i know its a stupid question. but people say energy drinks are bad for you cause there loaded with sugar. if the energy drink is sugar free what makes it bad?
Sugar free anything is worse than sugar drinks. The sugar drinks are terrible for you.
What happens is your body reacts to diet drinks the same way it does sugar. The Hypothalamus senses sweetness and sends TRH hormone to the pituitary causing it to send hormones to the pancreas to release insulin. Insulin acts like a key to unlock the insulin receptors located in the membranes of each cell. When the cell door is open to let glucose in and there is no glucose, the receptors get fatigued. Then the body thinks it still needs more insulin, so the pancreas gets the message to send more insulin. Still no sugar there, so the cells get very resistant to the insulin. Now the body has to release glucagon to lower the blood sugar level that is in a state of chaos, and the adrenal glands get involved because the body thinks it is in a state of "flight or fight." So adrenaline and cortisol is released and the adrenals get exhausted. The body uses up it’s supply of pregnenalone producing the excess cortisol and the steroid hormones are not made in the liver.
You feel the high from the adrenaline and the cortisol, but your body’s organs are exhausted and cannot perform other necessary functions to stay normal.
All this starts a cascade of events that leads to eventual premature death. The cascade is hypoglycemia to diabetes type II, and then eventually kidney failure.
The so called "energy" drinks are garbage and very damaging to the body. Dietetic or Sugared, all the same garbage.
Also, these drinks, like coffee, tea, fruit juices, etc. all dehydrate you and thereby depleting you of water you need for necessary functions in the body.
good luck to you