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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I began to say that there is no way you drink 4 to 6 Red Bull energy drinks and then top it with 1 to 4 coffee drinks on top.

Doing the math at the smallest amount (4 8-oz cans of Red Bull @ 80 mg of caffeine each puts you at 320 mg of caffeine. That is only a bit more than 1 Rockstar (300 mg).

If you really take in that much caffeine, then I would believe that you likely haven't abstained from caffeine for long enough.

Give it a try. Go caffeine-free for 1 weekend. I dare you. Stop taking in caffeine of any sort on Friday afternoon. You will likely call in sick to whatever you have planned on Monday.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Everyone’s body is different, but when the pandemic hit and my partner and I became NEETs, I went from 8-10 cups of coffee per day (and often a sugar free energy drink on top) to zero. Cold turkey.

I gave up soda about 15 years ago. We’d have chamomile tea but that definitely doesn’t have caffeine in it.

Zero effects on either of us. We would have been lethargic probably, if we had to do anything. But we just slept until noon every day and lazed around/played games/watched stuff/cleaned until bed.

No headaches, no fluey stuff, nothing. Could be my brain chemistry, but I have no idea. I had been drinking 8+ cups every day for a decade (as long as I was at my last job.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I did it last year for a week. As I said, first day I git a headache in the evening but that was it.