sucksWhen I woke up this morning, I was more than 5,000 words behind on my NaNoWriMo novel, but I'm now closing in on only being 3,000 words behind. Boo hoo hoo, I have to write a whole lot at once now. And I really hate writing, which of course is why I plan on making it my career. Heh heh, maybe I just wanted to get behind so I had an excuse to hole myself up in my room chain drinking 5-Hour Energy.
Which brings me to a viable subject for this blog, rather than just random boring stuff. 5-Hour Energy is an energy supplement. It contains as much caffeine as a cup of coffee, and a number of vitamins to give you energy. To be specific:
Vitamin C: 100 mg, 167% DV
Niacin: 33 mg, 165% DV
Vitamin B6: 40mg 2,000% DV
Folic Acid: 400 mcg 100% DV
Vitamin B12: 500mcg 8,333% DV
Plus various caffeines and enzymes. No sugar means no crash.
The no crash part is the hardest to believe, but it's true. Now, you might be thinking that with all the natural stuff and so little caffeine relative to energy drinks, that there is no disadvantage to this product. But there is one thing you must be careful of in using 5-Hour Energy:
If you use it all the time, it will impair your body's ability to run on lower levels of B vitamins. It is best used only occasionally. You can grow a tolerance to them (though it takes some work; I was drinking two a day when I was a department manager at Wal-Mart). The moral is, as the moral of most of my stories is, don't work at Wal-Mart! Any unhealthy thing you have ever done or thought about doing will suddenly start sounding like a good idea. Alcoholism doesn't sound so bad in the face of a lifetime at Wal-Mart. Liver failure will only get you out of that hell-hole sooner. Cocaine? Never done it myself, but don't think the temptation wasn't there; Wal-Mart is designed to make people speed-freaks. Most people who work there who don't have habits they can't talk about at work drink energy drinks and coffee by the gallon, and many of them chain-smoke as well. I managed to refrain from smoking tobacco most of the time I was at Wal-Mart, but there were my five-hour energy drinks and my coffee (as many as three cups before work, made double strength). And of course, when I went home, there was always my green tobacco, which I overindulged in. Overindulged is actually a very weak word for the use I am describing, but I would rather not get into details. Towards the end of the time I was working at Wal-Mart, I did start drinking more. Though I was by no means a heavy drinker, I was on my way.
Long tangent, but my two salient points are this: 5-Hour Energy is a great product used in moderation, and don't work at Wal-Mart.
Peace Out,
Nathan
Which brings me to a viable subject for this blog, rather than just random boring stuff. 5-Hour Energy is an energy supplement. It contains as much caffeine as a cup of coffee, and a number of vitamins to give you energy. To be specific:
Vitamin C: 100 mg, 167% DV
Niacin: 33 mg, 165% DV
Vitamin B6: 40mg 2,000% DV
Folic Acid: 400 mcg 100% DV
Vitamin B12: 500mcg 8,333% DV
Plus various caffeines and enzymes. No sugar means no crash.
The no crash part is the hardest to believe, but it's true. Now, you might be thinking that with all the natural stuff and so little caffeine relative to energy drinks, that there is no disadvantage to this product. But there is one thing you must be careful of in using 5-Hour Energy:
If you use it all the time, it will impair your body's ability to run on lower levels of B vitamins. It is best used only occasionally. You can grow a tolerance to them (though it takes some work; I was drinking two a day when I was a department manager at Wal-Mart). The moral is, as the moral of most of my stories is, don't work at Wal-Mart! Any unhealthy thing you have ever done or thought about doing will suddenly start sounding like a good idea. Alcoholism doesn't sound so bad in the face of a lifetime at Wal-Mart. Liver failure will only get you out of that hell-hole sooner. Cocaine? Never done it myself, but don't think the temptation wasn't there; Wal-Mart is designed to make people speed-freaks. Most people who work there who don't have habits they can't talk about at work drink energy drinks and coffee by the gallon, and many of them chain-smoke as well. I managed to refrain from smoking tobacco most of the time I was at Wal-Mart, but there were my five-hour energy drinks and my coffee (as many as three cups before work, made double strength). And of course, when I went home, there was always my green tobacco, which I overindulged in. Overindulged is actually a very weak word for the use I am describing, but I would rather not get into details. Towards the end of the time I was working at Wal-Mart, I did start drinking more. Though I was by no means a heavy drinker, I was on my way.
Long tangent, but my two salient points are this: 5-Hour Energy is a great product used in moderation, and don't work at Wal-Mart.
Peace Out,
Nathan
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