I LOVE COFFEE!!!!

I had to give up caffeine. It aggravated my sleeping problem. And yes, I had a headache for three days each time I decided to quit the stuff. Ow.

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Seems more like propaganda than anything, there are myriad health problems associated with coffee. Several significant ones include a correlation (dosage dependant) between caffiene intake and heart palpitations, headaches, tremors and insomnia.

http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/2/239.abstract

This is not even taking into account coffee's relatively high acidity (i.e. don't drink it on an empty stomach) and the long term effects it may have on the central nervous system. Brain scans do show significant differences in blood flow in the brains of drinkers and non-drinkers.

The major reason I don't drink it is because of its addictiveness, I prefer to choose what I put in my mouth-hole, rather than have some dopaminergic neurons tell me what I should be drinking.

>> ^MaxWilder:

I had to give up caffeine. It aggravated my sleeping problem. And yes, I had a headache for three days each time I decided to quit the stuff. Ow.


It's interesting you mention headaches, my lab supervisor is a bit of a coffee nut, and recently he switched coffee brands, after several days of really bad headaches he discovered that the new brand was roasted differently and apparently it had lower caffeine levels. He fixed his headaches by drinking an entire 1.5L of diet coke - around 150mg of caffeine I'm guessing. Seems easier just to not drink coffee in the first place, but each to their own I guess

♫ I love coffee omnomnom, down it goes, into my belly, yumyumyum. ♪

Dopamine! Incidentally coffee happens to make me neurotic which conveniently cancels out this effect a hundred-fold.

BOOOOOOOOOOOORIIIIIIIIIIING

>> ^ghark:

Seems more like propaganda than anything, there are myriad health problems associated with coffee. Several significant ones include a correlation (dosage dependant) between caffiene intake and heart palpitations, headaches, tremors and insomnia.
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/2/239.abstract
This is not even taking into account coffee's relatively high acidity (i.e. don't drink it on an empty stomach) and the long term effects it may have on the central nervous system. Brain scans do show significant differences in blood flow in the brains of drinkers and non-drinkers.
The major reason I don't drink it is because of its addictiveness, I prefer to choose what I put in my mouth-hole, rather than have some dopaminergic neurons tell me what I should be drinking.

I love my coffee mostly because without it... i'm pretty sure i would literally DIE!...

Mmmmmm sweet sweet liquid life.... Hey!... i can quit any time i want to!... it's under control.

Wow. I really thought there were all sorts of health problems associated with coffee.

I do drink it regularly, the high wears off as my body stops producing its own dopamine, and I'm merely topping up the dopamine that would have been produced normally. I only get a high when I'm not a regular drinker. But if I drink coffee only occasionally, I just suffer, so I've cut it out entirely.

I had no idea that it actually helped memory. I might try it.

The first coffee house opened in Istanbul in 1554 forever changing Turkish culture. So much so, the Turkish word for breakfast, kahvaltı, literally means "before coffee" and the word for brown, kaverengi, literally means "the color of coffee."

>> ^berticus:

BOOOOOOOOOOOORIIIIIIIIIIING
>> ^ghark:
Seems more like propaganda than anything, there are myriad health problems associated with coffee. Several significant ones include a correlation (dosage dependant) between caffiene intake and heart palpitations, headaches, tremors and insomnia.
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/2/239.abstract
This is not even taking into account coffee's relatively high acidity (i.e. don't drink it on an empty stomach) and the long term effects it may have on the central nervous system. Brain scans do show significant differences in blood flow in the brains of drinkers and non-drinkers.
The major reason I don't drink it is because of its addictiveness, I prefer to choose what I put in my mouth-hole, rather than have some dopaminergic neurons tell me what I should be drinking.



*waves excitement wand over berticus

The video pushing coffee as a utopian nootropic (mind-enhancing drug) should raise red flags, so as always, do your own research when your long-term well-being is on the line.

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I'm way more into Red Bull these days. For years I drank up to fifteen cups of coffee per day, but it's too hard on the stomach and I could never predict when it would send me into a coma late in the afternoon... sometimes I get this thing with coffee where the first sip in a while actually makes me feel incredibly tired and I have to go lie down. I'm sure it's blood pressure related. So I prefer red bull which has the benefits of caffeine without raising blood pressure.

Just stopped drinking coffee three days ago!
Rough afternoon-to-evening headaches the last two days.
BUT, this morning I was able to sleep in and I feel great.

Will definitely drink coffee and tea here and there, just stopped because I was at the point where I really needed it... was inconvenient, and made me uncomfortable.

Yeah, those documented benefits only apply to occasional drinkers. If you consume it regularly you will be slower and more tired and less happy then if you were a non drinker. i think pretty much any stimulant works like that though. You have to recover in-between doses to get benefits while using.

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Adding video to channels (Health, History, Nature, Science) - requested by ant.

Something to keep in mind when reading about coffee research is to check and see whether or not the "coffee" they refer to is a caffeine supplement or if it truly is coffee. It is found that coffee and synthetic caffeine supplements are very different with regards to how the body processes them and their effects. Pharmacists will tell you focusing on one chemical compound without researching how the other compounds and how they interact with each other is bad science. Which is way "coffee research" should focus on the over all product and not just one chemical compound.

Everything we put in our body has negative and positive consequences what we have to figure out when using an item for its benefit is whether or not the negatives are of bigger consequence then the positives.

i.e. which is worse, high blood pressure or not getting a boner? Thanks to Viagra old men everywhere now get to reconcile this decision regularly.

The chlorogenic acid in coffee decreases caffeine's potency. To get the full effect, you should drink decaffeinated coffee and take caffeine pills.