Drink High Caffeine Drinks?

interesting read

[graywolf]

Do you drink high caffeine drinks like coffee or Red Bull? There's an interesting article in this months National Geographic comparing the drinks, what they do to you, what you think they do you but don't, and flirts with the question of is caffeine a drug.

caffeine article snippet [magma.nationalgeographic.com]

[grandpa]

I never question whether caffeine a drug, it is. Without it my head throbs in pain all day. I haven't had a regular sleep/wake cycle in many many years, preferring the nighttime hours to daylight hours. I'm actually running on a 26 hour cycle today, which will end sometime after midnight. So far, two pots of coffee (12 cup). There was a 30 minute catnap around noon. I also have an addictive nature, proven thru the years with different substances, and maintained today with coffee and tobacco. Call me for dinner, I want a smoke and a cup of coffee first, and afterwards. One could steal my wallet and I might say, "Oh well". Take my Folgers and I'm going to hunt you down. Serve me decaf and you've made my 'bad list'. And save the cream and sugar for a pie, there is no room for it in my cup.

Viva Juan Valdez!

[macrost]

And save the cream and sugar for a pie, there is no room for it in my cup.

Thank you!

[vkaryl]

Caffeine may be a drug, but it's one with no effect on me no matter how much of it I use (several 12 cup pots of strong Colombian coffee a day, plus a fair amount of chocolate....) I only drink "normal" coffee black; espresso etc. is a whole other story.

If the world was depending on coffee to keep me awake, it would be SOL in spades. And unlike others I know, I can go without it too, no problems: no headaches, no shakes, etc.

So why drink it, you ask? Because I LOVE the taste of coffee.... and have done since my first cup of (USN-style) coffee when I was 18. Hadn't had it before then simply because it wasn't available.... my dad drank it, but my mom did not, so he got his on his way to work.

[lawman]

>>Caffeine may be a drug, but it's one with no effect on me no matter how much of it I use

Are you sure you weren't on your 13th pot when you posted msg #10 HERE [webmasterworld.com]. :)

[vkaryl]

lawman: nope. I don't need "extras" when my hot spots get twitched. I can fly off the handle without any outside assistance at all.

[Robino]

Think about that: We use caffeine to make up for a sleep deficit that is largely the result of using caffeine."

That is true for some people.

[bedlam]

flirts with the question of is caffeine a drug

I'm not really sure that "caffeine is the world's most popular psychoactive drug" (from the summary of the article on the contents page in the magazine) qualifies as 'flirtation,' really... :)

-B

[AAnnAArchy]

I love the link to their forum where they discuss how to brew the best pot of coffee and several people are raving about the tastiness of...Yuban. Egads, Yuban?

[grandpa]

raving about the tastiness of...Yuban

Just goes to prove there is no accounting for taste. Actually, I was thinking Yuban was the coffee some family friends liked. They were from Louisiana. Looking into it deeper, I think Luzianne might have been the ghastly brew they enjoyed. It most certainly was a chicory/coffee blend, dark roasted. The stuff was very bitter, strong as Superman, and kicked like a mule.

[snowman]

Doctor told me to stay away from caffeine. It's not healthy for me. It's a trigger for my migraines and it gives me heart palpitations.

Before that, yea it definitely acted on me like a drug. My friends can't understand why I don't drink it any more (they drink it all of the time).

[mona]

vkaryl - if you don't get withdrawal headaches, you are one of the fortunate ones. Pretty much everyone I know who ever cut out caffeine got wicked headaches, myself included. I was forced to stop for a few weeks due to an accident, I would never stop drinking it by choice;-) <twitch twitch>

[vkaryl]

My daughter has that problem too, mona.... and NOT because I was drinking tons of coffee, alcohol, etc. while pregnant! I wasn't, talk about squeaky clean....

Actually, my daughter can't even have soft drinks with caffeine, very much chocolate, or cocoa drinks, chocolate cake.... bummer.... Has to be from my mom, who also had troubles of that nature.

I on the other hand got my dad's genes. Thankfully.