Energy Drinks and Alcohol Don’t Mix

October 25, 2016 · Filed under Health care

A new study should wake kids (and their parents) up to the danger of energy drinks. While the energy drinks themselves can be quite dangerous for their high content of caffeine, they are even more dangerous when mixed with alcohol. The Purdue University research team found that the mix actually creates a reaction that is similar to what one feels when taking cocaine.

As lead author of the study, Richard van Rijn, explained,

“It seems the two substances together push them over a limit that causes changes in their behavior and changes the neurochemistry in their brains. We’re clearly seeing effects of the combined drinks that we would not see if drinking one or the other.”

The team looked at how the combination of highly caffeinated energy drinks and highly caffeinated alcohol affect the brain of adolescent mice. They found that the mice reacted in a similar fashion to how they react when given cocaine. They also found increased levels of a dangerous protein (?FosB) that is accentuate in the brains of cocaine and morphine addicts. Read the whole study to learn more.

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