[mdomans]

This isn't really huge news, technically speaking. Any anti-inflammatory drug will have negative net impact on your body function. For a while we know now that NSAIDs alter ROS levels in response to injury and in fact any normal process. NSAIDs also have negative impact on training adaptation or cell death due to overexpression of ROS. So no - taking overabundant levels of oral NSAIDs isn't going to be good for you and that's why topical NSAIDs make sense in cases of joint pain, tough they're not as convenient.

Note: I remember taurine had protective effect on testicular function in men treated in 19-nor derivatives. Maybe worth checking out if it does so also for ibuprofen :)

[joezydeco]

The energy drink makers have been trying to defend the use of taurine in their ingredients for a long time. This looks like a golden opportunity for them....

[mdomans]

Probably, not so much. The amounts of ingredients and composition of ingredients in energy drinks are just stupid. I see now a trend of "health" drinks that actually seem sensible, though a bit more pricey. Like magnesium, ginseng and vitamins.

The problem with energy drinks is that they're alike to a bottle of all things that may be fuel, combined. I've seen recently a tin of Monster that had 0.5g of caffeine. That's insane. And caffeine pills are even more insane. You can drop 1g of caffeine like it's M&Ms.

At this rate we're going to have coke and amphetamine in those next year. And, you know, you can go on a limb and say that some of the modified amphetamines or phenidatess or what not maybe should be on the market. In Canada they have effedrine in OTC supplements and people don't die from overdose.

But the thing is, we either demonise or just assume something is safe. How many people knows that acetaminophen (APAP, paracetamol) is liver toxic? And how many people knows that NAC is the antidote (N-acetylo-cysteine, popular OTC expectorant)?