• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    So that’s the biggest benefit of Keurig machines. Since they only dispense specific measured quantities, each cup is the same size

    Edit- autocorrect

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    Remember Kids: Drugs are bad! Except for coffee, which lets you work harder and increases your employers profits.

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      More than 400mg of caffeine a day can cause a host of health issues. Of course, because it’s legalized and widely available, people discredit the risks.

      Just like acetaminophen, which is responsible for 56,000 emergency department visits, 2,600 hospitalizations, and 500 deaths per year, according to the NIH.

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      This is why I hate this stuff. I hate people joking about how much coffee they’re drinking because they have so much work to do and don’t get to sleep. Meanwhile, every coffee joke sounds like this to me.

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    I had to go to the company doctor years ago, it was mandatory when you just started working there.

    One of the questions was how much coffee I consume each day.

    “1 on some days 2” I answered.

    He goes off by saying that’s great, 2 cups is the max you should drink each day because if you get too much caffeine in your system it builds to much pressure on your muscles or nerves, I don’t remember.

    After that, we looked at each other in silence for a good 10 or 15 seconds before I began stammering: “cu… cups?? No, no. I meant 1 or 2 pots a day…”

    He had mini meltdown and went off on me how bad that was for my body.

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      Arteries* - the big main pipes for blood that gets tapped leading into all your veins in all your limbs and organs

      Caffeine increases heartrate similarly to exercise but unlike exercise your arteries don’t open up for caffeine. So you’re increasing flow but the pipes can’t handle it all, meaning the heart has to PUSH HARDER and eventually this will lead to severe fatigue and heart failure. If you have additional risk factors like a high cholesterol diet (lots of meat) or are overweight then the arteries themselves can also become clogged and fail.

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        I find it scary that I’ve never had a doctor bring any part of this up

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          It’s one of those things where its a very normal slow death over the course of decades, less harmful than smoking or alcohol, so it often gets brushed off as low priority. The real issue isn’t even coffee, imo, but people who take 400mg caffeine energy drinks daily or even multiple times per day.

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          Yeah I was just explaining what the doctor would have said, since you seemed confused about “muscles or nerves”.

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            Much appreciated to take the time to do that. My story and your explanation can educate someone that comes across it.

            Stay awesome dude.

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      My dude heard the glass break when you said pots. Went full hunter from l4d2

      1000017286

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      I have a friend who pretty much drinks nothing but tea. No water, coffee, alcohol, soft drinks etc. And he does get his 2-3 litres of fluids per day in like that.

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        You drink 2-3 liters of water a day? That sounds like alot.

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          Im in the alps, so I have the privilege of having access to virtually free and safe to drink, but also tasty. It’s the cheapest, easiest way to do something good for my health, so i do it. 2-3 litres is usually the recommendation i see and hear everywhere.

          Tbh I sometimes drink close to 4 litres, i have to watch my electrolytes more than anything.

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          is he not dead

          He’s doing great. He’s Irish (as in, born, raised, and living in Ireland), I think it’s pretty normal over there

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          Tea doesn’t have that much usable caffein if you let it steep longer than maybe 3 minutes. Also, we don’t know how diluted the tea is.

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        Yes but 6-∞ Is better

        I HAVENT SLEPT IN DAYS WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES ALL I SEE IS ANOTHER CUP OF COFFEE. I NEED MY DIRTY BEAN WATER!!

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      If you filter coffee through a paper filter then there are negligible health benefits to drinking coffee which are probably more than offset by the caffeine.

      If you don’t filter it through a paper filter then the cafestol probably negates the benefits before you have to weigh them against the negatives of the caffeine.

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        Could you be more specific about the negligible health benefits of coffee and the downsides of caffeine? As a regular coffee drinker, I’ve done some searching to try and gauge the long-term risks of consuming ~100-200mg of caffeine per day, and couldn’t really find anything. The medical sources I’ve seen basically say the long term risk is practically non-existent unless you have a specific sensitivity to caffeine, but I’m curious if you’ve seen something different.

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          It’s linked to increased blood pressure, increased risk of heart disease, kidney problems, etc, but as you mention there’s not anything rock solid and there’s also relatively recent studies that show positive effects.

          For people that intake less than 400mg a day.

          That’s the tricky bit. Do you know how many mgs of caffeine you take in on a daily basis?

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            Right, yeah that’s sort of the conclusion I’ve reached - sort of a “correlation may not imply causation” type situation.

            I drink one 300g cup of coffee a day, except on very rare instances where I’ll have like two or three cups in a day. My average daily caffeine intake is probably around ~100mg, which is well under any demonstrably dangerous limits that I’ve seen.

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          I’m not a doctor nor am I an expert, so hopefully not being taken as an authoritative source here, but my understanding is similar to yours regarding caffeine.