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whatever amount of caffeine they have its all bullshit and wont give u any significant effect unless u drink like 3-4+ cans in one sitting (which will hit hard on ur kidneys and other stuff) and even then its not necessarily an energy boost but rather mild uplift
stuff like monster might give u sugar rush just cuz they have like 1kg of sugar per 100ml but thats not exactly an energy boost someone would look for + its impossible to drink it without wanting to wash ur mouth after
at least redbull tastes nice but taste is the only reason to drink it, never the energy
so when are we gonna have drinks that would be equivalent to like 4 espresso shots instead of fizzy sugar stuff with 0.01% caffeine?
Thats why i drink 5 cans per day
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Nt im 95 and been doing this shit my whole life and I feel great
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sigma
Bro was on that Redbull 1930s edition
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WW1 Francis Ferdinand limited edition [Blood Orange]
will destroy your heart before it does anything to your kidneys
fake, my friends kidney stopped from this and he stopped doing it
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he quit too early. If you do 15 cans a day your kidneys go full circle and start working perfectly again. Same effect as hitting the kidneys with a Uno reverse
I drink this one every day
youtube.com/watch?v=fSE4jNrYNXY&ab_chann..
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Sleep is literally the most important aspect of health. Saying you don't have time to sleep is saying you don't have time to exist in the universe. Reduced sleep will kill you quicker. Prioritize sleep over everything else, money, job or education. Even feeding. It's the most essential basic need. Nothing is more important. Nothing.
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Make it work then. Or face the consequences of being legally drunk for your entire waking existence. Missing just one hour of sleep every day for a week recudes your cognitive performance by some ridicolous like 40% and it takes more than a week of perfect sleep to get back peak performance. It will make you poorer, Dumber and fatter -scientifically proven. Unless your life depended on it that specific day, you need to sleep as much as you need to and no less. Do not get it twisted.
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Because the alternative a cycle of your brain melting away, your body withering into obesity, high blood pressure and accelerated aging. When you only sleep 6 hours a night you end up with less time overall because your brain will be so inefficient at learning that you need to spend catch up time to get the exams done for instance. Or you'll need a month more of training on your job because you need everything explained over and over. No sleep kills you. It literally destroys your body and mind. Getting enough sleep saves you waaay more time than being chronically at 30% capacity. The math is overwhelmingly in favour of sleep. It's not even debatable.
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It's mostly a general thing, your body consume muslce as opposed to fat in a sleep deprived state, supposedly because the nervous system expects danger. Even if you're skinny, bad sleep greatly diminishes your ability to both produce and keep muscle mass.
Get guuder sleep mens))) trust me. HLTV is the foremost place to get scientific knowledge.
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Men))))) once i realised what n abomination i am on bad sleep i started taking my schedule seriously and it's insane how much more fun life is on good sleep every day. Actually the doctors hate him way to rank up in cs.
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atm like 22-6:30. Sometimes i read in bed until like 23 and then I'll have to sleep till 7:30 ish (which results in 8 hours of actual sleep, rest being awake in bed mostly). This is pretty bad because regularity is so important, so trying to get more disciplined about what i do before sleeping. Right now it's either reading with dim lights or listening to a podcast. It's mostly to get rid of anxiety. If i don't read/listen to a podcast it's hard for me to enter sleep.
I do a shit ton of stuff throughout the day to make it easier for me to sleep as well which i can get into if you want. Like controlling body temperature through eating, exercise, showering and strategic light viewing. Shit like that.
All of it combined and I've curbed a 10 year chronic addiction to watching youtube and shit before sleeping and destroying my sleep every night. Took me about 2 months. And lots of research about the body/brain because i have no discipline and the only motivation i have is the knowledge of the destruction i did to myself. Its well worth it if you were a baiter like me.
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well seems like i'm on the good path haha. I usually stop my pc at 10pm and read for an hour with dim lighting as well then sleeping at 11pm and waking up at 8am. Gonna start exercising more soon as well, i walk between 6-8k steps a day + work so usually i'm ready to sleep at 11pm.
Tbh same, reading about the damage i am causing to myself/the benefits i could get is the most powerfull source of motivation there is.
Thanks for the response bro and btw, in case off you are still curious about sleep and more specialy siesta (wich are really good for you) i reccomend you that book : "When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing" There is a paragraph about siesta and it's benefits in the first part of the book and much more if you wanna read it whole of course
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Thank you. I have read a bit about "napping" which i think you're referring to, that people form especially the hotter climates used to do during the mid day to escape the heat. There's a section in "Why we sleep" about it which also illustrated some very harmful effects to those that were forced out of napping due to pressure from society, i think it was in portugal or italy, something like that.
I've not tried napping yet but it's something i want to explore in the future, it can basically reset your short term learning storage - giving you another boost to skill retention that otherwise only occurs at night for most people.
So effectively, you can learn something in the early part of the day, take a nap which will push that knowledge to the long term storage of the brain, and have a greater ability to acquire new skills in the evening as well. Even 25 minute meditation have been shown to do this.
But it shouldn't be for more than 90 min (one ultradian cycle) since this can obstruct general sleep. But it's very interesting stuff.
I will check out the book, if you want a deeper dive into sleep i highly recommend "why we sleep". It's very in depth on a biological level, but still easy to understand.
I can also highly recommend the podcast huberman lab. He just made a "toolkit" episode about sleep where he goes over a bunch of older episodes and consolidates it all into one episode on building a perfect protocol. It's episode #84.
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yes my bad napping xd forgot the word on the moment. And exactly ! and for the rest yep it's exactly that, And for naps, more than 20min of sleep can give you the "zombie mode" let's say when you wake up, like blury brain.
I have "why we sleep" on my reading list haha.
I don't listen to podcast but might get into it during my walk
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For me, i used podcasts streaming from my ipad to some airpods, so like no wires, complete darkness in bed to like move me away from using phones.
So it's not like i think everyone should listen to podcasts/audiobooks whatever before bed. But it really helped me break my addiction and eventually got me onto reading which i like to do now. So it can be a great help. And there's a bunch of good podcasts out there for anything you want. It can be a lot of fun, and make you sleepy/get rid of anxiety.
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Trying to make it short:
Your brain/body have an internal clock telling every cell in your body what time it is. The reason why you sleep in the first place, is because there are a number of hormones and neurotransmitters (basically large scale messenger signals excreted from your brain/other organs): That tell you, it's time to sleep.
This clock is slightly longer than a normal 24 hour day. In order to keep yourself tired at night and awake in the morning for peak performance you need to give your body pointers, so that it knows when the suns coming up and down. Unsurprisingly your eyes are responsible for a lot of this resetting of the clock.
Once you wake up, you have about an hour, maybe two hours to get as much sunlight - and it has to be sunlight - into your eyes. smartphones, lamps doesn't work. Needs to be very bright. Even cloudy sunlight is very good. It's like you're filling up a stamina bar with light energy and bum, 5-10 minutes your brain says nice. It's morning, i will be tired in about 16 hours from now. This is the most important. Sunlight right when you wake up.
Next up is body temperature. Excersise heats you up. Eating heats you up. Cold showers also heat you up (as a counter reaction to getting cold skin). As you wake up, your body temperature rises, every day. It peaks in the afternoon. Then it starts dropping, just by a bit. You cannot enter sleep if your body hasn't cooled off.
Therefore, get sunlight. Exercise before noon, eat a big meal, take a cold shower: You will cool down faster in the evening = easier to sleep.
Turn of all artificial lights an hour before bed. The later in the day the more sensitive your eyes get to light. One bright lamp in your bedroom can fuck you up.
Open your windows, make the room cool. Read a book/meditate/listen to podcasts to get rid of anxiety. Don't use alarms to wake up if you can.
Regularity is key. You can move your clock 30min a day by doing all of the above and fix your sleep schedule. Don't eat big meals before bedtime, it heats you up, disrupts deep sleep.
whole another level of based
Im pretty immune to caffeine, I can drink 5 energy drinks and fall asleep. I often drink coffee and then go to bed.
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Reason why it makes you sleep more is most likely because your sleep quality is in a drastic decline if you ingest caffeine before sleeping. Your body cannot descend into deep sleep if it's filled with caffeine and you will need to extend your sleep just to cover the bases, and it still won't be very good sleep. It's a waste of time.
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imagine being over 13 years old and drinking this,lmao
They can call it whatever they want, until soda companies come up with some more inventive flavors than the same rehashed "cola" "root beer" "ginger" "cream" they'll have a market cornered at a ridiculous price point.
I don't rly drink em often but I always enjoy a pipeline punch monster or their green apple one. Chubby sodas and jones soda have creative flavors but I don't see them around as much tbh. Energy drinks are just everywhere. Marketing success really
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I think they came in expecting to supplant coffee, and branded entirely around it, but ended up invalidating something else instead, and they could spend money to try and rebrand (but what's the point?) or just keep the ball rolling
Big mistake trying to invalidate coffee, coffee isn't going anywhere its thousands of years old. But they accidentally got lucky, with new thing (10 years) invalidating slighty-older-but-still-new (60 years) thing.
But to reflect on the idea of imbuing something with energy, what is the quality that performs it? It might be subjective, but for me I just like the hot/smooth drink in the morning. Smooth cause I'm still waking up, but the hotness helps wake me up, then later maybe (big maybe imo) the caffeine integrates and keeps you going. Just like I like a steaming hot shower in the morning to get going.
These guys serve a cold drink. Well a cold drink with some bite and a nice tangy flavor goes better after lunch imo. They just found themselves in a weird position I think and there's no point trying to turn the car around now and maybe messing it all up.
Just thinking though. I never took them seriously for "energy," only fun flavor. If they worked for energy then that "5 hour energy" shit would have erased them, but nobody wants a thimble of placebo piss. They want something fruity and fun
goes well with vodka and🎈
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Fun fact, caffein doesn't actually give you energy, it boosts your brain a bit and blocks your 'tiredness receptors' (I know that's technically not the correct description, but I'm trying to simplify things).
The 'energy' kick you get is partly from the caffeine, but mostly from the sugar. Too much of it, and you get a spectacular crash afterwards.
However, afaik there's a few good mixtures you can get that actually have a pretty good dose of caffeine, you can regulate the strength of the drink and it comes out cheaper.
So far I have tried Gamersupps and Gfuel. Didn't particularly like Gfuel because of the sugar crash, but Gamersupps has been a pleasure to use.
Or you could just buy caffeine tablets
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I mean, the power disparity is quite obvious when you look at the actual amount where sugar is often 10+% of the total weigth whereas caffeine is less than a thousandth of a percent.
What I'm saying is that caffeine if more responsible for the brain function boost and apparent lack of tiredness while the sugar is more responsible for the 'rush' feeling and subsequent crash
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Maybe that's true in Russia - in the rest of the world it's pretty illegal to print stuff on a food label that isn't actually in the product. Additionally, the most common energy drinks have zero/minimal sugar, so that point isn't really true either. I'm not sure what you're on about, tbqh.
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nt but dmcoffee.blog/how-much-sugar-is-in-a-reg..
if 60g of sugar in one can is "zero to minimal" for you idk what else to add
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what about the sugar free versions most energy drinks have by now like this one
nutritionix.com/i/monster/energy-drink-z..
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except they still have 150mg of caffeine
caffeineinformer.com/caffeine-content/mo..
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how would it do nothing idk but it literally does nothing unless i drink multiple cans at once, said it countless times in this thread already
as for sugar, in sugar free version u still get the shitty sweet taste cuz of artificial sweeteners but on the offtrade there isnt even a sugar rush that u get in the normal ones
and 500ml of smth vs small espresso obviously espresso wins how do u even compare it lol
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individual experience is not a good guide/source for general statements
if people enjoy the sweet taste that isn't a bad thingh
you're saying it's bad because you don't like it when other people exist that do like it
if all you care about is the kick you might get better value with an espresso but highest kick for lowest money and lowest quantity isn't all that people look for
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sugar free monster 140 mg: caffeineinformer.com/caffeine-content/mo..
espresso: 80-150 depending if single or double: drinksupercoffee.com/blog/nutrition/caff..
500 ml of monster vs small cup of coffee, maybe u need to read what i said instead of reading what u want to see
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Black coffee would do just fine. Also some salt, magnesium and potassium.
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drinksupercoffee.com/blog/nutrition/caff..
more like 100, i guess that depends on the coffee. still not comparable 500ml vs tiny coffee shot
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>still not comparable 500ml vs tiny coffee shot
Agree on that, the caffeine per ml is higher, but a shot of espresso is just a shot, taste it once and its gone. (At work I always have the machina make me a normal coffee on 100% strength and then add 1 espresso shot. I drink around 3 to 4 of those a day.)
I actually love the taste of the ULTRA zero sugar monster, so i prefer to have a big can that lasts me half an hour to enjoy.
I also have pure caffeine pills which I used instead of pre workout before Gym.
They are 200mg and inexpensive, if you just want as much caffeine as possible as fast as possible and as easy as it can be, thats the solution haha
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imagine drinking energy drinks for anything other than taste
A can of RedBull has 70mg of caffeine. Literally pixiedust shit for the average weight human. I need 200-300mg for a significant boost.
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I drink coffee maybe once a week on average.
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caffeine is just like any other drug out there, you gotta increase the dosage periodically to maintain it's potency.
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or maybe just maybe people like me enjoy the taste of Monster see the proper way to consume Monster is following the Rick philosophy
" don't think about it "
simply put don't read the ingredients and just drink you don't need to know what's inside just drink because once you read it kind of ruins the drink
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Thats the same as saying "simply dont read the ingredients of rat poison just drink it"
Just get enough sleep and drink water
wrong
If you drink it slowly, 1-2 cans can easily keep you up the whole night
And it is for me. guy who was on amph for 2 years, for normal people effect is even better
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Energy drinks definitely work, especially if one is really tired. But of course it won't work if you drink those too often. If for example I'm driving home middle of the night I will often pop an energy drink because it will give me the ~2 hours of extra awareness I need to make home safely. After few hours the tiredness will often hit harder, but thats not a problem if used that way.
Same if there is need to work extra extra long for some reason
That is just not true, when I have classes at 8 am and i fell like i am about to fall asleep I just drink 0,5 monster(whether it suggar free or not) and for two hours that feeling goes away and i bigin to feel pretty good.
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bullshit
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bro name at least one civilised country where it’s legal☠️☠️
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Never understood the energy drink hype in Europe. You guys know nothing about nutrition? Fine with consuming hundreds of grams of sugar per day?
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That’s not true at all. WHO says more than 20g of added sugar per day is unhealthy which is literally every soda/energy drink that isn’t sugar free
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like 90% of the energy drinks are sugarfree, we arent living in murica
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ever heard of preworkout
All these opinions are funny because not one person here has talked about the other energy boosting vitamins and supplements in energy drinks that give you the feeling of being awake, like taurine, and b vitamins. But caffeine!!!!! Surely hundreds of hltv users wouldn’t comment on something they don’t fully understand.
200mg of caffeine pills + 400mg of l-theanine and you feel like you took a damn NZT-48, the focus becomes just incredible, the brain works at 200%, and it's much safer than energy drinks and coffee. And l-theanine is very useful, it can be taken separately from caffeine. Just try it, it's incredible.
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L theanine gives me anxiety. Overrated supplement
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The first negative theanine feedback I've ever seen. It's very strange, because caffeine is exactly what causes anxiety, and when you add l-theanine to it, it takes it away. In what dosage did you take l-theanine?
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I don't consume caffeine, 200mg l theanine
I drink them cuz they taste good
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HELL GOATED
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Man's never tried a C4
Idiot lol
I drink red bull for the wings.
no sugar monster better anyway
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I hardly drink energy drinks. Maybe one every 2/3 years. Don't drink coffee either. Everytime I do drink one it gives me the shakes. Think your body has an increased tolerance for caffeine.
It doesnt give me energy but its tasty
It's a ploy to keep us drinking that poison by making it tasty and using " energy " as an additional perk. If you eat fruit or have a coffee, you have the same amount of energy without all the downsides and chemicals.
Maybe lay off the cocaine for a while and you will feel the effect of the energy drink bro.
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