Vodka-Energy Longdrinks Have the Same Effect as Cocaine!
It seems to be the perfect party drink, and teenagers are loving it: A long drink made from Vodka and an Energy Drink.
It keeps you awake, makes you feel good and gets you into the party mood.
But now, pharmacologists have actually found out that this mixture alters the brain of a growing human being in a similar way like cocaine does.
Their studies showed that the efficiency of our brain’s reward system can change if you consume this longdrink often.
If you only drink alcohol or only caffeine, the effect doesn’t happen - only the COMBINATION of the two changes the neurochemistry of your brain.
Tests with mice have shown that they got a lot more active after drinking alcohol and caffeine, and they also showed the same physical and neurochemical symptoms like someone who’s taken cocaine.
What’s interesting is that the effect of cocaine was less strong when mice took it that had previously been taking vodka-energy regularly.
Another thing they have found was that a large amount of the protein FosB.
It’s a clue to sustainable changes of brain chemistry and you can find it after people took morphine or cocaine.
FosB being released with every activity we do that triggers our reward system - whether that’s gambling, sex, drugs…)
What it does is that it makes us crave more of the stimulation, increases our tolerance for it and at the same time weakens our will to resist it.
The researchers then gave the tested mice an artificial sweetener - Saccharin. He also activates the reward system of the mice’s brains.
So if the reward system was dulled, they expected to see that those mice would consume more of the saccharin than a normal mice that had never had that alcohol-caffeine mixture before.
And the results confirmed that theory.
The mice that had taken the alcohol-caffeine mixture in their teenage years, consumed more of the sweetener.
So this confirms that the brains did get altered and the vodka-energy mixture makes changes in our brain and dulls our reward system.
So now if we transfer the results of this experiment to humans, it would mean that all the teenagers who have consumed vodka energy longdrinks regularly have now dulled their reward system and built up a tolerance, similar to a cocaine addict!
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Wow - going to share this also on AREA51.fm, important to know
thank you! :) glad you enjoyed it
I only heard that his combination was bad for your heart - but this is even worse
it's stressful for your heart as well - plus the damaging effects of cocaine!
Cocaine also have effect in ur heart like any drug that put up ur blood pressure, like Amphetamine, Metha-Amphetamine and all the others. I think the real problem in the drink is the Alcohol. But this is my personal point of view.
Yep, I wrote about this a few months back here I think. Its why people loved those four locos so much :)
yes you're right!
It's crazy how much damage such a simple cocktail can create
Liquid regret.
I don't like vodka red bull anyway. it tastes horrible - way too sugary and artificial
I don't like it either!
super interesting experiment, I wonder if there are even more similarities!
will be looking forward to future research about this topic
Crazy how some drugs make humans feel so good but in reality they destroy their life if you take too much..
it's the apple that looks so tempting but is actually poisonous!
vodka red bull is like the standard drink at clubs! that’s crazy!
it would be better to try to reduce the consume of this - but it would be incredibly hard to realize that in real life
It was obvious that alcohol + caffeine wouldn't be great for the body, but I wouldn't have guessed that the damage was THIS bad!
the long-term results can really be shocking!
that’s such an interesting result! How did the test subjects react to only alcohol or caffeine?
they didn't enjoy it, and needed to intake much more of it to get even a little bit of pleasure from the stimulation!
great read and very interesting study, thanks for sharing!