Paul Saladino
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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But they have to put caffeine in there because that's why it gives you energy, right? That's why it gives you energy.
It is. These are all going to be exactly the same. So sorbic acid actually says preservative, Pat. They were forthcoming there. It's a preservative. Okay. Benzoic acid is a preservative. How much have these been studied in humans? Do we know if these are safe? Do we know how they affect gut flora? Not really. Certainly something your great-grandmother would never have eaten.
Niacinamide is a vitamin. It's essentially niacin, which is fine for humans. It's, again, found in many foods, both plant and animal foods. Sucralose is an artificial sweetener, and there are some pretty big problems with sucralose. There are many in the health space who would say that artificial sweeteners are benign for humans, but again, my great-grandmother would not recognize this.
And there are studies in animals and humans suggesting that when you consume artificial sweeteners like sucralose or aspartame or ACE-K, which is A-sulfame-K, with carbohydrates, it interferes with your body's normal insulin signaling.
So it's not terribly surprising to suggest that when you consume something that your body perceives as sweet but actually has no calories associated, that it would confuse your body at a neurological and metabolic level. Because historically, evolutionarily, humans have always consumed things that were sweet with calories. So honey has calories. A strawberry has calories. A raspberry has calories.
A potato, right? A sweet potato. Anything you're eating has calories. So these artificial sweeteners are potentially neurometabolically confusing for the body. And we know that they change the gut flora potentially in a negative way. So I do not believe that artificial sweeteners are benign. And so again, we really have to ask the question, what is that doing to humans long-term? Salt is fine.
Sodium chloride is totally fine. D, glucuronolactone. I'm not terribly worried about that. Inositol, again, some people find inositol to be helpful. Guarana extract is a, it's actually a fruit extract, okay? Pyridoxine hydrochloride is, that's vitamin B6. Riboflavin is vitamin B2. Maltodextrin is another type of sugar. And the last ingredient is important to note.
It's cyanocobalamin, which is a form of B12 that the human body doesn't really like. So there are multiple different types of B12.
It's potentially problematic for the body. Why is that? Because the cyano is a cyanide moiety. So that's cyanide with your cobalamin. Cobalamin is vitamin B12, but cyano is cyanide. So it's a very small, small amount, but cyanide we know is a mitochondrial toxin.
And whether or not that amount of cyanide is actually problematic for humans remains to be seen, but it probably needs to be studied more. But I'll tell you this. there are many other forms of vitamin B12 they could put in there.
Methylcobalamin, adenosylcobalamin, hydroxycobalamin, which are not going to have any problems in the human body, but they choose to put cyanocobalamin because it's the cheapest. And so Celsius actually came under fire for this recently. So I've got a friend who actually called Celsius out for cyanocobalamin and That's kind of a big deal.
But all of these, if they have vitamin B12, will have cyanocobalamin. So all of them have the same thing? They all have cyanocobalamin, yes. There's not a single energy drink that I've ever seen that has methylcobalamin.
So Red Bull says calcium pantothenate?
That's vitamin B5. That's pantothenic acid.
That's cyanocobalamin. It is.
Across the board, cyanocobalamin.
If Prime has B12, it's going to have Santa. Yeah, that's the same thing. Santa Cabal.
Yeah.
Not a lot. amount of caffeine. Some of them are going to use more artificial sweeteners and less sugar, different food dyes. So this Gatorade is going to have some food dye in it. This monster, we didn't really see any food dyes. We did see artificial color, but they didn't tell us what it was. The Gatorade will list artificial colors. This may have a yellow dye in it. This has yellow number five.
So the Gatorade actually has one of these food dyes that are almost certainly problematic for humans.
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