For those who really want some science and less math for silly fun using the lowest standard of fatal threshold: A quick word on fatal limits. Because there's been relatively few deaths from caffeine overdose it's hard to say where exactly the 'fatal limit' is as a general guide line, especially since it varies from person to person. For instance there have been studies indicating 'fatal dose' could be as high as 10mg as a general guideline. If you wanted to measure by LD50 (the amount required to kill 50% of the people you tested) you'd be looking closer to 150mg per kg of weight. Assuming Hans was an average 80kg he'd need only around 12g to hit the 50% chance of death. Mathematically it breaks down as: 150*80=12,000 or 12g. So 12g of caffeine will kill about 50% of people), so there's still a chance he'd die before this point. Let's work out Hans actual chance just for fun. LD50 = 150mg. 150ml*80kg=12g Hans' dose = 4.7g So what % of people die at 4.7g? It's the lowest 1/3 of the 12g 50% so 50/3 = 16%. 4.7g/12g=2.55, so it would be more like 50/2.55 = 19% Although by this point there's a lot more variable than just the LD50 to be considering so as a very rough guide (since we're using linear distribution and not the S curve LD50 actually has) 4.7g would kill around 15-20% of people. Odds are Hans survives and just has horrendous diarrhea, dehydration (to the point these could also be fatal) and heart palpitations and wishes he was dead for a while. Still, it's not a good idea to be playing around with this sort of stuff! Since this character is supposed to be a regular party goer, this binge is probably quite normal, yeah, he''d be dead if he were real. And that's before we talk about those meals... --- I got distracted and ended up reading about energy drinks, human metabolism, caffeine overdoses, beer glasses and doing napkin maths for a few hours. This is what normal people do. As a further though there are large Das Boots available at 92floz or 2721ml. If Hans were to fill one of those with 5 hour and drink that he'd be necking 47 bottles of 5 hour racking up 9400mg of caffeine, or 9.4 grams! Nearly double the lower limit of potentially fatal. The moral of the story is no matter what size boot you're planning to drink from, filling it with shot style energy drinks is a recipe for a trip to the hospital. RIP in pieces liver and kidneys. This is not a promotion of any kind, I just do things like this for fun every so often and thought I'd record it and see if other people find research and number crunching for the sake of it fun. As you can see there different ways of calculating potential fatal doses and gives you quite a wide sweep and depends largely on other factors such as how resistant the person is to caffeine. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuDtACzKGRs https://www.vat19.com/item/giant-glass-beer-boot http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e9d8/ http://www.5hourenergy.co.uk/ingredients http://www.healthline.com/health/caffeine-overdose https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15935584 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2617841 http://www.drweil.com/vitamins-supplements-herbs/vitamins/can-too-much-vitamin-b-cause-problems/ http://overdoseinfo.com/vitamin-b-overdose-levels-symptoms-treatment/ Please do not contact anyone featured in this video. Donations are greatly appreciated and enable me to acquire the delicious berries I need to live: https://www.patreon.com/TealDeer Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

• published: 12 Dec 2016
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