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

Posted by timothy on from the aren't-all-perks-relative? dept.

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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  1. Re:The truth about caffeine by e2d2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    LOL, what a crock of shit. I can't believe you were modded insightful. Oh wait, yes I can.

  2. Re:Much like violence, by Daimanta · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Unfortunately, in the case of 2 girls the full potential is reached at the first cup

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  3. Re:well GREAT by erica_ann · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There was a great mythbusters episode on what soda can do ;)

  4. Re:A return to baseline... by bytesex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, candlelight ! There's nothing more romantic than candlelight ! Fucking your own mom is only a close second.

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