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."

Comments

They are missing the point...

[tgatliff]

Tolerance Yes... But it is all about keeping the body off balance. There is little doubt that coffee (aka caffeine) makes you more focused and energized. I mean to suggest that over 300 years of active "research" has no validity is kind of nieve in my mind. Sometimes so called researches have a hard time remembering this...

Re:The truth about caffeine

[B1oodAnge1]

Caffeine withdrawal is mostly caused by dehydration, imho.

Re:well GREAT

[timmarhy]

no, you failed and are now trying to cover up doing the *whoosh* that retards do.

Re:A return to baseline...

[ksemlerK]

If you want to get back into the womb, fuck your mom, (literally). There's nothing more romantic then going into the woman who gave birth to you.