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My wife uses caffeine pills on occasion but I prefer energy drinks most mornings alongside something like toast. Obviously more expensive but the drink has a sl
by wildzzz 2y ago
My wife uses caffeine pills on occasion but I prefer energy drinks most mornings alongside something like toast. Obviously more expensive but the drink has a slower come-up (likely due to the extra water and food). Whenever I do take pills instead, I'm in a rush so I'm not drinking more water than necessary and definitely not eating anything. I like the Celsius drink mixes since I can put one in my water bottle and dose slowly over the course of the morning but they aren't that much cheaper than buying a case of cans. Coffee is definitely the cheapest energy drink available and I suppose instant coffee is probably the quickest and cheapest. I like coffee but I'm not a huge coffee drinker. I would love to be able to buy a jar of instant energy drink of a inoffensive flavor and be able to toss a couple scoops in my bottle. I've tried to do this with caffeine pills but the caffeine powder doesn't mix well with cold water.
- kkielhofner 2y agoI completely understand what you mean by intake over time. Caffeine pills are more like take a pill, wait X minutes, and then get the sensation of “oh, there it is” as it all “hits” at once. There are more expensive time release variants but I don’t have much experience with them.
- Scoundreller 2y agoI just take the 200mg tabs, crack them into quarters and take the bits over time. A quarter tab with a glass of cold water should hit slower than the same amount of caffeine pre-dissolved in an espresso. Likely matches up with a quickly downed coffee. From time to time, I put a tab in a sodastream seltzer/sodawater (and wow does it make the bubbles release!)
- xyst 2y ago> I like the Celsius drink mixes since I can put one in my water bottle and dose slowly over the course of the morning but they aren't that much cheaper than buying a case of cans. In addition to your caffeine, you get a “healthy” dose of synthetic sugar (aka Sucralose) [1] and other crap added by the drink company to market it as “healthy” Personally, I can’t stand those drinks. Every “0 calorie, 0 sugar” drink is nearly identical in ingredients. Some use different forms of synthetic sugar. The taste is off putting. Sure, there _might_ not be a glycemic spike but at what cost that has not been studied? - what’s the impact to gut microbiome? - what’s the impact to other human physiology? (Increased cancer risk?) I’ll take my risk with real sugar and just limit the consumption to very sparingly. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralose https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralose [2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37256996/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37256996/
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