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Who drinks more caffeine in your household?
When our son was brand-new, my husband and I agreed I would take the night shift because A) I did not have to work the next day, B) I’m a lighter sleeper and C) [most importantly] I can handle my caffeine. The poor guy (husband, not baby) can hardly function on lack of sleep but also runs around like a crazy person on acid when he has an amount of caffeine I’d consider “weak sauce”. Do not give this man a Red Bull – it’s only 80 mg caffeine (half the caffeine in a Grande PSL) but he will be as hyper as a puppy golden retriever.
Caffeine and College Exams – GreenEyedGuide presents at Cal State Fullerton
The video below includes a portion of GreenEyedGuide’s presentation from California State University-Fullerton, Peer Health University Network meeting. Learn how caffeine content isn’t always what it seems, how consumption changes as people get older and how caffeine helps one focus for exams.
- The graph of caffeine consumption by age comes from a study discussed in detail at https://greeneyedguide.com/2014/01/30…
- The graph was created by Caffeine Informer based on the study above and can be found here: https://www.caffeineinformer.com/caffeine-safe-limits
- Peer Health University Network – https://www.instagram.com/phunstagram/
- The caffeine/theanine study referenced can be found at https://greeneyedguide.com/2017/07/28…
Watch the video above to learn how to become an advocate for safe caffeine consumption
Thank you to Cal State Fullerton’s Peer Health Univerity Network for hosting this presentation!
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Top 10 Facts You Need to Know About Caffeine [GreenEyedGuide on Avitae Blog]
With school back in session, it’s the perfect time for a refresher course in caffeine. Check out this article I wrote for the Avitae blog!

Don’t miss this article, featuring everything you need to know about caffeine:
https://goavitae.com/news/top-10-facts-you-need-to-know-about-caffeine/
- 1-How Caffeine Works
- 2-Natural Sources of Caffeine
- 3-Unnatural Sources of Caffeine
- [Source: Caffeine Informer’s Caffeine Database – https://www.caffeineinformer.com/caffeine-in-candy ]
- 4-The Biggest Consumers of Caffeine
- [Source: Caffeine Consumption in the USA (Part I and Part II) – https://greeneyedguide.com/2014/01/29/caffeine-consumption-in-the-usa-energy-drinks-in-the-news/ ]
- 5-Caffeine Limits
- [Source: Caffeine Safe Limits – https://www.caffeineinformer.com/caffeine-safe-limits ]
- 6-How Fast Caffeine Is Metabolized
- 7-How Long Caffeine Takes to Kick In
- 8-How Caffeine Gets Absorbed
- [Source: Caffeine Absorption – https://www.caffeineinformer.com/caffeine-absorption ]
- 9-Caffeine Side Effects
- 10-Caffeine Benefits
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Energy Drinks and Figure Bodybuilding Training – Part One
My heart was pounding. I was out of breath, but I felt exhilarated. Something inside me was ready to explode with power, like an ocean wave the second before it crashes.
For me, energy drinks and bodybuilding have a lot in common. I’m not talking about the use of caffeine for a workout. To me, it’s much more than that: I’m a biochemist who studies energy drinks and trains for bodybuilding competitions.
One fine day in the gym I had just finished my warm-up when it happened. My competitive drive collided with the realization that my next bodybuilding competition was only 7 weeks away. Like a rubber band being pulled to the limit or the moment of transition after “for meeeeee” in “Bohemian Rhapsody”, I knew I was about to unleash considerable power. I always have caffeine before my workouts, but this energy surge was something new. I turned my music up two notches, took a deep breath, then launched into my set.
[Internal energy = potential energy + kinetic energy = Yay for Laws of Thermodynamics!]
I was doing a long jump/sideways medicine ball throw circuit. I honestly can’t remember the last time my legs have jumped that far and that fast. At one point my legs were springing from one jump to the next so fast, I thought I’d fall on my face. But I kept pushing forward. During the sideways med ball throws I felt I could have punched a hole in the wall, so I used the metal post of the multi-station instead. This surge of energy stayed with me through my entire workout. I hit a new max for deadlifts and didn’t feel tired like I normally do after plyo-pushups.

For me, hitting a new max in the gym and discovering a new level of strength is very similar to finding a new energy drink. In both scenarios, I feel like I’m acquiring superpowers and the confidence that comes from knowing I can do things that were previously impossible.
I remember the first few times I tried Monster for all-nighters in college: I felt calm and focused despite the fact I was memorizing metabolic biochemical pathways at 3 a.m. I also remember my left bicep would tingle sometimes – not all the time, and not consistently, just like an eye twitch (which I also got when I was stressed: correlation is not causation).
In the gym, a foundation of strength is a prerequisite to the exhilarating energy surge like the one I described above. With energy drinks, the prerequisite is trust in the brand and knowledge of the ingredients. If it’s a brand I know and trust, the science nerd in me gets excited before the caffeine enters my system. When I first laid eyes on Red Bull Purple and Lime sugar-free Editions, I was so excited I literally jumped up and down in the grocery store.
When it’s a new energy drink from a brand I don’t know, or when I don’t understand the logic behind the ingredients, that’s a different story. We’ll save that for Part Two.
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