For instance, Bucked Up has over 8000% B12 and nearly 1500% B6. Why?
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Having a medical deficiency of B vitamins is linked to symptoms like feeling sleepy, problems concentrating, body aches – generally feeling ‘slow’.
Additionally B vitamins don’t build up in your body, if you have too much you just pee them out.
(controversial) B vitamins appear to be not absorbed ‘at their best’ in liquid form, it’s more ‘available’ for your body in the form of solid food.
The kind of people who worry about their B-vitamin intake but *aren’t* actual medical patients seeing doctors about a deficiency are also the kind of people who would see an ‘energy drink’ containing ‘8000%’ of the daily requirement of B12 and think, Hey! I gotta drink that shit! That’ll be great for me!
So in summary: companies who make ‘energy drinks’ can easily add fuck-tons of it to their drinks to appeal to a consumer base without worrying about poisoning their clients.
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If you go to the doctor and ask for a b12 shot, that’s roughly the amount he’ll give you too. The daily recommended is the bare minimum that a person needs.
because they are linked to things like immune support, mood, and energy…….but as someone else has said it’s basically marketing. people like to believe that more of a good thing is even better for you, when the reality is your body just pees it out which is why your pee turns neon yellow when you have too much of certain vitamins.
In short, it’s marketing and placebo. There are no additional benefits that those vitamins confer when you ingest an energy drink, provided you are not deficient.
B vitamins are associated with energy metabolism and because it’s an energy drink, it makes sense to have something that that is a cofactor in energy metabolism. That’s marketing.
These are water soluble vitamins, like others mentioned, they are not stored, although B12 is stored in the liver which indicates it’s importance for your body, so you can drink as many as you like without worrying about having too much.
Additionally, just for fun, vitamins of b group are produced by the body in some amounts by the bacteria and yeast in the intestines.
A related curiosity: I was advised to take B12 supplements.
Does taking them later in the day impact sleep?
B12 is cheap and it’s barely bioavailable orally, i.e. you need to put a load in to absorb enough
B6 I assume it’s similar
Marketing. They’re something you can put a lot of in a drink for low cost, and they’re something you can’t overdose on…. So why not, it makes for a good gimmick for people who buy energy drinks
It just doesn’t get absorbed too well and since you can’t get too much of it (you pee it out), supplements and energy drinks just put a lot of it.
For example I’m taking B12 supplements that are 40000% of the daily recommended dose.
because
Girl, you need a shot of B12
You know you do
Girl, you want a shot of Boyz 12
It’s overdue
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