What’s in energy drinks that provides the “kick” that one otherwise doesn’t get from coffee, tea, etc?

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Should mention that I drink only no sugar drinks, so it can’t be that, and a single can of what I have is usually no more than 200MG of caffeine

Edit: Appreciate your responses. Thank you for the explanations and insights

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B vitamins!

Interesting little factoid: the ebola virus was initially thought to affect primarily pregnant women because they’d always go to the missionary field hospitals for vitamin B injections because of the energy boost it gave them. But the needles weren’t being properly cleaned so this caused ebola to spread amongst the patients.

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B vitamins!

Interesting little factoid: the ebola virus was initially thought to affect primarily pregnant women because they’d always go to the missionary field hospitals for vitamin B injections because of the energy boost it gave them. But the needles weren’t being properly cleaned so this caused ebola to spread amongst the patients.

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So I don’t do energy drinks, never really touched them since they started, heard all sorts of crazy rumors and “my cousins brother” shit and just never bothered.

What is in them that is so bad? A lot of what I’m seeing in the thread are things that you’d take as supplements or want in your food/drink etc. Is it just the sheer amount of it? Or something specific, I hear a lot about heart problems, kidney stones and circulatory system issues, but not the why of it

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B vitamins!

Interesting little factoid: the ebola virus was initially thought to affect primarily pregnant women because they’d always go to the missionary field hospitals for vitamin B injections because of the energy boost it gave them. But the needles weren’t being properly cleaned so this caused ebola to spread amongst the patients.

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I’m pretty convinced it’s mostly to do with the B vitamins (especially B12), a lot of people are surprisingly deficient and they’re a big part of how our bodies metabolise energy.

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I’m pretty convinced it’s mostly to do with the B vitamins (especially B12), a lot of people are surprisingly deficient and they’re a big part of how our bodies metabolise energy.

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Inositol, l-tyrosine, guarana, taurine, other aminos that are basically pseudo stimulants. Then they mix l-theanine to get rid of the anxious part of the upper buzz.