Occasionally while running LSD(long slow distance) after about 10 miles I had breathing difficulties, but not all the time.
The doctor wired me up and put me on a treadmill and said go until it happens.
After some time all the monitors started to blink ARRHYTHMIA ...ARRHYTHMIA ....ARRHYTHMIA ALARMS ARE GOING OFF!!! I STILL FELT JUST FINE!
They ask me to continue until the breathing troubles came on. A few minutes later it happened.
The first thing the Doc says, how much coffee do you drink?
I used to drink it all day long and more after dinner!
Excesses caffeine, he said only affects about 15% of us coffee guzzlers.
Now only a two cups in the morning, and no more problems.
Just let that caffeine be!
Naturally the vodka and prescription drugs didn’t have anything to do with it.
That’s Darwin Award material.
I drink about two cups of coffee a day along with my four packs of cigarettes. And I think this coffee is killing me!
Unless she were drinking LOTS of other caffeinated beverages this is unlikely to be sole cause of death. 388 mg / 2 liters of Pepsi Max, or 3.1 grams in 8 bottles over the course of a day (say 12 hours); four hours to clear her liver, means 1 gram of caffeine in her system at any one time. LD50 is around 10 grams for a normal weight person, and I’m guessing she ain’t.
If she would have stayed away from the Pepsi, and just stuck with the one liter of vodka and prescription drugs each day, she’d still be with us.
Um...
Interesting that they didn’t list the liter of vodka as a contributing factor.
I think the alcohol had a lot more to do with her demise than the pepsi
From reading the article, it looks like she died from a drug overdose.
It isn’t the caffeine that’s the problem.
It’s the combination with EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL and PRESCRIBED MEDICATION, along with the caffeine that’s the dynamite.
All those items are in conflict with each other and cause the other items to react differently than they normally would. The prescription drugs are really a problem. When people don’t take medications correctly; this is the result.
It appears to me that “Mum” didn’t want to live. Sad.
Gotta love the Mirror. The woman was popping pills and guzzling down vodka but the headline is that the Pepsi Max killed her.
I had a boyhood friend’s father die at 42 because he drank Coca-Cola primarily for his diet.
Eventually the liver gives out and goes into an irreversible decline. We now know that much less sugar than this is poison as it taxes the liver.
It was the first death I experienced as a teenager at 13.
I worry about the effects on the young with the additives. Guys will buy a lg cup of coffee and add caffeine.
8 liters a day of Pepsi Max?
That’s crazy. That’s 2 gallons or so, isn’t it?
Who in the world drinks 2 gallons each day of anything?
In this case, not only was the medical procedure a post mortem, it was also a post moron.
Sho' beats a PTSD diagnosis that would forever flag me on a NICS check.
Britain is merrily, happily insane.
It’s not the litre of Vodka a day that done her.
It’s the Pepsi.
Nucking Futz.