<p>Does anyone have an experience?
I'm afraid I would fall asleep during testing.</p>
<p>Would it help or would it make me too hyper and cause me to lose concentration?</p>
<p>I think that if you’re willing to risk THAT much damage to your health/own body, then you might as well break into the testing center before test day and steal a test instead.</p>
<p>-_- it is not THAT bad</p>
<p>SATObsession: Energy drinks don’t damage you to much extent if you only drink one for that day only. Luckily for you guys, you guys actually have an energy drink that can provide energy for five hours. All we have is Red Bull which lasts about 2 hours and follows with brutal side effects. Studies have shown that 5hour energy’s side effects are a much more moderate than Monster’s or Red Bull’s, although it doesn’t provide as much energy as the other two. Go ahead and take one if you’re used to having energy drinks; just beware of the side effects which may include sensitivity to sound, twitching, and lack of concentration (BAD BAD BAD thing to have on SAT day).</p>
<p>Energy drinks are a myth; your body actually loses energy processing all the sugar.</p>
<p>Energy drinks provide your body with sugar… So, a basic understanding of biology shows that energy drinks provide you with energy. I don’t know for sure if energy drinks really work or not. Even if it’s a myth, believing is enough as long as it gives me a boost of energy.</p>
<p>Everyone I know who tried ended up crashing and burning. They hit the wall at around section 6 and their test scores went down the toilet.</p>
<p>Ouch… I guess it’s better to just get a good night’s sleep then?</p>
<p>Yeah! The only thing you can do that works is take an energy tablet you dissolve in water… I tried it several times, it is a medicine so it does NOT hurt your health and it worked for me during my baccalaureate. But don’t rely on it though… I just took it because I had insomnia and couldn’t sleep, resulting in a terrible fatigue…</p>
<p>“Energy drinks provide your body with sugar… So, a basic understanding of biology shows that energy drinks provide you with energy”</p>
<p>Sugar “gives you energy” if you need it (i.e. if your muscles are “completely spent” and cannot contract any more). This is because your cells are using a molecule called ATP to catalyze reactions (i.e. to contract muscles, for example). ATP requires glucose molecules in order to be built - glucose is a monosaccharide (one sugar ring molecule).</p>
<p>The tough part about your body using “sugar” is that you may think that the sugar in energy drinks is ready to go. It’s not - that sugar is in fact a disaccharide (double sugar ring molecule) and cannot be directly used by the body. It needs to be broken down in the mouth, stomach, and small intestine to monosaccharides by enzymes, which takes significantly more energy from your body than it provides.</p>
<p>The concept of “sugar rush” is a myth, since for it to even reach that point may take several hours. In fact, that is exactly the point in which you will start feeling crushed. Your high comes likely from the taste of sugar, which stimulates your brain in short bursts.</p>
<p>Where do you get the information that using enzymes to break down sugar takes more energy than it provides? In that case, eating rice and corn doesn’t make you fat, it only makes you skinnier because they’re both polysaccharides? Rice (starch) breaks down into maltose (disaccharide) in the mouth and then proceeds to break down into glucose, the “ready to go” sugar that directly decomposes into CO2, water and energy. You’re implying that after breaking down polysaccharides, humans lose instead of gain energy? Then what’s the point of eating anything if doing so not only doesn’t provide us with enough energy to sustain life, but also takes away what precious energy we have left? I don’t understand much about sugar rushes, I’ve never even had one in my life, but I know that if you intake sugar, you don’t LOSE energy.</p>
<p>“Sugar ‘gives you energy’ if you need it”</p>
<p>No, sugar doesn’t “give you energy” if you need it - it gives you energy ALL THE TIME. The sugar in our blood, blood sugar (go figure), is the first to be used by our cells for energy. When blood sugar runs out, our islet secretes glucagon, whose effect is opposite to that of insulin, to increase blood sugar levels. Fat acts as a secondary source of energy that breaks down into sugar when we need it. ATP is not a molecule used to catalyze anything. It decomposes into ADP and provides energy. It is the main molecule that directly provides cells with energy.</p>
<p>Are we still talking about SAT?</p>
<p>I find this really funny because I was debating doing this for the SAT II’s back in June.
I finally decided to go with it…I downed one before the Math II and the other between Math II and Biology M.
Fortunately I got an 800 on Math II and a 780 on Bio-M.
UNfortunately, my body completely crashed between the Bio-M test and the French test and I scored a 580 on French.</p>
<p>Make with that what you will :)</p>