My mindset about them is similar (I assume) to that of people who smoke cigarettes: as long as I could avoid coming face to face with the dangers of my habits, I could overcome the hesitation and just do it. I was nervous to read this blog post due to my love of energy drinks. Post navigation Previous post: ← Is breakfast really that important? Next post: Dorm room transitions → This entry was posted in Uncategorized on Decemby Kory M Barbanel. I will be cutting down on my caffeine use and trying to kickstart my life without caffeine. Now that I have answers and know how much is naturally handleable, I feel safer, but not better. Caffeine also causes a number of other health defects like high blood pressure, an increased amount of stress, paranoia, vomiting, and other reactions.įrom my own personal studies, I consume too much caffeine a day to keep going at the rate I am now. In fact, after drinking a lot of caffeine for an extend period of time, caffeine becomes hard to quit and an individual will start to go through withdrawal and lack of functioning without an ample amount of caffeine. According to caffeine informer out of close to 4,000 calls to poison control regarding energy drinks, 51% of them involved children.Ĭaffeine is very addictive. A child is way more vulnerable to a caffeine induced heart attack. If only 200 to 300 milligrams are safe why are companies allowed to sell single drinks that fall into that category? In addition to this fact, should the government put a regulation on how old a person should be to buy energy drinks? After all if its safe for an adult to consume 200 to 300 mg’s it cannot be safe for a child to be consuming 240 in one sitting. The drink I am drinking right now is 240 milligrams. According to the same study, 200 to 300 mg’s of caffeine is safe for one day. This study however does not take into account at what point you would most likely have a heart attack, but to straight overdose and die from energy drinks solely it would take over 100 energy drinks. While it is still very possible to overdose, one study from medical daily says that the average 125 pound person would have to consume a total of 107 standard sized cans of Red Bull in order to overdose. It is actually extremely difficult to straight up overdose on caffeine.
However, as I sit by and enjoy my Rockstar fruit punch flavored energy drink, I have some great news.
If you’re reading this blog, I had hoped by now you’d be scared to pickup another life threatening energy drink. For example, for those prescribed ADHD medication, any extra caffeine could be life threatening. There are other factors in how much caffeine one can consume in a day other than what they do normally. Caffeine is also a neurotoxin which means that it could actually make an individual have slower and less efficient brain performance. The first step in finding my answers was figuring out that caffeine can literally cause an overdose, much like an overuse of drugs. Naturally, I got nervous, and even though I’m currently fine and writing this blog, I decided that I would do a little research to educate the masses on how much energy is too much energy. It is said to be common knowledge that the average energy drink is not good for the average human being, and personally, I love energy drinks, however lately I started to feel different after I drank my favorite energy drinks.
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