A caffeine calculator that tells you how much of your favorite beverage would kill you. “287.4 cans of Pepsi is a lethal dose.”
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Wait. What. I legit thought caffeine was benign.
Nope, definitely toxic, we just have fancy livers that are good at keeping us alive. But it's why you can't let your dog drink coffee (mine I think is mostly going for the milk residue but I have to watch him), they don't have our fancy liver and it will hurt them in pretty low doses.
Literally anything will kill you with a high enough dose, including water. 287.4 cans is ~102 liters of soda. A woman died after drinking 7.6 liters of water in a contest, so you'd much more likely die from just the water way before the caffeine would harm you.
There is a lot of room before 'ideal' and 'deadly'. I think I will celebrate by pulling another shot or 5...
You'd probably die from water toxicity before the caffeine killed you.
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