• Drinking Coffee May Help You Live Longer, Study Says
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Coffee's great in moderation, and the taste is great with some proper cream/milk and sugar, and certain types are also very tolerable even when taken black. I pretty much had to rely on coffee when I was working at a call center for around 2 years, graveyard shift and 12-hour working days is a killer, and even if I'm constantly talking every second it's hard to stay awake without it. Having to pee a lot though is annoying when taking quite a bit.
See much like intentionally preventing tolerance to regular drugs (yes I know caffeine is a drug) to keep their effects large, I intentionally avoid drinking coffee except in emergencies in a mix I like to call Hype™. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109874/9806749e-5add-4e01-9193-02adc8e8c60c/yeeetcoffeemix.png (to scale (proportion wise)) This shit is so ludicrously full of caffeine and sugar and I drink coffee so seldom that I enter this bizarre ass state of hyper awareness and can like, perform ludicrously beyond my limits. Oh and it speeds up my perception of time too, because half an hour becomes like 10 minutes. Milk's really just there to keep it the slightest bit drinkable. Once it's at all cold it's not worth even smelling because it'll make you puke.
Might help you live longer but your teeth will get fucked in the process.
that's the gist of it no teeth = no overeating = longer life
My girlfriend thinks I'm crazy about this. I tell her I don't like most restaurant coffees or Starbucks because it's burnt and she's always "you're so weird"
At this point, it would probably be healthier just to do coke.
Yeah it's not hard to do right but it can definitely be done wrong. I find that Dunkin' Donuts is really acidy. I also had a hard time making good coffee at home for a long time and finally realized that I really needed to use half and half instead of milk. While we're talking about hot drinks being good and bad, I love black tea and it's surprising how nasty and astringent some prepackaged tea bags can be compared to just getting cheap plain loose leaf tea and doing it yourself. I don't blame you if you've ever tried some shit like lipton and just been like "wut."
I love coffee but I had to quit. My shits are way better for it lmao.
Yeah tea is definitely easier to fuck up than coffee, loose leaf is definitely the way to go.
I'm pretty sure if you're adding over your daily amount of sugar per cup of coffee, per day, this study doesn't apply to you.
Considering what a strong laxative effect coffee has on me, I highly doubt this.
Ah, the good ole' Daily Mail switcharoo.
2-3 cups a day drinker, I've considered buying decaffeinated coffee just so I could drink more coffee later into the day. But having worked swing shift for 5 years now, I think I'm immune to caffeine unless I'm trying to sleep.
Theres a reason I only do it once in a while for absolute emergencies
I drink my coffee black and fairly strong, averaging 3-4 cups each day (6 during workdays, 2-3 a day during weekends / vacations). I shall witness the end of the universe.
I was generally awake for 14-18 hours a day depending on what I was doing, the caffeine didn't impact my sleep. Pissed a lot but shitting was a-ok. Cups were average mugfuls generally one spoon of coffee though occasionally 2. Wasn't that expensive since coffee goes a long way, generally made them during breaks were I was stretching my legs from whatever I was doing anyway. Percolator got a good bunch of usage if I was particularly busy and wanted quick refills.
I love the taste of coffee, but I've never really been a huge fan of the effects. I mostly just get increased anxiety, occasional intestinal pains, insta-shits the moment I finish the cup, and I feel all jittery for a few hours. I like the minor mood lift and the mild boost to productivity but it's often not worth it when I feel all hot and anxious for a few hours afterwards, but when I do drink it I do it knowing full well it'll do this because it tastes fucking awesome. Oddly enough, I get all those negative effects when I drink decaf too, just minus the mood lift and some of the stimulation. I've taken pure caffeine before and never even gotten the same effects, same with other drinks that contain caffeine, which I found kind of bizarre.
Studies show that journalists are very bad at interpreting studies
Of course bean juice is fucking good for you
Headaches, exhaustion and indigestion are symptoms of caffeine withdrawal - you were simply drinking it a lot but fairly irregularly, inducing regular withdrawal. I see what you're saying, and you're right that a lot of these food studies are dumb, but caffeine, at the very least, has been shown to be neuroprotective in that it can reduce neurotoxicity. This may not make us live longer, but it probably reduces free radical effects in the brain. Caffeine works because it fills the same slot as adenosine receptors, but doesn't do what they do. Adenosine is what makes us feel tired, so caffeine definitely does decrease tiredness if used rarely. The main issue is that tolerance develops, meaning effects become almost non-existent and you're having to drink coffee/tea just to feel normal after a while. There's a reason that a lot of caffeine increases mental performance, just like nicotine - they're CNS stimulants.
i like my coffee how i like my women: strong and black
Man, looks like I'm living forever. When do my lichdom powers start kicking in?
Actually you're doing the opposite. On thing coffee is absolutely proven to do without is stave off diabetes, or renal malfunction issues, unless you douse it with sugar, in which you are inversely and directly MORE likely to get diabetes or kidney issues, up to and including skipping the pre-diabetic warning stage and going straight to stage II. Don't put bullshit in your coffee, you'll literally live longer.
I like mine cold and bitter.
Supposedly putting butter in coffee is supposed to have some health benefits. Never tried it and it sounds disgusting, so I'll personally stick to black.
I drank like 7 cups the other day, Imma live forever
I thought it could be withdrawal as well, but there's no way given how routine my coffee was. I'd have one in the morning and typically that was it. After my morning one I tend to have decaf teas if anything, and when I have a caffinated tea in that morning, and decaf teas in the afternoon, I don't get those side effects. I mean it could just be an odd allergy on my part I suppose, but it seems odd for the symptoms to rear their head 1-2 months after starting with it again, if they are allergy related.
Decaf tea and coffee actually still contain a fairly significant amount of caffeine, FYI. Decaf tea contains about 20mg per cup whereas normal tea is 50mg (or something similar to this.) Caffeine is actually a painkiller, so it seems quite odd that you'd get headaches as a side effect unless you're unusually sensitive to it in a non-standard way.
After work coffee/energy drink is perfect.
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