Logan Stiner, an Ohio teenager, recently died because of a caffeine overdose. He was a successful high school student, a wrestler and even Prom King. However, when he died he was found with more than 70 micrograms of caffeine per mL of blood in his system, more than 20 micrograms/mL more than what is lethal for human consumption. The panel raises questions about caffeine consumption in general and what this story says about how far people go to succeed.
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Might want to check those numbers. The given concentration results in 350 mg of caffeine total in the body at the time. Nowhere near lethal.