Comment by danielrhodes

Would this even be a story if people were drinking coffee instead? The active ingredient in Red Bull is caffeine. Yet a cup of coffee has more caffeine than a Red Bull. Their marketing has been very effective in convincing people that energy drinks are more than just a caffeinated drink with a bunch of other chemicals that don’t really work. Because of that, people vilify these various drinks, and now we get an article telling us that the drinks are contributing to PTSD, instead of the obviously greater contributing factor: being in a war zone under constant threat of death.