subject: What Effects Do Energy Drinks Have On The Body [print this page] It could be that, for the first time in your life, you are considering starting using drinks. This could be something you are doing in search of specific benefits from the drinks. It could be in search of the energizing effect associated with some of the drinks (like where you have been feeling that your energy levels are down). Or it could be in search of something like weight loss, which some of these drinks are associated with. Or, in the case of the natural herbal extract based energy-drinks, you could be after the various health benefits associated with the specific herbal extracts. Where you are looking to use an acai berry based energy drink, for instance, you could be after the skin rejuvenation or the sexual enhancement or the sleep improvement effect associated with the acai berry... Alternatively, you could be looking to make use of the energy-drinks for simple recreational purposes; because the drinks also make good recreational drinks.
Being the first time you are making use of such drinks, you could find yourself a little bit anxious as to what to expect out of the experience; hence your decision to conduct online research which leads you to this discussion.
As you come to realize, there is nothing worth being anxious about, with regard to what you can expect out of energy drink usage.
One thing you can be sure of feeling, pursuant to your use of an energy-drink, is a heightened sense of general 'well being.' This will be coming out of the energizing effect of the drink, seeing that we tend to feel best when our energy levels are at their highest. If you were feeling 'low' before you took the energy drink, you could be amazed to suddenly find yourself experiencing a mood reversal within a short period of your taking the energy-drink. In a way, the typical energy drink is a 'mood altering substance,' but in a positive way.
You will find yourself increasingly motivated towards physical action, following your use of an energy drink. A well established thing is that whenever the energy levels in our bodies rise, they start pushing us towards physical activity (in order for us to expend them). This explains the plenty of 'jumping around' which characterizes the stages in life when our energy levels are at their highest. It is also something you could experience, albeit in a much milder scale, following your energy drink use.
A mild euphoric feeling is something you could also experience, following your energy-drink usage. The extent to which you experience this will depend on the type of energy drink you use (it is especially common in the high caffeine energy-drinks), and the amounts of the energy drink you consume. This euphoric feeling may be good or unpleasant to you; it depends.
You could find your alertness, and general mental performance improved, following your energy drink usage. Our brains work best when properly energized, and inasmuch as the energy drink can energize your brain, this is an effect you would definitely be experiencing. It is also something that will be arising out of the stimulant effect associated with most of these energy-drinks. Incidentally, this is something that has been observed, even in controlled scientific studies; where use of the energy-drinks was seen to spur an improvement in the handling of various mental tasks.
