Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline

Dthief writes "Bristol University researchers found that coffee drinkers develop a tolerance to both the anxiety-producing and the stimulating effects of caffeine, meaning that it only brings them back to baseline levels of alertness, not above them. 'Although frequent consumers feel alerted by caffeine, especially by their morning tea, coffee, or other caffeine-containing drink, evidence suggests that this is actually merely the reversal of the fatiguing effects of acute caffeine withdrawal,' wrote the scientists, led by Peter Rogers of Bristol's department of experimental psychology."

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Re:Makes sense

[Lunzo]

32 + 108 + 64 = 204oz Dr Pepper = 714mg caffeine.

So what's it like having type 2 diabetes?

Re:The truth about caffeine

[antirelic]

I am an "American Worker" (as opposed to one of the other pretend social classes), who wakes up at 4am, drives 1 hour to arrive at my job at 5am, and then work till 4pm, to drive home for 5pm. I have a score of network switches, a hundred servers, multiple SAN's and tape libraries, documentation to create and maintain, logs to review, security audits to perform, management to manipulate into doing the right thing, firewall policies to write, implement, test, and further document... and thats just the stuff I havent blanked out. Then when I come home I have a wife to tend to, an adoption process (which thus far has consumed well over 120 hours in just 4 short months, with only 2-3 more months to go), and household chores to complete. Not to mention charity work, distant family to communicate with, and entertain fleeting thoughts of entertainment. Somehow, I am going to have to shove "exercise" back into that schedule, before I die of some work related death sentence. By the end of the day I get between 4-6 hours sleep, before i have to wake up and start doing it again.

I'd never, ever, be able to do it without coffee.

On the weekend I can go without coffee if I can get enough sleep (8-10 hours). Of course, weekends are for getting the non work related things which couldnt be completed during the week.

This is what the gparent meant about caffine addiction being an American problem. To be honest, I wouldnt trade it in for a longer life living in a bankrupt sun belt socialism.