of a “cup” of coffee for me…that certainly isn’t going to perk me up very much. And 154mg in a 16-ounce Red Bull (which is the GIANT can – the standard small can would have around half that) is basically nothing. I just get the impression that people often think energy drinks are some crazy pick-me up for extreme young people, when really they often have the same amount of caffeine as the small coffees that senior citizens buy at McDonald’s.