Caffeine has got to be among the shittiest drugs to get addicted to. There’s no euphoria; you just get anxiety and can’t sit still. And then in a couple of hours you get tired and want to go to sleep.
I just don’t understand how people get addicted to the stuff. Even when I needed to drink it for my job, the moment I quit that place was the same moment I quit drinking coffee. It’s simply not a fun drug at all. There are much better stimulants out there.
Is half a pot of black coffee too much?
How many are you drinking per hour
So that’s the biggest benefit of Keurig machines. Since they only dispense specific measured quantities, each cup is the same size
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Remember Kids: Drugs are bad! Except for coffee, which lets you work harder and increases your employers profits.
More than 400mg of caffeine a day can cause a host of health issues. Of course, because it’s legalized and widely available, people discredit the risks.
Just like acetaminophen, which is responsible for 56,000 emergency department visits, 2,600 hospitalizations, and 500 deaths per year, according to the NIH.
This is why I hate this stuff. I hate people joking about how much coffee they’re drinking because they have so much work to do and don’t get to sleep. Meanwhile, every coffee joke sounds like this to me.
I drink coffee for the joy of it, it doesn’t increase my productivity.
When was the last time you tried not drinking coffee for a week?
No.
Did it for 3 months once. That was hell
Also alcohol to cope with the stress!
Irish up that coffee, and you can do both at once!
Does coffee make your testicles swell and float like frame 3?
Might be worth trying
I hope so
And I hope y’all know they’re knees and are just being silly on the Internet
The order of my understanding was, “wtf are those, ah swollen testicles of course,” and finally, “oh, knees”
I had to go to the company doctor years ago, it was mandatory when you just started working there.
One of the questions was how much coffee I consume each day.
“1 on some days 2” I answered.
He goes off by saying that’s great, 2 cups is the max you should drink each day because if you get too much caffeine in your system it builds to much pressure on your muscles or nerves, I don’t remember.
After that, we looked at each other in silence for a good 10 or 15 seconds before I began stammering: “cu… cups?? No, no. I meant 1 or 2 pots a day…”
He had mini meltdown and went off on me how bad that was for my body.
I only drink 1 cup a day, but the cup is 300ml (~10 fl oz) and it’s espresso.
Arteries* - the big main pipes for blood that gets tapped leading into all your veins in all your limbs and organs
Caffeine increases heartrate similarly to exercise but unlike exercise your arteries don’t open up for caffeine. So you’re increasing flow but the pipes can’t handle it all, meaning the heart has to PUSH HARDER and eventually this will lead to severe fatigue and heart failure. If you have additional risk factors like a high cholesterol diet (lots of meat) or are overweight then the arteries themselves can also become clogged and fail.
I find it scary that I’ve never had a doctor bring any part of this up
That’s probably because it’s massively overblown. Drinking just a few cups of coffee a day is perfectly fine. Energy drinks are the devil’s urine tho.
It’s one of those things where its a very normal slow death over the course of decades, less harmful than smoking or alcohol, so it often gets brushed off as low priority. The real issue isn’t even coffee, imo, but people who take 400mg caffeine energy drinks daily or even multiple times per day.
Yeah I was just explaining what the doctor would have said, since you seemed confused about “muscles or nerves”.
Much appreciated to take the time to do that. My story and your explanation can educate someone that comes across it.
Stay awesome dude.
My dude heard the glass break when you said pots. Went full hunter from l4d2
You can avoid this type of confusion if you just get a bigger cup
“How many
hot dogscups of coffee do youeatdrink on a daily basis?”“Yes”
Where do i get that cannon?
Best I can do:
But you get no coffee money shot by singing.This triggered some childhood trauma.
I didn’t realize this was international, since the entire point of the song is that in German, the letters CAFFEE correspond to the notes.The German version of this song also uses racist stereotypes.
whoa. You win my lemmy feed for the day. <3 This is fun to sing in my head.
I like where this is going
taco bell bathroom
what are those… plungers? in the tub?
Looks like espresso machines
Looks like a drip coffee machine imo, the spout is kinda coffee filter shaped
Am I the only ones see his acolytes mama birding more coffee?
COFFEE IS BEING DISPENSED
literally me but with tea
I have a friend who pretty much drinks nothing but tea. No water, coffee, alcohol, soft drinks etc. And he does get his 2-3 litres of fluids per day in like that.
You drink 2-3 liters of water a day? That sounds like alot.
Im in the alps, so I have the privilege of having access to virtually free and safe to drink, but also tasty. It’s the cheapest, easiest way to do something good for my health, so i do it. 2-3 litres is usually the recommendation i see and hear everywhere.
Tbh I sometimes drink close to 4 litres, i have to watch my electrolytes more than anything.
… caffeinated tea? Is he not dead? That’s like, 500 mg after a short Google search.
is he not dead
He’s doing great. He’s Irish (as in, born, raised, and living in Ireland), I think it’s pretty normal over there
Tea doesn’t have that much usable caffein if you let it steep longer than maybe 3 minutes. Also, we don’t know how diluted the tea is.
Why does he ask? I’m not seeing the problem.
All the acidity breaks down your tooth enamel of course
Not that this doctor would do anything about teeth, those are luxury bones, he doesn’t work on those, just everything else
Him explaining that would cost you $350
Coffee isn’t very acidic. It’s around pH 5. Enamal is damaged by anything less than 5.5, so coffee is bad, but not very.
Doesn’t having 2 or 3 cups a day, actually a good thing?
Yes, but 4-6 cups seems to be a better thing.
Yes but 6-∞ Is better
I HAVENT SLEPT IN DAYS WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES ALL I SEE IS ANOTHER CUP OF COFFEE. I NEED MY DIRTY BEAN WATER!!
If you filter coffee through a paper filter then there are negligible health benefits to drinking coffee which are probably more than offset by the caffeine.
If you don’t filter it through a paper filter then the cafestol probably negates the benefits before you have to weigh them against the negatives of the caffeine.
Could you be more specific about the negligible health benefits of coffee and the downsides of caffeine? As a regular coffee drinker, I’ve done some searching to try and gauge the long-term risks of consuming ~100-200mg of caffeine per day, and couldn’t really find anything. The medical sources I’ve seen basically say the long term risk is practically non-existent unless you have a specific sensitivity to caffeine, but I’m curious if you’ve seen something different.
It’s linked to increased blood pressure, increased risk of heart disease, kidney problems, etc, but as you mention there’s not anything rock solid and there’s also relatively recent studies that show positive effects.
For people that intake less than 400mg a day.
That’s the tricky bit. Do you know how many mgs of caffeine you take in on a daily basis?
Right, yeah that’s sort of the conclusion I’ve reached - sort of a “correlation may not imply causation” type situation.
I drink one 300g cup of coffee a day, except on very rare instances where I’ll have like two or three cups in a day. My average daily caffeine intake is probably around ~100mg, which is well under any demonstrably dangerous limits that I’ve seen.
I’m not a doctor nor am I an expert, so hopefully not being taken as an authoritative source here, but my understanding is similar to yours regarding caffeine.
What about decaf coffee?
I only play a doctor on TV, but in my professional opinion it grows hair on your teeth.
Pretty sure that is the cause of cancer
No
Yup
