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I am sure by now everyone has heard of, or even tried the semi-new performance enhancing snack called gamer grub. It is said to enhance your ability to play games, and athletics, but do you believe it really works?
www.gamergrub.com/science/
Gamer Grub is a great tasting snack mix packed with select vitamins and neurotransmitters to keep you focused and quick. Gamer Grub is designed to support the activities you do while gaming and multi-tasking.
Specific component functions in Gamer Grub:
L-Glutamic Acid (Glutamate)
L-Glutamic Acid is involved with synaptic plasticity together with nerve cell data input and output channels . The ion of Glutamic Acid is known as Glutamate. Glutamate is the most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian nervous system. Nerve impulses trigger the release and binding of glutamate among nerve cells and increase the flow of positive ions by opening ion-channels.
Choline (as Choline Bitartrate)
Choline is needed for nerve cell structural integrity, signaling roles for cell membranes, and cholinergic neurotransmission. Neurotransmission is the electrical transmission and routing of data signals in the nervous system. Such data transmission is used to deploy muscle reactions. Choline is a basic element needed to produce neurotransmitters.
Vitamin A (as Betacarotene)
Visual data signals produced by the conversion of light into nerve impulses in the eye are highly dependent on Vitamin A. These nerve signals are then transmitted to your wetware’s CPU (a.k.a. brain) for translation into biological image data formats.
Vitamin E (as Acetate)
Vitamin E is an antioxidant that helps protect cell membranes. To reduce their energy load, toxins react with other chemicals in your body and interfere with normal cell functioning. Vitamin E minimizes your exposure and resultant cell damage caused by toxins in your body.
Vitamin B3 / Niacin (as Niacinamide)
The Vitamin B3 / Niacin plays an important role in maintaining muscle tone and promoting the health of the nervous system, eyes, and liver. Vitamin B3 / Niacin is important for normal vision.
Vitamin C (as Ascorbic Acid)
Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin, electron donor and antioxidant that is necessary for normal growth and development. Vitamin C is highly concentrated in the eye and brain nerve endings.
Magnesium
Magnesium ions are essential to basic nucleic acid chemistry and thus are essential to all cells of living organisms. Magnesium is found predominantly inside cells of body tissues and organs. Magnesium is needed for more than 300 biochemical reactions in the body.
Gamer Grub is a great tasting snack mix packed with select vitamins and neurotransmitters to keep you focused and quick. Gamer Grub is designed to support the activities you do while gaming and multi-tasking.
Specific component functions in Gamer Grub:
L-Glutamic Acid (Glutamate)
L-Glutamic Acid is involved with synaptic plasticity together with nerve cell data input and output channels . The ion of Glutamic Acid is known as Glutamate. Glutamate is the most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian nervous system. Nerve impulses trigger the release and binding of glutamate among nerve cells and increase the flow of positive ions by opening ion-channels.
Choline (as Choline Bitartrate)
Choline is needed for nerve cell structural integrity, signaling roles for cell membranes, and cholinergic neurotransmission. Neurotransmission is the electrical transmission and routing of data signals in the nervous system. Such data transmission is used to deploy muscle reactions. Choline is a basic element needed to produce neurotransmitters.
Vitamin A (as Betacarotene)
Visual data signals produced by the conversion of light into nerve impulses in the eye are highly dependent on Vitamin A. These nerve signals are then transmitted to your wetware’s CPU (a.k.a. brain) for translation into biological image data formats.
Vitamin E (as Acetate)
Vitamin E is an antioxidant that helps protect cell membranes. To reduce their energy load, toxins react with other chemicals in your body and interfere with normal cell functioning. Vitamin E minimizes your exposure and resultant cell damage caused by toxins in your body.
Vitamin B3 / Niacin (as Niacinamide)
The Vitamin B3 / Niacin plays an important role in maintaining muscle tone and promoting the health of the nervous system, eyes, and liver. Vitamin B3 / Niacin is important for normal vision.
Vitamin C (as Ascorbic Acid)
Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin, electron donor and antioxidant that is necessary for normal growth and development. Vitamin C is highly concentrated in the eye and brain nerve endings.
Magnesium
Magnesium ions are essential to basic nucleic acid chemistry and thus are essential to all cells of living organisms. Magnesium is found predominantly inside cells of body tissues and organs. Magnesium is needed for more than 300 biochemical reactions in the body.
Looking at all of these you might wonder what real side effects or harms these as individuals may cause. When I looked through them, they really didn't seem all that appealing.
L-Glutamic Acid does not need to be supplemented by the body considering it is an amino acid. There is no known side effects to supplementing it, but when taken in large amounts you may experience headaches or other neurological problems. If you have kidney disease you should consult your doctor before taking any high doses.
Choline Bitartrate is usually used as diet supplement. Side effects of choline bitartrate supplements include sweating, a fishy body odor, stomach pains, cramping, nausea, diarrhea and vomiting.
Vitamin A has no real dangers other then the increased risk of osteoporosis and hip fracture.
Vitamin E is POSSIBLY UNSAFE if taken in high doses. If you have a condition such as heart disease or diabetes, don’t take doses of 400 IU/day or more. Some research suggests that high doses might increase the chance of death and possibly cause other serious side effects. The higher the dose, the greater the risk of serious side effects.
Vitaman B3 may cause things such as liver damage, gout, stomach ulcers, headaches, and stomachaches.
Vitaman C may cause problems such as the raising of your blood pressure (bad for diabetics), Blood-iron disorders, including conditions called “thalassemia” and “hemochromatosis”, increased chance of getting kidney stones, and can make sickle cell disease worse.
Magnesium doesn't seem to cause to much other then your basic annoyances in every day life that you usually can't figure out such as, drowsiness, dry mouth, heartburn, nausea, thickening of the mucus in your nose or throat, and stomachaches.
Now when you read these it doesn't sound SO bad, but in reality, who would want to much of any of these, and want heartburn, dry mouth, or increased chances of kidney stones, or even possible death?
I tried and tried and tried to find an image of the back of the packaging to see how much of each of these is contained within the product, but to no avail I could not find any information on it. There are no retailers near by my home that contain this product. You would think that because this is a performance "enhancing" snack, that there is a slight increase in all of the vitamins and minerals contained in this product to help you perform better. If that is the case, then essentially it is an "increased" risk for side effects. To an extent I am sure all of these are regulated to be safe, but what if you really like the product and contain to scarf down more and more and more packages of this under the thought process that you want to perform really well in a video game match? That sounds like it would greatly increase your risk, and teens and young adults who would want to achieve this may or may not do this without knowing and real dangers.
Now lets talk about the flavors of gamer grub.
The flavors (some not included in the picture above and to my knowledge the only flavors available at this time) include, Pizza, PB&J, Smores, Chocolate, BBQ, Wasabi, and Chocolate. Now some of these sound appetizing but not all of them. The BBQ sounds probably the most appealing out of all of them but regardless, they all seem like a glorified Gold Fish or Trail Mix type snack.
Now not all flavors include peanuts, according to the website as of now, the Smores and Wasabi flavors contain different nuts just incase you are allergic to peanuts or peanut oils.
Now with all of this said, have any of you tried this product? Do you think it works or have tried it and can confirm it works? To me it sounds like it would have the same effect as even a 5 hour energy shot does on my body which is nothing. It just sounds like a glorified trail mix or flavored snack that doesn't really do anything but send you false information to make you think it will help you perform. With all the possible side effects of each vitamin, would you still consider purchasing this and trying it out? What are your thoughts on gamer grub as a product?
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