A pharmacist has encouraged gym visitors to prevent popular pre-workout powders because of the serious damage they can cause to your heart.
Many supplements that claim that the energy and training performance contain extremely high amounts of caffeine.
This can increase blood pressure over time to dangerous levels and triggering heart rhythm abnormalities, according to the drug expert, Lauren O’Reilly, based in Ireland.
In a recent video that has been placed on her Tiktok that has collected more than 82,000 views, Mrs. Reilly said that she would “not touch the powders.”
‘They contain more than 300 mg [of caffeine] Per shovel or per portion, which is the same as have three cups of coffee at the same time, “she warned.
This immediate hit can be ‘super anxious with tickles and heart palpitations’.
Veal, she explained, showing ‘how much pressure all that caffeine at the same time increases your heart, your vascular system, which increases blood pressure.
“After a while this can cause real damage.”
Experts have long been warned about the dangers of high doses of caffeine, in particular for people with underlying heart rhythm problems that may not be diagnosed.
Caffeine results in the release of hormones that increase heart rate and blood pressure.
With some vulnerable individuals this can lead to atrial fibrillation, a condition in which the heart beats quickly and irregularly, which increases the risk of a deadly heart attack or heart failure.
The pharmacist’s warning follows last year’s alert from the Food Standards Agency of the government with regard to the safety of caffeinated training supplements.
The body warned of the dangers of the ‘extremely powerful’ products, after the death of a 29-year-old man who suffered a fatal cardiac arrest after incorrectly calculating the dose of caffeine powder.
Personal trainer Thomas Mansfield died in January 2021 Within a few hours after ‘Naming’ a mixture that contained the recommended daily dose of caffeine seven times.
Minutes after drinking the supplement mix, he started ‘foaming at the mouth’ and ‘clamping on his chest’.
An investigation heard that Mr Mansfield, Van Colwyn Bay, Noord -Wales, had wrongly taken the recommended maximum dose on the package almost 16 times.
Thomas Mansfield (left), 29, died of a cardiac arrest in January 2021 within a few hours after ‘names’ of a mixture that contained the recommended daily dose of caffeine seven times
“The dose he took was the equivalent of a maximum of 200 cups of coffee,” the FSA said in its warning.
Regarding them, a survey discovered that less than half of the people are looking for dosing instructions on supplements.
In the last warning, pharmacist Lauren O’Reilly pointed out that the small print on products often recommends “Only for the occasional.”
She added: ‘People always assume it and these are so dangerous.
‘And look, you will see a lot of warnings there. So yes, these are a huge no of mine. ‘
Instead, she said that eating a banana will give you ‘enough pump’ 30 minutes before your training.
The FSA recommends no more than 400 mg consuming caffeine every day, which is the equivalent of about four cups of coffee.
In 2023, various lawsuits were launched in the US against fast food joint Panera Bread over the alleged harmful effect of its very caffeinated ‘charged lemonade’ drinks.
DailyMail.com discovered that some health drinks with health-related claims on the label, such as clean ‘,’ vegetable ‘and’ natural ‘, have no less than three cups of coffee to caffeine, which can be harmful to the three million Americans with a long QT syndrome
A 28-year-old woman from Rhode Island took legal steps against the chain, claiming that the drink left her with a long-term heart problems.
Lauren Skerritt, an athlete, drank two and a half-loaded lemonades at a Panera location in Greenville, Rhode Island, in April 2022, according to the court case.
After drinking the lemonade, Skerritt is said to have experienced new episodes of heart palpitations and dizziness.
Scans later showed that they suffered atrial fibrillation.
It followed the tragic death of a 21-year-old student Pennsylvania College in the US, who, according to judicial documents, suffered a fatal cardiac arrest after consuming the lemonade that contained 390 mg caffeine.
Mrs. Katz suffered from a serious heart rhythm condition called Long QT syndrome, which makes the heart irregularly defeated (Arithm’s).
She was diagnosed with the condition of five years and had managed it with medication and limiting caffeine, written according to documents by lawyers who represent her parents.
Dr. Stuart Fischer, an internal doctor in New York, told DailyMail.com that caffeine can eliminate the essential breaks between heart beats for people with a long QT syndrome.
“Patients with this condition need a little longer than normal to restart after the heart muscle has been merged.”
Caffeine, he explains, speeds up the throbbing pattern and puts too much stress on the already stretched organ.
“If there is too much activity when the muscle has to relax, it can potentially be fatal or at least a great medical emergency.”
Dr. Fischer added that only 100 mg of caffeine, which is the same as a large cup of coffee, could be sufficient to activate a deadly attack.
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