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Originally posted by HighOnAcid
Mixing RedBull and alchohol is dangerous because of several reasons. The first is because each can contains 80mg of caffeine and is a stimulant. Alchohol is a depressant and when you mix the two you are sending your body through all sorts of ups and downs. Heart palpatations and rythmn changes can lead to heart attacks and other problems.
Also, fatigue is your body's way of telling you when to stop drinking. When your body has had enough, fatigue will set in and you will pass out. When you add a stimulant to the mix like RedBull, then your body is tricked into thinking it can take more and more alchohol. I'm not sure if it's true or just an urban legend, but I heard that serving RedBull in nightclubs in England is illegal. There have been MANY recorded deaths contributed to mixing RedBull and Alchohol.
Can anyone from England confirm this?
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I know what caffeine and alcohol do, (I'm a med student) but I'm not so sure about the combo theories, should look that up. I sure believe using caffeine leads to palpitations, it does actually, but saying that that would just lead to infarcts isn't correct without nuances, the same goes for mixing alcohol with caffeine. When such statements are made about recorded deaths, one always has to ask himself what subjects/victims we are talking about. With 'normal' doses of both alcohol and caffeine, I think it is hardly possible for a healthy, young person to die from cardiac arrest.