Woman has a heart attack after trying TikTok’s "dry scooping pre-workout" challenge
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An OnlyFans star suffered a heart attack after trying TikTok's dangerous "dry scooping pre-workout" challenge.
Briatney Portillo, 20, is one of many who participated in the trend that has been seen all over TikTok lately which involves taking a scoop of pre-workout powder without any water, also known as “dry scooping.”
The OnlyFans star had a terrifying experience in April that caused her to be in the hospital overnight and recently posted a TikTok telling about her dry scooping experience.
In the video, the 20-year-old is in a hospital gown with a clown filter over her face looking at the camera.
“Taking a dry pre workout scoop because I saw it trending on tiktok. Ending up in the hospital because I had a heart attack," she wrote in her vid.
this doesnt make sense. maybe she has no experience taking pre-workout powder, she doesnt look like she works out. why would it have a greater impact if you take it dry vs with water? if you take the same dosage, a little bit of water isnt going to make a significiant difference. what would make a difference is if she took more than a proper serving. maybe she did that since she likely has little experience with it or exercising.
Some brands of pre workout powder were banned and/or reformulated if I recall because it was giving some people heart attacks when taken as directed.
not that i am aware of. these powders are typically just a caffeine delivery system with some other fancy things thrown in the pretend they are magical.
this doesnt make sense. maybe she has no experience taking pre-workout powder, she doesnt look like she works out. why would it have a greater impact if you take it dry vs with water? if you take the same dosage, a little bit of water isnt going to make a significiant difference. what would make a difference is if she took more than a proper serving. maybe she did that since she likely has little experience with it or exercising.
It shouldn’t make any difference at all if it was dry or in liquid. Sounds like the powder shouldn’t even have been on the market.
It shouldn’t make any difference at all if it was dry or in liquid. Sounds like the powder shouldn’t even have been on the market.
there are a lot of pre-workout powders on the market. when i was in high school, they used to have ephedra which was perfectly safe if taken in an appropriate dose. the government banned that and if you want it now you would need to either buy an asthma medication (primatene) or find some other illicit way just to increase your metabolism by 2-3%. nowadays, they are mainly just caffeine. hard to take that caffeine off the market.
this story is 100% bs without more info.
i remember back in those days i spent my online time on various fitness/bodybuilding forums. there was a product some people would take called DNP. it would raise a persons body temperature and they would sweat profusely. it was good for losing weight quickly. it was also considered very dangerous as one issue was that there was no limit to how much it would raise your body temperature. the temp would just keep going up and if you took too much you could die. i dont go on those types of forums anymore, i wonder if that product is still out there.
Screwed up electrolyte levels in her blood, leading to a cardiac event? Too much water and not enough salt and potassium can lead to ‘water toxicity’ (When I did long distance triathlon, they’d weigh us before the race and use that as a proxy for hydration levels if you ended up in the med tent to help determine appropriate treatment because you didn’t want to push more fluids into someone already retaining them)
I could easily see too many electrolytes and not enough fluids also being too harsh on the circulatory system.
Screwed up electrolyte levels in her blood, leading to a cardiac event? Too much water and not enough salt and potassium can lead to ‘water toxicity’ (When I did long distance triathlon, they’d weigh us before the race and use that as a proxy for hydration levels if you ended up in the med tent to help determine appropriate treatment because you didn’t want to push more fluids into someone already retaining them)
I could easily see too many electrolytes and not enough fluids also being too harsh on the circulatory system.
Too much caffine can elevate the heart rate to unsafe levels, too.
it contains 150mg of caffeine which is the part that actually does something, the other ingredients are bs. a typical cup of coffee has about 100mg caffeine, so its 1.5 cups of coffee equivalent (8oz coffee, which is probably half what i normally consume).
taking too much caffeine in a short period can be dangerous but one would have to take substantially more than a regular dose to get that. consuming dry power doesnt change anything except you could choke on it. i remember my younger brother used to consume knox gelatin powder, supposed to be good for something i guess. he would put the dry powder in his mouth then drink water to take it down. one time i was in the kitchen with him and he was doing this and i guess he got a swallow of pure powder and then he proceeded to throw up in the kitchen sink. it was hilarious.
a lot of these "challenges" are fictitious and they are spread by people who just want to mess with older people who believe every single one of them and think that kids these days are so dumb for doing all of these challenges that arent even real.
So this whole thing has really nothing to do with the Tik Tok challenge. The woman ate what sounds like a serving of a legal powder sold in stores, and it had an adverse effect in her. If she just bought it for a post-workout drink I wonder if people would still be bringing up Darwin?
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