Whether you need to be artificially awake because you’re a truck driver, need to focus for a big exam, or a hard day at work –Monster Energy drinks will keep you awake and alert. It’s like getting an instant pick-me-up and it keeps me awake for a long time. I realize that I should be getting paid to say this but unfortunately I’m not.

Are Monster Energy drinks bad for you?
Does it kill white blood cells and put you at a greater risk of cancer? All energy drinks are bad for you… but they are so good. How long were you eating oreo cookies before the hype of trans-fat came out? Did you die? If you’re reading this, then No you didn’t die.

Stay safe with energy drinks
To be safe combine your energy drinks with a healthy diet and maybe a daily multivitamin with plenty of water and you should be all set. I wouldn’t advise more than more than 4 per day. Be sure to drink water in between monsters. As a side note, you should also brush your teeth afterwards due to all the sugar.

Remember, caffeinate responsibly.

There is no doubt that you will need to be artificially awake to stay awake all night, unless this is something of a regular occurrence like a night shift which will require you to sleep during the daylight hours. Here are 10 ways to keep awake at night…

1. Obviously coffee, soda, tea, or energy drinks: Don’t drink too much coffee though, it will keep you buzzing, but you’ll crash harder than you ever have before.
2. Caffeine pills like NoDoz or iSatori
3. Caffeinated Lip Balm or Caffeine Energy Gum
4. Jump: Do jumping jacks
5. Jog: Every time you start to dose off, jog up and down stairs for a while. Increasing blood pressure helps to stay awake.
6. Nap: If you can fit in a nap anywhere in the afternoon or early evening like 6 or 7 you should be good to stay awake for a while
7. Fake the Day: Get a daylight bulb for your lamp
8. Listen to music: Try some energetic music, no classical or you’ll fall asleep
9. Take a splash: wash your face when you get tired or if you can take a swim in the pool.
10. NEVER Drink Beer

Now let’s not make a habit of keeping awake all night, maybe just once or twice a month since it usually take about 2 to 3 days for your body to recover. I hope you enjoyed our 10 ways to keep awake at night. Remember, caffinate responsibly.

Caffinate Responsibly.

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Addiction to caffeine really isn’t a bad thing considering all of the positive research behind the drug. It
makes you feel awesome and energized. People often feel more alert and talkative after consuming caffeine. It puts most people in a good, positive mood.

“An estimated 80 percent to 90 percent of Americans report having caffeine on a daily basis.”

Caffeine can be found in many everyday foods such as chocolate, coffee, tea, soda, energy drinks, and in over-the-counter medicines such as aspirin.

Whenever I have a headache, I just drink coffee and feel fine in a few minutes. It’s very interesting that so many pain killer medications like aspirin contain caffeine. Many people who suffer from migraines are prescribed pure caffeine to relieve their symptoms.

Plus according to the Earth Times, drinking coffee also protects you from disease…

“CHICAGO, Jan. 22 Moderate drinking of coffee is being shown to have generally positive and protective effects on the emergence of disease conditions, say U.S. researchers.

Food Technology reports that recent studies of coffee in combination with reviews of research gathered over the past 30 years reveal that consumption improves glucose regulation and lowers the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, among other favorable effects.”

“Scientific evidence now suggests that moderate coffee consumption — 3 to 5 cups a day — may be associated with reduced risks of certain disease conditions… possible cancer-protective properties, possibly due to its naturally occurring and brewing-produced antioxidants”

So being artificially awake doesn’t really seem so bad.

Remember, caffeinate responsibly.

With soda, it doesn’t seem like I experienced caffeine crashes like you usually get with coffee. Also it keeps you active because diet coke makes you pee like a race horse every 15 minutes, so you’re always getting up and down.

The only downside is that I acquired a huge kidney stone, had to have surgery to get it out, all of which wasn’t a very great experience. At the time I was living in Los Angeles and due to the dry climate the doctor said that I should cut the diet coke and drink lots and lots of water.

I don’t really think the kidney stone was during to the caffeine, but to the soda itself. I found this study on a website…

“Studies suggest that certain beverages may be associated with an increased risk of developing kidney stones. In one study, kidney stone sufferers who customarily consumed a great deal of cola were much less likely to experience a recurrence when they cut their cola consumption in half.”

So I cut back to 1 or 2 diet cokes a day, and then eventually switched to coffee. Coffee gives you more of a boost anyway, so it didn’t break my heart to give up soda.

Step 1:
To beat a caffeine crash you must hydrate yourself and start flushing the caffeine out of your system. So the first step is to, you guessed it, drink water, approximately equal to the amount of caffeine that you drank.

Step 2:
Second, eat walnuts, peanut butter, or other high protein foods.

Step 3:
Third, take some pain killers and a nap.

There you have it, 3 steps to cure a caffeine crash. Hopefully you don’t crash and have to follow these steps too often.

Good luck and remember, caffeinate responsibly.

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Take a Walk

If you go for a walk after lunch for 5-10 minutes and get your blood flowing, you’ll have a better chance of feeling ready for action when you get back to the office. Oh and then be sure to grab a cup of coffee.

Eat a High Protein Lunch

Stay away from the carbs, sweets, sugary drinks, and turkey – these will all make you tired. Try eating a light high protein lunch like chicken, cheese, etc. Don’t eat a huge meal because digesting food makes you feel tired. You can compensate for the “light” by eating small snacks like nuts, almonds, pecans, etc throughout the day.

So to sum it all up, eat a light, high protein lunch and walk it off. Don’t eat carbs, candy, sugar based drinks, or turkey and especially DO NOT eat Chinese food for lunch! Then feel free to grab a cup of coffee when you get back to the office. Now you should be able to stay awake at work after lunch.

Remember, caffeinate responsibly.

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R.P. Cruz writes about “How to stay awake at work after lunch.” on the blog Artificially Awake - A resource on ways to stay awake and general information on Caffeine, Coffee, Energy Drinks, and Tea.
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Waking Up:

0-1 cup - Before your drive to work. You really don’t need to waste your caffeine boost to drive to work. Listen to music or drive with the window open to wake you up.

Starting Work:

1-2 cups - Go ahead and drink 1 or 2 cups.

After Lunch:

1-2 cups - Usually you are dragging after lunch, so you’ll need a cup or two in the afternoon to help you finish out the day.

It is imperative that you stop drinking coffee 1-2 hours prior to the end of the work day so you can let your caffeine buzz gradually fade as it gets closer to bedtime and then you will be able to actually fall asleep.

So to sum it all up, moderate your intake and stay awake on 5 cups or less per day, pending of course that you haven’t already built up your immunity to caffeine and require larger doses, in which case you may need to reset yourself and follow our detox program in an upcoming article.

Bonus Tips:

Here are some common decaffeinated tips to stay awake throughout the day:

1. Stay hydrated – drink lots of water or vegetable juice.
2. Stretch every 15 minutes
3. Take mini-walks
4. Eat small snacks

Remember, caffeinate responsibly.

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R.P. Cruz writes about “How to stay awake and alert at work.” on the blog Artificially Awake - A resource on ways to stay awake and general information on Caffeine, Coffee, Energy Drinks, and Tea.
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We are all busy and a lot of us are overloaded with work. Managing a family and at the same time juggling a packed schedule can prove to be a daunting task. Under such circumstances, a dose of freshly brewed coffee or tea is the best thing that keeps people going.

Coffee and tea can be consumed in different ways in different seasons. During the winter and cooler months, when we wish that everything liquid could pass over our tongues and down our throats, should be warm or perhaps scaling hot. Brewing becomes an affair involving steaming cups of coffee and tea being served with wild abandon, not just for the freshness of the drink, but also for the warmth they provide by the additional caffeine supplied energy. Come summer and the recipe changes. Coffee goes into the blender instead of the coffee pot, where it is joined by ice cubes and other ingredients to make a cool shake. Tea manages to escape the violence of the blender and gently seeps away into ice water.

While previously, both coffee and tea were available in the state that they were grown. There is a choice available today, in the sense, that you can purchase either of them as caffeine free (decaffeinated) products.

Caffeine is good, but for people with sensitive sleep cycles it can be a bit of a bother. There can be a craving for coffee and tea at odd times (like just before going to sleep) and a cup that is not decaffeinated can keep these people awake for a long time. By choosing the decaffeinated option, they can enjoy their coffee and tea more casually.

What remains a constant mystery is that downers made out of alcohol are such great party makers, while the brain sharpens and activity enduring caffeine laced beverages like coffee and tea are more associated with comfort.

Most people will usually stick to either coffee or tea as their caffeine beverage of choice. This distinction can get pretty difficult when you consider that there are plenty of people who will drink coffee at certain times and switch to tea at other times, all within a single day.

There are even some places and cultures where the beverage is chosen, not on the basis of the time of the day, but on the gender of the drinker. When you are over there, you will notice that tea is decidedly a ladies’ drink (much like gin and tonic) while coffee is bit more like cigars and usually men indulge in it.

However, like everything the beverage culture is also undergoing a change and today the choice of beverage is solely dependent on personal preference.

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Magdalena Witkowska is a successful Webmaster and publisher of http://www.thecaffeinebuzz.com To find out more about coffee and tea, please visit her website.