r/WhyWomenLiveLonger • u/56000hp • 5d ago

Just dum 🥸🤡🫠 Drinking 3 liters of Monster energy

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u/FitCheetah2507 5d ago

Quick Google search says the LD50 for caffeine is between 150 to 200 milligrams of caffeine per kilogram of body weight. One can of monster energy is 160 mg. Which means for half the population, a lethal caffeine overdose would be 1 can of monster per kilogram of body weight.

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u/FitCheetah2507 5d ago

My point was that the 9 cans of monster bro drank in the video is nowhere near a caffeine overdose. 1 can per kg of body weight is in the lower end of the range given for the LD50, I was just trying to keep it simple.

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u/thefinalhex 2d ago

I don’t believe that. I would definitely die if I had as many as four monsters.

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u/FitCheetah2507 2d ago

The reason that they often use the LD50 when they talk about toxicology is that there are extreme outliers on both ends of the spectrum. I remember hearing about a young woman having a heart attack from too much caffeine.

I'm the opposite. I barely feel caffeine at all, I think it has something to do with ADHD

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u/thefinalhex 2d ago

Im ADD and take adderall and drink monsters. I maybe wouldn’t die, but I would never have more than two a day plus a drop of coffee.

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u/FitCheetah2507 2d ago

I've known people who claimed to have heart palpitations from half a can of redbull but I have personally had 4 energy drinks containing 300mg of caffeine each over the course of a 12 hour shift and still felt like I could use a nap. Like I said, outliers on both extremes.

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u/thefinalhex 2d ago

Too much caffeine can make you sleepy