Energy Drinks

Has anyone had any experience with energy drinks such as Monster or
Rockstar in particular? They have a high amount of B vitamins as well
as caffeine and other things such as ginseng which have been shown to
improve cognitive and negative symptoms. They have taurine too, but
I'm not sure that does much for the brain.

I've found that these energy drinks help me focus and remember things
better. I also feel less stressed out and more energetic (duh! It's an
energy drink!). I was wondering if anyone else has had any luck with
these?

~Cory

On Fri, 9 May 2008 12:48:03 -0700 (PDT), "coryschulz@gmail.com"
<coryschulz@gmail.com> wrote:

>Has anyone had any experience with energy drinks such as Monster or
>Rockstar in particular? They have a high amount of B vitamins as well
>as caffeine and other things such as ginseng which have been shown to
>improve cognitive and negative symptoms. They have taurine too, but
>I'm not sure that does much for the brain.
>
>I've found that these energy drinks help me focus and remember things
>better. I also feel less stressed out and more energetic (duh! It's an
>energy drink!). I was wondering if anyone else has had any luck with
>these?
>
>~Cory


I don't know if these "Energy drinks" accurately list their
ingredients but I am leery of them. I would rather take a pill or
powder of a known substance than gamble with some commerical,
non-pharmacutical product.

Ray

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I would imagine that they list their ingredients somewhat accurately.
I think by FDA law they have to.

The main thing that I think helps these drinks work is their extremely
high amounts of caffeine and B vitamins. B vitamins increase your
metabolism and help you burn energy faster. More specifically vitamin
B6 and B12, but I think niacin and inositol help too. Most of them
have taurine, but from what I've read taurine just helps your muscles
get rid of waste products and replenish nutrients. My experience with
energy drinks is that they help me feel clear in thought, focus
better, they make me feel happier, and more energetic. When I take B
vitamin supplements in pill form I don't get the same feeling. And so
there must be something else in the energy drinks that gives me this
feeling, or there is a combination of things that all work together
synergisticly to create this feeling.

These energy drinks aren't entirely bad for you. I get the diet kind
that doesn't have any sugar, and so it's mostly just vitamins and herb
extracts and your body can handle all of these just fine in
moderation. My main issue with them is that they are terrible for your
teeth. I think most people know that the acid in a can of soda, such
as Coke, eats away at your teeth and causes cavities. Well with energy
drinks they are about 30 times worse for your teeth and can cause
major tooth decay and LOTS of cavities. If you drank an energy drink
every day, after a few months you probably wouldn't have many teeth
left. Seriously... So because of this I would very much prefer to take
them in pill form, but for some reason I'm not able to achieve the
same results that I get from drinking a can of Rockstar or Monster.
Because of this side effect I only drink them occasionally; usually a
few times a month.

I've been reading a little about panax ginseng and how it can help
with schizophrenia. Ginseng is in the energy drinks.
http://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/n...src=RSS_PUBLIC
Then I read on wikipedia that ginseng has these chemicals (adaptogens)
that help your body deal with stress chemicals and it can help
stabilize parts of your brain. Well I happen to have a bottle of it
from a long time ago that I never really used. So tomorrow morning I'm
going to try taking some and see if it helps. I may eventually try
adding it to the Glycine + GABA + Tianeptine (GGT) mixture I've been
taking. It would be interesting to try the GGT trio with the energy
drinks to see how well they balance out.

~Cory

I made this huge post, but then an error occurred and it didn't post
properly... oh well...

Anyways... I think they have to report accurately what they put in the
drinks. I think it's the FDA's rules.

The weird thing is that when I take pills, like extra B vitamins, they
don't feel the same as the energy drinks. There's something in them,
or a combination of things, that makes them feel so good. Lately I've
been looking into ginseng and how it can help stabilize parts of your
brain, such as your stress response centers. I have a bottle from a
long time ago that I never really took, so I'm going to try some
tomorrow and see how it feels. I'll let you know how things go. If it
feels good, I'll try taking it with extra B vitamins and some caffeine
to see if I can recreate the feeling from energy drinks. We'll see. If
I can successfully recreate the "energy drink feeling" with pills I
will probably try adding them to my GABA + Glycine + Tianeptine +
Piracetam combination that I've been taking and see how that feels. I
imagine it would be great!

~Cory

On May 9, 11:30*pm, homo zen <texasgo...@at-gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2008 12:48:03 -0700 (PDT), "corysch...@gmail.com"
>
> <corysch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Has anyone had any experience with energy drinks such as Monster or
> >Rockstar in particular? They have a high amount of B vitamins as well
> >as caffeine and other things such as ginseng which have been shown to
> >improve cognitive and negative symptoms. They have taurine too, but
> >I'm not sure that does much for the brain.
>
> >I've found that these energy drinks help me focus and remember things
> >better. I also feel less stressed out and more energetic (duh! It's an
> >energy drink!). I was wondering if anyone else has had any luck with
> >these?
>
> >~Cory
>
> I don't know if these "Energy drinks" accurately list their
> ingredients but I am leery of them. *I would rather take a pill or
> powder of a known substance than gamble with some commerical,
> non-pharmacutical product.
>
> Ray

Ray, it seems that taurine is a naturally occurring compound,
essential to cats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurine

On May 10, 2:26*am, "corysch...@gmail.com" <corysch...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I made this huge post, but then an error occurred and it didn't post
> properly... oh well...
>
> Anyways... I think they have to report accurately what they put in the
> drinks. I think it's the FDA's rules.
>
> The weird thing is that when I take pills, like extra B vitamins, they
> don't feel the same as the energy drinks. There's something in them,
> or a combination of things, that makes them feel so good. Lately I've
> been looking into ginseng and how it can help stabilize parts of your
> brain, such as your stress response centers. I have a bottle from a
> long time ago that I never really took, so I'm going to try some
> tomorrow and see how it feels. I'll let you know how things go. If it
> feels good, I'll try taking it with extra B vitamins and some caffeine
> to see if I can recreate the feeling from energy drinks. We'll see. If
> I can successfully recreate the "energy drink feeling" with pills I
> will probably try adding them to my GABA + Glycine + Tianeptine +
> Piracetam combination that I've been taking and see how that feels. I
> imagine it would be great!
>
> ~Cory

sorry... It looks as though it did post my first message. The google
board was acting weird before.

On Sat, 10 May 2008 01:10:14 -0700 (PDT), Marvin Barley
<mtodorov3_69@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On May 9, 11:30*pm, homo zen <texasgo...@at-gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 May 2008 12:48:03 -0700 (PDT), "corysch...@gmail.com"
>>
>> <corysch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >Has anyone had any experience with energy drinks such as Monster or
>> >Rockstar in particular? They have a high amount of B vitamins as well
>> >as caffeine and other things such as ginseng which have been shown to
>> >improve cognitive and negative symptoms. They have taurine too, but
>> >I'm not sure that does much for the brain.
>>
>> >I've found that these energy drinks help me focus and remember things
>> >better. I also feel less stressed out and more energetic (duh! It's an
>> >energy drink!). I was wondering if anyone else has had any luck with
>> >these?
>>
>> >~Cory
>>
>> I don't know if these "Energy drinks" accurately list their
>> ingredients but I am leery of them. *I would rather take a pill or
>> powder of a known substance than gamble with some commerical,
>> non-pharmacutical product.
>>
>> Ray
>
>Ray, it seems that taurine is a naturally occurring compound,
>essential to cats.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurine


Taurine also appears to be a common ingredient in energy drinks.
Thoush the FDA requires labeling of ingredients, I'm not so sure the
people who manufacture it put amounts on the container. They probably
only tell where you can get more information.

Ray

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