Study cites case of otherwise fit and healthy man in his 50s who had a stroke after eight-drink-a-day habit
Millions of people worldwide regularly drink the products, which are non-alcoholic and typically contain more than 150mg of caffeine per litre, very high glucose-based sugar content and varying quantities of other chemicals.
Doctors in Nottingham, England, sounded the alarm after an otherwise fit and healthy man in his 50s had a stroke and was left with permanent numbness in his hands and feet. On questioning, he said he drank an average of eight energy drinks a day.
The case, reported in the medical journal BMJ Case Reports, also prompted doctors to call for tighter regulation of sales and advertising of energy drinks.
Otherwise healthy man in his fifties dies after chainsmoking 4 packets a day headline.
How is it even possible to consume eight energy drinks a day? That’s between 1.2 and 1.6 grams of caffeine. Two Monsters is enough to get me sufficiently jittery. If you’re at that point, then a stroke is probably far from the worst of your problems.
Caffeine doesn’t affect me much and i like the taste of redbull so i could see crushing 8 cans in one afternoon. That’s only 2 liters of liquid so not really all that much.
I remember drinking 3 in a single night in uni to finish a project. I was running everywhere like hamster. Then at around 9 AM the effects wore off and I passed out during a class almost instantly
People with ADHD arnt effected by caffeine like regular folk. Ive drank 4 in a day and it wasnt the caffeine that stopped me from drinking a 5th but the carbonation and acids tearing up my stomach. Like, I can drink 3 at work and come home and take a 2 hour nap before my wife gets home from work.
So I’ll preface this by pointing out that nearly every 473ml can of Monster is 150–160mg (same for Rip It and Venom), but you get 200mg for every 355ml can of Alani Nu (or the nastier 7-11 brand, Fusion); no other energy drinks outside those five are worth it from a caffeine-per-dollar nor mg/ml POV. Coffee is always the most cost-effective but when you aren’t eating enough it’s a very powerful emetic.
I have ADHD severe enough that I would have been put in a Home for Defective Boys if I had been born much earlier, and at my highest caffeine intake I had a high stress office job with an early start. I had to pregame during my commute with two Fusions (200mg each) so that the Rip It I’d have at work would do anything at all. From then on I’d typically have 1–3 more, so I when I was cruising I sat at 700mg–1g per day, but during crunch times I’d get up to 1.6g. My worst was when I stayed up for three days to handle a personal emergency, keeping myself at about 2g per day, and I still had 3 or 4 20-minute cat naps.
I drink one of these and I’m already conscious of the fact that I’m pouring garbage in my body. There was a time when I was having an average of one a day, but even then it was to push through a job and I knew it was bad in the long run.
But 8?! As a habit?! Holy crap! I can’t even imagine how horrible it would feel trying to do that.
This guy sounds like he has sleep apnea if he needs that many a day. Before I got a CPAP in my 30s I was a 2-3 can a day person with a nap when I got home. Naw I have used it for over 10 years I only have half a pot of coffee in the morning and no naps.
You mean consuming a ton of sugar (or substitutes) and a bunch of random thrown together stimulants is bad for your heart and may promote strokes? I am shocked.
Wait till they hear about what too much water does to you!
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