What Is a Toxic Amount of Caffeine?
                                
                                
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                                For most healthy adults, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends limiting daily caffeine intake to 400 milligrams, an amount generally not associated with dangerous side effects. But what is a toxic amount of caffeine, and what happens when that limit is dangerously exceeded?