Take a high dose B-Complex capsule and wash it down with a double espresso plus 5 sugars for a similar (and cheaper) effect
Sub lingual B-12 tabs. I worked nights only for 6 years. The first two years I was always fighting to stay awake and did not sleep well in the daytime. I discovered sublingual B-12 and started 500 units at the beginning of a work shift. It doesn’t “wake you up” as coffee does but several hours later I noticed that I was not nodding. Those hings let me turn my days around immediately and successfully. I stayed awake just fine at work and slept well in the daytime. Get them at Walmart.
There’s no sugar in 5 Hour Energy Drink (sweetened with Splenda).
Also, you didn’t mention the other active “energy” ingredients: taurine, glucuronolactone, malic Acid, citicoline, tyrosine, phenylalanine. At least, you mentioned the B-complex, which most MSM reviewers of energy drinks fail to do.
I occasionally use energy drinks, including 5 Hour. I find that they do increase alertness, without the jitters that accompany ingesting too much caffiene. I suspect that energy drinks have prevented many more traffic deaths, than the number of heart attacks the article claims they’ve caused.
There’s a lot of misinformation out there about energy drinks. Lazy MSM reporters simply call them “high caffeine” drinks (which does not apply to many of them) as if caffeine were the only active ingredient. It does seem that, as aft_lizard says in #15, it’s all about setting up for law suits.
Anything —*anything*, even pure water — will kill you, if you ingest too much of it, too quickly. Do we need government’s to ban everything that *might* harm us — or do we simply need to READ THE FLIPPING LABEL?
“Take a high dose B-Complex capsule and wash it down with a double espresso plus 5 sugars for a similar (and cheaper) effect”
A 5 hour energy drink is nothing more then a high dose of B-Complex. No sugar or caffeine just B6 & B12 I think.
JB