Some Amazing Fun Facts about Caffeine

Researchers on "the west coast" (the article I got this from didn’t mention what continent) have determined that when you’re whacked on java, the world seems much keener. Whoa - hold the presses here, Caffeine makes you feel good? Nah, it couldn’t be. Next thing they’ll be telling us is that Coffee keeps you awake!

Anyway, these researchers found that people who drank one to three cups a day were 30% less likely to commit suicide than people who didn’t drink coffee. (Gee, wouldn’t you have liked to be in the control group on that one). Sliding up the scale, people who have a serious relationship with the bean, say six cups a day, were 80% less likely to shuffle off their own mortal coil.

The world sure looks good from here.

The half-life of consumed Caffeine is from three to six hours. After that, it becomes the property of the municipal plumbing system.

Here’s a moderately interesting one - Coffee works better on bored people. Sure, it’ll jump-start you in the morning, but Caffeine has its most dramatic effect on people who are kinda in a funk. Hey, works for me.

I don’t know how you measure this sort of thing, but researchers have determined that Caffeine only increases the speed of your thought processes and not the quality of the thoughts themselves. Although the thoughts come in more rapid succession , Caffeine consumption does not grant you any greater number of thoughts in a given day.

This poses an interesting question. If you drank a lot of coffee early in the day, would you run out of your allotted number of thoughts before noon?

Source: Mark's Caffeine Warehouse