The Truth About Energy Drinks w/ Flavia Pereira, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash #811
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
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🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Flavia is a passionate CISSN nutrition coach, full-time Exercise & Sport Science faculty member, and beach volleyball strength & nutrition coach.
She has been teaching and coaching for the past 18 years. She graduated with a B.S. and M.S. in Kinesiology - Exercise Science and is pursuing her Ph.D. in Health & Human Performance.
Flavia is part of the Rapid Health Optimization team as a nutritionist and a research team for the International Society of Sports Nutrition, participating in different projects related to ergogenic supplements.
Flavia has been involved in athletics as a volleyball athlete, coach, and fitness enthusiast.
She attended the University of Arkansas and Georgia Southern University on a volleyball scholarship for her B.S. and received her M.S. as a graduate assistant at FAU.
Outside of work, Flavia is a mom to Leo (9 years old), and Maya (a 6-year-old golden retriever), and some of her hobbies are playing beach volleyball, working out, traveling, walking Maya, and being a soccer mom.
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| 0:00.0 | Shrug family this week on Barbell Shrug Coach Flavia is coming back and today we're talking about the truth about |
| 0:07.0 | energy drinks. So grab yourself a big old monster, sit back and enjoy the show. And guess what? Travis Mash probably had like six monsters right before he started doing this. So if you love him, it's okay. We're just going to tell you the truth about what's happening inside your body. |
| 0:21.4 | When you hammer all 24 ounces of that thing, first thing in the morning, friends, as always, |
| 0:27.8 | make sure you get over to rapid health report.com. |
| 0:30.0 | That's where Dan Garner, Dr. Andy Galpinner, who went a free lab lifestyle and performance analysis, |
| 0:35.2 | and you can access that at rapid health report.com. Friends, let's get |
| 0:39.0 | into the show. Welcome to Barbell Strug. I'm Anders Barner, Doug Larson, coach Travis |
| 0:45.3 | Max, Coach Flobbya hanging out today. Today on Barbell Strug, we're going to be talking about |
| 0:49.2 | energy drinks. And I'm starting this off because you have a lot of research to get into but can you just |
| 0:55.4 | tell me what is the main difference between coach mass's favorite monster energy drink and |
| 1:02.0 | my most basic black cup of coffee why does there seem to be such a giant gap between |
| 1:09.0 | those yes great first question thanks for having me guys um does there seem to be such a giant gap between those. Yes. |
| 1:11.4 | Great first question. |
| 1:12.9 | Thanks for having me, guys. |
| 1:15.1 | Yeah, that's the main and first question we address on our paper, common questions and |
| 1:21.1 | misconceptions about energy drinks. |
| 1:25.3 | And I'm sorry to tell you, MASH, but there is not a big difference, okay? |
| 1:30.8 | Oh. |
| 1:31.6 | Other than, and when I say that, I mean, in terms of ergodogenic benefits, as long as you |
| 1:39.3 | match the caffeine. |
| 1:41.0 | So energy drinks will have anywhere between 150 to 300 milligrams of caffeine |
| 1:47.0 | and a regular cup of coffee will have maybe, you know, depending on what kind of coffee you drink, |
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