Excessive Energy Drink and Your Health

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Monster, Fearless, Red Bull, Power Horse, Rockstar, and so many more brands of energy drinks with so many varieties, you should know them but there are also a lot on the internet depending on the location where they are sold. We drink this energy drink and we just enjoy the feeling. I have a friend who takes about 10 red bull or Power Horse daily, and it doesn't look like a great deal. Sometimes, I wonder if he really understands what energy drink does in the body.


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Let's me state that Coffee, tee and other cafeinated drinks are not Energy Drink. While Caffeine prevents the neurons in the brain from firing the signal of drowsiness, it doesn't give energy chemically. Coca-Cola and other Soda have glucose or sugar in them but so does milk, so we cannot say that they are energy drinks. Asides caffeine, other commonly used ingredient include taurine, ginseng, guarana, yerba mate, acai, methylxanthines, maltodextrin, inositol, vitamin B, carnitine, creatine, glucuronolactone and ginkgo biloba. Energy drinks have a high amount of caffeine and other ingredients. Caffeine is the most popular drug in the world. It is allows the brain to work without providing it with energy. Caffeine is not bad, also sugar is not bad as well but excessive sugar and caffeine can be very bad, and excessive depends on the amount and the individual. All substances can be toxic depending on the amount taken. With energy drinks, the timing, the quantity, and the frequency of its intake matters a lot.

When caffein is taken it blocks the adenosine receptor in the brain. Adenenosine receptors are found everywhere in the cells of the brain and are binded by adenosine. When the binding occurs the brain sends the drowsy sensation but then caffeine blocks the receptors preventing the binding of adenosine and the adenosine receptors thereby preventing the drowsy feeling. When the caffeine wear out, then there would be an energetic crash. The hypothalamus detects caffeine and it would communicates with the pituitary gland which produces epinephrine, norepinerphrine. Most energy drinks do not have sugar, rather they have sweetners which are artificial (sucralose) which has its effect on the pancreas if glucose is taken after thereby reducing the production of insulin.


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On the can of monster energy drink, its ingredient includes Fruit Juice which is good for the body, it also contains Sugar, and Glucose surup which has 52 gram of sugar in each can, and they are the major source of energy. 52 gram of Sugar is a lot as it is about 1/5 of a 250 gram dangote sugar (Nigerians would understand). It is very funny that people would have up to 10 cans a day. That's a lot of sugar being consumed in a day. Another ingredient in energy drink is Tuarine which is also nicknamed as Ox or Bull. It is known as 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid and it is an amino acid produced in the pancreas, and it can be gotten from eating fish, meat, as well supplements, and breast milk. Tuarine helps in fluid balancing, skeletal development, blood pressure maintainance, and so on. It also contains Ginseng, caffeine and like I said, it doesn't give energy. It is important that we know that caffeine is not responsible for the energy in Energy drinks. Overdosing on Caffeine can lead to jitteriness, elevated blood pressure, sleeplessness, irregular heart rhythm, faster heart beat, headaches and nervousness.

Never drink exccessive energy drink within a short time, it can lead to so many devastating side effects including a breakthrough abdominal pain. Statrting with an energy drink always feels good, but then there is always a burning at the back of the throat but as the drink continues especially when taking lots of cans, then burns start to become chugging and the burns start to get to his chest, and pain starts to get to the stomach and the back which would be quite confusing. Over time, the heart begins bang and the pain would keep going to the back of his shoulder, and then the stomach start to display different periods of stomach pain which would be intense. Taking excessive energy drink can lead to hyperglycemia which is high blood sugar. It can also lead to diabetes or cause insulin resistance with excessive concentration of sugar continuously, it can also cause Hyperlipacemia, and can lead to acute Pancreatitis.

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If energy drinks are to be used at all, they should be used for what they're meant for: drinking before/during/after strenuous exercise. Like before a lift or during running. But personally I never found a use for them.

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Oh my goodness, I have a friend who actually needs to read this.

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You forgot about heart problems from the use of energy drinks!
You have to be a complete degenerate to drink this shit!

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