Redbull Shots vs Pro Plus
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Just wanted to echo the general common sense opinion that loading on caffiene, whilst good for physical endurance and pulling all nighters is going to have a negative impact on the quality of your work, and your health.
Green tea - the Tea contains a special compound called theanine, which has been known to stimulate alpha brain waves, calm the body, and promote relaxed awareness, plus you still get your caffiene kick.
Diet - when you've eaten a large carby meal you wont be as alert, so stick to light snacks which contain protein around study time, and plenty of seafood/fish for the brain power boosting omega 3s.
Green tea - the Tea contains a special compound called theanine, which has been known to stimulate alpha brain waves, calm the body, and promote relaxed awareness, plus you still get your caffiene kick.
Diet - when you've eaten a large carby meal you wont be as alert, so stick to light snacks which contain protein around study time, and plenty of seafood/fish for the brain power boosting omega 3s.
My teeth are naturally yellow it runs in the family. £250 is a small price to pay to look normal.
You must be good at time management.
I have plenty of green tea that I got from china while I was there, I might tuck into that.
I started seeing a consultant at the hospital around april time after 3 months of throwing up daily. The GP gave me 5 different types of pills before accepting it wasn't stress/stomach bug and referring me. I've had an endoscopy and ultrasound, a load of blood tests and other biopsies. They don't know exactly what caused the sickness, only that I'm getting better.
I'm seeing a dietician in December who will hopefully put me on a good diet to regain the weight I've lost. Should give me some more energy.
Pure caffeine from eBay. But er... be very careful measuring it
If you're going to get pure caffeine try to get it in tabs/capsules. A kid in the east midlands died about 10 days ago when he took 2 teaspoons of caffeine powder. The recommended dose was 200mg... he took 10,000mg and washed it down with an energy drink!
OP, have you tried getting up early and working in the morning? I know it perhaps doesn't make you a social animal, but if you go to bed at 10 and wake up around 6 and immediately get to work, I defy you to struggle to have enough time!!
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Your a uni student, whatever happened to you learning schedules? .....No-one should ever need these stimulant drinks if you just stick to your schedule.
Having sleep issues? Stop over-thinking!
Having sleep issues? Stop over-thinking!
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If he had been thinking about his work all year he wouldn’t be over-thinking. The problem lies in under-thinking.
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You've answered your own question there, he's a uni student, procrastination is the favoured hobby of a very large percentage of them. Oh, and it's *you're
I have just graduated uni and I would say the best bet is to,
1. Get up at a decent time and treat it as a 9-5 job Monday-Friday this way you WILL work.
2. Also do not sit around your student house, I did this for the first month of my final year and did absolutly nothing, just played pc games and found stuff to avoid work. In the end I had to make myself go to the library or stay on campus for the 9-5 to get my work done.
3. Also eat breakfast, it does help (or it did for me)
O and those Redbull shots are foal, get the proper red bull if you are going to drink it.
Hope this helps
1. Get up at a decent time and treat it as a 9-5 job Monday-Friday this way you WILL work.
2. Also do not sit around your student house, I did this for the first month of my final year and did absolutly nothing, just played pc games and found stuff to avoid work. In the end I had to make myself go to the library or stay on campus for the 9-5 to get my work done.
3. Also eat breakfast, it does help (or it did for me)
O and those Redbull shots are foal, get the proper red bull if you are going to drink it.
Hope this helps
I have just graduated uni and I would say the best bet is to,
1. Get up at a decent time and treat it as a 9-5 job Monday-Friday this way you WILL work.
2. Also do not sit around your student house, I did this for the first month of my final year and did absolutly nothing, just played pc games and found stuff to avoid work. In the end I had to make myself go to the library or stay on campus for the 9-5 to get my work done.
3. Also eat breakfast, it does help (or it did for me)
O and those Redbull shots are foal, get the proper red bull if you are going to drink it.
Hope this helps
Definitely echo this. Going to the library/study area at university every day REALLY gets a lot of work done. At home there are way too many distractions! I'm doing far more work than I was doing at uni on the BPTC but forcing myself to go to the university 5 days a week (I work weekends) means I'm finished working by 9pm just about every night.
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My point too.
Well spotted, however I don't need correcting. It was a typo you spelling OTT freak.Oh, and it's *you're
?? sleeping issues is under thinking ?? wut?
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Do you have milk with green tea?
NO!!!!!
It tastes pretty hanging too, but it works so damn well - best way is to make up a batch of it and wait till its cool then chug ***.
Green Tea is freaking awesome, a miracle drink. Not even joking starting drinking it instead of normal Tea about 5-6 months ago and have noticed it so much, keeps my energy levels up during work with out the down-time. Even got rid of my spots aswell, i quess it helps with stress etc..
But yeh, Green Tea > Red Bull
But yeh, Green Tea > Red Bull
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Learn some biochemistry, "energy" is release from various biomechanisms, mostly you have a chain or reactions, you eat, you get some b vits, the body uses b vits as a catalyst to release energy.
But theres SO many various chemicals involved, its simply not a case of eat sugar, have energy, your body has to metabolise glucose into an energy source your cells can use. Its these systems that are "effected" by caffeine, it stimulates your body into producing more energy. The energy comes from the same place, the problem is the things that tell your body to produce energy don't tell your body to produce X amount of energy all the time, the amount of energy you produce varies over the day because naturally we're supposed to get tired, caffeine stops your system "slowing down" to go to sleep and kick starts the system up again telling it to continue producing more energy.
Not believing in caffeine is like not believing in gravity.
The problem is you just don't understand what it does, you're acting as if caffeine itself is an energy source, its not.
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I never found either of them to work for me. Even downing laods of sugar never really helped. Just keep hydrated - plenty of water
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Yeah, I kind of meant in a more empirical sense, as in cases where I've taken it I've found that I just have a corresponding low to the brief high earlier on. I would do just as well with my normal energy levels; in fact the only time I've used it is intentionally a few hours before sleep to induce a sort of "crash".