http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1714/how-much-coffee-will-kill-you/ How Much Coffee Will Kill You? We have written a lot about healthy organic coffee and the health benefits of coffee in general. 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. However, caffeine is a stimulant that can give you the shakes if you consume too much. Like most substances there is a limit to how much is good and when it turns bad. So, how much coffee will kill you? Let’s start with what the Mayo Clinic says about how much coffee is too much. Using caffeine to mask sleep deprivation can create an unwelcome cycle. For example, you may drink caffeinated beverages because you have trouble staying awake during the day. But the caffeine keeps you from falling asleep at night, shortening the length of time you sleep. And some medications like the antibiotics ciprofloxacin and norfloxacin interact with caffeine and interfere with its breakdown in the body. The anti-asthma drug theophylline will build up in your system because caffeine interferes with its breakdown. And if you drink coffee and use the herbal supplement Echinacea your caffeine level will build up. But, aside from when to drink coffee and use these substances how much coffee is enough and how much is too much. 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. If you drink too much these things happen: Insomnia Nervousness Restlessness Irritability Stomach upset Fast heartbeat Muscle tremors 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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By www.BuyOrganicCoffee.org

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We have written a lot
about healthy organic
coffee and the health benefits of
coffee in general.

3. http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1714/how-much-coffee-will-kill-you/
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.

5. http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1714/how-much-coffee-will-kill-you/
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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 Insomnia
 Nervousness
 Restlessness
 Irritability
 Stomach 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.