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They have caffeine as the source of your brain being fooled into thinking you hae energy. You get the equivalent of more than a day's worth of coffee in one drink. read the label!
I find that eating well, getting a solid 6 hours minimum sleep every night, and engaging in physical work of some kind every day, gives me more energy than anything else.
When I sit on my butt all day, I get lethargic and run down. When I don't get enough sleep, I'm too tired to do anything. If I eat too much of anything, I feel literally weighed down. If I eat more sugar and carbs than I know is good for me, even if I'm not eating a lot of food that day combined, I feel sluggish.
I also have one cup of coffee every morning, with 2 sugars and a splash of whole milk. That's the only caffeine I get on a daily basis.
They've got Quercetin, which in my experience gives one longer lasting energy...not as jolt-y as caffeine...
I suggest you try drinking one a day for about a week, and see how you feel.
Nope, they are not Monster drinks by any means.
You are right Quercetin is for energy, but not a stimulate they work on the mitochondria, is more for physical work (muscle) and not mental stimulation for like waking up which is the main reason I drink the monster drink to wake up...
I drink 'em all the time, probably about 3-4 a week. But only the sugar-free ones.
There's nothing wrong with them; contrary to what alot of people think, most of them posess only the rough-equivalent of a cup of coffee. Plus they have alot of Vitamins, especially C and the B-Complex.
Many of them also have helpful herbal supplements, like Yerbe Matte & Ginseng.
And Amino Acids too, like Arginine & Carnitine, which are protein precursors. And Taurine! Yummy! I love the buzz i get from that stuff.
One caveat: the one thing about energy drinks that might possible be construed as being bad for you is, alas, that the phosphoric acid they use to fizz some of them up. The same stuff they use to carbonate soft drinks. Some studies have hinted that too much of this stuff--my doctor says it would take a couple liters a day--might leach some calcium from your bones and thus increase a risk of osteoporosis.
But I had a bone density scan done a couple months ago and it showed no signs whatsoever. And this is after consuming around 10 energy drinks a month for about three years.
Of course, in all fairness, I gotta admit that I take Calcium supplements.
Cheers!
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