• @thorbot
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    -49 months ago

    The caffeine thing is totally wrong. A healthy adult can safely consume up to 400mg of caffeine a day.

    • DrDominate
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      9 months ago

      I think the per kg is important there. 192mg/kg of body weight is the lethal dose. So for example a 100kg person would need 19,200mg of caffeine to be a lethal dose. To edit: that’s not to say that the lethal dose in this picture is wholly accurate. Caffeine has been known to cause cardiac arrest even in lower doses.

      • @thorbot
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        29 months ago

        Good point, I hadn’t considered it was based on body weight, and rather thought it was just median population

      • @Pipoca
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        29 months ago

        LD50 is specifically a dose that kills 50% of the subjects.

        Lower doses can kill, just less than 50% of people.