Boost

Your working on a final paper, but your eyes start getting droopy and you yawn. You are tired and are in need of a major energy boost. Back in the day, one use to reach for the coffee maker and just make a cup of espresso, straight black coffee. Now, what you see most common is the Energy drink.

In advertisements, we are told that just having a can of one of these drinks will keep you up and motivated for up to 5-6 hours. What is left out is the major crash one gets after those 5-6 hours of hyper activity. Since we know it is usually caffeine that keeps a person up on their toes, what truly is in the so called “energy drinks”? Of course we have the needed caffeine, taurine, Guarna, B vitamins, ginseng, ginkgo Bilbao, L-carnitine (http://www.energyfiend.com/energy-drink-ingredients) and some others. These are the most common ingredients in all energy drinks they may be different flavor wise and sugars and other herbal ingredients they put into them.
All of these ingredient help stimulate the body and mind together, it is sort of like how coke use to be fore people. When one needed a sugar boost they would drink a bottle of coke and use the caffeine to hype them up, but now they actually took that concept and have developed a new line of sodas basically.

Aside from being energy drinks they have also been used as mixers with alcohol. Alcohol will bring your blood pressure down and slow down a person, so bartenders and such learned if you mix an energy drink with an alcoholic beverage the drinker would get double the rush, and not get as sluggish as fast, even thought that truly depends on the individuals alcohol intake. It is funny how a combination of all herbal and earthy materials with some caffeine can develop into such an addicting and much needed substance. Energy drinks are the cold version of coffee in the present day.