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Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer

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Re: Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer

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Post by tppiotrowski »

cdaven wrote: post #99
tppiotrowski wrote: post #38

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Am I the only one that experiences sugar as a depressant? Eating high glycemic index foods makes me lethargic and sleepy. I've never experienced a "sugar high". I also don't have diabetes as my blood sugar level is within norm during routine physicals.

Yep, me too! There is actually a link between high GI and sleepyness; orexin. It's a chemical messenger in the brain, and if you have very little of it, you have narcolepsy. If you have been injected or sprayed with a lot of it, you stay alert without sleep. Oh, and glucose inhibits orexin production! My personal theory is that I have inherited a low base level of orexin, which makes me react with sleepyness to carbo…

Maybe you could eliminate orexin as the cause if you ate a big meal and inhaled orexin, then noted if it lowered drowsiness (placebo affect aside)

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Post by gigaflop »

dankai wrote: post #102

Contrary to most opinions here, I lost weight through Diet Coke and diet drinks and kept it down thanks to it. These sodas (or rather the artificial sweeteners) allowed me to cut out sugar totally out of my diet at age 16 where I weighed 250 lbs at my highest, to 140 lbs at my lowest at age 21. Now I'm 30 years old at a healthy 160 lbs. I never worked out (still hate it) and only achieved this thanks to the dietary c…

Back when I was losing weight, I was fueled by caffeine, anxiety, and aspartame, so this checks out with my own experience. 270 to 180, sitting now around 205.

I did mostly cardio back then, but now lift weights. Switching to 0-calorie drinks has allowed me to better balance my diet for my personal wants/needs.

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Post by gigaflop »

m463 wrote: post #103
themitigating wrote: post #71

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I think everyone knows that "diet" in a product name means it's healthier than the non-diet product. It also does help with your health if you were going to consume the non-diet version of that product in similar quantities.

IHMO you are confusing product marketing with good health advice. Marketing is just a legal way to tell only the good side of a story. "low-fat" usually means sugar. "sugar free" usually means artificial sweeteners (or something made without sugar anyway). Even "no added sugar" is suspect. What I've found hilarious is the new "KETO!" marketing craze. I really suspect that most of these products will not induce or mai…

A ketogenic diet is ultra-low-carb, to the point where your body enters ketosis, and becomes much more amenable to burning your fat reserves for energy.

Essentially, keto-friendly means very low carb/sugar.

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Post by teekert »

tppiotrowski wrote: post #59
javierga wrote: post #47

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Yes, this happens to me too. I can get maybe a maximum 15-20 minutes of increased cognitive performance after ingestion. Once that is over I become lethargic and afterwards a bit irate since my concentration dips. It bothers me that people like Warren Buffet can go along their day ingesting copious amounts of coke normal and sweets and still be a functional productive human being.

When I used to work at big tech, we had a candy buffet in the kitchen and unlimited ice cream. This definitely lowered my work performance.

Did they sell diabetes solutions? “Eat your own dog food”…

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Post by gigaflop »

reidjs wrote: post #8
rpmisms wrote: post #6

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Protein shakes are great!

Those have a massive amount of calories

I use them as a convenient way to guarantee protein and calories, and use them as a way to help hammer out my hunger after the gym. 2-ish scoops, whole milk, mmm. Drink it fast, because it is not meant to be savored.

600 calories, tops.

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Post by Sylamore »

acka wrote: post #80
maleno wrote: post #45

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It's not a CMS thing, it's a Chrome thing.[1] It highlights the text in the URI fragment when you click through to the page, and also auto-scrolls to that text. [1] https://web.dev/text-fragments/

It appears that Google Search has started to add those text fragments onto URLs in search results. Is there a setting or a browser extension that allows me to get rid of them?

Bing does it too
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