• grue@lemmy.world
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    It’s actually 10 hours of quarter-assed energy, because it only speeds up your metabolism half as much.

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    Caffeine has a half-life in the human body of approximately 4-6 hours. So this means that the “5 hours” in 5hr Energy is just the amount of time it takes for your body to process half the caffeine away.

    Therefore drinking half of a 5hr Energy would be 0 hours of the advertised level of energy. At best it would be like drinking a 5hr Energy and then immediately fast-forwarding 5 hours

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        Not even. I can’t speak for others but the effects of 5hr Energy pretty much disappear after those 5 hours are up. Half the caffeine dose isn’t enough to do much of anything, at least for me. So it’s essentially a waste. I’m sure it depends on things like BMI but to get 5hrs of half-assed energy you’d need to consume 3/4ths of a dose, which would leave you with roughly half the experience of a 5hr Energy (that is, half the difference between the caffeine in your system immediately after drinking one dose and 5hrs after drinking one)

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          Except you’ve already had 5 hours of your body metabolizing caffeine, so the effects of the remaining half a dose after 5 hours aren’t nearly the same as if you took that half a dose after a night’s sleep and not having had any. Your body becomes accustomed to it. That’s how all drugs work. You can take 6 grams of mushrooms and it’ll definitely still be in your system after 6 hours, but the effects won’t be the same as taking 3 grams straight up, it will have almost entirely worn off despite the residual psilocybin in your body.

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      It took me until your comment to realise I had skimmed over the word “half” in the OP. Now this whole thing makes sense.

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        Kinda. From the CVS website:

        Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, Vitamin B3 (Niacin), Citicoline, Tyrosine, Phenylalanine, Taurine, Malic Acid, Glucuronolactone, Caffeine. Other Ingredients: Purified Water; Natural and Artificial Flavors; Sucralose; Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate and EDTA.

        So, Caffeine for sure. But the b-complex, and Taurine will also give you a boost, for entirely different reasons. Half this stuff is psuedo-scientific at best, and the rest just filler.

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      5 hour energy drinks are not just caffeine, which is what sets them apart from other energy drinks. Vitamin B12 and shit like that.

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        As far as I’m aware, unless you’re already B12 deficient, the B12 in 5hr Energy doesn’t do much of anything because it already hangs around in your blood stream for a long, long time. Half life on B12 in the body is something like 6 days and excess is even stored in the liver instead of excreted.

        Can’t speak to the other ingredients but I’d guess it’s all the same: either it’s already available in abundance if you’re eating a decent diet, or the half life is close to that of caffeine

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    If anyone is looking for the real answer then the half life of caffeine is 6 hours.

    The almost correct answer in half-assed energy for 6 hours

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    The only time I took one of those during a night road trip it have me a really big boost for about an hour and then about 3 hours of half assed energy. It wasn’t fun

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        Aurora Borealis? At this time of year! At this time of day! In this part of the country! Localized entirely within eastern Colorado?

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    Since caffeine drops exponentially, it would last somewhere between 2.5 and 5 hours and would be half as strong.

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    Similar story here, my youngest just graduated college. And apparently my family sat in front of one of his neighbors who I met later at the a house party. And he goes “I’m pretty sure I sat behind you at the ceremony. I sat down and the first thing I heard was ‘god bless those Australians, they took one look at a whole onion and said ‘I bet you we can fry that and Americans will eat it’’”