Proper Wild ad: Why your heart races in the 3PM meeting

My watch buzzed in the middle of the quarterly budget meeting and asked if I wanted to log a workout. I was sitting in a conference room chair, and my heart rate was 118. My third coffee had gone down at 2:15 because I could feel myself sinking, and I was up next to present. Twenty minutes later my shirt was visibly moving over my heart while the clicker rattled in my hand, and my stomach had gone hard and heavy. Somehow, under all of that, I was still so exhausted I wanted to crawl under the table. When the CFO asked me a question about slide six, I couldn't hear half of it over the noise in my own chest. At 11 that night I lay in bed with my heart still thumping, typing "why is my heart racing at night" into my phone. I'd always thought of coffee as fuel, and it took a study from Duke to show me what it was really doing. Researchers gave 47 regular coffee drinkers about four cups' worth of caffeine over the morning and lunch, and on those days their adrenaline ran 32% higher, all the way until bedtime. Adrenaline is the same chemical that floods you when a car swerves into your lane. Everything I felt in that chair, from my chest down to my stomach, was my body running an emergency drill in a conference room, and it went off again at 11PM. The lead researcher put it in one line: "The caffeine we drink enhances the effects of the stresses we experience." Now I tear open a packet of Proper Wild Energy Gummies at 2PM instead of pouring cup three. One packet is 100mg of caffeine, the same as one cup of coffee, with 120mg of L-theanine for smooth energy with reduced jitters. It kicks in within 15 to 30 minutes and lasts 4 to 6 hours, and each gummy is 25mg, so I started with two. Eric L., a verified buyer, on the Energy Shots (same active ingredients): "Didn't get enough sleep last night and had to give a presentation today. Drank just half a bottle and felt GREAT for hours." At the next quarterly meeting the CFO asked about slide six again, and I answered before she finished the question. Every first order has a 30-day money-back guarantee. What that third cup does to your heart all afternoon is in the article below.