Bryan Benn wrote:lcarreau wrote:I obtain energy just from WATCHING other folks guzzle down their ENERGY drinks :
I did actually meet a gorgeous Bavarian Wench like the one in the foreground on the summit of a Bavarian Mountain once. On top of the Kramerspitz.
That was the day I joined the mile high club!
But I had been taking lots of ISO drink on my way to the peak.
Hey Bryan, I too did Kramerspitze and stopped in at the mountain Haus on the descent. That gal with "jugs" sure looks familiar.
Though back to subject. When I used to take energy drinks, if they contained modest amounts of sugars, they made me bomb out. Depends on how ones body copes with refined sugars. Nowadays, I get excellent, steady energy from grapefruit. I can bike quite a ways and last till lunchtime on just one, without any dive in energy. Natural is best.
We should remember too that, water with electrolytes is harder for the body to absorb, as it bound to the electrolyte, regardless it's isotonic (remembering hypertonicity and hypotonicity), often bound in a sugar goo. At least we should all drink pure water much of the time.
My preponderance to electrolytes lies in salt (Sodium Chloride). Since, and now still, I tolerate large quantities with seemingly no ill effect nor rise in BP. Though I have the oddity that some things that make others stressed, relaxes me. When I need to relax, I go out for fast drive on an open road, at which point my chest relaxes and I fill with air like never before.