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Speaker 1: and I just wanted to say it's glad to be back, buddy. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it is nice to be back, and uh, it's good
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Speaker 1: to see you again. It's a long time. What's happened
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Speaker 1: in the In the meantime, I lost another tooth. Yea,
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Speaker 1: my stupid front the toothnext to the one that came
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Speaker 1: out broke off at a Falcon's game. Oh well there
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Speaker 1: So I have another stupid flipper in another eight months
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Speaker 1: of eight months early, yeah, until I get the permanent implant.
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Speaker 1: laugh a lot, which I'm trying to just lead a
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Speaker 1: more somber life. Well I plan on making you laugh
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Speaker 1: a lot on stage so people might see it. Then
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Speaker 1: what else? Have you got a dog? Yeah? We got
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Speaker 1: a puppy named Momo. You wanna talk about Momo? Momo
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Speaker 1: is very sweet. She's a sweet little zoo poodle next year.
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Speaker 1: How's that going. She's a little fluff ballt very good. Yes, good?
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Speaker 1: Right off the bat we um we create trained her
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Speaker 1: and at first I was like chrits or mean, put
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Speaker 1: a dog and create, And then I started to read
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Speaker 1: up on it, like yes, it's like her den. It's
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Speaker 1: her little room like her bedroom. In fact, when we
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Speaker 1: took away the crate from our youngest dog, Charlie because
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Speaker 1: of we needed a breakfast nook. Um. She was kind
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Speaker 1: of like, dude, he took my room away. That was
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Speaker 1: my room. Yeah. We plan to keep her crate around,
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Speaker 1: like as long as she wants it, but just she
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Speaker 1: won't be penned in it against her will at certain
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Speaker 1: times until until she's house broken, which I mean she's
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Speaker 1: basically there. It's just we're we're like, what are you doing,
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Speaker 1: You're about to pee? You know. Um, she doesn't actually
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Speaker 1: have accidents in the house. We're just you know, staying
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Speaker 1: on top of that. It's great. What else happened? Uh?
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Speaker 1: We had holidays, yes, good Christmas. In the New Year's
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Speaker 1: I guess Humi's birthday. Oh yeah, the birthday. Um, and
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Speaker 1: it was just a nice time off. Like I had
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Speaker 1: this big to do list and uh none of it
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Speaker 1: got done because I was raising replace that. Yeah, how's
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Speaker 1: your kid? Uh, Ruby's great man. And I did the
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Speaker 1: same thing. I had a big to do list and
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Speaker 1: I found myself just kind of be like, oh, could
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Speaker 1: you do this? Or I could just like play with
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Speaker 1: my kid, right, or watch Making a Murderer? Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: did watch all that. Stay here and like a day
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about that. We probably shouldn't talk about it.
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Speaker 1: People wanted to do a podcast on that. I don't
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Speaker 1: like a follow up. Maybe it's not as bad as
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Speaker 1: the request to do a podcast on the h the
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Speaker 1: case that Sereal covered, like I think Cereal cover. No,
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Speaker 1: of course not. I could maybe do a follow up
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Speaker 1: on making a murder. I think we should revisit Um
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Speaker 1: Exonerations and the Innocence Project again because when we did
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Speaker 1: that one, we had no idea what was going on,
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Speaker 1: and now it's really like it's really coming through true.
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Speaker 1: So yes, let's do that. I've been playing a lot
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Speaker 1: of uh I got a p S four. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: I've been playing Fallout for with the Dog and the Dogs. Well,
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Speaker 1: you can't have a dog companion, so of course I
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Speaker 1: chose it. But it's really awful because the dog gets
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Speaker 1: hurt a lot and like struggles around, whimpering and out
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Speaker 1: of its misery. Well, no, you can heal the dog.
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Speaker 1: But I went to message boards and everyone's like, don't
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Speaker 1: heal your dog, Like, just trust me, it'll heal itself.
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Speaker 1: Don't waste your medicine. Okay, yeah, I'm sure you waste
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Speaker 1: your medicine every time, don't you. Well, yeah, it's tough
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Speaker 1: to do. Yeah, and it's like, oh, okay, don't mind me.
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Speaker 1: Dog meat and that's his name. So that's a that
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Speaker 1: was a big time off. Just it was and that's
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Speaker 1: all that happened. Jerry, How about you? That was great, Jerry.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you had a nice time as well. Jerry
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Speaker 1: also had a nice break with her little baby in
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Speaker 1: these through a series of blinks she did that we've
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Speaker 1: worked out over the year. Nice job, all right, So
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Speaker 1: sorry about the long injury, but I felt like we
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Speaker 1: needed to catch everyone up, even though you didn't know
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Speaker 1: that you needed it right, And maybe has something to
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Speaker 1: do with caffeine because we did such a good job
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Speaker 1: when we recorded those ones that were released over the
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Speaker 1: break of predicting things we would be talking about the time,
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Speaker 1: who could tell exactly. So I'm a little caffeinated right now,
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Speaker 1: believe it or not. What a shock. Um. I don't
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Speaker 1: drink nearly as much as coffee as I used to.
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Speaker 1: It's because I really realized, like it really does have
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Speaker 1: a detrimental effect on like my mood. Stay in the
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Speaker 1: car cars are really good example of me and caffeine.
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Speaker 1: You're a little ramped up in the car anyway, so
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Speaker 1: that probably and help. Right. Well, I'm working on that,
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Speaker 1: but part of working on that is just, you know,
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Speaker 1: not drinking as much coffee. Yeah. I think a good
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Speaker 1: title for this could be mixed messages because in studying caffeine,
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Speaker 1: and we did one on coffee, we dabbled in this
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Speaker 1: a little bit, but um, all research is, you know, caffeine,
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Speaker 1: it can be really good for you and help a
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Speaker 1: lot of things, and caffeine can be kind of bad
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Speaker 1: for you, and it's kind of both or can be both.
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Speaker 1: It sure, things like that unless we have like a
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Speaker 1: completely misunderstood UM model of addiction and um the parasympathetic
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Speaker 1: or sympathetic nervous system. Unless we don't know those things,
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Speaker 1: then yeah, coffee is both for sure. The weird thing is,
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Speaker 1: like everybody realizes that coffee, I'm sorry, caffeine. I think
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Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna do that a lot this episode because
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Speaker 1: they are virtually interchangeable. But it's not really but caffeine, um,
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Speaker 1: it is. It has a lot of really bad effects
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Speaker 1: on you, and a lot of people know that just
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Speaker 1: from having experienced it. It's the it's the beneficial effects
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Speaker 1: that are so surprising. They do seem to like you say, agreed,
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Speaker 1: So Chuck, I drink today. I've had five cups of
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Speaker 1: coffee and mountain diet mountain dew. And it is one
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Speaker 1: forty in the afternoon. What time did you get up? Seven? Yes,
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Speaker 1: I'm counting on my fingers. Six and a half hour.
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Speaker 1: You six and a half hours. You've had five cups
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Speaker 1: of coffee in a mountain dew. The met's cutting back, yes,
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Speaker 1: oh man, Yeah, and it's cutting back because I like
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Speaker 1: this afternoon. I won't keep going. Oh so you stop?
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Speaker 1: This is this will be my last probably really for
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Speaker 1: the day. Yeah, okay, And I'm actually I'm above average
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Speaker 1: for the United States. And I could have guessed that,
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Speaker 1: but the average for the United States is actually on
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Speaker 1: the worse end of the spectrum as far as like
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Speaker 1: caffeine consumption goes. Yeah. The latest information I got this
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Speaker 1: that the US was sixteenth in the world in per
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Speaker 1: capita consumption, not even or nine or any anywhere above ten.
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Speaker 1: If you want to know who leads the world right out,
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Speaker 1: I think it's the Netherlands, is what I found. I
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Speaker 1: found Finland from that was the most recent I saw. Well,
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Speaker 1: the most recent I saw said the Netherlands at two
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Speaker 1: point four, with Finland at one point eight. But that
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Speaker 1: is not what I saw. Yeah, where were the Netherlands
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Speaker 1: on your list? I don't remember. I just saw the
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Speaker 1: Finland was number one at like two point four and
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Speaker 1: um like nine point six kilograms of coffee beans per
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Speaker 1: person per year consumed. Well, I bet the top ten
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Speaker 1: is kind of interchangeable and fairly static, though, as in
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Speaker 1: the Samish countries in different orders. Yeah, because I mean
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Speaker 1: coffee consumption patterns. I guess they could change fairly rapidly,
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Speaker 1: but they don't change in the blink of an eye.
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Speaker 1: We'll think about how much Starbucks change coffee consumption in
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Speaker 1: this country, didn't ramp it up? Oh yeah, Like think
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Speaker 1: about how many people now swing by Starbucks are like
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Speaker 1: three pm, whereas before they may not even have drank coffee,
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Speaker 1: I mean Charbucks. Yeah, actually have no skin in the
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Speaker 1: game Starbucks. Yeah, I don't really well, you know, I
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Speaker 1: mean I don't drink caffeine that much. I know, very mellow. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm starting to think I should drink
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Speaker 1: more coffee though, because of the health benefits. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know. Um, we'll see, we'll get into all that.
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Speaker 1: But in the top ten you have Netherlands, Finland, Sweden,
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Speaker 1: in Mark, Germany, scandin Maybia loves her coffee, apparently, Slovakia, Serbia,
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Speaker 1: Czech Republic, Poland, Norway than eventually the US cold countries.
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Speaker 1: It's not bad, although Brazil loves its coffee as well.
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Speaker 1: I think they're like number ten or eleven or something
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Speaker 1: like that. Good coffee. I didn't see they weren't even
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Speaker 1: in my top sixteen. So we had different lists made
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Speaker 1: by two different caffeinated weirdos. Uh so, the us UM,
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Speaker 1: the FDA, and the A m A. Right now, I
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Speaker 1: think they raised it to four hundred milligerms a day
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Speaker 1: from three hundred, just in that pace of changing coffee consumption. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think it's now to four hundred milligrams a day,
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Speaker 1: as they said, should be like the upper limit of
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Speaker 1: what you should drink and what is cool to drink
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Speaker 1: for your health, right, not by being cool. You could
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Speaker 1: drink a hundred cups to day and you'd be super cool.
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Speaker 1: That's why I drink coffee so much. And so so
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Speaker 1: what is that four d milligrams a day? That's about
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Speaker 1: two eight ounce cups of coffee. Yes, like high high coffee. Um,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, it's no more than maybe three. Well, and
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Speaker 1: that's caffeine though that's not coffee, So you might also
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Speaker 1: be drinking sodas, or eating chocolate or eating on a
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Speaker 1: cocoa nib that's packed with caffeine. Yeah. Yeah, it does
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Speaker 1: show up in all sorts of surprising places, um, including
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Speaker 1: I looked this up decaff coffee as well. We should say, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's still got some caffeine in there, right, Yeah, So
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Speaker 1: like a cup of coffee, eight ounces of coffee can
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Speaker 1: have anywhere from like seventy five to two milligrams of
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Speaker 1: caffeine in it. Decaf coffee still might have like twenty milligrams.
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Speaker 1: And I mean it doesn't sound like much, but if
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Speaker 1: you're pounding decaf coffee because you love coffee but you're
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Speaker 1: trying to cut back on caffeine, stuff can adda interesting. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I knew there was some caffeine, but maybe that's not
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Speaker 1: Is that negligible? I it's twenty itself. Just if you
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Speaker 1: drank one decaffe eate a couple of coffee a day, Yes,
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Speaker 1: I think on the overall effects of your health that
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Speaker 1: would be negligible, but both ways because again the coffee
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Speaker 1: giveth and the coffee take it the way the double
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Speaker 1: edged drug. Yeah, and it is. It is a drug.
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Speaker 1: And it is also in t which we'll get to
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Speaker 1: as well. Um, but yeah, it's a drug. It's it
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Speaker 1: naturally occurs like many drugs. But it is a stimulant
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Speaker 1: called trimethyls anthine. Chemical formulas C H uh C eight
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Speaker 1: H one zero in for O two not zero two.
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Speaker 1: I think there's a ten in there. What did I say?
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Speaker 1: One zero? Which you know if you're on a CB
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Speaker 1: or something, they get the point. Oh man, this is
13:23
Speaker 1: close to CB chatter as as you can come. Um,
13:27
Speaker 1: I quick segue here. I used to love talking on
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Speaker 1: the CB because my dad had one in his jeep.
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Speaker 1: And remember when CB culture was huge in the seventies.
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Speaker 1: My buddy John Pendell now is a trucker. You met
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Speaker 1: John where in at our New York shows, Tall Johnny Pendell. Uh,
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Speaker 1: he's a trucker now and I got to hang out
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Speaker 1: and get in his truck. Uh. And he does not
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Speaker 1: use a CB, and he said that he might get one,
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Speaker 1: but it's not like the standard thing anymore. Texting and
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Speaker 1: cell phones I mean he's said, if you really want
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Speaker 1: to be a part of that big trucker culture, you
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Speaker 1: can do the c B Still, well, you can just
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Speaker 1: be a lone wolf. He's a lone wolf right now.
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Speaker 1: He is. He needs one of those um jackets like
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Speaker 1: Lenny and Squeaky used to wear. Yeah, it was fascinating
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Speaker 1: that we need to do an episode on trucking, because
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Speaker 1: when I saw him, all I did was ask questions. Basically, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's fascinating. Does he have his own rig? No, he doesn't. Okay, anyway, well,
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Speaker 1: hey to Johnny and he listens to the podcast now,
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Speaker 1: So hey Johnny, because you don't need to see if
14:31
Speaker 1: you listen to stuff, you should know we are your company,
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Speaker 1: all right. So anyway, caffeine, he does drink a lot
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Speaker 1: of caffeine. I think that's where I was going that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but that that really had nothing to do with it.
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Speaker 1: I brought up sebs because he said, H one zero,
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Speaker 1: why don't we take a break and get our sea
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Speaker 1: legs back? Are pe legs are a little rusty? And
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Speaker 1: um P is in podcast? Not you're in I thought you, Oh, hey,
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you some thing about this break. I learned
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Speaker 1: that there's something called mixturition syncope, and mixturition is a
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Speaker 1: lot of people think it means two P. No urination
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Speaker 1: is two P. Mixturition is the urge to pe. Syncope
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Speaker 1: is a fainting spell. So there's a condition out there
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Speaker 1: called mixturition syncope where people faint after they pee. There's
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Speaker 1: also one called defication syncope, where people faint after they
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Speaker 1: poop if they have no idea. I think Elvis had
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Speaker 1: the most severe case of that. All right, well, don't
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Speaker 1: let that happen to you during this break, and we
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Speaker 1: will be back right after this. Have we got it together?
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Speaker 1: That was like half a second. Are we good? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I guess though. All right, we're gonna give it another step.
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Speaker 1: So caffeine, I think that's what we're talking about. It's
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Speaker 1: a drug, and in its pure form, chuck is a bitter,
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Speaker 1: bitter tasting crystalline powder. It's actually very closely related at
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Speaker 1: least in its effects to um opoi opioid antagonists like heroin, cocaine, caffeine. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: um and I will talk a little more about the brain,
16:32
Speaker 1: the effects on the brain, but it is um It
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Speaker 1: does have these effects, and it does basically this it
16:39
Speaker 1: uses the same mechanism as these drugs, and therefore it
16:42
Speaker 1: can cause addictions just like these drugs as well. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and um, Like I said, it occurs naturally. It's in
16:48
Speaker 1: the coffee bean and in chocolate and t um, but
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Speaker 1: it's also added artificially and things like soda. UM and
16:57
Speaker 1: I looked up the sodas to get the most recent
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Speaker 1: um amount. And Pepsi one right now, I think as
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Speaker 1: the most caffeine. Man, do you remember jolt and I
17:06
Speaker 1: used to drink a ton of ault. I'm sure you did. Well.
17:09
Speaker 1: I would drink one right before the podcast, remember, and
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Speaker 1: I'd just be like talking a thousand miles an hour
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Speaker 1: the good old days. Because I've settled down quite a bit,
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Speaker 1: you have, I'm happier for it. Pepsi one at fifty
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Speaker 1: seven milligrams, tab is number two at forty eight, diet
17:23
Speaker 1: coca forty six. You will work your way down to
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Speaker 1: regular role Coca cola at thirty three milligrams per twelve
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Speaker 1: ounce can um and the FDA regulates how much caffeine
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Speaker 1: you can put in a soda. A soda A soda.
17:38
Speaker 1: That's the key, that's right. If you were an energy
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Speaker 1: drink um like Red Bull or any of those other
17:44
Speaker 1: gross tasting things. I don't like them personally, but people
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Speaker 1: love them. I just don't like the taste. But um,
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Speaker 1: that's the work around for the FDA. Because they're not
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Speaker 1: considered SODA's. They can put lots of caffeine and sugar
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Speaker 1: to the tune of about eight milligrams per um eight
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Speaker 1: point three ounces, which you're like the case of Red Bull,
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Speaker 1: that's a lot of caffeine. It does seem like a lot,
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Speaker 1: but some people love to take it even further. And
18:11
Speaker 1: there's like those five hour energy shots. Oh yeah, I
18:14
Speaker 1: have had those before. Those are two I have not
18:16
Speaker 1: tried it before. I don't know why. I think I
18:18
Speaker 1: was doing construction work and I was really tired, and
18:22
Speaker 1: I was at the big box store and it was
18:24
Speaker 1: right there to checkout. I was like, let me try
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Speaker 1: this thing, yeah, and it it ramped me up. I
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Speaker 1: felt like a speedhead. So in the in that little
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Speaker 1: two ounce shot, there's two milligrams of of caffeine, the
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Speaker 1: one like a high end amount in a coffee in
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Speaker 1: that little two ounce shot. Okay, And I think those
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Speaker 1: are the like coffee has the most of any beverage.
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Speaker 1: I think espresso ounce for ounce has the most well,
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Speaker 1: I mean from the coffee being at least espresso bean,
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Speaker 1: not like an artificial drink, is what I meant. We
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Speaker 1: got an espresso maker and has pronounced effects. It's crazy
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Speaker 1: how different it is from coffee. Yeah. I like an
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Speaker 1: espresso every now and then, and I like my coffee
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Speaker 1: right now and then, but just every now and then.
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Speaker 1: If you want the health benefits though, and you're like,
19:12
Speaker 1: I don't drink that much coffee, you should just be
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Speaker 1: injecting pure caffeine chunk. Can you do that? They do
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Speaker 1: it to mice. Yeah, that's a good point, as we'll
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Speaker 1: see you later on. Um true, I should probably again,
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Speaker 1: it's been several weeks since we've done this. I need
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Speaker 1: to probably throw out a disclaimer there. That was a joke, right,
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Speaker 1: don't inject caffeine. And you know, if you can even
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Speaker 1: get your hands on pure caffeine, do not inject it.
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Speaker 1: You probably shouldn't inject anything, let alone the pure form
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Speaker 1: of anything, because even too much water can kill you.
19:45
Speaker 1: Always remember that everybody, Even too much water can kill you.
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Speaker 1: And I did look into caffeine overdoses because I was curious,
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Speaker 1: and it doesn't happen much because you'd have to drink
19:55
Speaker 1: so much of something that it makes it unlikely. But
19:58
Speaker 1: there have been overdose is blamed on caffeine pills, like okay,
20:02
Speaker 1: what's the milligram amount, what's the dosage amount? That I
20:06
Speaker 1: can't remember. This one kid died in Connecticut, like a
20:09
Speaker 1: nineteen year old that I think he had like a
20:13
Speaker 1: dozen or two dozen caffeine pills. Um. And it's the
20:17
Speaker 1: I think the deal with caffeine pills. It's concentrated and
20:20
Speaker 1: it hits you all at once, So taking a lot
20:22
Speaker 1: of it is just like overdosing on any kind of stimulant.
20:25
Speaker 1: I think it's a stimulant. Yeah, that's some weird stuff
20:29
Speaker 1: to you in killing you. And like you said, Schucker's Um.
20:32
Speaker 1: We already talked about coffee in the coffee episode, right,
20:36
Speaker 1: but it's just some of it bears repeating, like um,
20:39
Speaker 1: the lighter the roast, the higher the caffeine content, typically
20:43
Speaker 1: because the roasting process actually bakes out a lot of
20:46
Speaker 1: the caffeine. I thought you were gonna make up a
20:47
Speaker 1: clever rhyme like the light of the roast, the darker
20:50
Speaker 1: the toast or something No, that's that doesn't make any sense.
20:55
Speaker 1: The rhymes got it at least makes sense or else
20:57
Speaker 1: it's just rhyming words about how about the lighter the
21:01
Speaker 1: roast more caffeine than most About that that actually makes sense?
21:07
Speaker 1: And so if you want to extract the most caffeine
21:10
Speaker 1: out of your diet. Actually came across a website called
21:14
Speaker 1: Bulletproof Exact. You know that bulletproof coffee thing where you
21:18
Speaker 1: put like butter in your coffee. It's like a diet thing. Um,
21:23
Speaker 1: I think aids and pooping and butter in your coffee. Yeah,
21:26
Speaker 1: butter in your coffee called bulletproof. It's actually not bad.
21:29
Speaker 1: If you like that, though, take it one step further
21:31
Speaker 1: and use um coconut oil. That's even better because's got
21:35
Speaker 1: a little it's like an almond joy creamer, but like
21:39
Speaker 1: an oily version of it. Anyway, this Bulletproof Exact, they
21:44
Speaker 1: had a post about maximizing your caffeine intake so you
21:47
Speaker 1: can suck to your underlings throughout the day or whatever
21:51
Speaker 1: most efficiently. Right and um, one of the things that
21:54
Speaker 1: they said is that grapefruit you should eat more grapefruit
21:58
Speaker 1: because grapefruit contains something called um narragant or narrow gin um.
22:03
Speaker 1: And it actually slows the removal of caffeine from your brain,
22:08
Speaker 1: so you enjoy its effects longer. Yeah. So a morning
22:12
Speaker 1: breakfast in the nineteen fifties of coffee and the grape
22:14
Speaker 1: half a grapefruit, that's all you needed. And then your
22:19
Speaker 1: noon cocaine bump just to keep you going, just drinking
22:22
Speaker 1: coca cola exactly. And um, if you also, if you
22:26
Speaker 1: want to maximize your caffeine and take from coffee, you
22:28
Speaker 1: should look at the beans you're drinking. So Arabica, which
22:32
Speaker 1: is I think the most prevalent coffee um has it's
22:35
Speaker 1: one point five percent caffeine, but robusta two point four
22:40
Speaker 1: That is robust as far as I know, that's the
22:42
Speaker 1: highest caffeine content naturally of any coffee bean. So a
22:46
Speaker 1: light roast robusta is gonna basically with your grapefruit. Yeah
22:51
Speaker 1: you it will be like getting kicked in the chest
22:53
Speaker 1: by a mule. Wow. And it doesn't that sound appealing.
22:56
Speaker 1: That's what every bulletproof exact want shows you how to
22:59
Speaker 1: be more efficient, robber baron. So let's get down to
23:04
Speaker 1: this man. Uh, how how does caffeine actually affect your brain,
23:09
Speaker 1: because it does affect your brain. The whole point behind
23:12
Speaker 1: taking coffee and stuff like that is as the guy
23:14
Speaker 1: who wrote this article, oh, the three guys who wrote
23:17
Speaker 1: this article, including you, Yeah, on this I forgot. Um
23:21
Speaker 1: it's it's using caffeine. It's a form of self medication.
23:25
Speaker 1: Of course. That's why most people drink it, I think,
23:28
Speaker 1: to get that boost in the morning, um or in
23:30
Speaker 1: the middle of afternoon. Yeah, and I'm sure people love
23:33
Speaker 1: the taste and stuff. It's not like they're holding their
23:35
Speaker 1: nose and forcing this drink down their throat. Well that's
23:38
Speaker 1: what like five hour energes for. No, don't taste very good,
23:41
Speaker 1: do they not. I've never tasted one. I've always wondered,
23:44
Speaker 1: but I've never wanted to experience its effects so badly
23:47
Speaker 1: that I tasted it. I mean, you know, it's like, uh,
23:51
Speaker 1: just that synthetic fruit taste. Does it taste like medicinal
23:55
Speaker 1: at all? Yeah? It just taste. Yeah, this is not
23:57
Speaker 1: good in my opinion. Well, it's as two ounces. You
24:00
Speaker 1: get it over with real quick, it down and like
24:03
Speaker 1: you're done, punch a wall. Uh So how does it
24:08
Speaker 1: work on the brain? It tricks your brain actually by
24:11
Speaker 1: mimicking something called ADENA scene. UM, and it's it's kind
24:16
Speaker 1: of remarkable actually because what it does is it mimics
24:21
Speaker 1: a DNA scene and then does the opposite of what
24:23
Speaker 1: a DNA scene does, which is to try and help
24:26
Speaker 1: you sleep. It's pretty cool. Yeah, so you know you
24:29
Speaker 1: have a sleep wake cycle, right, part of the sleep
24:31
Speaker 1: cycle is a DNA scene UM latching onto the adenacene
24:36
Speaker 1: receptors on your neurons. And yeah, it does make you
24:39
Speaker 1: sleepy because it slows the the function of your neurons down.
24:44
Speaker 1: It's a it's a big buzz kill. Basically, it's a
24:46
Speaker 1: drag aDNA scene is well, it's great, it is, Yeah,
24:49
Speaker 1: it's it's it helps make you sleepy. And what caffeine
24:53
Speaker 1: does is it gets in there to the same receptor.
24:55
Speaker 1: It binds to the same receptor as a DNA scene. UM.
24:59
Speaker 1: It was because you're brain thinks it's a DNA scene.
25:02
Speaker 1: It puts on it's a DNA sing costume pretty much,
25:05
Speaker 1: which consists of like a sparkly one piece jumpsuit. It's
25:08
Speaker 1: a onesie um. And it not only doesn't slow your
25:13
Speaker 1: neurons down and apparently speeds them up. Yes, so your
25:17
Speaker 1: brain starts going hey wire. That's part one of what
25:21
Speaker 1: caffeine does your brain. It not only doesn't slow your
25:24
Speaker 1: brain down, it prevents the thing that does slow your
25:26
Speaker 1: brain down from slowing your brain down, and it actually
25:30
Speaker 1: speeds your brain up wire. And not only that, but
25:33
Speaker 1: a DNA scene UM usually will not usually a DNA
25:36
Speaker 1: scene always causes your blood vessels to dilate, and caffeine
25:39
Speaker 1: causes them to constrict, which sounds bad, but one of
25:43
Speaker 1: the pluses, and we'll get into the benefits, but one
25:46
Speaker 1: of them is um constricting. It can it maybe help
25:50
Speaker 1: you avoid headaches and migraines. And that's why caffeine is
25:54
Speaker 1: in things like Annison or my my old reliable BC
26:00
Speaker 1: or Goodies headache powders that I use contain caffeine. Yeah,
26:04
Speaker 1: that's my secret hangover helper BC powder PC or Goodies.
26:09
Speaker 1: It acts fast. They work really well too, both together. Yeah. Yeah,
26:15
Speaker 1: So caffeine is a vaso constrictor right, that's right. It
26:20
Speaker 1: constricts your blood vessels, and like you said, that can
26:23
Speaker 1: actually help your headaches because a lot of headaches vascular headaches,
26:27
Speaker 1: I guess, is what they're called, or when your blood
26:29
Speaker 1: vessels are too big, and the change and pressure in
26:32
Speaker 1: your brain gives you this horrible headache. Right, So while
26:36
Speaker 1: this is happening, your body thinks these neurons are firing.
26:39
Speaker 1: Your pituitary gland says you must be in trouble because
26:43
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be going to sleep. Buddy, Yeah, something,
26:45
Speaker 1: there's clearly a bear coming at you. I don't know about.
26:47
Speaker 1: Something's wrong, So let's send you some adrenaline. We talked
26:51
Speaker 1: at nauseum about fight or flight, and your body thinks
26:54
Speaker 1: that's what's going on when you drink coffee so or
26:57
Speaker 1: caffeine and so it says here you need this adrenaline because,
27:01
Speaker 1: like you said, you got a bear come in your way. Uh,
27:04
Speaker 1: and all the hallmarks of fight or flight kick in
27:07
Speaker 1: which man, this used to be like our yeah, and
27:11
Speaker 1: now it's just such an accepted part of everything. Do
27:14
Speaker 1: we even need to say the things anymore? Go ahead, okay,
27:17
Speaker 1: So your pupils dilate, You're breathing um becomes more rapid,
27:22
Speaker 1: you get more breaths um. If you're eating something, you
27:26
Speaker 1: stop digesting it because your stomach doesn't matter at that point.
27:30
Speaker 1: It's right superfluous um. Your blood pressure rises, your liver
27:35
Speaker 1: releases sugar in the bloodstream, so you can get some
27:37
Speaker 1: extra energy. You're ready to get out. Basically, it's like
27:41
Speaker 1: time for some action. Yeah, and that's why you drink
27:43
Speaker 1: that cup of coffee. You might feel tense like you
27:46
Speaker 1: in the car, yes, or agitated. Uh, it's because your
27:50
Speaker 1: body thinks you're about to be in a big fight
27:53
Speaker 1: with the car next to you, which ends up it's
27:56
Speaker 1: this weird reverse cycle. It ends up causing that fight. Yeah,
28:00
Speaker 1: you know, I'm you'll also find if you drink a
28:02
Speaker 1: lot of coffee like me, they're big not develops in
28:06
Speaker 1: between your shoulder blades just just below your neck. Nice. Um,
28:11
Speaker 1: it's just yet another result of your muscles tightening and
28:14
Speaker 1: you being ready for action thanks to the fight or
28:16
Speaker 1: flight syndrome. So your brain has been kept from getting drowsy.
28:21
Speaker 1: It's been sent in to basically like a Lucy esque
28:24
Speaker 1: assembly line of chocolates. Um, the the fight or flight
28:28
Speaker 1: syndrome is kicked in that that describes like a significant
28:32
Speaker 1: amount of the effects of coffee. But there's a big
28:35
Speaker 1: one that's missing still that we haven't touched on, and
28:37
Speaker 1: that is it's pleasurable effects. It makes you feel good,
28:40
Speaker 1: because it's a stimulant and it's a drug, and just
28:43
Speaker 1: like all the other illicit illegal drugs, this one is
28:47
Speaker 1: just accepted. But it has the same effect. It's going
28:49
Speaker 1: to release dopamine and that's the pleasure center activation center, right,
28:56
Speaker 1: and it makes you want more of it and so
28:58
Speaker 1: that dopamines flowing and your bodies like, man, this is great. Yeah,
29:01
Speaker 1: So it doesn't actually it's like heroin and cocaine. It
29:04
Speaker 1: doesn't actually make you overproduce dopamine, but it keeps dopamine
29:09
Speaker 1: from being absorbed as quickly, so you get its effects
29:12
Speaker 1: longer and more than you would if you weren't under
29:15
Speaker 1: the influence of the drug, just like heroin, Just like cocaine.
29:18
Speaker 1: Caffeine again, it uses the exact same mechanism. It's just
29:21
Speaker 1: to a weaker degree, which is why, like again, people
29:25
Speaker 1: aren't shooting caffeine and there's a bad idea this. Uh,
29:30
Speaker 1: we should point out varies from person to person. Um
29:33
Speaker 1: the effects of caffeine on the body because it um
29:35
Speaker 1: metabolizes differently in everyone. So some people might be like
29:39
Speaker 1: I don't get jittery at all, or I can go
29:41
Speaker 1: right to sleep after coffee. Other people I'd like to
29:44
Speaker 1: see those people on an espresso shot of robusta. Yeah, yeah,
29:48
Speaker 1: I'll bet they wouldn't be singing the same song. Um.
29:50
Speaker 1: Other folks. I used to wait tables, um, and I
29:53
Speaker 1: would have people come in at like like lunch and
29:57
Speaker 1: say like, no, no, no, I can't like their friend
30:00
Speaker 1: get a cup of coffee. After they'd be like, no, no no, no,
30:01
Speaker 1: I'll be up all night. Are you serious? What did
30:06
Speaker 1: you say that? No? I was just always yeah, I
30:08
Speaker 1: always think it was a little weird. But like I said,
30:11
Speaker 1: it may keep them up all night. It's their own
30:14
Speaker 1: jam because people know their bodies, So don't don't just
30:17
Speaker 1: go with a decaf in that case. So we there
30:20
Speaker 1: are plenty of um negative effects like keeping you up
30:23
Speaker 1: all night, as well as positive effects with caffeine, and
30:27
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about those right after this. All right,
30:50
Speaker 1: So you've got the one to three punch. Um, your
30:53
Speaker 1: body is enjoying the caffeine. It's blocking that aDNA scene.
30:57
Speaker 1: You're gonna feel alert and awake. It's got that an
31:01
Speaker 1: adrenaline going and it's rewarding you with the dopamine. So
31:05
Speaker 1: it's gonna make you want to drink coffee. But I
31:08
Speaker 1: mentioned the vicious cycle. It is a bit because after
31:11
Speaker 1: coffee comes the inevitable crash, like any stimulant drug, and
31:15
Speaker 1: you want more of it um to get back up again.
31:18
Speaker 1: So you're gonna have that fatigue and maybe even slightly
31:22
Speaker 1: depressed feeling, and then you have a little bit more
31:25
Speaker 1: of that caffeine and it's gonna get you going again.
31:28
Speaker 1: And that's sort of the cycle that you find yourself in,
31:30
Speaker 1: which will eventually, even though you might not think it is,
31:34
Speaker 1: it's gonna affect your sleep patterns. Yeah. That that that
31:37
Speaker 1: cycle kind of continues on into the next day. Right,
31:40
Speaker 1: So coffee has a half life of six hours. Caffeine Yeah,
31:45
Speaker 1: I told you I. Um, caffeine is a half life
31:49
Speaker 1: of six hours. Where if you drink a cup of
31:51
Speaker 1: coffee that has two milligrams of caffeine UM at noon,
31:57
Speaker 1: at six pm, you will still have a hundred milligrams
31:59
Speaker 1: of affine in your system. So it's like um, at
32:03
Speaker 1: six you drank a red bull in a quarter right then, right,
32:10
Speaker 1: not exactly what you want, and then at midnight you
32:13
Speaker 1: would have fifty milligrams left, which is like more than
32:16
Speaker 1: a coke. That's like a mountain dews worth of caffeine
32:20
Speaker 1: and you again not really what you want. So, as
32:23
Speaker 1: the authors of this article, including you, point out, you
32:26
Speaker 1: may fall asleep, but that caffeine stimulation is probably going
32:31
Speaker 1: to keep you from getting deep sleep, and deep sleep
32:33
Speaker 1: is what you really genuinely need. And I think after
32:37
Speaker 1: researching this reading that sentence time because I think, like
32:41
Speaker 1: I basically like that that that's how I live my
32:45
Speaker 1: life is, Um, I don't sleep deeply. Even though I
32:49
Speaker 1: sleep deeply, I don't think I get actual deep sleep,
32:52
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So then you wake up
32:54
Speaker 1: craving the caffeine again exactly, and that's where that cycle
32:57
Speaker 1: goes on and on, where you just it's really have
33:00
Speaker 1: to quit it. Yeah, it's very interesting. Um, if you
33:04
Speaker 1: are pregnant, Uh, there are some studies that suggest and
33:09
Speaker 1: we should say there have been a lot of caffeine studies. Yeah,
33:12
Speaker 1: this article says like nineteen thousands since the sixties. I'm
33:16
Speaker 1: sure there's by now. Uh, And they are somewhat conflicting,
33:22
Speaker 1: So we always are going to say, like this study suggests,
33:25
Speaker 1: because they aren't hard and fast rules. But if you're pregnant,
33:28
Speaker 1: some studies suggests that three milligrams are more per day
33:32
Speaker 1: could lead to low birth weight and your little bb
33:36
Speaker 1: uh kids. I read one article like five experts talk
33:40
Speaker 1: about caffeine and children, and they all said that's not
33:43
Speaker 1: great for kids. No kids drink coffee these days, yes,
33:47
Speaker 1: but in the form of like those like coffee drinks
33:49
Speaker 1: that are super sweet and creamy and everything, but they
33:53
Speaker 1: drink like if walk around them all you'll you'll see
33:55
Speaker 1: like eight year olds with like a coffee drink just
33:57
Speaker 1: walking around like it's nothing. I went to the mall
34:00
Speaker 1: the other day for the first time in probably five years. Yeah,
34:02
Speaker 1: how was it? Was awful? Was it? And I hated
34:04
Speaker 1: every minute of it? And I'm not going back. The
34:06
Speaker 1: mall is another place that it's another thing that puts
34:09
Speaker 1: that like not just too many people in one place. Yeah,
34:13
Speaker 1: it's no good. And with the baby stroller, it was
34:15
Speaker 1: just like I wanted to put a spoon in my ear.
34:18
Speaker 1: Which mall I went to Perimeter, Um, I mean there
34:23
Speaker 1: was a we got new pillows, So I was like
34:26
Speaker 1: I had to go to the mall to get pillows,
34:29
Speaker 1: you know, because you gotta put your head on it,
34:32
Speaker 1: even through the plastic. Yeah, no, I know, I've been
34:34
Speaker 1: pillows shoving you know what I mean. New pillows are
34:37
Speaker 1: great though, Oh yeah, if you get a good one. Yeah.
34:40
Speaker 1: I've been on a bad run lately with pillows where
34:42
Speaker 1: I've gotten, well, that's two. I got one, wasn't very
34:47
Speaker 1: happy with it. The second one to replace it. Not
34:49
Speaker 1: it's better, but it's still not quite happy with it.
34:52
Speaker 1: Do you just use one pillow, one soft pillow? Yeah,
34:57
Speaker 1: anything else? I'm like, oh my neck, I gotta have
34:59
Speaker 1: one under my head. I gotta have one behind my
35:02
Speaker 1: head between my head and the headboard, and then one
35:05
Speaker 1: tied to your faith now and then a clutch you know,
35:08
Speaker 1: to hold on to, like to wrap up with. It's
35:12
Speaker 1: the best. Yeah, that's three pillows. Yeah, you sleep with
35:17
Speaker 1: three pillows Emily in Yeah, six total. Jerry tell us
35:22
Speaker 1: him blinks, how many pillows you sleep with? Three? Three
35:26
Speaker 1: as well? I think you're under pillowed. I guess so
35:29
Speaker 1: I sleep with one third the pillows you do. Here's
35:32
Speaker 1: a pillow tip though, if you're buying, just wait for
35:35
Speaker 1: a Macy's one day sale. Oh yeah, because pillows are expensive.
35:38
Speaker 1: Good ones are, yeah, very much. Get your hands on
35:42
Speaker 1: a good pillow. Yeah, and Macy's does it twice a year.
35:45
Speaker 1: I think maybe Memorial Day and Labor Day or their
35:48
Speaker 1: pillows sale days. Well, they had one going on after
35:51
Speaker 1: New Year's I am wrong. There, you have it all right.
35:55
Speaker 1: So we were talking about sleep and the shopping mall
35:58
Speaker 1: where kids were drinking coffee. It all comes together, it does, um.
36:01
Speaker 1: But all five of the of the experts said your
36:04
Speaker 1: kids shouldn't really be having too much or any caffeine.
36:08
Speaker 1: And they didn't say like because of like the health effects,
36:11
Speaker 1: uh like. On the basically, it was just like, just
36:15
Speaker 1: like sugar, you don't want your kids, you know, heart
36:18
Speaker 1: rate increased a lot and their blood pressure increased, and
36:22
Speaker 1: it's just not gonna do yourself any favors as a
36:25
Speaker 1: parent a caffeated child. But I genuinely believe that you
36:30
Speaker 1: can go through experiences like that as a younger kid
36:34
Speaker 1: and it'll make you a keyed up adult, a higher
36:38
Speaker 1: strung adult. You think I do. I have come to
36:40
Speaker 1: believe that experiences in childhood very prominently shape you're who
36:46
Speaker 1: you are as an adult very much. So I've come
36:48
Speaker 1: to I guess if you're thirteen and drink a lot
36:51
Speaker 1: of coffee and you get anxious, you'd probably be an
36:53
Speaker 1: anxious adult. I believe that probably keep drinking coffee, probably
36:57
Speaker 1: to stave off the anxiety. When did you start drinking
37:00
Speaker 1: coffee or did you always drink a lot of soda too? No,
37:06
Speaker 1: I guess it was as a more of a grown
37:08
Speaker 1: up for both. Really. Yeah, I drink a lot of
37:12
Speaker 1: kool aid as a kid, and like the straight up
37:15
Speaker 1: tons of sugar in the kool aid kool aid. Um.
37:20
Speaker 1: But and I drank like some some we called it pop,
37:24
Speaker 1: like fago and pepsi and stuff. But I mean, I
37:29
Speaker 1: I think it was like as an older person twenties,
37:33
Speaker 1: I started drinking like coffee and earnest and cokes. That's
37:36
Speaker 1: what it should be, I think. Sure. Um, I definitely
37:39
Speaker 1: didn't drink coffee as a kid. No, that was gross.
37:43
Speaker 1: Added to the taste of it was just really foul,
37:46
Speaker 1: I thought. But I really learned to love the taste
37:48
Speaker 1: of coffee, and I enjoy a nice hot cup of
37:51
Speaker 1: coffee on a camping trip or a cold day. Um.
37:55
Speaker 1: I just never took up the regular habit, and not
37:58
Speaker 1: for any reason other than I just, I don't know,
38:00
Speaker 1: just never grab me up. It wasn't like a stand though,
38:04
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm not gonna start drinking caffeine, you know,
38:08
Speaker 1: and everybody who drinks coffee can rot. No, because my
38:12
Speaker 1: brother in law and my mother in law drink more
38:13
Speaker 1: coffee than any humans alive, more than me, and they're
38:16
Speaker 1: both wonderful. Yeah. They're like, let's brew a pot of coffee,
38:21
Speaker 1: not a cup of coffee. Yeah, and let's just drink
38:24
Speaker 1: it until it's gone, then brew another pot. You know. Yeah,
38:28
Speaker 1: but they get a lot done. Accomplished people. They sleep
38:32
Speaker 1: several inches above the bed. One of them is a
38:34
Speaker 1: general in the Marine Corps. That shows you where he is. Actually,
38:37
Speaker 1: that's my mother in law. All right. How about some
38:41
Speaker 1: health benefits, Uh, there are a lot, believe it or not.
38:46
Speaker 1: They've done a lot of studies and they found everything
38:50
Speaker 1: from helping out to not develop Parkinson's disease to dropping
38:56
Speaker 1: your risk of various cancers um cirosis. How about this,
39:02
Speaker 1: two cups a day, Supposedly we'll cause an eight drop
39:06
Speaker 1: in the odds of developing cirrhosis. That's amazing. Yeah, that's
39:11
Speaker 1: I drink a little bit, So maybe I should drink coffee.
39:14
Speaker 1: I wonder if that has to do with them stimulating
39:16
Speaker 1: the fight or flight syndrome where you, your liver releases
39:21
Speaker 1: more sugar to give to give you more energy or
39:25
Speaker 1: something like that. Maybe. But what's weird then is so
39:28
Speaker 1: that would be more sugar in the bloodstream. Right. Too
39:32
Speaker 1: much sugar in the bloodstream can lead to diabetes. Right. Well,
39:35
Speaker 1: coffee actually is shown to reduce your risk of diabetes.
39:39
Speaker 1: There's this Harvard study UM that involved a hundred and
39:42
Speaker 1: twenty six thousand people over eighteen years. They followed their coffee.
39:46
Speaker 1: Is a good study. It's a great study unless they
39:49
Speaker 1: fudge the results. But saying they didn't. What they found
39:53
Speaker 1: was that people who drink one to three cups of
39:55
Speaker 1: coffee a day are nine percent less likely to contract diabetes. Right, yeah,
40:00
Speaker 1: you think it ends there. It does not. So people
40:03
Speaker 1: who drank six or more cups of coffee per day,
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Speaker 1: if you were a man, your chances of contracting diabetes
40:09
Speaker 1: were reduced by fifty four percent. That's substantial. And for
40:12
Speaker 1: women who drank one six or more cups a day,
40:15
Speaker 1: there are chances of contracting diabetes, were of developing diabetes reduction.
40:22
Speaker 1: I got another one four cups a day less chance
40:26
Speaker 1: of mouth and throat cancer. Uh. And I don't know
40:29
Speaker 1: if it was this Harvard study or another one said
40:32
Speaker 1: it could reduce suicide risk in adults. Even kind of
40:37
Speaker 1: makes sense, I guess in one way, but which way,
40:41
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was thinking, I don't know. I
40:43
Speaker 1: take that back. Well, maybe you like run from self harm,
40:46
Speaker 1: even maybe like you flee or fight, or if it
40:51
Speaker 1: just you know, maybe it could battle your depressive systems
40:53
Speaker 1: by picking you up or something. I don't know. It's yeah,
40:57
Speaker 1: better explanation than mind mine was stupid. Uh. They's there's
41:00
Speaker 1: evidence that it prevents cavities actually, well yeah, which is
41:04
Speaker 1: kind of surprising because, um that is if you just
41:08
Speaker 1: if you're doing a study on coffee, Um that's if
41:12
Speaker 1: you don't put anything in your coffee, put cream and
41:14
Speaker 1: sugar in, Yeah, you're going to get your cavities on.
41:17
Speaker 1: All right. You kind of do both, right, just depending
41:19
Speaker 1: on your mood. I typically go toward black, right, but
41:23
Speaker 1: every now and then you throw a little vanilla creamer
41:25
Speaker 1: in there every once a while. Yeah, um yeah, if
41:28
Speaker 1: I want to treat, yeah, special treat. But kathein can
41:34
Speaker 1: hurt your teeth in that it causes teeth clenching too well,
41:37
Speaker 1: which is one reason I'm losing teeth is I grind
41:40
Speaker 1: my teeth at night, so maybe I shouldn't drink more coffee.
41:44
Speaker 1: It could be, yeah, but like you said, it giveth
41:46
Speaker 1: and it take it the way do I want teeth
41:48
Speaker 1: or do you want my liver to hang in there
41:50
Speaker 1: and no diabetes? Right? Good point Alzheimer's. The bird Alzheimer's
41:56
Speaker 1: Institute in Tampa did some experimenting lab mice, injecting them
42:01
Speaker 1: with caffeine like you said earlier, and not only did
42:03
Speaker 1: it protect them against developing Alzheimer's, but it helped reduce
42:07
Speaker 1: symptoms if they already had it. They haven't tried it
42:09
Speaker 1: on humans yet, but as it goes with mice, many
42:13
Speaker 1: times it goes with humans. Yeah, hopefully, Yeah, we could
42:16
Speaker 1: all be injecting caffeine at some point. That to me
42:19
Speaker 1: is also counterintuitive too, because Alzheimer's disease is potentially a
42:23
Speaker 1: build up of plaques in your brain that's the result
42:26
Speaker 1: of not getting enough deep sleep. Because when you sleep,
42:30
Speaker 1: your glial channels expand and your brain is bathed in cerebrals.
42:33
Speaker 1: Final fluid cleans out those plaques. Right, But it only
42:36
Speaker 1: happens when you're sleeping very deeply. Um, But if you're
42:39
Speaker 1: not getting very deep sleep with coffee or caffeine, then
42:43
Speaker 1: I would think you'd be there'd be a higher risk
42:45
Speaker 1: of Alzheimer's. It's still fund it is, And I've also
42:50
Speaker 1: found conflicting studies on memory. Johns Hopkins says that it's
42:54
Speaker 1: a memory enhancer, but I've seen other studies that say
42:58
Speaker 1: it's the memory d answer. Yeah, So again, it's like
43:04
Speaker 1: it's stuff to kind of get down to the brass tacks,
43:06
Speaker 1: you know, when you have conflicting studies. Um, if you exercise,
43:11
Speaker 1: coffee is your best friend, caffeine is. Yeah. I've heard
43:15
Speaker 1: of like Olympic athletes that like we'll shoot espresso right
43:19
Speaker 1: before a race. Yeah. Not only does it like give
43:21
Speaker 1: you a jolt of energy and everything, but apparently it
43:23
Speaker 1: has um ergogenic properties, which means that it delays fatigue, right,
43:29
Speaker 1: and it helps your muscles use glycogen their energy stores
43:34
Speaker 1: more efficiently too, so it can help you run better. Interesting. Yeah,
43:40
Speaker 1: as far as cognitive abilities, um, the one study found
43:43
Speaker 1: from Johns Hopkins Medical School said that while you think
43:48
Speaker 1: it is increasing your cognitive abilities, what is really doing
43:51
Speaker 1: is just taking you back to normal for a short
43:54
Speaker 1: period that is chilling. Yeah, and then when it wears off,
43:58
Speaker 1: you're actually below man. Yeah, I don't know. I hate
44:02
Speaker 1: to think that. I don't want to quit coffee though.
44:07
Speaker 1: Quit smoking. Yeah, it lost weight. Yeah, keep your coffee.
44:12
Speaker 1: That's another thing though I did during this break is
44:14
Speaker 1: put some of that back on. We'll drink coffee and
44:16
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44:19
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