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you should add more things like burger and fries because I eat around 10 burgers a week at least and I fell better that ever. NOw would I have to eat 3000+ reeses peanut butter cup all at once or over a period of like a week?
So by this calculation, a lethal dose is about 34.124mg per pound of body weight, right?
Where does this number come from?
Zeke:
LD-50 data usually come from animal models.
A quick check of MSDS data for caffeine shows that many of the non-scientific sources out there are crap on stilts. Oral dosing of rats gives an LD-50 at 192 mg/kg, but more interesting is the human data that are available. Naturally, no controlled studies have been conducted, but the lowest repoted lethal oral dose in an adult human is 192 mg/kg. If the dose is given IV, then the lowest reported lethal dose in an adult female drops to just 57 mg/kg. Looks like the hepatic first-pass effect is a large one.
Ha–this is from the “Emergency Overview” MSDS section:
“Ingestion: Harmful if swallowed. May cause gastrointestinal irritation with nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Ingestion increases the metabolic rate causing warm, flushed and moist skin, muscular weakness, rapid heart rate, insomnia, nervousness, increased metabolism and weight loss. May cause ataxia, blood pressure elevation, convulsions, hallucinations, hypermotility, muscle contraction or spasticity, somnolence (general depressed activity), toxic psychosis, and tremors.”
Onoes! Caffeine!
Sources:
P & T Chemistry Lab @ Oxford University http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/CA/caffeine.html
Department of Chemistry @ Iowa State University
http://avogadro.chem.iastate.edu/MSDS/caffeine.htm
So is that how many it would take to kill you in 24hours or what?
Pretty sure I’ve eaten more than 12,285.00 Hershey’s Kisses in my life…
I THINK ALL THIS IS DUM, WHOEVER DRINKS THAT MUCH IS DUMB!!!!!
It’s really more about eating all of that at one time, not throughout your life. If you consume a non-lethal dose of anything, it means your body will be able to eliminate the toxins. A lethal dose is when you consume more than your body is able to process.
To tell you the truth, before your body could die from consuming that much caffiene, you could die from drinking just water. By thinning out the electrolytesand sodium in your blood through drinking large amounts of water in short intervals, you essentially drown your brain. SO, what would be easier to get ones hands on, 10 liters of water or 12,285 Hershey kisses?
If you eat 286.65 Diablo Energy Strips, you’ll be pushing up daisies.
Haha!! sweet
…So if you feed the average baby 3.5 Rocket Chocolate candies it will die
Wow, remind me never to eat 1,053.26 Hershey’s Chocolate bars!
I think you would destroy your GI before you were able to OD on caffeine judging my the volume of many of the products. Is this simply the LD-50? If it is there’s only a 50% chance that “396.29 Hershey’s Special Dark bars + You = Death” 
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Does anyone know that this is based on constantly eating or drinking. It is kind of obvious based on the fact that alot of us have had more than 55 cans of Monster or even more than two thousend Hershy’s kisses. Just tellin the facts.
10,143 10,144, 10,145 Okay How many of these stupid Kiss’s do I need to eat again.
17,700 WHAT? Okay I believe you….
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