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> Worse, the claim is there that the adenosine "doesn't go away," but there is no cite for that rather key claim. (Did I miss it?) It "doesn't go away" in the
by yazzku 4y ago
> Worse, the claim is there that the adenosine "doesn't go away," but there is no cite for that rather key claim. (Did I miss it?)
It "doesn't go away" in the sense that the adenosine stays bound to the caffeine until your body metabolizes that caffeine away. At that point, the adenosine is released back and follows it's usual cycle. It's not that it "doesn't ever go away".
- taeric 4y agoThat reads differently to me. Claiming that caffeine is a receptor blocker reads more that it displaces the adenosine in a way that it is not in the receptors. This does not imply that it cannot be processed in some other way, or that it is waiting for the receptor forever. Do SSRIs work by just "delaying the depression" to later? Because that reads in very much the same way. I get that the body is complex. I also get that things are necessarily watered down for people like me. I would still like to see studies that were done against the main claim here.