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Consuming lots of energy drinks may raise heart disease and stroke risk, say doctors (www.theguardian.com)

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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.

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[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.