The Real Truth About Energy Drinks

Energy drinks are a hot topic lately. With our busy lifestyles and lack of sleep, the promise of instant energy burst becomes very tempting. The question is though, what is the price we pay for it? It was a lot of discussion lately about whether energy drinks are safe and about their possible side effects. We went on a quest to learn more about this and here is what we learned.

Energy drinks are usually non-alcoholic beverages that contain vitamins and natural stimulants. Different companies produce energy drinks with various ingredients, but one thing is most of them have in common is caffeine. It is an ingredient that inspires your body to go into performance mode. The amount of caffeine in different brands of energy drinks varies 80-150 mg per liter in each can (250 ml). Provided that the average daily dose of caffeine, without any damage to your body is 300 mg, has two energy drinks a day pretty much used up to that limit. That sounds reasonable, but unfortunately we all know that we just do not stop at 2 cans, especially since we consume other products containing caffeine during the day, such as tea and soda. energy boost and clarity of thought the effects do not last too long. Immediately after feeling energized coming collapse, we usually try to compensate with other energy drink, creating a vicious circle. So what are side effects of having too much caffeine? According to some studies, excessive caffeine intake can lead to increased blood pressure, anxiety attacks, insomnia, heart pain.

If you read the list of ingredients in energy drinks, You May assume that you are holding a vitamin cocktail. Guarana extract, ginseng root, ginkgo biloba extract, mateine​​, folic acid ... It sounds very healthy and attractive, and most importantly when you drink red liquid you feel like you are supplying your body with natural substances necessary for its operation. In reality, each ingredient is an excellent stimulant if taken separately. For example, ginseng effectively overcomes fatigue, depression and stress; mateine​​, found in South America, tea-mate, helps overcome the feeling of hunger and helps to lose weight, folic acid also known as vitamin B9 plays an important role in the metabolism and synthesis of amino-and nucleic acids, thereby improving brain function, Guarana is known to remove lactic acid from muscle tissue thus reducing pain after intensive physical activity plus contains a lot of energizing caffeine in their leaves. Unfortunately, laboratory tests prove that the quantity of these substances in energy drinks is very minimal, and the rest of the chemical compound caffeine and other components stimulate the nervous system. Therefore, it is useless to rely on energy drinks to make you healthier. To at least partially visible to the effect that they would drink the bucket, which as we discussed earlier is in fact harmful to your health.

The two main ingredients of energy drinks are caffeine and taurine. These are key elements that should have "power", our brain and body in accordance with the makers of energy drinks. However, practice shows otherwise. French scientists have studied the composition and the effects of energy drinks and came to the conclusion that the main ingredients of tonic do not go together and cause unknown reactions of the body. For example, the amino acid taurine, which is responsible for the immune system, it is very dangerous for the heart muscle when combined with any dose exceeding 90 mg of caffeine. So, the first component of energy drinks suddenly relaxes the nervous system and lowers blood pressure, and the other on the contrary increases thus creating a lack of oxygen due to narrowing of blood vessels. As a result, you can achieve a similar effect if you take a shower and alternate extreme hot water with very cold. This dangerous excited and agitated state precisely what we take for liveliness and energy. Because of the incompatibility of ingredients energy drinks are sold only on prescription drug stores in Norway, Denmark and France. They only sell to those who have no contra-indications such as heart disease, hypertension, insomnia, or diabetes. Energy drinks are also prohibited for children under 14 years, pregnant and lactating women. In contrast, here in America, 12-year-old can freely buy and consume any energy drink brand. We all remember the incident with the teenage boy who had more than 10 energy drinks before his baseball game, had a heart attack. It's actually been proven that his death was caused by those energy drink is consumed.

Caffeine is contained in guarana causes addiction, and you are tempted to consume energy drinks in large quantities. In addition, as mentioned before, energy drinks put us in the energy trap. We feel like the energy needed to complete this last task is that it can, but in reality it is the only key to the door of internal resources, the nervous system. In other words, energy drinks do not give us energy, they suck it from us. We all know that the first few hours after the energy drink does not feel tired at all, our mood improves and we feel a burst of energy, but after that we feel a drop of the same duration, and our body is applied great efforts to restore its normal state. This happens for very simple reasons. Ginseng and guarana energy released from the untouchable reserves stored in the liver, muscle and fat for a rainy day. By drinking energy drinks we artificially increase the metabolism of carelessly wasting what your body is storing for years, and what you would normally use in a stressful situation.

There are other much healthier way of filling your body with energy. Do not sleep too long on the weekends. If you get from your regular schedule you confuse your body. Go to bed at the same time you would normally do during the weekdays. Good sleep is the enemy of fatigue. Eat a healthy breakfast. If you do not have breakfast at all, in just a few hours you will feel sleepy. Eat something filling and low in calories as the oatmeal or cereal for breakfast every day. Try to eat more "lighter" food. Red and orange fruits such as tomatoes, oranges, carrots and so on, will give your body a much healthier form of energy. Finally, drink more water. It plays an important role in metabolism. A few glasses of water a day will make sure that you still have energy, even later in the day.