Caffeine is good for your brain
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Caffeine is good for your brain
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#2But bad for your stomach. :-/
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#3-- Personal Experience Only Disclaimer --
Caffeine has always caused me to have a heightened level of anxiety that lasts much longer than initial high. My recommendation is that you should sleep when you are tired. I like to take a nap in my car during lunch.
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#4-- Personal Experience Only Disclaimer -- Caffeine has always caused me to have a heightened level of anxiety that lasts much longer than initial high. My recommendation is that you should sleep when you are tired. I like to take a nap in my car during lunch.
Agreed. I actually have found that the kind of high I get from caffeine greatly depends on the source it comes from.
For me, coffee is drastically inferior to the high I get from earl grey tea (most black teas in general). I find that with tea the high is much smoother and lasts longer; if you can imagine a bell curve, it would be wider and with a smaller amplitude, whereas coffee would be narrower and with a taller amplitude.
Also, I've found a 20 minute nap at mid-day with green tea afterwards (about half the caffeine content of my morning breakfast tea) to be much more effective in improving cognitive performance than to skip the nap and rely solely on caffeine. For the rest of the day I'm caffeine free.
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#5This is all about an issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease that's dedicated to "Therapeutic Opportunities for Caffeine in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Disorders".
You can find the whole issue online here: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/t13614762731/
This special issue arose from a meeting held in Lisbon, in July 2009, on "Caffeine and the Brain".
The meeting, and this special issue of the journal, were sponsored by the Associado Industrial e Comercial do Cafe: the Industrial and Commercial Coffee Association.
It is claimed that this organization "generously financed both the meeting and this special issue while leaving full scientific independence to all contributors". Even if that's perfectly true, I suggest that there might be just a teeny bit of selection bias in the papers in this issue of the journal.
[EDITED to add: of course there is no mention of the sponsorship in the PhysOrg article. Why is it that every single time I see a PhysOrg link on HN there's something rather wrong with it?]
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#6This is all about an issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease that's dedicated to "Therapeutic Opportunities for Caffeine in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Disorders". You can find the whole issue online here: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/t13614762731/ This special issue arose from a meeting held in Lisbon, in July 2009, on "Caffeine and the Brain". The meeting, and this special issue of…
Thanks for pointing that out - I did a cursory look for obvious industry connections and didn't see it. I should have looked harder!
It's important to be aware of where the money is coming from. That said, the journal is peer reviewed, and this sort of sponsorship is not uncommon for either journals or conferences. One would dismiss a wide swath of research if one concentrated more on funding sources than quality of data. (Not that you were doing that, just sayin'.)
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#7Its hard to know what to make of these studies that show how a substance that is harmful/poison might be good in the long run. Like wine and heart disease: Should we all really add a glass of red wine to our daily diet?
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#8Its hard to know what to make of these studies that show how a substance that is harmful/poison might be good in the long run. Like wine and heart disease: Should we all really add a glass of red wine to our daily diet?
Few substances are innately and incontrovertibly harmful or helpful. Even water can be deadly if you drink enough, to say nothing of what happens if you just hold your face in it for a few minutes — are you surprised by studies showing that 2 liters of water a day are good for you too? Iron is very poisonous too, but it's widely known as an essential nutrient. Ditto for some vitamins.
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#9s/caffeine/meth/
Same argument and every bit as delusional.
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#10-- Personal Experience Only Disclaimer -- Caffeine has always caused me to have a heightened level of anxiety that lasts much longer than initial high. My recommendation is that you should sleep when you are tired. I like to take a nap in my car during lunch.
Caffeine helps with really boring work. I just make sure I've got 6 hours before I plan to sleep.
Unrelated, but: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/caffeine