Energy drinks - reality and misbelieves
Energy drinks
Today we can buy energy drinks from everywhere. According their manufacturers, they could heal us from tiredness and sleepless, to picks up our tonus and to increase our work capability. The doctors have different opinion about this “magic” drinks. Most of the energy drinks contain caffeine, which has the ability to stimulate vitality strengths, and in very rear cases contains Ghen-shen and guarana.
One energy drink (250-330 ml.) contains caffeine in amount, equivalent to one cup strong coffee. Taurin (400-1000 mg. in 300 ml) almost always consists into the composition of the beverages; it is a natural product and someone thinks that has very positive influences to the heart muscle, but still enough science proof misses.
Energy drinks contains vitamin C, B1, В2, В3 and В12. The beverage use is to increases the organism vitality tonus. In fact they can manage with this task only 20-30%.
Taurin participates in nerve impulses passage to the muscles, and co-enzyme Q10, which takes as a muscle work helper, both of them activates the organism. Their beverage containing are low and do not provoke unexpected reactions.
It could be made the conclusion, that 1-2 cans of energy drink do not have bad influence to the young body, but what will be the benefit of them is a matter of question and the answer depends on the present body condition and the drink used. People suffer from diabetes have to know, that these beverages, with little exceptions, contain sugar (8-10 %).
Caffeine acts as a stimulator: 100 mg. of caffeine stimulates brain activity and more of 200 mg. increases cordially- vascular strength. But minimum three cans are needed to be achieved this effect, because most of the energy drinks contain only 34 to 90 mg. caffeine. However such quality could have negative results – hyper-excitedness, high blood pressure and pulse, higher blood sugar levels, too. Energy drinks could not harm our health, but their usage and quality have to be appropriate to the individual body condition.
Undesirable consequences could be provoked by energy drink and alcohol combining. The caffeine increases blood pressure, but in alcohol combination its effect enhances many times.
Vitamin C - Ascorbic acid
Vitamin C is one of the most important vitamins in our body. It is found in a lot of foods, but mostly in fruits and vegetables (citrus fruits, tomatoes and green seasonings). When such foods missing in your diet, or are in small amounts, you can use vitamin C as a preparation.
Facts and benefits of vitamin C
Vitamin C has very significant functions in our body. Those are the most important: strengthens the bones, connective tissues and immune system, quickens the sore healing, actively participates in the body metabolism and acts like an antioxidant. Vitamin C defenses the body liquids (mainly blood) from the free radicals function. The vitamin also strengthens the blood vessels, which leads to blood pressure stabilization. It has prophylactic activity at cancer, cardio-vascular and arthritis diseases and delays the growing older processes too. According to some experiments vitamin C suppresses the cortisol secretion, who takes down the fence of the muscular tissue. This activity increases the testosterone/cortisol proportion, which stimulates the muscle growth.
The minimum vitamin C dose for people which do not sport regularly is about 100 mg. daily. For sporting people the recommended dose is bigger: 300-800 mg. Vitamin C is not dangerous even in huge doses, because the redundant amount removes form the body with the urine (but still in this case you have to drink a lot of water, otherwise the glomeruly kidneys can be damaged). The people with diabetes have to be careful with the vitamin C high doses, because it suppresses the normal function of the pancreas and by this way reacts directly upon insulin levels.
All multivitamins contain vitamin C (MultiTabs, Supradin, Supravit, etc.) and also can be sell as separate tablet.