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Taurine sounds like the perfect cool sounding ingredient that can be safely added with absolutely no effects: "The amounts of guarana, taurine, and ginseng fou

• tlb 8y ago
  "Absolutely no effects" shouldn't be your default assumption. Lots of compounds have been shown to have subtle long-term effects that weren't obvious at first. You have to do epidemiological studies to find problems with compounds that have a negative effect only in certain circumstances, because it probably won't be noticed in clinical trials. The foundational example is thalidomide, which is a harmless sedative except in pregnant women. Clinical trials aren't normally done on pregnant women, and they also aren't done on soldiers in active combat. There may well be no problem, but this is the sort of epidemiological evidence that justifies further study.