General News

Caffeine is a drug.

It massively distorts one's biological-process, trashing one's ability to get rest.

Overdosing on it kills people.

It is added to colas to make them addictive ( their makers' pretense that caffeine is a "flavor enhancer" is false: all it adds is bitterness, which can be added by Bitrex(tm), or bitter-gourd extract, or something, more cheaply: addiction's the goal, & that's what they're manufacturing ).

People destroying their own health with chemicals .. IF they're being correctly warned of the consequences of consuming those chemicals, fine: that's their choice.

However, the refusal to coerce caffeine-pushers into identifying just how much they're including, & just what that does to people's health, puts responsibility on "government", too.

For-profit industry inherently-is narcissistic-machiavellian-sociopathic, aka DarkTriad, so "blaming" them for being machiavellian is pointless.

Cynical, but true.

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On one hand: yes caffeine delivered in a different form is still going to affect your sleep?

But maybe it’s time to step in and regulate, the idea of trying to pass off C4 as some kind of fitness product is laughable, maybe it’s time to subject pre workout junk to the same caffeine limit as soda?

Clickbait headline. Preworkout contains caffeine. Caffeine makes you sleep less/worse. This isn't news. People should be informed about the negative health impacts of poor sleep quality and how caffeine can influence that - but this is about caffeine consumption, not preworkout per se.

Also, it isn't "dangerous" - you aren't going to drop dead of a heart attack because you drank preworkout. You will just suffer from poor quality sleep, which will have negative health impacts if it is chronic.