Your thoughs on Energy Drinks

It's possible it may be true. I once drunk 3 Red Bulls within a 5 hour period (long trip) and felt like my head was about to implode. It took me almost 12 hours to come down off of that "hi" or sugar rush. Currently I avoid at all costs.

Half a can of Redline will send you flying. Personally, I'm a fan of Monster Energy drink. The green one and Big Black.

energy drinks rock but they can be very harmful. you can get energy from pastas and bread too.^^

Energy drinks = essential staple in student living.

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i like gatorade, if that counts then yeah.

if not, then i don't like energy drinks, they're a waste of money.

Gatorade is an energy drink, and it even works as stated.

I thought it was kinda obvious what with everyone in sports from little league all the way up to the pros drinking it. It's not called the thirst quencher for nothing.

Drink one whole can of Redline and tell me they can't be dangerous.

Don't worry about it until you're 18 then.

Redline is damn serious.
I always stay away from Red Bull and all that crap, 'cause when I was a kid, my parents told me "It stunts your growth"
hehe. Anyway energy drinks aren't anything special. The only energy you get is from caffeine, all other stuff is just tastes.
So in something like Redline there would be 70% of caffeine... I guess. That's why it's dangerous.

Guarana has also been shown to excaerbate productivity. In large enough doses atleast.

I've seen Guarana in shampoo (?) like Adidas. I tried washing with it, I felt fresh :)
Caffeine and Guarana are almost the same thing, but when both are mixed, it's freaking more dangerous than just 1 of them.

You'll probably go into convulsions before you do anything else.

The combination of the caffine, guarana, and the awful taste make for an unstable boost. Not to mention the crash felt afterwards is terrible. But if you need your energy, you need your energy.

well its your on opinion if it taste bad or not i personally think all energy drinks taste delightful and i dont really feel a sugar rush i just drink um for the taste

I've gotta be honest, I've had one energy drink, a green or a purple Monster at Projekt Revolution, and man, did that thing kick me up, no crash, no headache, nothing, just pure energy 10 minutes after chugging it, which lasted for a good 5 hours or so, then it came back 2 hours later, completely awesome,
As for energy drinks every day, that could(and probably will) Kill you or increase the rate of heart attacks when you get older or some jolly uplifting gift of that sort(Sarcasm)

(Gatorade is a thirst quencher/electrolyte, it is hardly on the same level as other energye\ drinkes in that it doesn't use the ingredients they use, it's more of a... quarter or half energy drink XP if I remember at least)

I have been wondering if the soft drinks (Mountain Dew, Sprite, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Mirinda) and all of that are considered as energy drinks?
As some of them do contain caffeine (but in very small amounts), but are they still considered as energy drinks? Completely? Partially? Not at all?

I barely have them but when I do i get realllllyyy hyper^^

Sodas are not energy drinks. Although caffeine has mildy addictive qualities. it doesn't serve any real purpose, I don't think. Perhaps its used to make soda extra fizzy.

Caffiene is a drug used for mostly medicinal purposes, but soda uses it for addictivity, they use it, it's harmless to most of the population, it makes the drinker crave more, thus putting more money into soda companies
Purely Business reasons XP
Energy drinks contain stuff like Guarine and various other odd things

I've run a marathon and I can tell you the hardest part isn't the wall, or the last mile, its the mile around all the various energy drink stations. The ground gets soaked with spills and dregs of energy drinks. The ground becomes sticky, so much so its like running over glue!

Haha @ Nonfictionguy
They probably drink energy drinks at every mile, isn't that considered as cheating? 8-)
Oh ya Yama, that's what I thought, XP I'm addicted to Mountain Dew, I tell myself it's 'cause of the taste, but no, it's 'cause of the caffeine xP
Anyway we're going offtopic here.

Some energy drinks have a very nice taste by the way, you don't feel the caffeine that much. But that's hard to figure out which are the ones that have the taste more than the coffeine. You gotta experience it yourself, but don't put yourself under pressure, you might end up in hospital. Soda just makes you feel dizzy if you overdrink it, but Energy Drinks have the caffeine.
Oh ya yama it's

G-U-A-R-A-N-A and it looks spooky -_-



and our beloved Caffeine (not)

Caffeine is not beloved xS. Didn't you read the (n0t) ??
Sheesh. Anyway, I'm not a hyper addict either way, nor Energy drinks, nor Soda's, nor both! I only drink Soda from time to time when I am in the mood for it.
And that is it! Over! lol
So, anybody else got any thought on energy drinks?

Caffiene has no flavor or color, which is part of the reason some water bottlers put it in their water. But thats another discussion.

(I thought caffiene adds a yellowish color to things... lol)

Guarana scares me, eyebally looking, they'd make nice Halloween decor though

Caffiene looks like a bunch of hamster terds :P

I drank a RedBull one time,....that was the day I broke my record of running around my entire house in less ten seconds,...AND I beat the whack-a-mole game at Chuck E. Cheeses !!!!