What You Get From Coffee

THAT QUICK PICK-ME-UP FROM YOUR MORNING CUP OF COFFEE... MAY NOT BE DOING WHAT YOU THINK IT'S DOING.

WHAT YOU'RE GETTING FROM COFFEE... REALLY DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH YOU DRINK.

IF YOU DRINK A LOT OF COFFEE... THAT FIRST CUP IN THE MORNING PROBABLY ISN'T GIVING YOU THE CAFFEINE BOOST YOU'RE LOOKING FOR... IT MIGHT JUST BE CORRECTING A CAFFEINE WITHDRAWAL YOU'RE HAVING.

IT'S ALL PART OF A NEW STUDY IN THE JOURNAL "NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY"...
SCIENTISTS LOOKED AT PEOPLE WHO DRINK COFFEE ROUTINELY... AND THOSE WHO DON'T.

SOME WERE GIVEN CAFFEINE TABLETS... SOME WERE GIVEN PLACEBOS. THEN THE PEOPLE IN THE STUDY WERE GIVEN A SERIES OF TESTS EXAMINING THEIR MEMORY, ATTENTIVENESS AND VIGILANCE...
AND GUESS WHAT? THERE WAS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE GROUP GIVEN THE CAFFEINE TABLETS... AND THE ONE THAT ONLY HAD THE PLACEBO.

SO HERE'S WHAT THEY THINK IS GOING ON... ESPECIALLY WITH THAT FIRST MORNING CUP... WHEN REGULAR DRINKERS GO WITHOUT COFFEE OVERNIGHT...

THEIR BODIES START TO GO THROUGH CAFFEINE WITHDRAWAL. THAT COMES WITH SIDE-EFFECTS THAT GIVE YOU HEADACHES AND MAKES YOU LESS ALERT. WHEN YOU GET YOUR FIRST COFFEE OF THE DAY... YOU GET A SMALL BOOST... BUT ONLY ENOUGH TO BRING YOU BACK TO THE LEVEL YOU'D BE AT IF YOU DIDN'T DRINK COFFEE AT ALL.

SO IF YOU DRINK A WHOLE LOT OF COFFEE... YOU MIGHT NOT BE DOING YOURSELF ANY FAVORS... ESPECIALLY WITH THAT FIRST WAKE-UP DRINK.
AGAIN, MODERATION IS KEY.