Energy drink poll!

[Luca]

Like many others here, I prefer coffee or tea. I don't do energy drinks.
I used to like the blue and red Mountain Dew drinks when I was younger but they had some adverse effects on my physical and mental health. I don't drink soda anymore except for Sprite, ginger ale, and sparkling water.
I tried a few sips of an energy drink once (I think it was Red Bull) and it caused nearly instant anxiety. I think the effects energy drinks would have on me would be the same as my secondhand experience with marijuana. Heightened anxiety and agitation.
But not all caffeinated beverages do that to me, since I can have coffee or tea right before I go to bed and have no issues sleeping. Caffeine improves focus for me but does not make me hyper or agitated, although alcohol surprisingly does even though it's a depressant.

 

[Raggamuffin]

Sugar is poison. Quite literally.

Dramatic sounding video I know. It's a podcast by a UK GP, and he has guests who specialise in all sorts of fields. His guest on this video talks about how sugar poisons the body on a cellular level, and also about processed foods.

Eye opening stuff. But if you digest it and put it forward in your life, it can have life-changing benefits. He speaks plainly, but also on a scientific level. Sugar is doing the same thing in your body as cyanide does. Also alcohol. Eating lots of sugar daily is battering your liver just like drinking alcohol is doing.

Go into any shop, look at the ingredients on all this pre-packaged processed good. Sugar, fructose, corn syrup. It's everywhere.

Ed

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Coffee, Black Tea, Diet Coke, or Diet Dr. Pepper

 

[Slime_Punk]

I think a lot of people don't realize the hit that ~200 MG of caffeine can be like in a short period of time, especially when they load down certain energy drinks with B-vitamins that give you a burst of energy along with it. The RDA (or whatever you want to call it, it's definitely not 'recommended') is only 400 mil, and apparently people can begin experiencing panic attacks above that point, even when they're not super susceptible to them otherwise.

I stay away from them because I already have a bad black tea addiction to begin with, but last year I got a few during the bad storm that hit and felt like I was high as a kite. I think I beat Neon Chrome twice in a row, and I don't even normally have a high drive for playing games in the first place. It was kind of hilarious, but I won't do it again.

 

[Jordy]

Just Mountain Dew for me.

Though I primarily drink it for the taste, I dont particularly care about the caffeine or sugar.

The problem though is that there's no way to avoid caffeine addiction. If I try to go a day WITHOUT any, a monstrous headache soon follows, which is... awful.

I love the taste of mountain dew but it's so much sugar, I just can't drink it

 

[Shevek]

I save coffee or cola for emergencies, like having to drive on no sleep, and it does the job. I have not had to use it for years, as I've gotten some management on my sleep disorder working. I had some black tea to be sociable recently, and it really kept me up. Now that's on the list to avoid too.

 

[Metalhead]

So nobody here mixes energy drinks with booze. We are all more intelligent than the usual frat boy.

 

[Slime_Punk]

So nobody here mixes energy drinks with booze. We are all more intelligent than the usual frat boy.

I used to chug those 12% ABV Four Lokos if that counts

 

[Metalhead]

I used to chug those 12% ABV Four Lokos if that counts

As did I, and it probably is a good thing those are now illegal to sell in the USA now.

 

[Aspychata]

Just makes me think mixing downers with uppers. I think l had wine mixed with caffeine drink last year during heat wave.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Speaking of... I have this wonderful loose leaf tea, and I think that after today or tomorrow, it will run out.

I do have plenty of mild, blond roast coffee (my favorite), but I really need to buy more tea.

I like my coffee or tea with heavy cream and either Sweet N Low or Equal (I'm on a low carb diet, and so I'm trying to really ration down the sugar and honey. I think I'm sensitive to stevia and Splenda.)

 

[Jeff T]

RO water and unsweetened hibiscus tea is pretty much it for me. Coffee gives me migraines, artificial sweeteners except saccharine cause respiratory arrest if I try to sleep, and that much sugar in many drinks is a no-no for diabetics. I'm messed up!

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

RO water and unsweetened hibiscus tea is pretty much it for me. Coffee gives me migraines, artificial sweeteners except saccharine cause respiratory arrest if I try to sleep, and that much sugar in many drinks is a no-no for diabetics. I'm messed up!

I love hibiscus too! I make big pitchers of half cranberry juice half hibiscus tea. It's also something you can dye stuff with, so that's fun too.

 

[Jeff T]

I love hibiscus too! I make big pitchers of half cranberry juice half hibiscus tea. It's also something you can dye stuff with, so that's fun too.

It is tasty stuff! And it can be combined with other flavors for some unique taste. Haven't tried cranberry yet, sounds good!
The dried petals are sold at a discount grocery here in barrels. For a short time I boiled the petals in water to get the tea, but I was so messy making the tea that way! What I do now is grind a large amount of petals into a powder in the vitamix which makes several cups of powder. Add just a small spoonful of the powder into the coffeemaker results in a tall glass of the tea in 2-3 minutes........

 

[qifawyty]

This poll is all about legal liquid amphetamine content, such as Red Bull, Rockstar and Monster.

I needed one today to keep myself awake since I had some messed up dreams in my sleep last night and falling back asleep was pretty impossible after that.

Do you enjoy Euphoria Energy drinks? Do you drink them just because they are trendy and you want to feel like you are 15 again? Do you mix them with vodka? Or do you hate them all the way around?

They help me out when I have poor sleep the night before, but the crash when I get home from the work shift afterwards is pretty killer.

I was partial to cranberry red bull and the blood orange one while in college. But there were vending machines on campus and my number one was NAS. Just NAS. It was the only “standard” flavor of energy drink I could handle. I then had two organs removed and cut back on my consumption of things that aren’t so good for me haha. I blame the entire box of fruit gushers I ate waiting for multiple hours for a closed interstate to open so I can get home.

 

[Sasha22]

I did energy drinks episodically for a few weeks but I don't like the feeling at all - also, I didn't want to end up relying on that, and what is in this stuff anyway. So now coffee in the morning, sometimes guarana & vitamin C, and if I have intense work days with little sleep but have to stay awake then I have M&Ms on repeat

 

[Kisa the tea]

I have never drank an energy drink in my life. As for what I prefer: Who knows? It is truly a mystery what drink I enjoy and would take a Sherlock Holmes detective to figure out what drink I enjoy.

 

[Princess Viola]

I've never had an energy drink ever. Never got the appeal of them, personally.