Caffeine: How Much is Too Much?

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Caffeine is a drug that tons of us take every day. But is that a bad thing? And if we get it in the form of energy drinks, is that super dangerous? We talk to Dr. Astrid Nehlig, Prof. Gregory Marcus, and Prof. Sachin Shah. Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/ScienceVsCaffeineEnergyDrinks In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Chapter 1: We love/hate caffeine (02:12) Chapter 2: Coffee and our guts (07:12) Chapter 3: Coffee and our brains (12:40) Chapter 4: Coffee and our zzzzzzs (17:42) Chapter 5: Coffee makes us go vroom vroom vroom! (20:30) Chapter 6: Are we caffeine addicts? (28:04) Chapter 7: Are energy drinks dangerous? This episode was produced by Rose Rimler, with help from Wendy Zukerman, as well as Nick DelRose, Joel Werner, and Michelle Dang. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Sarah Baum. Mix and sound design by Bumi Hidaka. Music written by Bobby Lord, Bumi Hidaka, Emma Munger and Peter Leonard. Special thanks to all the researchers we spoke to for this episode – including Dr. Bryan Saunders, Dr. Sergi Ferré, Prof. Andreas Heinz, Prof. Christine Curran, Dr. Erikka Loftfield, Dr. Felix Oberhoffer, Dr. Alan Wayne Jones, and Dr. Vijay Yadav. Extra special thanks to Jason Vytlacil and the Zukerman family. Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. We are everywhere that podcasts are! If you are listening on Spotify, follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications. And if you like us, give a five star review! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Versus, and this is the show that pits facts against flat whites.
0:08.0	On today's show, caffeine.
0:11.0	Should you quit it? Caffeine is one of the most used drugs in the world.
0:20.0	85% of people in the US drink at least one caffeinated beverage each day, and that includes kids.
0:27.2	But yet, despite the fact that we are shoving this drink down our pieholes, There have always been these fears that caffeine is bad for our health.
0:37.0	Your cup of coffee could soon come with a spoonful of cancer warning.
0:42.0	My heart was racing.
0:42.9	I was super anxious.
0:44.5	Something was happening.
0:45.2	I was having a panic attack.
0:46.1	Could it all be a sign though of a serious problem?
0:48.1	A problem like caffeine addiction.
0:50.6	And our worries around caffeine have reached new heights when it comes to energy drinks.
0:55.0	Just this year, U.S. lawmakers like Senator Chuck Schumer were fussing over this new energy drink called Prime.
1:02.0	The product has so much caffeine in it that it puts
1:05.2	Red Bull to shame. One family sued Panera after their daughter who had a heart
1:09.8	condition died when she drank their caffeinated lemonade.
1:14.1	And this is the latest in a long line of scary stories of people,
1:17.4	often younger people dying soon after drinking energy drinks.
1:21.0	Davis collapsed in the classroom over his high school in South Carolina.
1:24.3	It wasn't a car crash that took his life.
1:26.6	Instead it was an energy drink.
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