I don’t think the government should regulate energy drinks. Some people need them if they’re working late or what not, and anyway, it’s not any of the government’s business.

However, these things do mess you up something nutty if you use them with regularity. It really gets to the point where it’s not much different than just taking Adderall, the way it messes with your sleep.

There’s really no reason why kids should be drinking these things, and they are largely marketed to kids.

New York Post:

Energy drinks could pose a risk to young brains, according to new research.

Those who consumed energy drinks — which are intended to boost energy through the use of caffeine or other stimulants — were shown to have a higher risk of mental health issues, including attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts.

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“We have found an even greater list of mental and physical health outcomes associated with children and young people consuming energy drinks,” lead author Amelia Lake, professor of public health nutrition at Teesside University, told Fox News Digital.

“We repeated [the review] only to find an ever-growing evident space that suggests the consumption of these drinks is associated with negative health outcomes.”

The caffeine content of energy drinks ranges from 50 mg to 505 mg per serving, compared to 90 mg in 8.45 ounces of coffee, 50 mg in 8.45 ounces of tea and 34 mg in 16.9 ounces of soda, the researchers noted.

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Erin Palinski-Wade, a New Jersey-based registered dietitian, was not involved in the new research but said its findings did not surprise her.

“Energy drinks are not a safe choice for children and no safe guidelines have been established for caffeine consumption in those under the age of 18,” she told Fox News Digital.

Caffeine has a half-life of six to eight hours, she noted — which means it takes that long for it to leave the system.

“Even small amounts of caffeine can impact quality and quantity of sleep, and poor sleep is directly correlated with a decline in both mental and physical health — in adults as well as children,” Palinski-Wade noted.

The Post is wrong about a half-life of six hours meaning “it takes that long to leave the system.” 505 mg of caffeine in a kid is insane; it would be healthier to just give them cocaine at that point, and it’s no wonder they’re experiencing ADHD and anxiety when consuming those amounts.

Most energy drinks do not even have as much caffeine as coffee.

The problem is not the caffeine, it’s the sugar – which is the same as in any other soda, and actually often lower.

You should have to be 18 to buy sugary drinks. In fact, sugary drinks should have a label on them saying they lead to death. They’re a lot more dangerous than cigarettes, I can tell you that. It’s well established.

Caffeine is not even a problem. This is dumb.

Reuters:

Pediatricians and parents are calling for the U.S. to treat new high-caffeine energy drinks like alcohol and cigarettes and ban their sale to minors as a single serving can contain as much caffeine as six Coca-Colas.

Prime Energy, which launched this year, has 200 mg of caffeine within its 350 ml can — exceeding permissible caffeine levels in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Rival products like Anheuser Busch InBev-backed (ABI.BR) Ghost energy drinks and Kim Kardashian’s “Kimade” energy drink also have 200 mg of caffeine. Competitor Monster Energy (MNST.O) contains 150 mg of caffeine.

Here’s a useful chart:

But this chart is maybe more useful, as it has the mls:

I’ve never heard of Prime, but Monster and Bang as ones that have an extra amount of caffeine, and it’s still only slightly more than normal coffee. Actually, I don’t know about Bang. I drank one of those at like, 1 PM, and couldn’t sleep literally the entire night. But I think that has some kind of other shit in it.

As caffeine content in energy drinks has climbed over the years, some countries and retailers have banned the products while a few require proof of age for purchase. In the U.S. and UK, no national regulations ban the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks.

Without legal age mandates like those on alcohol and cigarettes, retailers are unlikely to restrict access, said Dr. Holly Benjamin, a professor of pediatrics and orthopedic surgery at the University of Chicago. There is no proven safe dose of caffeine for children, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

That seems unlikely.

These are the same people who tell you there are “proven safe doses” of plastic, PFAS, and lead.

But hey – who knows? No one knows anything anymore. I don’t know.

I guess maybe kids never drank coffee because they don’t like the taste, and now these energy drinks taste good, so they’re drinking more of it.

But remember: these same people give amphetamine to kids. If you get generic adderol, the bottle literally just says “amphetamine.” It’s the only ingredient.

So… it’s hard to take anything they say seriously.

I also don’t know what age “kids” we’re talking about. If we’re talking about 5-year-olds (which they give amphetamine to, btw), then I’d probably agree they shouldn’t be consuming large amounts of caffeine. However, if it’s high schoolers – who are, I assume, the main under-18s drinking these, and definitely the ones that would be in a store buying things without their parents there – then this is just totally nuts.

“Retailers could choose to place sports drinks and energy drinks in different locations and label the sections differently; but, I think that is unlikely to happen without regulation which starts with better product labeling and widespread education,” Dr. Benjamin said.

She added: “Any energy drink with a high dose caffeine in it, such as Prime Energy, is unsafe for children.”

Side effects for kids consuming caffeine could include rapid or irregular heartbeats, headaches, seizures, shaking, stomach upset and adverse emotional effects on mental health, she said.

Caffeine is safe and effective. Like nicotine, it makes you smarter and makes you work harder.

It’s actually not as good as nicotine, as it does not boost your testosterone like nicotine does.

Actually, recent studies have claimed that it might reduce your testosterone.

I don’t know that I believe that, but even if it’s true – how are we going to live without caffeine? How will we work? How will we have the energy to talk to people?

We would obviously have to start doing hard drugs – and all hard drugs we know for a fact lower your testosterone.

Anyway – we can talk about caffeine after the government has banned high sugar poison drinks, over-processed food, soy, artificial flavoring, putting plastic in food, and starts setting regulations on PFAS, requiring constant testing.

We should note that this appears to be a single mom situation, which no doubt made the whole situation a lot worse.

However: I have no trouble believing that something like this could happen in a healthy home with a father.

“ADHD medication” is literally just speed.

The Adderall package lists the only ingredient as “amphetamine.”

So, these people are giving pretty hardcore narcotics to little kids, and then telling us this is very normal and helps them to learn.

It’s amazing that this was ever allowed in the first place, but they’ve been doing it since Ritalin came out in the 1990s. Who even knows how many deaths its caused.

New York Post:

The heartbroken mom of the Oklahoma girl who fatally stabbed her younger brother in a “demonic” rage said the child had recently become “angry for no reason” while taking ADHD medication — but by the time she pulled her daughter off it, it was too late and she experienced a “manic episode.”

April Lyda revealed during an interview on NewsNation on Thursday night what she believes led her daughter to attack her 9-year-old brother, Zander, in the chest on Jan. 5 at their home in Tulsa.

Zander

“From what we found it looks like it was a medication issue, not anything else. Like a manic episode of some kind,” a tearful Lyda told host Chris Cuomo.

She said her daughter became irritable when she was placed back on medication for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or ADHD.

Asked why she had been taken off the meds, Lyda explained that the girl had cut her arms “within a month of being back on it.”

“So I immediately took her off. After speaking to the school, and her doctor, and herself – we had a long conversation — she said that she felt like she was really irritated, irritable, angry for no reason on the medication.

“So of course I took her off of it. Unfortunately, it was too late. The damage was done. Stuff like this kind of thing can happen months or even years after being off of the medication like this,” the grieving mom said.

She said her daughter had been home-schooled for some time but when she went back to school her doctor recommended putting her back on the medication because her grades dropped.

“And so I put her back on it. And then a few weeks later, a month later, she cut her arms. So that’s when I was told to take her back off of it, which I did immediately,” Lyda said.

“So she was on it for five years straight and we only took her off of it because she wanted to see if she could go without it and do her schoolwork without it,” she explained.

Lyda said her daughter cut herself right before she attacked her brother.

Why is a 12-year-old girl even in school at all?

She should be getting prepared for marriage and family. At best, she should be in school learning to cook and how to change the bag on a vacuum cleaner, not doing algebra equations that her brain can’t compute unless she’s high on speed.

Educating women is just all around retarded. I mean, we can argue about teaching them to read, but they definitely don’t need to be in school when they’re 12 doing math problems. That does not even make any sense.

Also, let’s just assume you believed in all this bullshit: why not just give kids caffeine pills?

Why go straight to hardcore narcotics, and risk causing amphetamine psychosis?

Dangerous ADHD sufferers displaying symptoms of ADHD infection.

The “father” of ADHD is a Jew. That tells you a lot about the “disorder.”

When the goyim are not acting like the Jew expects, the Jew uses his Psychiatry weapon to label it a disorder and then offers a solution for that disorder.

In the case of ADHD, the solution involves removing that bit of soul that white kids still had.

CBS New York:

There’s an exciting breakthrough for the treatment of ADHD, and it does not involve drugs.

It’s the first FDA-approved medical device for the condition and CBS2’s Dr. Max Gomez reports that it works by stimulating nerves in the forehead.

The device, called Monarch eTNS, stimulates different nerves in a similar way that studies have shown stimulating nerves in the neck are effective for controlling epilepsy and depression.

The FDA approves a mind control device with the exact same name as that conspiracy theory about mind control.

Okay.

We can work with that.

It’s easy to think of ADHD as just young kids, usually boys, being full of energy and rambunctious – until you see what one mother deals with when her nine-year-old is unmedicated.

Or what a documentary showed following a young girl with ADHD.

It’s a real brain chemistry dysfunction proven by the fact that powerful stimulants used to treat ADHD actually slow these kids down.

Excuse me, but what the fuck? That’s not how “proving” works.

That’s like saying that sedating yourself proves that you have to sedate yourself because sedating yourself slows you down.

“Untreated, these folks can have other psychiatric problems, including depression, chemical dependency, trouble learning in school, and trouble with the law,” said Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein, CEO of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.

Since ADHD drugs can have multiple side effects, there’s been a search for alternatives.

Now for the first time, a battery powered device offers a non-drug treatment.

Monarch eTNS is a small electrode patch worn on the forehead, usually overnight, that stimulates branches of the sensory trigeminal nerve.

Treating ADHD is saying “your mind is going too fast, take this pill and take it slower.” No, fuck your pill and fuck your boring goyim academy. Give kids a challenge. Give kids something to build. Give kids something to conquer instead of forcing them to hear a boring man-hating viper babbling about useless stuff.

Teach kids how to channel their energy into productive endeavors instead of taking it away without giving anything in return.

If ADHD were a real thing, getting kids on ADHD treatments would make kids depend on those treatments in order to achieve the behavioral standards that are expected from them, and making kids dependent on any external stuff in order for them to function and be accepted in society sounds like a very cruel thing to do.

ADHD “treatments” are another manifestation of the compulsive Jew-induced tendency of adapting ourselves, the goyim, to the Jewish system we find ourselves in. If white kids’ nature doesn’t fit the current system, we should change the system. We’re not slaves. We’re not things for the Jews to use.

We’re not going to numb our souls to better serve the Jews and their Jewish system.

We’re God’s creation and we’re going to honor our creation by creating the most beautiful things we can and by defending His creation from the life-sucking horrors that seek to destroy it.

This is our world and we’re going to take it back.

Manifest your essence.

There is a frightening scourge afflicting the young White men of America. It is an amphetamine problem, and I’m not talking about crystal meth.

ADHD medications are well known for making people who take them into dulled, zombified, robotic drones who lack the spark of spontaneity they’d otherwise have. In addition to this, it also stunts height growth. A 2007 study by the Childhood Development Center of the University of California at Irvine showed that kids who had been on Ritalin for three years were about an inch shorter and 4.4 pounds lighter on average than their unmedicated peers. This study also showed that ADHD itself was far from being the cause—unmedicated kids with ADHD were actually taller on average than kids without ADHD. The differentiating factor making the kids shorter was obviously the medication itself. These findings were corroborated by a similar study by a neurologist at the Children’s Hospital in Boston.

According to a 2016 study carried out by an assistant professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine and Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA, rates of ADHD diagnosis and drugging among American children are growing year by year, and Whites bear the brunt of it. The overall rates of ADHD diagnoses of school-aged children in America have climbed from 8% in 2003 to 11% in 2011. In this study, conducted among schoolchildren in grades five to ten across school districts in various major American urban areas (Los Angeles, Birmingham and Houston), 19% of White children were diagnosed with ADHD by tenth grade, compared to only 10% of Blacks and 4% of Hispanics. The disparity is even greater when factoring in who’s on medication and who isn’t—out of those diagnosed with ADHD, 65% of White children were doped up on meds, compared to only 36% of Blacks and 30% of Hispanics. Earlier statistics from 1995-1996 show a gender discrepancy as well, with 17% of White boys on ADHD medications compared to 9% of Black boys, 7% of White girls and 3% of Black girls (these statistics only cite Black and White rates, since they are from a quainter time when Hispanics weren’t yet a major presence in American society).

The WebMD article I’ve linked to paints it as an issue of the system failing to address the needs of Tyrone and Jose, but in reality Tyrone and Jose are getting the nice end of the stick by not having their vibrant youthful energy drugged out of them and replaced with Tyrone-bot and Jose-bot.

Supposedly, children with ADHD are more easily distracted and veered off-topic than the Death Panel during the first hour of a typical episode of The Daily Shoah, but much of this can be simply attributed to children being children (or in the case of the Shoah, shitposters being shitposters).

Not all roads to Hell are paved with bad intentions. Some people might just want these boys to succeed. Others responsible, however, may be incompetent cat lady teachers who want an easy solution in pill form to all their problem kids, or certain (((doctors))) and (((pharmaceutical companies))) with more nefarious motives such as raking in shekels and finding yet another way to sedate the goyim. For some reason, despite misbehaving far more severe rates, Black and brown boys are not diagnosed with ADHD or put on these medications nearly as much as White boys. Perhaps it is the implicit acknowledgement that dindus will always be dindus and their behavioral issues are par for the course, and far beyond the aid of any pharmaceutical medications that anyone could concoct. But perhaps it could also be a desire to medicate all the fiery energy out of these White boys and turn them into docile and zombified little sheep. An aim which, of course, benefits the overall Cultural Marxist agenda.

Whites are naturally the tallest race, but when I see young school-aged White boys in the city, they are often no taller than their Black, brown and Asian male peers. I can’t help but wonder how much of a role ADHD medications are playing in this emerging height equality among the races. Yet another form of affirmative action, no doubt.

These cat ladies we have put in charge of the educational system and these (((doctors))) in our healthcare system are turning a generation of White boys into a bunch of zombie manlets. When I took these pills throughout my childhood and well into my teen years, I felt robotic and dull and incapable of interacting with another human being in a normal, relaxed and natural way. Which is good for an incompetent cat lady teacher who doesn’t understand how to properly discipline young boys, but very bad for the psychological and social development of a boy in his formative years.

The cure is worse than the disease, and it is predominantly White boys who are receiving this cure to boyhood. It is making them boring, docile, short and socially awkward—exactly what (((they))) want us to be.

Anything bad which disproportionately affects Whites should be viewed as a White problem, and ADHD medications are a very White problem. And on top of that, it is more specifically a White male problem, and as a movement predominantly composed of White males, that makes it a problem for us on the alt right.

We want to be White men, not Chinese men. Marginally better grades in school are not worth sacrificing our indomitable conquering spirit over, not to mention diminishing our stature in a very literal sense. For the love of Western civilization, ditch the ADHD medications and do not listen to the cat ladies and (((doctors))) who try to put your kids on them. And if you’re on them yourself, consider getting off them—just don’t do it all of a sudden, because if you think the medications themselves are bad, just wait until you experience the withdrawal.

Circumcision can double the chances of a young boy becoming autistic, yet there are still no calls to outlaw it like there are for female circumcision.

I wonder why that might be.

Daily Mail:

Scientists believe the finding may be linked to stress caused by the pain of the procedure.

The study of more than 340,000 boys in Denmark found that circumcision raised the overall chances of an autism spectrum disorder before the age of 10 by 46 per cent.

But if circumcision took place before the age of five it doubled the risk.

Circumcision also appeared to increase the likelihood of boys from non-Muslim families developing hyperactivity disorder.

The research, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, examined more than 340,000 boys born in Denmark between 1994 and 2003.

At the age of nine, their health was tracked – and almost 5,000 cases of ASD were diagnosed.

Professor Morten Frisch of the Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, who led the research, said: ‘Our investigation was prompted by the combination of recent animal findings linking a single painful injury to lifelong deficits in stress response…and a study showing a strong, positive correlation between a country’s neonatal male circumcision rate and its prevalence of ASD in boys.

He added: ‘Today it is considered unacceptable practice to circumcise boys without proper pain relief.

‘But none of the most common interventions used to reduce circumcision pain completely eliminates it and some boys will endure strongly painful circumcisions.’

The study goes on to discuss how painful experiences in babies have been shown – both in animal and human studies – to have a long-term effect on pain perception.

This is a characteristic often encountered among children with autism, they add.

Professor Frisch said: ‘Given the widespread practice of circumcision in infancy and childhood around the world, our findings should prompt other researchers to examine the possibility that circumcision trauma in infancy or early childhood might carry an increased risk of serious neurodevelopmental and psychological consequences.

Who could be behind this bizarre practice of systemic ritual child abuse?