Comments on: Drinking coffee doesn’t make you more alert, caffeine study reveals

By: alex

alex — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:31:01 +0000

What next, ‘alcohol does not make you drunk?’. Anyone knows drinking a double espresso in the evening will make it difficult to get to sleep. This story probably just stems from a unintuitive definition of ‘alertness’ given by those scientists.

By: whodat

whodat — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:46:09 +0000

discern the difference between the definitions of ‘alert’ and ‘awake’

By: jameshogg

jameshogg — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:32:46 +0000

WTF

So… actually , WTF? Coffee does NOTHING!? I beg to differ, friends!

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More research before I come to conclusions KK THX

Yours,

James the coffee lover. Now broken hearted :’(

By: JayKay

JayKay — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:20:02 +0000

Coffee made me mental.

By: Peter too

Peter too — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:25:07 +0000

Getting on top of yourself, no coffee can beat that for sure. But tons dont look for coffee .. they need to numb theirselves .. need to be less alert. Another topic.

Coffee makes me nauseous at times, never alert.

Oh well .. there are pills available now too, with high doses of caffeine. If they give people a placebo cup of coffee or a placebo pill I think some will still think it boosts them, makes them more alert. So it is just a tool for many .. no matter whether the tool itself works or not .. it works for some.

By: Amber

Amber — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:25:15 +0000

Coffee rocks. I don’t drink it to keep myself alert, it indeed does make me sluggish at times, but it tastes damn good (unless you have crappy instant coffee). Nothing like the smell of freshly ground coffee beans. Oooooooo!

By: Rory

Rory — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:06:02 +0000

Interesting. I haven’t drunk caffeine for eleven years and I gotta say I have no problems with alertness, getting going in the morning, etc – and the couple of times I’ve accidentally been given caffeine (in black tea, for example) it’s pretty much instantly given me a headache within the first few sips. Definitely not good for you. When I quit I got headaches for three or four days – but since then…ah, how lovely to be on a level all the doo-long day.

By: Jess xxx

Jess xxx — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:37:27 +0000

@ Tom I’m student, but I think that even if I did drink coffee, I would never be able to reach a state of normality. :p

Also, judging by some of the comments on here, it might be a good idea to form some sort of Coffee Haters Alliance.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:04:06 +0000

Haha Jess, I was thinking the same thing. It\’s exam time atm, and it seems like a lot of students need to keep drinking coffee just to stay at the state of \’normality\’ that I have by not drinking anything. Coffee might \’work\’ ar first, but soon seems to be a nuisance once you grow tolerant of the caffeine. Plus it tastes like soil

I do confess to using Red Bull style energy drinks if I need to pull an all-nighter, but this happens so irregularly that I don\’t seem to be developing any significant amount of caffeine tolerance. It seems to \’wake me up\’ when I\’m getting tired from working on an essay all night. I have been wondering, however, if this is really a result of the caffeine, or if someone were to give me a fizzy sugar drink disguised as a Red Bull, it would have the sam

By: roz

roz — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:02:09 +0000

@jess xxx – good description of the taste of coffee! i cant stand that vile stuff!