5 hour energy shots - an insight

Okay, maybe people remember a few months ago there was a story in the news about a woman who about died from drinking too many of those 5 hour energy shots...it was like she drank enough in 1 week to make up 1 1/2 weeks worth of energy. Well that wasn't what nearly killed her, the excessive amounts of Vitamin B-12 in the shots caused her to suffer liver damage.

Okay, we all grew up hearing vitamins were good for you, so how could too much vitamin B-12 damage your liver? Well has anybody ever taken a look at the labels on these things? That was one thing I learned from watching Lisa Lopes' video interviews, READ THE LABELS on bottles, of course she was talking about 100% juice instead of water and sugar, but that's what I did, I was at a convenience store getting scratch off tickets and while the lady was scanning them, I picked up a bottle out of one of the display boxes on the counter.

Turn it around and the back of the bottle says Vitamin B-12: 8333%! No, that is not a typo, 8 thousand, 3 hundred and 33 percent of B-12 in a bottle not even 2 ounces! WHAT THE FUCK? WHY would you need that much of ANYTHING in something so small? I used to drink energy shots, not THOSE, but Wal-Mart used to have a brand before they really caught on and were cheap, they didn't guarantee an amount of time, just more energy and I drank them to stay up all night as a teen, I think they might've had THIRTY percent B-vitamins in it, but 8 thousand? What the hell? Would somebody care to explain that one?

That's insane. Even when factoring in the small FDA recommended dose, when the percentage gets into the thousands, pretty crazy.

Back in the 80s there was a craze to get a needle B12 shot from the doctor. Then people started taking the OTC b12, but the injections were much more concentrated. It does not surprise me at all what u are saying.

People are stupid... that is why i stay away from most of them.

Crazy, good thing I don't drink energy drink/shots.

Some people will pop anything in their mouth without even thinking about it. They falsely assume that because it's being sold in a store it's been tested or is safe. These things aren't regulated by the FDA. Who knows what's in them?

wants2laugh wrote:
People are stupid... that is why i stay away from most of them.

I hear that.

You should not drink them at all.

I don't drink stuff like that. If I'm draggy and fatigued, a nap will just have to suit me!

B12? I never paid a whole lot of attention to these drinks but I thought they were loaded with caffeine to wire people up. I didn't know B12 was the pepper-upper. What will they come up with next?

Tony Marino wrote:You should not drink them at all.

I quit drinking them, and energy drinks in total, back in my teens. Come to think of it, I can't even remember WHY I stopped drinking them because I was never worried about overloading on anything, but I'm glad now that I did, they're getting too expensive for how much I used to drink them.

I would never drink those. Or any "energy" drink for that matter.