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It's the most widely-abused performance enhancing drug, but each person will need to assess the tradeoffs, long-term implications, and unknowns: + Productivity
by 1letterunixname 3y ago
It's the most widely-abused performance enhancing drug, but each person will need to assess the tradeoffs, long-term implications, and unknowns:
+ Productivity
+ Focus
+ Clarity
+ Symptomatic cure for migraines
~+ Probable neuroprotectiveness
~ Mild anorectic
~- Unclear GERD risks
~- Weak anticholinergic - probably not tardive dyskinesia or dementia, but the long-term effects are unclear
- Increased heart rate and blood pressure
- Diuretic
- Higher cortisol levels
- Dependency
- Tolerance
- Caffeine withdrawal headaches
- Slow caffeine metabolization (CYP1A2 rs762551 CC/CA) vs. fast (AA)
- aworks 3y agoI wasn't aware of the migraine cure. When I had headaches, my neurologist told me to cut out alcohol, binge TV watch and caffeine. That helped but did not cure me. Then during the pandemic I started the enjoyable daily habit of drinking sparkling HopTea (some caffeine, no alcohol). It's definitely a diuretic but I can't say about other symptoms