• sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day 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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      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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      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.