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The headline is a little misleading. For regular and heavy coffee drinkers, the study suggests that a cup of coffee merely brings the person out of caffeine wit
by tumult 16y ago
The headline is a little misleading. For regular and heavy coffee drinkers, the study suggests that a cup of coffee merely brings the person out of caffeine withdrawal, and does not provide any stimulation. Since caffeine withdrawal makes you groggy and less alert, it means that regular caffeine drinkers have to consume caffeine just to reach the level they would have already been at if they weren't consuming caffeine regularly.
For people who don't currently have a tolerance for caffeine, it most certainly does provide stimulating effects.
It also seems like the study gave participants the equivalent of a single cup of coffee. If you need more than that for your buzz, looks like you'd have been out of luck.
- davidw 16y ago> For people who don't currently have a tolerance for caffeine, it most certainly does provide stimulating effects. Oh yes! I rarely drink much caffeine. I once went for a bike ride where I was rapidly wearing out towards the end, and some guy gave me a sugar/caffeine packet. I went off like a rocket after that...
- VBprogrammer 16y agoThe daily ritual of gettting out of bed and making a coffee is probably far more important that the stimulating effects to most people.
- Mark_B 16y agoAgreed! When I wake up I think about the jolt I'll feel from the 2+ cups I'll get in a few minutes. By the time I'm actually done making coffee, somehow, I end up not so tired and end up barely needing to finish my first cup.
- KingOfB 16y agoTime to make myself a nice big cup of illusion!
- robfitz 16y agoThis line of reasoning often leads to the suggestion that you shouldn't bother drinking coffee. I think it's exactly the opposite.. Most things that give me as much pleasure as coffee does are actively damaging me. If coffee is a break-even prospect, then it may just be the world's greatest vice.
- khafra 16y agoI drink coffee because it's correlated with a 70% lower chance of cirrhosis of the liver, and I'm pretty sure liquor doesn't have a placebo effect.
- a-priori 16y agoThis is also true of nicotine. Smokers say that a cigarette 'calms the nerves', but if you measure their anxiety levels you find that it only relieves the withdrawal symptoms and returns them to the normal range.