Michael Pollan
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There's been actually a lot of research showing that it may not be caffeine, but the caffeine-containing plants like coffee and tea have lots of polyphenols that
And that actually show evidence of helping with things like Parkinson's disease, with dementia and depression up to a certain point.
If you're above eight cups a day, the curve changes and you're at greater risk of depression, anxiety and and suicide.
Yeah.
Well, the coffee here has gotten so much better.
It was pretty dreadful.
It was.
It's very good right now.
It's true.
Yeah.
Tea and green tea in particular, I think has another compound in it that kind of spreads out the effect over a longer... So it is mellower.
It's definitely mellower.
You know, it probably makes sense to drink both because they have different polyphenols.
But that is a benefit, and there's also the benefit of focus.
I mean, like any kind of stimulant, basically, it helps you, you know, able to block out a lot of distraction, and that's why it's so useful for work.
I mean, you know, the history of the coffee break, think about it.
You have companies giving their employees
Time off and a free drug every day, twice a day in a lot of American companies.
Why are they doing that?
It makes workers more productive.
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