I can’t access the ABC article. For some reason the website won’t load. Without trying to sound ignorant and arrogant, surely we’d know if people were experiencing toxic levels by now? It’s been multiple decades since energy drinks became a mainstay in society. I know plenty of people who drink multiple daily, sugar, and sugar free.
I’m yet to meet a single person who’s experienced any issues related to b6 toxicity. I do know people who’ve had to cut back their intake due to consuming too much sugar though.
I personally refuse to have the sugar free variants. The majority of them use Sucralose as their sugar replacement and that destroys my guts more than normal sugar. Studies also state it may destroy healthy gut bacteria too. It’s in far too many products, and I’ll take the full sugar version of the alternative every time.
I can’t access the ABC article. For some reason the website won’t load.
Don’t know why that would be, maybe you’re blocking some javascript stuff? Here’s an archive snapshot, in case that helps: https://archive.is/te8o2
A lot of B6 toxicity symptoms are pretty mild so they could be easy to miss. I had tingly digits and sore thumb/big toes. Seemed like gout. Dropped my high strength B supplement and it went away.
I just largely cut sweet drinks, both sugar and artificial, out if my diet nearly 2 decades ago. Problem solved. Never understood why energy drinks were popular anyway - they taste like ass. Black coffee master race.
Caffeine withdrawal obviously isn’t as bad as nicotine, opiates or alcohol but the headaches, irritability and fatique are very inconvenient. The very high caffeine doses on these products obviously has a different impact to a singular morning coffee and the energy drink industry relies on that along with the sort of marketing that used to be used by alcohol and cigarette companies. I expect taste isn’t all that important compared to the psychological and physiological effects.
In my experience key to cutting out sweet drinks is to cut out both sugar and non-sugar sweeteners. I seemed to lose the taste for sweetness and don’t crave them at all.
Seems like a weird statement to say that you cannot understand why someone would like something that you don’t like?
It’s called having an opinion.
Being unable to understand why people like sugary flavored drinks that keep you awake and contain addictive chemicals and calling it an opinion is like saying “climate change isn’t real, that’s just my opinion.”
I completely understand why people like sugary flavored drinks with addictive chemicals. I just don’t understand why they drink the ones that taste like ass.
It’s called having an opinion
That opinion is wrong.
I like energy drinks and coffee. It’s not really one or the other for me. I also take NoDoz when I don’t want any liquid. They don’t all taste bad. There’s honestly hundreds of different flavours lol.
