Summary
Sales of energy drinks are rising and their brightly coloured cans line the shelves of almost every supermarket or grocery store in the UK. But do brands like Monster, Red Bull and Relentless deliver on their promises?
Listener Syed is a consultant radiologist and says he needs to be on his A-Game in his demanding job. He wants to know if an energy drink would be any better than his usual cup of coffee in helping him stay alert. He's also keen to know more about some of the ingredients they contain - things like taurine, guarana and electrolytes. What exactly do they do? And are energy drinks safe to drink regularly?
Presenter Greg Foot has a thirst for knowledge and speaks to expert dieticians and cardiologists to find out if energy drinks live up to the hype. Are they the best thing since sliced bread - or marketing BS?
PRESENTER: Greg Foot PRODUCER: Simon Hoban
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcast fan. |
| 0:03.0 | Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party. |
| 0:06.7 | We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July |
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| 0:12.8 | We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting, |
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| 0:34.2 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:40.1 | Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that cuts through the advertising hype |
| 0:44.5 | to find out whether your suggested wonder products really deliver on their bold claims. |
| 0:50.0 | This week's suggestion comes from Syed June Aid in Cardiff. |
| 0:54.8 | Hey, Syed. |
| 0:55.8 | Hi, Greg. How are you? |
| 0:56.9 | Good, thanks. How are you doing? |
| 0:58.2 | Thank you very much. Thanks a lot, having me. |
| 1:00.3 | Yeah, not a problem. Thanks very much for sending in a crack-in suggestion. |
| 1:03.7 | I don't think you'd get through, but I'm glad it did. |
| 1:05.8 | Well, it's, you know, a wonder product that lots of people use. But does it deliver, right? What was your email? So my own |
| 1:12.3 | profession, I'm a radiologist. So I spend many hours concentrating on the screen and those are |
| 1:18.3 | patients scanned. So I've got to be on my A game, 9 o'clock in the morning and 5pm. So the radiologists |
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