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Fears Vitamin B6 levels in energy drinks like Red Bull and Monster could contribute to rise in B6 toxicity cases (www.abc.net.au)
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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I can't access the ABC article. For some reason the website won't load. Without trying to sound ignorant and arrogant, surely we'd know if people were experiencing toxic levels by now? It's been multiple decades since energy drinks became a mainstay in society. I know plenty of people who drink multiple daily, sugar, and sugar free.

I'm yet to meet a single person who's experienced any issues related to b6 toxicity. I do know people who've had to cut back their intake due to consuming too much sugar though.

I personally refuse to have the sugar free variants. The majority of them use Sucralose as their sugar replacement and that destroys my guts more than normal sugar. Studies also state it may destroy healthy gut bacteria too. It's in far too many products, and I'll take the full sugar version of the alternative every time.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

There is a massive rise in b6 poisoning. Although it's in fucking everything leading to double dosing. E.g. magnesium supplement? b6, hangover cure? b6, energy drink? b6, multivitamin? b6 etc

https://www1.racgp.org.au/ajgp/2025/august/pyridoxine-toxicity-from-over-the-counter-suppleme

TGA gonna regulate it. Rare win for that horrible body: https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/sweeping-vitamin-b6-restrictions-proposed

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

A lot of B6 toxicity symptoms are pretty mild so they could be easy to miss. I had tingly digits and sore thumb/big toes. Seemed like gout. Dropped my high strength B supplement and it went away.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

My mum was having a bunch of weird nervous system issues. I saw an article about B6 toxicity so I checked the supplement she was taking. It had something like 20x the RDI.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I had a similar experience.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I just largely cut sweet drinks, both sugar and artificial, out if my diet nearly 2 decades ago. Problem solved. Never understood why energy drinks were popular anyway - they taste like ass. Black coffee master race.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Seems like a weird statement to say that you cannot understand why someone would like something that you don't like?

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

It's called having an opinion.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Being unable to understand why people like sugary flavored drinks that keep you awake and contain addictive chemicals and calling it an opinion is like saying "climate change isn't real, that's just my opinion."

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I completely understand why people like sugary flavored drinks with addictive chemicals. I just don't understand why they drink the ones that taste like ass.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It's called having an opinion

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

That opinion is wrong.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I like energy drinks and coffee. It's not really one or the other for me. I also take NoDoz when I don't want any liquid. They don't all taste bad. There's honestly hundreds of different flavours lol.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I k ew a bloke that drank too many energy drinks and it affected his heart short term. He had to keep his heart rate low which meant no strenuous exercise. Including masturbation. For 4 weeks. There is something in that for all of us.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I can’t access the ABC article. For some reason the website won’t load.

Don't know why that would be, maybe you're blocking some javascript stuff? Here's an archive snapshot, in case that helps: https://archive.is/te8o2

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nope. Just on my stock Samsung Galaxy. I think ABC in general was down last night. The link is working fine now.

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