• Truscape@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    … you are aware that over 400mg of caffeine is considered over the safe limit, right? It’ll be several grams before you die, but ending up in the hospital may not be worth whatever you need to accomplish.

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      2 days ago

      Wait legit? I was joking but to be serious if that’s true I’m pretty sure I’m legitamitly constantly going above that limit.

      That’s only 4 standard coffees. Each at an average of 100mg. I do two in the morning, one at lunch, at least three mugs of black tea a day and some green tea too.

      That’s on a normal day man. Thanks for the warning maybe I should try cutting back.

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        1 day ago

        Caffeine also has a half-life of around 8 hours so you may be accumulating.

        I took some strong cold brew tea in a few weeks, it kept me wide awake but ended up giving me heart palpitations.

        Now I use caffeineinformer to calculate safe limits, and stop drinking at around 17 to give the caffeine some time to get out of my system.

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        2 days ago

        Yeah I explained it to another person here when they showed a whole shelf of monsters lol, but it’s pretty well summed up here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine

        The limit is different depending on which health agency you’re estimating with, but the most conservative estimate I found was 320mg, with the most lenient being about 500mg.

        Depending on your body weight, it’ll take a few grams to kill you, most likely around 10, and thats per day, so if you have 4 cups of coffee you might just need to knock it down to 3 or use it as needed rather than daily.