![]() “The problem with the five-hour energy drink is that it is too much caffeine at once,” explained Dr. So, rather than an expensive and untested concoction, I’ve become a fan of an ancient, healthy alternative: tea. Brent Bauer, the Mayo Clinic’s director of the Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program. “None of them are going to boost energy unless you’re B-deficient,” said Dr. The supercharge doses of vitamins have questionable benefits. In addition to caffeine, most energy drinks haphazardly toss in a mixture of poorly understood ingredients, from Vitamin B to Taurine. Since the controversy began brewing, 5-hour Energy added a barely noticeable asterisk amending the claim to be “no sugar crash”-which is true, since there is no cane sugar in the product. Levine, director of the National Advertising Division at the Better Business Bureau.ĥ-hour Energy’s own unpublished study found that, in fact, 24 percent of users reported a “moderately-severe” post-drink crash (but it was less than Red Bull’s and Monster Energy’s, with a respective 80 percent and 75 percent reporting a crash). ![]() ![]() “We recommended that the ‘no crash’ claim be discontinued because their own evidence showed there was a crash from the product,” said Andrea C. Legal officials in Oregon, Washington, and Vermont blasted the beverage company for propaganda of a highly-caffeinated beverage where consumers allegedly enjoy a productive high without crashing. The makers of wildly popular energy shot 5-hour Energy are being sued by three states for deceptive advertising. ![]() The caffeine high with “no crash later” might be crashing after all. ![]()
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