Daily Coffee Habits May Affect Brain Plasticity and Learning
Daily Coffee Habits May Affect Brain Plasticity and Learning
The research indicates that regular caffeine users might experience diminished long-term potentiation (LTP), a crucial process for learning and memory.
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
Coffee and red wine.
Every other day, both will make you live forever.
Every other other day, both will instantly kill you the moment you ingest any amount no matter how small.
Sometimes I get out my tinfoil hat and think these studies are trying to create more reasons for insurance companies to increase premiums and deny coverage.
10The media misrepresents and exaggerates the science.
There's also a problem with p hacking in science. Scientists looking for a correlation and removing all the data that doesn't show a correlation. You end up with what appears a good chance of correlation. However, you don't see all the other data which would suggest the p value obtained is random noise.
Wine is fermented fruit juice. So it'll have benefits of eating fruit and consuming fermented products. It also has alcohol which is bad for. If we mixed bleach and medicine it we would also find benefits from consuming some of such a mixture, we would also find lots of evidence that consuming it is bad for you. The sensible thing would be to only consume the medicine and not the bleach, but that would never make the headlines.
Additionally many observations in health studies correlating lifestyle choices can be associated with income/class. Those with higher incomes tend to drink wine rather than beer. They also consume more coffee. People with higher incomes tend to live longer and healthier life's (less stress, better healthcare, better living environment, more leisure etc), they also drink more coffee and wine.
11If the media read our comments: "Lemmy user ForgotAboutDre shares benefits of consuming medicine and bleach together."
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Most of the good stuff in red wine is invalidated by the alcohol inside.
3Personally, red wine gives me a headache and coffee makes me anxious. So I don't care what these inconclusive studies say (positive or negative), for me personally both are bad (though I still do drink coffee). I think people should ignore these inconclusive studies and do self-experiments instead, until we have better data. Most people have a baseline level of being hyper-caffeinated and can't imagine life without it. Life could be better or it could be worse, but people don't care to experiment.
0ever lose your glasses and they are on your head? I think I do that now with my tin foil hat too.
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Interesting read, I'm not sure either understand all the data, but it would be worth more trials.
3I hate articles that don't include sample size or demographic.
Fortunately, this article also highlights that they do need more data.
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I drink a lot of coffee and I agree that coffee has mixed results on my brain. 🙂
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