I'd never had a 5-Hour Energy. So I volunteered to try one while staff writer Patricia Kime was researching the tiny, caffeine-packed shots for this week's OFFduty cover story.
The verdict?
I felt like I had bees in my brain.
Patricia goes into a little more detail, she writes:
Each week, 9 million plastic vials of 5-Hour Energy disappear from store shelves worldwide — a clear sign that many of us are desperately seeking a quick boost for sleep-deprived days.
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The quest for instant energy is particularly intense in the military, where these small shots of caffeine, vitamins and organic and amino acids have proved a particularly popular middle-of-an-op pick-me-up: In 2011, sales topped $9.2 million across the military exchanges — not quite 1 percent of 5-Hour Energy's $1 billion in total sales, but that doesn't include what troops buy in commissaries, where sales reached nearly $1 million in the first seven months of fiscal 2012.
But is it safe? And what exactly does a jolt of 5-Hour Energy do to your body?
