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Energy drinks, as we all know, are essentially nonalcoholic beverages that assert to boost up energy by combining different ingredients. With a lot of energy drinks reviews about its health benefits, its side effects are seldom brought up in this process. So, now let's have a quick look into the facts about energy drinks for you to know more aware about it.

Fact #1. Ingredients and contents. Among the common ingredients that energy drinks have would include caffeine, guarana, vitamin B, carbonated water, ginseng, maltodextrin, taurine, creatine, ginkgo biloba, etc. Other brands of energy drinks contain sugar and artificial sweeteners just to enhance its taste. These ingredients play a vital role in different physical activities. Just for an instance, taurine is responsible for contracting the muscles and regulating the heart rate, and caffeine is responsible for stimulating the brain cells of the person.

Fact#2. Effects to the body. As a normal effects of these energy drinks for the person's body, the ingredients, like for an instance, the caffeine tends to work with adenosine, a molecule in the body responsible for producing energy, which would likely affects the neuron activities in the brain. This prompts the pituitary gland to secrete adrenaline as a compensatory mechanism of the body. It regulates the heart rate and activates the liver to produce more sugar in the blood to which is the essential component for energy.

Fact#3. Health Concerns. Consuming energy booster drinks have several health issues according to many experts worldwide. When we talk about its side effects, we frequently refer to the effects of different ingredients combined to create these beverages. Over and over again, studies have confirmed that caffeine is dangerous for one's health. Excess intake of caffeine in the body would results to many health problems which would include hypertension, headache, and insomnia. Additionally, important facts about energy drinks that must not be overlooked is that it causes dehydration to the consumer's body. At the same time, consuming energy drinks containing alcohol could also have several adverse reactions to the body. Although manufacturers assert that energy drinks help in boosting the person's levels of endurance and performance, but health experts do not agree on these claims since it disrupts the normal release of the hormones in the body.

So, these are just the general facts about energy drinks. The pros and cons these beverages has must not be ignored by the people especially those who are consuming these. This is to prevent unnecessary adverse reactions to one's health, and maintain healthy physical well-being.

by: Myrose




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