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If I have one coffee today, in a couple
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of months time, I'm going to need two to
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get to the same level of like alertness.
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Yes and no. It seems to be that the
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benefits that we see of caffeine when it
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comes to cognition disappear with
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habitual usage. And actually adding more
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doesn't change it. That first coffee
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that feels so good is taking us sort of
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instead of going from 0 to one, it's
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taking us from minus one to zero. It's
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removing the kind of withdrawal symptom
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almost and bringing us back to a kind of
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level of like, okay, I'm here now. And
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so if you really really want maximum
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benefit from caffeine, be it cognition
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or sports or anything else, then
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actually having a period without coffee
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beforehand will give you the sort of
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greatest benefit afterwards. So there's
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a habituation, I guess,
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but it doesn't escalate the way the
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drugs do. Like you don't need to
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suddenly be drinking six, eight, 10 cups
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of coffee to have an effect. You'll just
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feel weird. So yeah, a little bit
