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caffeinatedTopic: Random Political Diatribe
Can we please make these twits at the energy drink companies admit that this whole "Taurine-infusion" crap is just a moronic conspiracy to make their products sound cool?
Taurine is an essential amino acid in animals like cat (in that they can't make it on their own) but humans are able to synthesize it just fine, thank you very much. Now, beverages like Red Bull (who's name is taken from Taurine's history and nomenclatural (that's a word, isn't it?...) association with bulls) contain upwards of 300 percent of your body's own daily allotment of the stuff.
So why would your body need to triple its available reserves of an AA that it is able to produce, but only makes sparingly?
It doesn't...
The energy drink twits need to come clean and admit that there's only ONE INGREDIENT in their beverages that's a meaningful contributor to mood elevation and fatigue reduction (I'd like to see Red Bull come out with a drink sporting 1000 mg caffeine in place of 1000 mg Taurine).
Now, they can come back at me and claim that Taurine plays a minor role in reducing muscle fatigue. That WOULD mean that someone involved in strenuous workout MIGHT benefit from the junk, but you wouldn't want to do that with these trash energy drinks anyway because the caffeine co-mingling (that's a word, isn't it?...) in the drinks is a diuretic and those energy drinks all make one pee like a racehorse. It doesn't matter HOW stimulated your muscles are if you're as dehydrated as a fish out of water.
This Taurine-infusion argument is as specious as the old wive's tale about carrots helping you to see better in the dark: sure, Beta-carotene is converted into Vitamin A by the liver, and Vitamin A is necessary for proper eye function, but the body makes no more of it than what it needs because EXCESS Vitamin A tends to shear one's liver apart at the seams (if you DO consume way too much Beta-carotene in your diet for a long time the unused molecule piles up in fatty tissue deposits, especially the skin, and something most wonderously strange begins to happen to you...)
...'Red Bull'... 'Monster'... 'Rockstar'... you can have 'em, for all I care (Rockstar should stick to cosponsoring all those trashy 'Girls Gone Wild' videos... at least those things are more honest about their content...)
As for me: there's really only one 'energy drink' I can't go without. I'm having one right now, matter of fact, and if a regular energy drink puts your average schmo in Seventh Heaven, then I'm in an even Seventher Heaven (that's a word, isn't it?...):
