All they do is stop you from falling asleep.. they don't give you energy, and thats why people have problems sleeping after one.
Having drank a few energy drinks in my time (monster, red bull, play), and actually drinking a red bull right now - all I can say is: Mountain Dew Cheesecake!!!! That is all
Like quite a few have said, most likely is the caffine that's messing around with your heart rate. Personally, my go to drink when i have to get up and running is homemade. Standard doses of glucose and ribena taken together. Keeps me going for 3-4 hours at least. So far only needed it when i have more stuff to study than I have time to actually study. Brain goes into overdrive or something from that much sugar. The crash at the end sucks though. But hey, if that means i don't have to repeat a module. I can deal with it.
I get this. My AI lectures are a doze fest (we've worked out it's either the temperature, the lecturers voice, the lighting, the 'comfy' seats or that CO2 builds up and we're choking) and I've tried loads of stuff. I find Relentless triggers this more than Red Bull. These days I tend to stick to cola. The perk up I've developed is: 250ml Red Bull 250ml OJ (not concentrate) Bag of McCoys Kept me going through my 9-12 of Higher Maths last year and is the only think that keeps my going on my 9-7 Mondays...
mmm Relentless, however energy drinks always need to be supplemented with copious amounts of water/squash/juice etc. Also they need to be drank relatively slowly so you don't get the massive downer
I try not to drink them anymore, I prefer to take my caffeine in coffee/tea format now! However I used to drink craploads of them at uni, especially mixed with Jaeger or vodka..... *shudder*. They always gave the worst hangovers.
I limit my usage of energy drinks to at most one a day for five days a week. Weekends are caffeine-free days One's brain otherwise gets quickly used to the caffeine effects and you're just experiencing the sugar rush. For me the caffeine is useful in recovering from a post-lunch crash, so that I can go back to focusing on my work instead of staring blankly at the wall in front of me Interesting thing about caffeine having the opposite effect in some people... got any references on how this might work (biochemically)? Never heard of this before.
I don't understand how anyone needs "energy drinks" (Or, more aptly, liquid sugar). Especially given that you're (probably) not much out of your early twenties, probably not even there yet. Don't get me wrong, I've never been one to go to sleep at reasonable times of the night (In fact, when I was 14-19 I was up until the wee hours of the morning, netting a couple of hours sleep before either work or college, depending on the day), but even then I rarely even felt the need for coffee, let alone "energy" drinks. Of the collection I've tried (Red Bull, Monster, RockStar, Jolt, some of the Mountain Dew range, Bawls, Relentless and so on), pretty much all of them tasted like a cup of sugar water with some food colouring (Having tasted fake blood based on golden syrup, I feel confident that I know what that tastes like..). Bawls and Jolt were the only barely tolerable ones, Bawls more so, but it was about as effective as a warm bath. I realise this turned into more of a rant, but honestly, those of us barely kicking about in our twenties, thirties forties or younger, (Going on the basis that my mother has bemoaned being tired even more so since turning 50, though I suspect that's mostly state of mind..) should we really need to gate these godawful piles of sugar to have "energy"? It sickens me that a number of my friends "can't get through the day" without coffee and naps. At twenty-odd, it's utterly pathetic. Especially the "naps" part.
I hate coffee and tea never drank it, atleast not considering it a pleasure drinking it (only if i ever have a sore throat and i think it might help) And i never drink Energy drinks for a boost i just had one the odd day and thought "this is a bit different" i've stopped now and im back to a good old Dr. Pepper and water Im sure i will pick up the odd Rockstar still
About the only time I've used energy drinks to actually give me energy is when driving long distance on little sleep and a stubborn hangover. I pretty much judge them on the taste, hence why I like the Dew the best I drink coffee if it's offered, not because I want the caffiene but because it's warm and providing it's made right, pretty tasty. Tea? BLEURGH.
I like Amp Lemonade. It is quite good tasting. I haven't really noticed it having much of an effect on me. Though I have only drank it a few times.
It does'nt happen all the time i've never found it happen with No fear yet But if i have 2 cans reasonably quick together it just flips me right out heart slows down i feel like crap and ready to go to bed. Sometimes it does'nt effect me at all
Had Dew the other day and wasn't impressed at all :/ Don't mind a relentless or whatever, can't have too much though, too sickly. Defo had more with vodka/jager than I have as 'energy' drinks And btw, I don't think they really work, friend was driving me home from reading last year,. said he was fine, had a couple of red bulls, fell asleep while on the m25 (luckily it's quite empty at 3am) and luckily no one was hurt. But I would never rely on them to keep you awake.
Last time i had an energy drink was when hot chicks were handing out free red bulls at the uni shooting club. Didn't make a difference and i'm not a fan. When i was younger i tried some and all they ever did was give me a headache. I drink the occasional coffee and a fair ammount of tea for the taste.
I'm a fan of the berry Amp in the blue can. Amp in general is the only energy drink I ever have because it comes in a smaller can and is much more sweet and flavorful than other energy drinks. Probably going to have one today as well, something to sip on during this afternoon's lecture. Energy drinks have a good bite going down and aren't as fizzy as soda so I can drink them fairly quickly and that really serves to wake me up, nothing like a quick surge of cold crisp fluid. Whether they have any effect past that is debatable, my daily caffiene intake is quite high and it doesn't have much effect anymore. It's fun to sometimes drink energy drinks just to evoke commentary. Like when you know you're going to be around people who are always making up conspiracy theories or health nuts. "You know those don't actually do anything, right?" quickly followed by a blank "So?" always leaves people off guard.
Chronic sleep deprivation my friend. Was a engineering student, (we have conscription here so that's age 21+). Typical week has about 45 to 50 hours of lessons per week, not inclusive of actually doing the work required. Just there staring at some guy yak. Then there's the fortnightly programming practicals that most will take a whole week to do. Non practical week allows for around 5-6 hours of sleep per day. Practical week it goes down to 3-0. I'm glad those days are over. But i think I've aquired a taste for the sweet stuff.
If you drink them constantly then a week off should de-tox you a little and then they will have the original effect after. Your body gets used to the caffeine and the base level its used to to do basic functions gets high and you end up having to have a lot just to feel any effect. Also that volume of sugar if your not exercising is bad aswell so you might be having huge slumps after because youve not got any sugar. Avoid sugary drinks for around a week and substitute with water and a good carbohydrate diet and you should start to feel your day to day energy levels rise (although you'll feel exhausted at first.) Im a cyclist and race and had to stop binge drinking cola as i became reliant on pure sugar for fuel and would just be suddenly exhausted.
