Energy drinks of all sorts are available and more and more every day. Everywhere I go I see someone holding a can or more, more and more often. I also see decorated cars giving them away for free all over the place.

I drank many of the energy drinks out there, when I tried Monster Energy Drink I really liked how it tasted and the energy boost, until I started feeling what it was really doing to me, short and long-term. In the beginning I noticed that the jitters were not as bad as Red Bull for example, but started getting worse and worse until it became a very uncomfortable type of “energy”. My breathing and heart beats were all screwed up… and I did not need any “study” to understand that it was killing me and that I had to quit drinking this garbage.

I know it is a good, big and profitable business for companies.

Could you say it is as good for your body now and that its cumulative effects in the near future is what you would like to have?

By trusting our wellbeing to others we show how irresponsible we have been, we say something like, okay, “I feel rotten, maybe I just need some chemical in some can, bottle or capsule to fix me up”. We believe that all of our “sins” against our body will be “washed” away if we just pay someone some money and buy their hyped energy drinks, for example.

The manufacturing and marketing guys are always taping in the “holes” of society with their magical, quick, cheap and “effective” based on even one more “scientific research” concoctions, to “help” us to keep our lazy behind where it is and to make us believe that all we have to do is to give them our money and take the damn thing down the throat.

They say: “Okay, there is a high demand for quick energy, the people are dead tired and they are looking for some magical solution. How can we put something together that will give them a sensation that they are getting more energy and at the same time spend the least to research, develop and finalize the product to make the “fattest” profit?”

Then after that, all they have to do is just to spend a lot of money in marketing ads and sponsorships to get you hooked.

Let’s see what is in the can:

Ingredients: Carbonated Water, Sucrose, Glucose, Citric Acid, Natural Flavors, Taurine, Sodium Citrate, Color Added, Panax Ginseng Root Extract, L-Carnitine, Caffeine, Ascorbic Acid, Sorbic Acid, Benzoic Acid, Niacinamide, Sodium Chloride, Glucuronolactone, Inositol, Guarana Seed Extract, Pyridoxine Hydrocloride, Sucralose, Riboflavin, Maltodextrin, Cyanocobalamin.

Does anybody know what all the chemicals above could cause to our bodies? Imagine all those chemicals mixed up with the other ones that we are already having every day, I wonder what those other hundreds or even thousands of mixes could result into… hmmm, nobody knows!

I am not going to sit here and go over every single “poisonous ingredient” in this concoction, but let’s just ponder a little over some of them.

• “Natural Flavors”: Notice its plural form, and that “Natural” is used for any garbage these days. Natural flavors as an ingredient could be hundreds of chemical combined to make all the garbage in that can to taste good.

• Sugars (54grams/Can): Derived from high processed or synthetically made Sucrose and Glucose (Very low price, and very high sweet taste).

• Taurine (2000 mg/Can) -Forget all the bad facts encountered in a few studies on how bad Taurine can be when combined with Caffeine, or worse still, when it is combined with Caffeine, Nicotine and Alcohol, plus the hundreds of other variations not studied yet.

Yes, Taurine is necessary in the body, but the Taurine molecule in these energy drinks may look the same under microscope lenses in the lab, but your body can only use effectively, without leaving harmful residues, just one type of Taurine: The one your body makes. I suggest that you NEVER consume Taurine in any type, shape, form or combination.

Some Taurine in energy drinks, though very rarely, could be extracted from bile, which could be, depending on how it is extracted and processed, a little less harmful to your body. The other ones (the majority) are chemically produced and you should avoid completely. The same applies to all other ingredients in the “Monster Poisonous Energy Drink”.

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