The military’s obsession with energy drinks is contributing to PTSD
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The military’s obsession with energy drinks is contributing to PTSD
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Re: The military’s obsession with energy drinks is contributing to PTSD
#2Nothing in the article links energy drinks to PTSD.
> High energy drink use, which was classified as consuming two or more drinks per day, was significantly associated with those survey respondents who reported mental health problems, anger-related behaviors and fatigue, the authors found.
The above passage is about as close as the article gets to its title, and it's left vague by combining mental health problems, anger-related behaviors and fatigue into the same statement.
Re: The military’s obsession with energy drinks is contributing to PTSD
#3Nothing in the article links energy drinks to PTSD. > High energy drink use, which was classified as consuming two or more drinks per day, was significantly associated with those survey respondents who reported mental health problems, anger-related behaviors and fatigue, the authors found. The above passage is about as close as the article gets to its title, and it's left vague by combining mental health problems, an…
All scientists should be required to take at least two semesters of Chicken-Or-Egg Studies.
Re: The military’s obsession with energy drinks is contributing to PTSD
#4Perhaps the people who have PTSD are more likely to drink energy drinks?
Re: The military’s obsession with energy drinks is contributing to PTSD
#5Nothing in the article links energy drinks to PTSD. > High energy drink use, which was classified as consuming two or more drinks per day, was significantly associated with those survey respondents who reported mental health problems, anger-related behaviors and fatigue, the authors found. The above passage is about as close as the article gets to its title, and it's left vague by combining mental health problems, an…
Also the causal direction between say, fatigue and energy drink consumption, is not at all obvious....
Re: The military’s obsession with energy drinks is contributing to PTSD
#6Just to be safe, until I see more data I'm going to assume PTSD causes energy drinks.
Re: The military’s obsession with energy drinks is contributing to PTSD
#7Nothing in the article links energy drinks to PTSD. > High energy drink use, which was classified as consuming two or more drinks per day, was significantly associated with those survey respondents who reported mental health problems, anger-related behaviors and fatigue, the authors found. The above passage is about as close as the article gets to its title, and it's left vague by combining mental health problems, an…
Also the causal direction between say, fatigue and energy drink consumption, is not at all obvious....
It definitely goes both ways
See what happens when an energy's drink effect wears off
Re: The military’s obsession with energy drinks is contributing to PTSD
#8That and dietary supplements. So many people take dietary supplements without ever getting a simple metabolic panel to even see if they need the supplements.
Re: The military’s obsession with energy drinks is contributing to PTSD
#9The current facts about coffee and sugar are the following: drinking coffee is good for your mental and physical, while sugar is linked to depression, addiction, anxiety, heart problems, obesity and not surprisingly, PTSD:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4522929/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4086302/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5056806/
Re: The military’s obsession with energy drinks is contributing to PTSD
#10That and dietary supplements. So many people take dietary supplements without ever getting a simple metabolic panel to even see if they need the supplements.
I just read a BBC story about a man who nuked his liver by taking concentrated green tea capsules. He requires a full transplant and four years later his kidneys are failing and he has chronic abdominal pain. It seems that one or more compounds in green tea (safe as a beverage, problematic as a concentrate) may negatively impact liver function in some genetically vulnerable populations. Truthfully though, it’s not known exactly what happened, only that it does happen.