Energy Drinks

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Hey team, in this week’s episode, we’re going to be diving into energy drinks… well, not literally, that would be sticky… and well, that amount of caffeine would probably be lethal.

Anyways… Our topic for the week is energy drinks, how they affect us and as I just mentioned, that means we’re also going to be talking about caffeine.

If you'd life to follow along on the show notes page you can find that at HackingYourADHD.com/123

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This Episode’s Top Tips

The main concern with energy drinks is how quickly they can provide a high amount of caffeine into your system. Typical energy drinks have 160-250mg of caffeine, compared to about half that for an 8-ounce cup of coffee.
The biggest concern with large amounts of caffeine is its 3-7 hour half-life, which means that if we’re having multiple energy drinks in a day, we can build up quite a lot in our system.
With ADHD, it can be easy to view caffeine as a way for us to help manage our ADHD, but with how quickly we develop a tolerance to caffeine, that can easily get out of hand.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:09.2	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:13.0	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:20.1	Hey, team, in this week's episodes, we're going to be diving into energy drinks.
0:24.8	Well, not literally.
0:26.0	That would be sticky.
0:27.5	And yeah, that amount of caffeine would probably be lethal, but...
0:31.2	Anyway, our topic for the week is energy drinks, how they affect us, and as I mentioned,
0:36.9	that means we're also going to be talking
0:38.3	a lot about caffeine and its effects on our systems. If you'd like to follow along on the show notes
0:43.3	page, you can find that at hacking your ADHD.com slash energy drinks. All right, keep on listening
0:50.7	to find out why it feels like your heart is going to explode after that fourth
0:54.2	Red Bull.
1:01.8	Energy drinks have become quite the ubiquitous beverage in our modern culture.
1:06.2	Although the first energy drinks were introduced far earlier, it's hard to pinpoint an exact start to the
1:11.7	popularity. There was Lukazade energy, originally named Glucosaid, that first came out as an energy
1:18.0	drink for hospital patients. In the 1960s, Japan had the launch of its Lipovitin brand,
1:23.7	and in the 80s we saw an introduction to things like Jolt Cola and Red Bull.
1:28.3	And now there are entire shelves in the grocery store devoted to these products.
1:32.6	We are seeing bigger and bigger cans with multiple servings to help get around laws that limit the amount of caffeine we can have per serving.
1:40.3	Conversely, we also have things like energy shots that we see with products like five-hour energy that have a lot of caffeine in just a small amount of liquid.
1:49.0	So what's in one of these energy drinks?
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