• Risk@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Shame they didn’t have a control group of decaf drinkers (which the authors do acknowledge).

    Also, kudos to nbc for not making to too challenging to find the original research article they were writing about.

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      1 year ago

      It’s kind of the same deal as with tobacco. How do you account for the cocktail effect of nicotine, MAOIs and other terpenes etc?

      Psychoactive substances and their pharmacology are a lot more complicated than they appear.

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      1 year ago

      But isn’t that kinda the whole point in this study. That the stimulating effect of coffee is affected by the cocktail of stuff in coffee and not just the caffeine. Which then can be further studied to understand better the stimulatory processes of the brain.