'It's vitamin B6': Damage being caused by toxicity spreads to more products
www.abc.net.au
As cases of blood toxicity from vitamin B6 continue to rise doctors raise concerns about the level of the product in food and especially energy drinks.
  • KitKatKitCat@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 year 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.

    • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year 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.

      • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

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

          • Fleur_@aussie.zone
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            1 year 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.”

    • zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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      1 year 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

    • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone
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      1 year 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.