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by colmvp 3102 days ago
Given your comment, I wonder if there's an interesting list of people who have been on the Price is Right. For example, one person I can think of is Aaron Paul (Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad) who said: "It looks like I'm on some serious crack. I downed about six cans of red bull because I knew they wanted people with energy. It worked, but I could not sit still. It was not healthy."
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This is definitely worth looking up on Youtube.
https://youtu.be/_SEL27xiJGQ

He appears to be very excited indeed.

That much caffeine is a serious health risk.
Six cans of Red Bull is about 480mg caffeine (assuming six 250ml cans at 32mg/100ml caffeine). Not exactly recommended (and may be unpleasant), but it shouldn't be a serious risk to the average person either (it's about the same as three strong cups of coffee).
I drink that much caffeine before noon every day. It's 3 cups of coffee.

edit: I suspect the ~200g of sugar is worse on some level.

LD50 is 150-200mg per kg, so 480mg from 6 cans of redbull shouldn't be a serious risk.