Man who drank 4.5 litres of Dr Pepper each day instead of water reveals devastating effects it had on his body

A man who drank up to 4.5 litres of Dr Pepper every day revealed the impact his unorthodox drinking habits had on his body.

Buckinghamshire bloke Tom Bowey got called the 'Dr Pepper Man' for his impressive but unwise habit of quaffing the famous fizzy drink, with him admitting he spent 'over 10 years' chugging the stuff.

He tried quitting several times and his boss told him 'you're going to die soon' unless he stopped, with the levels of caffeine he was consuming also making it really difficult to sleep.

Tom used to start his morning with a can of fizzy drink when he woke up, then down another one on the drive to work, then get a couple of bottles for the morning and another couple in the afternoon before polishing off a few more cans when he got home.

His drinks of choice were Dr Pepper and Coca-Cola, and he earned his nickname from a guy at a local shop who started calling him that because it's all he ever bought.

Tom Bowey was dubbed 'Dr Pepper Man' for his habit (Kennedy News and Media)

As for what it did to his body, there was the trouble getting to sleep when Tom's head hit the pillow at 10pm since he was so wired on caffeine and sugar.

On top of that the litres of unhealthy drinks were giving the man a wider waistline, and a dentist told him his teeth had become so decayed that when he was 42 he was told his teeth were more like the ones you'd find in the jaw of a 70-year-old.

He said: "I felt bloated a lot of the time, had headaches sometimes and felt a bit foggy and tired. Another issue was I was finding it hard to fall asleep at night.

"When I'd lie down [to go to sleep] I was wide awake because I had so much sugar and caffeine in my system."

Even worse, he said he 'stopped drinking water completely'.

It took hypnotherapy for the man to drop his habit, and since then his health has improved a lot (Kennedy News and Media)

Speaking out on a similar case where their patient drank seven litres of fizzy drinks a day for 10 years, a doctor noted that the body muscles were weaker, while the patient had diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

The patient's kidneys were also shutting down, thankfully for Tom he hadn't quite reached that point.

Tom said his habit had started out as one fizzy drink on his work lunch break and gone from there, with him adding more cans into his daily routine as he felt they gave him an 'energy boost in the morning'.

Realising this was really not good for his health, Tom kicked the Dr Pepper habit he reckoned he'd spent £30,000 on over the years with help from hypnotherapy.

He'd tried going cold turkey in the hopes his children wouldn't copy his fondness for fizzy drinks but several attempts had failed before he got help.

Since ditching the drinks, which he's replaced with water and weak squash, Tom went from wearing large tops to medium and found he'd saved enough money to take his family on holiday.