"Caffeine Addicts Get No Real Perk From Morning Cup?"
by Reuters
"Caffeine addiction is such a downer that regular coffee drinkers may get no real pick-me-up from their morning cup, according to a study by British scientists. Bristol University researchers found that coffee drinkers develop a tolerance to both the anxiety-producing and the stimulating effects of caffeine, meaning that it only brings them back to baseline levels of alertness, not above them. "Although frequent consumers feel alerted by caffeine, especially by their morning tea, coffee, or other caffeine-containing drink, evidence suggests that this is actually merely the reversal of the fatiguing effects of acute caffeine withdrawal," wrote the scientists, led by Peter Rogers of Bristol's department of experimental psychology.The researchers also found that people who have a genetic predisposition to anxiety do not tend to avoid coffee. In fact, people in the study with a gene variant associated with anxiety tended to consume slightly larger amounts of coffee than those without it, Rogers wrote in a study in the "Neuropsychopharmacology" journal, published by "Nature." This suggests that a mild increase in anxiety "may be a part of the pleasant buzz caused by caffeine," he said."
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