Caffeine and Energy Boosting Drugs: Energy Drinks

What are energy drinks?

Energy drinks are beverages like Red Bull, Venom, Adrenaline Rush, 180, ISO Sprint, and Whoopass, which contain large doses of caffeine and other legal stimulants like ephedrine, guarana, and ginseng. Energy drinks may contain as much as 80 mg of caffeine, the equivalent of a cup of coffee. Compared to the 37 mg. of caffeine in a Mountain Dew, or the 23 mg. in a Coca-Cola Classic, that's a big punch. These drinks are marketed to people under 30, especially to college students, and are widely available both on and off campus.

Are there short-term dangers to drinking energy drinks?

Individual responses to caffeine vary, and these drinks should be treated carefully because of how powerful they are. Energy drinks' stimulating properties can boost the heart rate and blood pressure (sometimes to the point of palpitations), dehydrate the body, and, like other stimulants, prevent sleep.

Energy drinks should not be used while exercising as the combination of fluid loss from sweating and the diuretic quality of the caffeine can leave the user severely dehydrated.

Know what you're drinking. Energy drinks are not necessarily bad for you, but they shouldn't be seen as "natural alternatives" either. Some of the claims they make like "improved performance and concentration" can be misleading. If you think of them as highly-caffeinated drinks, you'll have a more accurate picture of what they are and how they affect you. You wouldn't use Mountain Dew as a sports drink. And a drink like Red Bull and vodka is more like strong coffee and whisky than anything else.

What happens when energy drinks are combined with alcohol?

Energy drinks are also used as mixers with alcohol. This combination carries a number of dangers:

- Since energy drinks are stimulants and alcohol is a depressant, the combination of effects may be dangerous.

-The stimulant effects can mask how intoxicated you are and prevent you from realizing how much alcohol you have consumed. Fatigue is one of the ways the body normally tells someone that they've had enough to drink.

The stimulant effect can give the person the impression they aren't impaired. No matter how alert you feel, your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is the same as it would be without the energy drink. Once the stimulant effect wears off, the depressant effects of the alcohol will remain and could cause vomiting in your sleep or respiratory depression.

- Both energy drinks and alcohol are very dehydrating (the caffeine in energy drinks is a diuretic).

Dehydration can hinder your body's ability to metabolize alcohol and will increase the toxicity, and therefore the hangover, the next day.

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What is caffeine?

Caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant. It's one of the most popular drugs in the world, consumed by up to 90% of people in the world in one form or another, but mostly in beverages. It is a naturally occurring substance found in plants like cocoa beans, tea leaves, and kola nuts.

What are the effects of caffeine?

Caffeine's strongest effects are felt for about an hour after taking it, but some effects usually last 4 to 6 hours. Caffeine causes increased neuron firing in the brain which the pituitary gland perceives as an emergency and therefore causes the adrenal glands to release adrenaline. Caffeine also increases dopamine levels -- the neurotransmitter that is affected by drugs like amphetamines and heroin. Obviously, it does this on a much reduced level from those drugs, but this may be the source of caffeine's addictive quality.

While caffeine is mildly addictive, it has not been shown to have a direct link with any serious health risks. Still, anyone who's been up all night after drinking too much coffee can tell you that caffeine can affect a person's mood and sleep pattern. Here are some of the frequent effects of caffeine:

Caffeine is a diuretic. Caffeine prompts the body to lose water through urination. This can lead to dehydration and is the reason that caffeinated drinks are not a good idea when working out or doing other activities that require fluids. In fact, it is suggested that you add 8 ounces of water for every cup of coffee you drink.

Caffeine can cause you to feel jittery, skittish, restless, excitable or anxious. It can temporarily speed the heart rate. If you're feeling stressed out, then a cup of coffee can exacerbate, rather than help, this feeling. Too much caffeine can hurt a person's ability to concentrate, making it difficult to study.

Caffeine can cause insomnia. It can be very hard to fall asleep when you take a lot of caffeine. This is especially true if you take it at night, but is also true of higher doses earlier in the day.
Caffeine at high doses can cause headaches.

Some caffeinated beverages can have other health effects. For instance, the acid in coffee can upset the stomach, and coffee (though not the caffeine in it) can worsen ulcers, raise blood pressure and blood cholesterol, and speed up the heart rate, increasing the risk of heart disease.

Caffeine can have negative effects on pregnant women or on women who would like to become pregnant including an increased risk for difficult conception and miscarriage. Caffeine is transmitted through the placenta and through breast milk to the baby. Therefore, if you're pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant, the FDA recommends that you stop taking caffeine or cut back to 1 cup per day.

How much caffeine am I having?

In the U.S., the average person drinks 200 milligrams a day (about two 8 ounce cups of coffee). Check out the list below to see how much you're having.

Beverage/Food Serving Size Average Amt. (mg) Range (mg)
Brewed Coffee 8 ounce 85 65-120
Instant Coffee 8 ounce 75 60-85
Decaf, Brewed 8 ounce 3 2-4
Decaf, Instant 8 ounce 3 1-4
Espresso Single 2 ounce 80 60-100
Cappuchino/Latte 2 ounce 80 60-100
Moccachino 2 ounce 90 70-110
Black Tea 8 ounce 40 30-60
Decaf Black Tea 8 ounce 4 5
Green Tea 8 ounce 40 30-50
Iced tea mix, 8 ounce 13
unsweetened
Iced tea, 8 ounce 30
ready to drink
Cocoa Beverage 5 ounce 5 2-20
Chocolate Milk 8 ounce 5 2-7
Dark Chocolate, 1 ounce 20 5-35 semi-sweet


How do I cut back on caffeine?

Remember that caffeine is addictive. If you feel like you can't get going in the morning, feel overtired during the day from not having caffeine, or get headaches when you try to stop taking caffeine regularly, these are signs of dependence.

If you're having trouble sleeping, feel like you are consuming too much caffeine or you don't like the effects of caffeine on your body, here are some suggestions for quitting or cutting back:

Switch to decaffeinated beverages, or to a mixture of decaffeinated and regular coffee.

Reduce the number of caffeinated drinks you have every day. If you have coffee in the morning and a Coke in the afternoon, try skipping the Coke and replace it with water or juice.

Brew tea for a shorter time. The less time you brew it, the less caffeine it will contain. Try herbal teas or herbal coffees which usually don't contain caffeine.

Watch out for soft drinks and energy drinks like Red Bull which can contain added caffeine. This will be listed on the label.

If you are trying to quit and feel yourself getting a headache, you can try having a small amount of caffeine to alleviate the headache. For some people, this helps keep up the momentum to quit.

Know what's in over-the-counter medications. These can contain large doses of caffeine, too.
Drink water or non-caffeinated drinks when you're thirsty. Remember, caffeinated beverages will only add to your body's dehydration.

If you are looking for coffee alternatives that will not harm your health, try DXN Lingzhi Coffee.

DXN Success Story of a former Pilot Trainor from UAE

What I would like to share with you is the un-edited success story of one of our DXN partners and mentor.

I personally know him and to prove that, you will see our photo here that was taken from our DXN Recognition Night last February 14, 2009 at Al Babtain Conference Hall in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia where it was attended by hundreds of DXN members and friends.

Hope that this will inspire you in some ways whether you are already a DXN Member or someone who's been looking for a proven life-changing opportunity.

If you need to learn how to become part of DXN's offer of global wellness business, don't hesitate to contact me. You can view my profile at this blog for my contact details. Wish you all Health, Wealth and Happiness !

Read here Fatemi Ghani's story now:

DXN Success Story of a former Pilot Trainor from UAE

Dear Friends,

From last few months, I am hearing all kinds of unreal stories about myself---bigger than life and untrue facts. Kindly read my following profile and see that people talk what is true.

Mohammad Fatemi Ghani----Born in Karachi, Pakistan, graduated as an Aerospace Engineer in 1979. Last assignment as a jobber was instructor, training pilots in the UAE Air Academy . I migrated with my family to Canada in 1996. Joined DXN as a member/consumer in 2003 and immediately started conducting training in Al Ain and all over the Gulf. Became Star Diamond in 18 months & Crown Diamond in 4 years.

I received most of my MLM knowledge from 2 Universities- --Networking Times and MLM Universities in USA. I am happy to personally coach over 5,000 members /distributors worldwide and helped many leaders attain their goals.

In order to know more about my success, please read the following links:

1. “The DXN Wellness Mission,” http://internationa l.dxn2u.com/ success.php? lang=en

2. “From Dubai around the World.” http://www.networki ngtimes.com/ isolates/ page.phtml? article_id= 4135386&cid=161173&PHPSESSID=4e2628948 d14bb4fed2dc8a02 a77685e
You will get further MLM tips from the 2 videos being played in U Tube

3. Potential of Direct Selling Industry in the Gulf---Englishhttp://www.youtube. com/watch? v=xObfFn7_ E3k

4. Legitimate versus Pyramid MLM Companies--- Urdu/Hindhihttp://www.youtube. com/watch? v=iZx_6K8x0aM

I am thankful to Allah for the success given to me and grateful to Dr Lim, who has provided beneficial products coupled with powerful marketing plan, support from all the DXN staff, mentoring by many coaches and Gurus. Most important, I am successful because of my dedicated and professional team, especially my loyal leaders. I owe my success to my family also as my wife supports me to promote the business by having home meeting and demo of the products.

My 2 sons, Maaz and Janbaaz--- "Marketing" and "Food & Nutrition" graduates are by my side too.

I wish all the DXN members, good health, prosperity and unlimited success.

Note for DXN Staff: I would request you to see and hear what people are talking---as many are quoting my story in a wrong way. That's not right. If you want, you can take a print out or email to all the leaders and speakers.

Fatemi Ghani

"Doing good for others gives comfort to the heart"

Next Time You Think Life is Hard, Think Again!

Here's something truly inspirational... If sometimes hopelessness and negative thoughts come to you in reaching your dreams and goals, just always come back to this blog.

"Think POSITIVE and You Will Attract Greater Positive Results. Similarly, Negative Thoughts and Emotions Bring Negative Energy To One's LIFE."

Share it too with others especially to those who are already losing hope to succeed.


Here's the recipe for success in LIFE and BUSINESS:

G - odliness
R - esourcefullness
A - uthenticity
C - reativity
E - nthusiasm

Read this story now...

My name is Nick Vujicic and I was born without limbs and doctors have no medical explanation for this birth 'defect'. As you can imagine, I was faced with many challenges and obstacles.

Their firstborn son had been born without limbs! There were no warnings or time to prepare themselves for it... The doctors were shocked and had no answers at all! There is still no medical reason why this had happened and Nick now has a Brother and Sister who were born just like any other baby.

I know that there is no such thing as luck, chance or coincidence that these 'bad' things happen in our life.

I had complete peace knowing that God won't let anything happen to us in our life unless God has a good purpose for it all .

I am now twenty-three years old and have completed a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Financial Planning and Accounting.

I am also a motivational speaker and love to go out and share my story and testimony wherever opportunities become available. I have developed talks to relate to and encourage students through topics that challenge today's teenagers. I am also a speaker in the corporate sector.

I have a passion for reaching out to youth and keep myself available for whatever God wants me to do, and wherever He leads, I follow.

Writing several best-selling books has been one of my dreams and I hope to finish writing my first by the end of the year.

It will be called 'No Arms, No Legs, and No Worries!'

I believe that if you have the desire and passion to do something, and if it's God's will, you will achieve it in good time. As humans, we continually put limits on ourselves for no reason at all! What's worse is putting limits on God who can do all things.

We put God in a 'box'. The awesome thing about the Power of God, is that if we want to do something for God, instead of focusing on our capability, concentrate on our availability for we know that it is God through us and we can't do anything without God.

Once we make ourselves available for God's work, guess whose capabilities we rely on? God's!

Now, sit back and think of your goals and dreams which you have always targeted in your life. If at any point of time, you find them difficult or impossible to achieve then check go through this blog again …

Cheers!

10 Ways To Fail In Life Almost Guaranteed

So you want to be successful in life? Is that what you want? Then you better stop failing and become aware of these 10 ways to fail in life.

You see, I’ve been asked many times for how to achieve success and weird enough, seems like nobody’s taking that advice seriously. Then I realized one thing - most people are ALREADY failing before they even got started!

The article I wrote below is slightly controversy compare to the normal goodie-type personal development advice because this is the TRUTH. If I want to keep everyone happy and write about the colorful rainbow, birds chirping, flowers blooming, etc then I should just opens up a nursery home and take care of children. I want to tell you the truth straight to your face because I’ve been there and heard the garbage lies thrown everywhere.

Avoid these and you’ll automatically be on the right track (provided you want to be successful)…

1. Mixing With Losers

It’s a guaranteed way to fail in life with this. Whatever you like to do, losers will just tell you it won’t work and after some time, you will also become a loser. High five, welcome to the losers’ club. Something about losers you should know: they like to ‘recruit’ new people and are very comfortable in their shoes. They don’t welcome Changes. So when you see someone with any of these two characteristics, you know what you should do.

2. Don’t Know What You Want

The most common goal I hear all of the time is, “I want to be rich”. I mean it’s fine with that generic goal but the problem is, how rich do you want to be? Or how rich is rich? Put it this way - the methods used to make a million and $3,000 are different. No wonder some people couldn’t experience breakthroughs in life because they are playing small for big goals. If you want to make a million, you better put in that level of commitment, bucko.

3. You Want Everything

It’s nice to have a lot of things but if you go chasing everything, you get nothing. Let me tell you why - you only have 24 hours a day and you’ve got to focus on your priorities. I know, I know, you can hire others and so on but the fact is, you’ve got to want ’something’ first to lead to another ’something’, then to everything. Make sense?

4. Watching the “Secrets” Way Too Much

I’m not here to criticize Law Of Attractions (LOA) and don’t want to receive hate emails. As a matter of fact, I do believe in it and have friends who appeared in the Secrets. But it’s a surefire way to fail if you keep on watching the “Secrets” and doing ‘attraction’ by sitting down on your floor manifesting 3 hours a day. In my point of view, scientifically, Law of Attraction runs on the concept of ‘believing’. When you believe you can achieve your goal, you will take actions to actually achieve it but if you don’t understand this basic element and think LOA is some sort of miracle remedy, oh boy, you’re in for a big surprise for failure.

5. You Don’t Truly Know Why You Want Success

Wanting everything is bad enough - but it gets even worse if you don’t even know the reason why you’re trying to achieve your goal. What’s the deal? Without a solid reason, a compelling reason, where are you going to find the motivation and encouragement for you to overcome obstacles? You think it’s going to be fun ride to success? Then you haven’t been traveling - it’s a rocky road, my friend. Most people failed to achieve their goals because they never complete the journey– they give up half way (or at the beginning) because they cannot see the worth of accomplishments.

6. You Don’t Remember Your Roots

The thing I get most irritated about is people who achieved success and never felt gratitude towards those who have helped them. Is it very hard to say, ‘thank you’? The law of reciprocity is simple – you return favors to those who helped you in the past. And maybe, they’ll help you again in the future. Remember this- it takes more than just you to achieve success, so don’t be a jerk.

7. You Think You’re Smart

The day you stop learning is the day you stop improving yourself. If you don’t want to fail in life, make you sure you stop acting as though you already know everything. The fact is, all successful people are people who continuously learn to be even more successful. They don’t stop. Let me put it in this perspective - you don’t know what you don’t know, you know?

8. You Listen To The Wrong People

I watched this funny movie called, “He Is Just Not That Into You” and it just reaffirmed what I’m about to tell you. At the beginning of the movie, it shows a clip of a boy pushing a girl in the playground because he somehow doesn’t like her. He thinks she smells like dog pooh. She cried and asked her mum why did the boy do that to her. And her mum replied, “It’s because boys do that to girls when they like you.” Do yourself a favor, don’t get wrong advice. It’ll stick in your brain and lead you to make stupid interpretations in life.

9. You Think Short Term

You’ll hear this happening often in many ’successful’ people’s stories – make a lot of money to lose it all. This probably because they became too comfortable and the other thing is, once you achieve success, you should ride on the wave when the momentum is there. When you think short term, you’re only going after the instant pleasure. You must learn to master ‘delay gratification’ so that you can enjoy your today’s labor.

10. You’re Blinded With What Is Important In Life

I believe there are only two things that are important in your life – control of time and experiencing happiness. Money, love, big cars, diamonds, etc are the things that contribute to these 2 benchmarks of successes. For instance, if you have money, you don’t need to work so that you can have more time to do the things you like. It’s not the money that you’re trying to get but what the money CAN DO FOR YOU. I know this topic is bigger than one sentence explanation but I guess you get the point. You’re a smart fella.

So now you know the 10 ways to fail in life. Question is, are you doing any of these? I’ll be BS’ng you if I said I don’t. I’m human dude, flesh and blood - I do mistakes too.

But I was fortunate to experience my fair share of success today because I learn powerful lessons from other successful people…

“It’s okay to fail and you should fail as many times as you can. That is how you learn but more importantly, you should never give up – each time you get kick dirt in your face, wash your face and ‘fight’ back. Don’t go crying like a sissy because Mum’s not going to come cleaning your face.”

Are you ready? Go get your goals.

If you’ve find value in what you read today, please leave a Comment or feedback? Needless to say, I will definitely appreciate it because I read all Comments personally and gotten the chance to know you at the same time.

(Author: Patric Chan - SuccessTrace.com )

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Financial Freedom Within Your Reach

The DXN SRP (Self Rolling Plan) is keener in harnessing your success in DXN. This plan will also help you get there the easier and faster way. Investing approximately Php 6,500.00 worth of DXN Products and inviting at least two (2) people to do the same (new members will need to register first) will get you started in SRP during the first three months.

Be sure to manage and monitor your partners' growth and repeat this process every month. Your purchase and network duplication during the first two months will yield enough income for the third month to support the SRP requirement.

Upon following the SRP religiously, you can recover all your spending in the fourth month. Income grows fast then onwards. Your business is now self rolling and you will earn as much as a million in the 8th month. During the 9th - 11th month of doing the SRP, you will notice that your income continues to grow exponentially. And without even noticing the year that passed, you can expect to be multi-millionaire, accumulating as much as Php 62 Million. With SRP, the road to financial freedom is within reach.

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SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS IS A PROCESS

Successful business is not a project but a process. Once you have successfully turned a venture into a profitable, self-rolling activity, you can be sure that you're on the way to financial freedom. Keep in mind that financial freedom is having the ability to control over your money, rather than it controls everything that you do. So when presented with opportunity, take the fullest advantage of it. It is the only way to realize that dreams do come true.

Sources: SELF ROLLING PLAN (TRAINING DEPT - DXN PHILIPPINES), RICH DAD'S INCREASE YOUR FINANCIAL IQ by Robert Kiyosaki