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How bad are energy drinks for you? usually every weekday, i drink 1litre emerge with caffeine content of 30mg/100ml. how bad is this?

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Dr. Leonard Lado answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Energy drinks: Caffeine is the main active ingredient in energy drinks, and excessive consumption may acutely cause caffeine intoxication, resulting in tachycardia, vomiting, cardiac arrhythmias, seizures, and death. Taurine is another ingredient an Amino Acid abounding in the brain of humans and a participating factor in certain subpopulations of epilepsy patients. The bigger problem with these drinks is apathy.

Answered 6/21/2018

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