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