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We have written a lot about healthy organic coffee and the health benefits of coffee in general.
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There are a lot of good reasons to drink coffee and it turns out that many of those benefits increase as you drink more cups each day.
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However, caffeine is a stimulant that can give you the shakes if you consume too much.
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Like most substances there is a limit to how much is good and when it turns bad.
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So, how much coffee will kill you? Let’s start with what the Mayo Clinic says about how much coffee is too much.
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Using caffeine to mask sleep deprivation can create an unwelcome cycle.
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For example, you may drink caffeinated beverages because you have trouble staying awake during the day.
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But the caffeine keeps you from falling asleep at night, shortening the length of time you sleep.
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And some medications like the antibiotics ciprofloxacin and norfloxacin interact with caffeine and interfere with its breakdown in the body.
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The anti-asthma drug theophylline will build up in your system because caffeine interferes with its breakdown.
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And if you drink coffee and use the herbal supplement Echinacea your caffeine level will build up.
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But, aside from when to drink coffee and use these substances how much coffee is enough and how much is too much.
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400 milligrams of caffeine, about the amount in four cups of brewed coffee is OK for most adults but adolescents should consume only a fourth this amount.
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If you drink too much these things happen:
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InsomniaNervousnessRestlessnessIrritabilityStomach upset
Fast heartbeat
Muscle tremors
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But how much coffee will kill you? Popular Science reports on the death of a 14-year-old and discusses how much caffeine would it take to kill you.
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Jack James, the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Caffeine Research, says that overdose for adults requires roughly 10 grams of caffeine.
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(People typically ingest just 1 to 2 mg/kg of caffeine per beverage.)
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A 2005 Forensic Science International article on two fatal caffeine overdoses in New Mexico pegs the figure closer to about 5 grams–an amount that would still require drinking more than 6 gallons of McDonald’s coffee.
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Whereas a normal cup of coffee might bring the concentration of caffeine in your plasma to 2.5 to 7 mg/L,
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the two people who died in New Mexico–a woman who might’ve used caffeine to cut intravenous drugs, and a man whose family said he ingested a bottle of sleeping pills–both had concentrations 100 times higher.
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(A web application called “Death By Caffeine” uses a benchmark around 6 grams per hundred pounds of body weight to estimate death, but it’s “for entertainment purposes only.”)
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So, you would need to drink gallons of McDonald’s coffee to do yourself in.
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What else is involved? The Popular Science article mentions that one girl who died of a caffeine overdose had a pre-existent cardiac condition and was prone to heart rhythm disturbances.
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The caffeine in that case likely provoked the underlying disease causing her death.
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How Fast You Drink It
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Sleep Education notes whatever amount of caffeine you have in your system, half of it is gone in three to five hours.
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When you drink coffee it absorbs and reaches a peak level in thirty minutes to an hour.
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To kill yourself with an overdose of coffee you would need to drink all of your ten gallons in a hour.
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It you spread it out over many hours you will already be getting rid of the first that you drank as you consume the last.
