000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 11 months agoWhat would happen if caffeine was made illegal?message-squaremessage-square128fedilinkarrow-up1256arrow-down115file-text
arrow-up1241arrow-down1message-squareWhat would happen if caffeine was made illegal?000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 11 months agomessage-square128fedilinkfile-text
Caffeine must be one of, if not the, most used drug. It is vital to the operation of more or less every industry.
minus-squareHazzialinkfedilinkarrow-up7·11 months agoWow, that weirdly explains why the 40 hour workweek has always made me suffer so much - caffeine doesn’t affect me, so I’ve never gotten an energy boost from it.
minus-squarecodRL@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 months agoI would classify the effects of caffeine as more anti-drowsy than energy-boosting but maybe that is just semantics. I haven’t had any caffeine in my diet for nearly 2 months now and I feel amazing.
minus-squareBongles@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoI’m pretty sure you’re right. Without looking it up to correct myself I’m pretty sure caffeine blocks receptors for the tired stuff.
minus-squarekrispfinish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoYes - the tired stuff is a substance called adenosine.
Wow, that weirdly explains why the 40 hour workweek has always made me suffer so much - caffeine doesn’t affect me, so I’ve never gotten an energy boost from it.
I would classify the effects of caffeine as more anti-drowsy than energy-boosting but maybe that is just semantics.
I haven’t had any caffeine in my diet for nearly 2 months now and I feel amazing.
I’m pretty sure you’re right. Without looking it up to correct myself I’m pretty sure caffeine blocks receptors for the tired stuff.
Yes - the tired stuff is a substance called adenosine.
ADHD?
Bingo