The adult energy drink makes a lot more sense than the garbage that is marketed to kids.
Adults usually have the sense to not abuse their body unnecessarily with unhealthy concoctions of what are basically two ounces of sugar mixed into the equivalent of three or more cups of coffee.
Do you want something to make you feel younger and more alert -- or do you want to experience the feeling of climbing the walls, while sitting in your chair? It is possible to make healthy energy drinks, and they do exist, believe it or not.
There are a few brands that would qualify for being called, an "Adult Energy Drink".
When you really get into the ingredients in the better energy drink blends, you will find that aside from some form of caffeine and a sweetener, there are many beneficial vitamins, herbs, and amino acids that have medically recognized uses for either helping generate cellular energy or neutralizing the toxic by-products of heightened energy production.
Some energy potions even contain herbs like milk thistle extract, a liver cleanser, to counteract the hangover that might result from mixing alcoholic beverages with them.
You see, a well-formulated adult energy drink is essentially a designer drug with all the good things we like about coffee and with buffers and detoxifyers to remove the negative symptoms like the jitters that coffee produces.
Many older adults are tired of the unpleasant side-effects of coffee, but still desire some type of pick-me-up from time to time.
Energy drinks can fill this need, if one chooses wisely.
Nevertheless, there is a lot of fear among adults concerning ingredients like Taurine, L-Arginine, Ginseng, and even the "high" levels of B vitamins found in energy potions.
Your doctor probably doesn't know much about these substances and what function they perform, but medical researchers and neurosurgeons like Dr.
Russell Blaylock are quite comfortable with them.
Dr.
Blaylock even points out that Taurine acts as an antioxidant and protects the brain from the natural processes of cellular respiration (energy creation).
(See his book, Health and Nutrition Secrets for more explanation of the benefits of specific nutrients often used in energy drinks.
) One problem many energy drink manufacturers cause is to replace sugars with artificial sweeteners, such as Aspartame -- a known neurotoxin -- and other substances such as sugar alcohols, Sucralose, and Acesulfane-K of questionable longterm health effects.
Better non-nutritive sweeteners such as Stevia and Xylitol are used in smarter formulations, for safety.
In the final analysis, "Youth is too good to be wasted on the young" and, we could also say that "Energy drinks are too good to be wasted on the young".
The young need to get their sleep and eat more healthy foods -- they shouldn't need energy potions, as many older adults do.
A careful examination of the energy drinks on the market shows that there are a few that have real benefits for adults, as compared to coffee or tea.
Admittedly, there is a night-and-day difference between these and the vast majority of me-too, crazy formulations that are marketed to the youth audience.
So, fellow mature adults, let's not be too quick to "throw the baby out with the bathwater".
Could an intelligently-formulated adult energy drink serve as the Fountain of Youth we've been searching for all these centuries?