• Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Most people who are addicted to drinks like Monster do so because of vitamin B12 defficiency, the drink is their main source of it.

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      2 months ago

      include meat, clams, liver, fish, poultry, eggs, and dairy products.

      these people buy monster instead of eggs or meat wtf

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          2 months ago

          Some are just alcoholics too. Alcohol reduces your ability to absorb Vitamin B, so they need to supplement it. If you pay attention you will notice heavy drinkers tend to consume a lot of beef, slam energy drinks or both.

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        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8780606/

        The relative prevalence and average amounts of the top ingredients were as follows: caffeine (100%; 174.4 ± 81.1 mg), vitamin B6 (72%; 366.9 ± 648.1 percent daily value (%DV)), vitamin B3 (67%; 121.44 ± 69.9% DV), vitamin B12 (67%; 5244.5 ± 10,474.6% DV), vitamin B5 (37.3%; 113.6 ± 76.6% DV), and taurine (37.3%; amounts undisclosed). Conclusions: Our findings suggest a high prevalence of caffeine and B-vitamins in these energy products, with many of the formulations containing well above the recommended daily value of B-vitamins.