Redline energy drink? Anyone??

Aside from the caffeine, this stuff has unspecified amounts of 5-HTP and yohimbine, both of which have no business being in a soft drink, let alone in a pill, available to unsuspecting people without a prescription.  The fact that Orrin Hatch's goons eviscerated the FDA in the 1990s allowing such stuff to be sold is an outrage.  Basically, someone has to die first before the FDA can regulate such "dietary supplements".  DO NOT assume this stuff is innocuous because it's sold openly. Of course, this is exactly what Redline marketing types want their customers to "fear".  "Don't drink if you've under 18!!!"  "Start with only 1/2 a bottle!!!"  These phony, insincere warnings are nothing more than honey proffered to flies.  If it's "dangerous", it must really work!  The problem with this kind of marketing is that the stuff really has the potential to be dangerous, and not in any sort of a good way. Yohimbine is an alkaloid extracted from yohimbe bark; basically, it's an adrenergic stimulant.  This is not a good thing to mix with caffeine.  Try taking your blood pressure after a few bottles of this drek! 5-HTP is an amino acid precursor to the neurotransmitter serotonin.  The problem with 5-HTP is that it doesn't really exist in a normal diet; it's not a constituent amino acid of proteins.  Usually, the amino acid tryptophan is converted into 5-HTP though the actions of an enzyme, tryptophan hydroxylase.  This enzyme is present only in very specialized neurons in the body.  Once 5-HTP is formed within these neurons, it's converted via the ubiquitous enzyme aromatic amino acid decarboxylase (AAAD) into serotonin (which stays within the neurons where it belongs). When you swallow 5-HTP, you're getting a neurotransmitter precursor floating around your gut and your bloodstream where nature never intended it.  The enzyme AAAD is everywhere, not just localized within serotonergic neurons, and you end up producing a lot of free-floating serotonin in your gut and in your blood.  NOT a great idea.  If you want to get an idea of what can happen when your have too much serotonin formed in the periphery look up "carcinoid tumor".  On the other hand, it probably takes a few years of drinking this stuff before your heart valves start to thicken and you begin to have symptoms, so enjoy it while you can still swallow easily! This is not good stuff; stick to coffee. /Steve

I drank Redline ONCE and it gave me a rush I could not define and scared me.  I was buzzing out of my pants. I am slightly afraid of it. Now, I am an avid consumer of most everything ELSE, but Redline is some HARSH stuff.

If he approves of it - then - go for it - right?  It works - I know.  I go through a serious amount of everything else - so I can only imagine... Have you had your blood levels checked lately?