![]() ![]() It doesn’t actually give us energy, but keeps our bodies from slowing down and getting tired. It’s like putting a block of wood under our body’s brake pedal. How does caffeine work? It is not a direct stimulant but indirect. ![]() Today some 90% of American adults consume caffeine on a daily basis. World’s Most Popular DrugĬaffeine is the most popular drug on earth, most often consumed through the most popular drinks on earth - coffee, tea, and sodas. ![]() The effects of caffeine typically last five to six hours. That’s about four cups of coffee (about 100 milligrams each), or eight cups of tea or caffeinated soda (about 50 milligrams each). ![]() What, then, is moderate, responsible use for the average adult? The USDA recommends less than 400 milligrams per day. It is certainly possible to abuse caffeine, but, as a natural stimulant, it is most commonly used not as an escape from reality, but as an effort to interact responsibly with reality. Most coffee drinkers hope to stay awake, do their jobs more reliably, and drive more safely. It is an empowering drug that enables you to be a more alert dad, or a more aware mother, or a more competent employee. Caffeine “sharpens the mind,” and as Murray Carpenter adds in his book-length study Caffeinated, the drug “does not just increase acuity it can also improve mood.” Unlike marijuana, caffeine (in moderate doses) makes us more awake to the world, rather than less. Scientists around the world have noted the effects of the drug - caffeine is a drug, and a powerful one. That doesn’t demand use, on the one hand, or abstention, on the other, but rather the much harder work of carefully experimenting, observing the effects, making wise judgments, learning proper use (or not), and exercising self-control. God means for his image-bearers to exercise dominion over his caffeinated world. One of God’s first instructions to our race is this: “I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth” (Genesis 1:29). Even Christians may be surprised to discover how extensively God caffeinated his created world. More than one hundred species of plant around the world, on four continents, contain caffeine. But once there, the taste is rather pleasant and friendly.Unlike money, caffeine literally grows on trees - and not just a shrub or two. I have to steep this to death and stir the bag 'round-n-'round for several minutes to pull out enough flavor to appreciate. It could use a couple notches more potency. I feel a tad dirty about self-plagiarizing, but since the tea looks, smells, and tastes the same as Sleepytime to me, what I said there is valid here: "The main impediment to a higher score is the mildness of the flavor. For me this is merely a relaxing tea, not outstanding, but pleasant, and in the last cup a few days ago, I noticed no substantial difference in its effect on me before bedtime or while sleeping. I'm writing this an hour after polishing off a cup, two hours after working an all-night shift, and notice no difference in cognition or sleepiness than usual for this stage of my (admittedly backwards) circadian cycle. The only difference I've detected between this product and regular Sleepytime is the addition of valerian root to the ingredients list, and a caution on the side of the box about not driving or operating machinery after using, as if this is some herbal-tea version of Ambien or Sominex. Link to This Review 70 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 4/5 ![]()
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