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Question.. Do you guys have any healthier alternatives that don't taste like poop and aren't coffee based and still provide somewhat of a wake the hell up? A lot of folks preach that everyone drinking energy drinks is a brainless tool without suggesting something better.
For the guy asking for alternatives, a large glass of cold water and a cold shower do it for me without messing up my nervous system in the log term. If you're addicted it will take a few weeks to get rid of the crap feeling though, but its worth it.
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Only kidding. You pose a good question though. Are you looking for something to drink? If there was a breakfast food, would that suffice. The culprit in all of the energy drinks and coffee is the caffeine. I was one of those trips to the ER last year. I was consuming 3 cups of starbucks dark coffee (no sugar) a day and not eating breakfast and it all caved in one day. . . in retrospect, I should have seen it coming. I've switched to a home brew coffee (1 cup a day) and I make some whole wheat banana nut waffles with wheat germ sweetened with a dab of honey and that gets me going in the morning and doesn't have the crash or anxiety effect I previously had.
Generally if it's good for you, it either lacks convenience or doesn't taste good. . . or both. I'm thinking a fruit smoothie or fruit and vegetable juice with natural sweeteners in it. You're not going to get the same pickup you get from caffeine in a shake though. Caffeine is the preferred morning drug for a reason.
Lastly, I think the article is linked to kids who are putting one after the other down the hatch and likely don't eat anything. That much caffeine on an empty stomach is a recipe for disasster. If you have one a day and eat something, it's not great for you, but you're probably not doing as much harm as you could.
I know someone mentioned teas and I honestly know nothing about them. Can you drink tea with the equivelant caffeine kick of coffee? Sorry to drag this so off topic for this section of the forum, these are honest questions that might help more than just myself.
For me? Zero, unless it's something like Muscle Milk, which has some nutritional value.
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