Comments | mentalflossboy: Caffeine overload!

mentalflossboy

Caffeine overload!

Jul 30, 2008 09:21

Turns out if you drink an entire 2 liter of Diet Pepsi Max you've ingested approximately 368mg of caffeine. According to Erowid this falls in the high end of "Strong" and is pretty close to the 400mg "Heavy" dose. I happened to do this at about 10pm on a Monday, and eventually started to feel nauseous and couldn't sleep. I've never had such an ( Read more... )

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fireyice July 30 2008, 15:36:56 UTC

so why did you drink an entire 2 liter bottle of pepsi. I can't even drink an entire can of pepsi :-p

time_adc July 30 2008, 15:59:58 UTC

Lets have an extreme-caffeine cocktail night.

mentalflossboy July 30 2008, 16:45:12 UTC

*whimpers* "please, no"

time_adc July 30 2008, 17:04:03 UTC

"You boys like Mex-i-co??!"

macheesi July 30 2008, 16:05:57 UTC

Note to self: "Max" == bad.

Not to mention the "Diet" part :-p

Did you take part in the SWB "Dew or Die" night? I'm sure the caffeine dose per time was pretty close to this...

mentalflossboy July 30 2008, 16:44:10 UTC

Jeez, that's right. Then again, in college my caffeine tolerance was pretty damned high. I'd drink a Red Bull because I was thirsty and then go to bed. Conversely, my alcohol tolerance was pitiful. Currently I think those are reversed.

tomstampy July 30 2008, 17:55:00 UTC

wow. 368mg of caffeine is pretty much my breakfast.

Afterall, "A morning without coffee is like sleep".