+mouwersor The so called benifits are only short lasting and you like any other drug need more to get what you once had. Also caffeen is known to negatively affect your bones, robbing them of minerals. So heavy drinkers are at a higher risk of getting osteo. Especially if they have the so called Energy drinks where it is even worse than coffee. I like to live a life where I can enjoy things and not have to worry about where to get my next fix. I just smile and grin to myself when the power goes out for an hour. People think the world has come to an end because the can't have thier coffee. Me no such problems :-)
Ten years later: The research *does* seem to imply that caffeine has a few drawbacks. Namely that it can over-stimulate the sympathetic nervous system, causing anxiety, sleeplessness, jitters, and a temporary loss in cardiovascular performance. But it also depends on how fast you can metabolize it
Same here, I drank coffee since high school & I noticed I alway wanted to sleep + it helped to develop freaking hemorrhoids in my ass :'((((( & I thought it was healthy
cause or correlate??? i mean some people drinks coffee to be able to stay up late and chances are they are sleep deprived too, so maybe it's the lack of sleep that causes this. i do have once read that it can decrease quality of sleep if you have it close to your night bedtime.
"Every day the world consumes 300 tones of caffeine - enough for one cup of coffee for every man, woman and child." Well, one of you is clearly drinking 2 cups a day, seeing as I'm not drinking mine...
Don't forget about the 2.2 billion that don't have access to clean drinking water, all the kids that don't drink coffee and all the people who can't afford it because their wage is less than 2$/day
That would still mean that an f ton of people are consuming more than 1 cup. Cus this estimate contains every person. A lot of people in developing as well as poor country can't even afford it. I wonder who is drinking that much
@@arneshgupta1364 Caffeine isn't only present in coffee, so it also get consumed from other source, like energy drink. So there's that to take into account into the worldwide caffeine consumption.
"Caffeine is technically lethal." This is just a statement of the main general principle of toxicology: the difference between a medicine and a poison is the dose. Almost anything is lethal in sufficient quantity.
Yeah but you can't compare tobacco too coffee ^^ If you drink coffee in moderate ammounts its actually healthy. Yeah to much is bad, bad that counts for everything ^^
I remember sitting at a cafe with my friend as he explained to me his issues with anxiety, insomnia and frequent visits to the bathroom, all while he was sipping away at a cup of coffee. I wish I was joking
@@patrickcampbell957 The UK NHS advises that avoiding coffee may reduce anxiety.[160] Caffeine, the major active ingredient in coffee, is associated with anxiety.[161][162] At high doses, typically greater than 300 mg, caffeine can both cause and worsen anxiety.[163] For some people, discontinuing caffeine use can significantly reduce anxiety.[164] Caffeine-induced anxiety disorder is a subclass of substance- or medication-induced anxiety disorder.[165] From wikipedia.
But coffee being a stimulant means that its not giving you energy, its only managing your energy. Your body feels tired because its low on energy. Using coffee to stimulate it means you're delaying the crash, not eliminating it. That being said, I think coffee is ok for the occasional energy boost, maybe to get you through the hardest part of your day. Consuming it all the time will just lead to the same thing that happens with other drugs: you will stop getting benefits and instead just need it to stay normal.
Not managing your energy, more like ignoring your fatique, that's a different story. It blocks your fatique adenine's receptors, that's all. Not "managing your energy".
This is why coffee is great in the morning to help you get up You don't feel the fatigue you have from just waking up and by the time the caffeine fades it's the middle of the day and you (should) be fine
@@bernian4 ADD and ADHD are two totally separate disorders that have complete opposite reactions to caffeine. There's a lot of similarities between the two, but they are still very different.
HAH NO REAL MEN DON'T USE PUNCTUATION AND THEIR MORNING JOLT IS WHEN THEY SHOOT THEMSELVES OUT OF BED IN THE MORNING WITH A TORGUE GUN IM MR TORGUE AND I APPROVE THIS MESSGAE
That is such a retarded logic. First of all that is complete bullshit because there are plenty of addicts whoa are not in denial and there are plenty of non-addicts who are rightfully denying being addicted. By your logic someone basically must be addicted if you say he is, because denying it only makes you think more that that it's the case. This kind of thinking is incredibly childish and just a terrible way to engage with the world.
@@ToBeIsWasWere First off: he literally calls it a physiological addiction. Second: Denying being addicted is what all addicts do at some point or another and the majority of coffee drinkers are indeed addicted due to caffeine inherently addictive chemical structure.
CGP Grey: "Who would want to get rid of coffee?" Me, with my caffeine induced migraines: "Unfortunately I've had to." CGP Grey: "They can even get rid of migraines!" Me: "What?"
Actually majority of migraines are due to caffeine withdrawal. Coffee causes vasoconstriction and once you stop drinking it your blood vessels widen with a surge of blood going to your head and causing a headache. This usually happens 24-48 hours after last caffeinated beverage. Once you drink it your vessels will constrict and the pain will go away. In fact almost all anti migraine drugs have caffeine in them for that very reason. It's very shady. Basically curing a migraine by feeding your addiction. After several days of no caffeine migraines go away.
Oh, this video makes sense now after the road trip one where Grey was just pounding the coffee. I mean, so long as your anxiety isn't bad, your heart isn't acting funky, and you can sleep, drink all the coffee you want
Coffee is not a replacement for sleep. If you are so tired you need to drink coffee to function properly, it is likely a sign that you should sleep more. Most people don’t sleep enough, which is extremely unhealthy.
Of course it's not. But it can give a little boost if you need an extra hour or two once in a while. Or to wake up faster/ stay alive during night shifts (can save lives). And if you are already addicted..... a cup of latte won't help you (except for hydration and umm.... taste?), it will just bring you back to "normal". And since there are 0 side-effects to drinking a cup of coffee daily, why stop. btw. I mean coffee, not a coffee-flavored dessert
@@frankie5928 It's not a joke and the positive benefits of coffee have only grown in certainty since this video was made. Check out Healthcare Triage's video on the studies that have been done on coffee and tea.
"It's not like the coffee trees WANT humans cutting bits off of them." I'm telling ya, man, the most effective survival strategy in the history of EVER is "be useful to humans".
sugar causes obesity and salt blood pressure related complications coffee however, a drug only effecting the brain does not cause illnesses related to other organs causes the worst effect of all it increases the amount of coffee you need to drink
The difference between a medicine and a poison is the dose. Both Coffee and Sugar can be beneficial in small doses and harmful in large doses. The average westerner eats an unhealthy amount of sugar. That is an fact. Whether we drink an unhealthy amount of coffee is still up for debate
@jocaguz18 yeah but sugar is addictive and you really don't need that much, and it makes you obese. Water is none of those. Also why are you defending sugar? Fat is the one that gets all the hate even though sugar is worse
@@toomanycharacter even if he talked about the negatives this video wouldn't change much. As long as you are drinking it in moderation the negatives are mild at worst.
My weirdest experience with coffee was uncovering ADHD. I had a friend who flatly refused to drink caffeine citing anxiety, until she was so out of it one day I convinced her to try a small, weak batch. She drank it and, as it is a stimulant, the caffeine had a paradoxical effect of calming her down. That nudged her towards visiting a psychiatrist, who indeed confirmed an ADHD diagnosis!
There are better things that will make you poop. Like going to Zoo. To see a Tiger. Inside it's gace. And you are in this cage too. And Tiger is slowly walking towards you.
I love coffee, but one has to be willfully blind to say there's no negative side effects. here just a few from my own experience: ● increased blood pressure ● increased heart rate ● headache ● manic euphoria ● anxiety ● withdrawal-induced depression ● more work for the kidneys and that's just from a single 1 liter thermos on an odd day. I have no idea how Grey is still alive.
Also, stained teeth. Not to mention, if you're barely surviving when it comes to food, being addicted to a specific drink that costs money to have (some beans / grounds are more pricey than others) and does all of these other things isn't exactly the best situation.
The increased blood pressure and heart rate are short-lived side effects and are reduced if caffeine is consumed regularly, most likely due to a buildup of tolerance. Headaches are generally caused by withdrawal or other factors which correlate with caffeine consumption but are not affected by it, such as stress. If you're experiencing manic euphoria from coffee then either you are consuming too much and definitely need to cut down, have a genetic sensitivity to caffeine and need to cut down, or the two things are not actually related. Anxiety can be uncovered by increased alertness and maybe exacerbated by a short-term increase in blood pressure, particularly in individuals with already high blood pressure, but caffeine is very unlikely to routinely cause anxiety on its own from normal doses. caffeine withdrawal only lasts for a few days at most and will often lead to tiredness and irritability, but not actual depression. Studies have shown a correlation between moderate coffee consumption and *improved* kidney function, as well as a slightly lower chance of renal cell carcinoma, certainly no negative kidney effects to worry about. I would suggest that a full litre (equivalent to about 4 cups) "on an odd day" is ill-advised, it would be more healthy to drink less coffee more regularly if you're concerned about blood pressure and heart rate, or ideally less coffee less regularly to minimise negative effects while still increasing energy. Since you aren't drinking it regularly, you're going from 0mg to around 400mg of caffeine, which your body isn't used to dealing with, so it will have a much increased effect than if you were used to, say, 200mg per day.
@@adrianwalden9788 why rip? I function perfectly fine without it, and the allergy isn't so severe that I can't have chocolate. I actually tend to be more awake than my caffeine addicted friends 90% of the time.
@@8-bitsarda747 I personally have problems with caffeine, but I am also an unmedicated adhd-haver. So, my situation is different than yours probably. Just, for me that'd be really sucky, yk?
"There's really no reason to ever stop using this stuff"? I mean, there's one very fundamental bodily function that caffeine greatly interferes with: sleep. Coffee hinders a person's ability to sleep, and also compromises the quality of that sleep, making the individual feel tired. And the tired individual turns to what? More coffee. Yay!
I used to be addicted to sugar since I was young. Recently I started to drink coffee, got addicted and always combined it with sugar. Then I tried to drink it without any sugar and it tastes much, much better so now I don't put sugar on anything. Coffee helped me get rid of sugar addiction and since then I also quit the coffee adiction so I only drink it a couple times a week.
All my friends are always going on and on about how coffee is the best thing ever and they could never live with out it, but me, someone with unusually high levels of acid in their stomach at all times and constantly dealing with acid reflux, gets incredibly nauseous from coffee, so much so that I can't drink it to be more productive because it makes me feel worse.
I absolutely love this video but as someone who has drank coffee and quit like 5 different times, I guarantee you that if you have anxiety, coffee can make it much worse. It’s great when you really need it but if you drink it regularly, it can have some negative effects on your mental health. That’s just my experience with it though, you do you.
Some people actually buy a $4 cup from Starbucks everyday, spending $120 a month, when you can buy a month's worth bag of dry coffee for $3. That's a savings of $117!
+FuriousGaming Starbucks only likes to call their desserts coffee, but that shit is not worthy to call coffee. Besides, a month's worth bag of fresh coffee beans is here about 20 bucks per pound and 600 to 6000 bucks for the espresso machine + grinder + time. So I am not sure if starbucks would be such a bad deal if they would start to actually sell coffee ;-)
There are two downfalls to this drink. The most understated one is that it's addicting. I know you said this, but the implications are such, something has a stranglehold on your mood and your actions. The addiction - calling you back for another cup, regardless if you want it. The second thing is that it amplifies your current emotion. That's bad for someone with chronic anxiety or other mental disorder. Coffee CAN make it harder to enjoy life, regardless of its short term effects.
Im impressed brazil wasnt mentioned on the video. Coffee is our economy, history and so engrained our culture that breakfast is "café da manhã" which means morning coffee
Nice! Its great to see how coffee has shaped other cultures and languages in similar ways. In Costa Rica a lot of people have a morning coffee and an afternoon coffee. We also use the expression "drink coffee" to mean take a light meal, often in the afternoon, even if the person won't actually drink coffee or doesn't even like coffee.
Don't forget that if you've consumed caffeine consistently for long enough to suffer withdrawal symptoms, you're probably not being stimulated by the same amount anymore but instead just drink coffee/soda to feel normal and not be sleepy. It's a bad habit and every drug in the world that has benefits takes something from you in return don't forget that.
This is the only video of Grey's that I considered giving a thumbs down. If nothing else, coffee is a stimulant, and just as you describe, at the very least it will eventually be required by your body to function as efficiently as it used to before you started using it and in turn developed a tolerance for it. And of course this is anecdotal but I know many people that swear by their decision to stop drinking coffee after being a regular drinker for many years, citing a ton of improvements in their lives (physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, professionally). I just think saying it is completely free of negative effects is inaccurate.
I don't think everyone who habitually drinks coffee considers it a bad habit. I don't even think most people who drink coffee consider it a bad habit. That's your subjective opinion. Not saying that Grey didn't have a subjective opinion that he was freely expressing without calling it as much, but I think that goes without saying. I doubt anybody took this as actual medical advice....
Manny NOPE, I never* had coffee with sugar and after quitting I still feel better overall. What Einar said is true, you really become dependent on it just to function and what's even worse it can actually lead to you not getting enough sleep in the long term because you can't really distinguish between caffeine withdrawal and actually feeling tired anymore. Which seems allright at first (well, not really since sleep deprivation can have awful long term effects if you do it constantly) but it does kinda suck out the joy of your life. I remember just a few weeks ago everything, even the GREAT things weren't really that interesting or great and everything was just kinda faded out. Now I'm still kinda tired (school starts way too early) but I'm in a much better mood (things are actually fun now!) and I'm starting to do productive things again (a comic) when I was in an artistic rut for about a year or longer before. That is not to say that I'm principally against any coffee consumption, just that it's generally a better idea to not let it become a habit since then you'd be getting into tolerance which is just no good at all. At least if you're coffee-free** for the most part you actually get the desired effect if you really need it. *well, a handful of times I put in a little as a treat, but that was about 20-30 times total spread over 3 years. **including soda and tee in coffee because they contain caffeine as well.
As someone who has a lot of Mormon friends, I can tell you that I'm their eyes, the whole point of avoiding caffeine is the same as avoiding nicotine, other drugs, alcohol, and also pornography. The whole point is avoid addiction to something that is viewed as unnecessary, repulsive and/or just plain filthy.
@@dingo1547 Oh boy, you really need to read into some scientific (I'm talking real papers, not the opinions of yome dude on the internet) studies performed with thr limited amount of shrooms scientisty are allowed to study
Dude you gotta at least mention the side effects like insomnia, anxiety, ulcers and for some, arrhythmia. It's not ALL upsides. Like any drug it needs to be used carefully.
No shit, but there is a difference between one cup a day plus a possible other one later in the day and dropping 6 cups in the span of 16 waking hours.
@@GlassWeringAwesomnes Italian speaking, it's not like we don't have a big ass tradition of coffee (the words "Espresso" and "Cappuccino" surely ain't english) and my city, Trieste, even has different dialectal ways to speak about coffee compared to the rest of Italy, but it's pretty rare to see people consuming coffee that many times everyday, it's more after meals.
@@Hyperversum3 The problem with coffee, that Gray doesnt mention, is adaptation. Drink one cup per day for a month, and your body will adapt. To get the same effects, you will either have to drink 2 cups, or stop drinking for a month. I have never drank coffee, and never will. Drinking a glass of water every morning does great job in waking me up.
As a kid I suffered from heavy migraines due to difficulty from my body absorving vitamin D. Despite being very young, a time from when I have very few and far between memories, I still remember VIVIDLY the sensation of taking a suppository. And now, 15 or so years later, Im learning that it was a caffeine based suppository. Life goes on I guess
True but that applies for other drugs as well, but isnt actually a health issue. Consuming with care only gives you the positives, unless there are actual health risks which are what im asking for, and which will appear even without excessive consumption
+Jacob Nugent (yacabo) Lol that is completely false. Did you miss the part about withdrawal? If you start your day without it, after drinking it very often, your mood will shift and you'll and possibly experience a headache. If someone wakes up late and doesn't get a chance to drink coffee do you think they just say fuck it and go back to sleep because they "literally can't start the day without it"? No. You can still get your shit done if you forget to drink a cup of coffee in the morning, no matter how often you drink it.
ELH255 Right but the brain will eventually start to adapt to the constant flow of caffeine and will assume it will get the necessary energy from there.
It's funny he mentioned death from withdrawal, because the withdrawal symptoms of heroin can not kill a human. They're horribly torturous to endure, and if you combine them with severe health problems cause by living life as a homeless junkie, then it's possible. But the heroin withdrawal alone can't do it. The not so fun fact is that only 1 substance has lethal withdrawals; alcohol. When a person gets to the point of pounding hard liquor during every waking hour, the body actually becomes dependent on it to survive and sudden withdrawals will cause seizures and death. Cheers!
I wish there were more studies on ADHD and caffeine. I feel like coffee helps me focus so much while if I miss a day of coffee, I can’t seem to keep my thoughts on one task
Some part of me still thinks that we'll discover side effects of caffeine. There's just no way something can have only benefits and zero negatives ( yes, I know addiction can be considered a negative, but, like Grey stated, there's no reason to give up coffee so you won't experience the withdraw anyway).
They're already discovered. Just Google Side Effects of Caffeine, it's downside is much worse than the upside, in addition the ingredients in coffee itself are even more unhealthy.
+Bhume TM Yes. It absolutely is xenoestrogenic and can cause a number of problems if consumed in large quantities (3+ cups a day) - not to mention the man boobs of which you speak. :). Women need to be careful also because it cause lactation (when not pregnant or post partum) and uterine polyps.
@@bastbo3225 Yes, but the data he used for that might not be reliable. There's a heavy bias people have where they tend to believe what they want to believe, leading to people cherry picking data, only looking at data that supports their POV. I don't think CPG Gray is a medical professional, and I'd also bet he's some form of millennial who needs (or really wants) caffeine to get that boost of energy for a typically exhausting day, though I can't verify if either of my assumptions are true. I don't know what has happened in this scenario, but rest assured the best way to find an answer to whether or not caffeine is healthy is to look for a meta analysis comparing many many studies, for which all these studies were unbiased and controlled for all variables, including possible other components of coffee that may be healthy, like how people tout red wine as healthy (even though it isn't) just because it has antioxidants, which fruits, berries, greens, beans, etc also have in larger quantities.
@@maisiedonohue3234 where is the evidence that red wine in moderation isn't healthy? The longest-lived populations in the world, in Ikaria and Sardinia, drink one or more glasses a day. I have heard from doctors and medical students I know that moderate drinkers outlive non-drinkers. And just because fruits, berries etc. have more antioxidants is not an argument against drinking red wine for its antioxidant properties.
From a evolutionary point of view humans consuming coffee beans was the biggest win for the plant. Nothing would have allowed it to multiply as much as human farming.
In addition, caffeine increases anxiety in people who are already prone to it, increases heart rate, is usually consumed with sugar or milk which both lead to obesity when consumed at the level of an addict. There are lots of reasons to take it easy on the brew.
panteleimon panomarenko That's not even the saddest thing about that shithole. It's the fact that it isn't even owned by Canadians... My work here is done, I'll leave with my superior 1$ instant coffee now.
A video about why some people don't get affected by caffeine would be nice. I can drink coffee before bed with no problems and it really doesn't feel like it has any effect on me
Once a year I don't consume coffein for 7 weeks. For the first 3 days I have headaches and feel overall bad (not massivley but clearly noticeable). After 2 weeks I am not tired thoughout the day anymore and I don't feel the urge to get a nap around early afternoon. After 3 weeks I get back to a natural sleep cycle where I go to bed because of tiredness, not exhaustion, and where I wake up not tired but "full of energy" to overexaggerate a little. After 5-6 weeks I feel like I don't need coffe in my life ever again. I feel as awake as I normally feel after 3 cups of coffee. After 7 weeks I allow myself to drink coffee again, but only occasionally and because of the taste and "warm feeling" one gets after consuming the drug. Not to be awake. This of course gets lost in the normal everyday life until I reach the point where I "only drink one cup per day" and finally I arrive at the point where I do whatever I ""want"". So in the end I understand that coffee tastes nice, leaves a nice feeling, is warm and great to hold in your hand and everything positive about coffee and I am a victim of it myself. BUT the are downsides. It is a drug. A drug in your body always changes the balance of hormones and what not. Drink a lot of coffee to be more awake? - you get more tired elsewhen. Smoke to calm down and get a feeling of beeing ok? - You get more unresting elsewhen. There is no "only positive" thing and for sure not a "only positive" drug. Coffee will not ruin your life and I don't see me stopping to drink it. I simply advise everyone to at least consider / be aware of the downsides. If you have ever taken a few weeks off I am sure you will have noticed similar things. Oh, and don't forget your teeth which will thank you. And the smell of your breath.
Ive found many studies saying that coffee helps you do things better for a while but after a couple week you actually work worse then you did originally.
I actually heard someone say once "I'm totally anti drugs", then have gone on to say "I cant function with my starbucks everyday", some people are as dumb as a sack of walnut shells.
Average coffee drinker: I am very addicted to this substance and need it just ab every day to be useful ... but that’s a good thing because it makes me useful
Like most stimulants, caffeine has different effects on different people. It calms some down and makes other hyperactive and anxious. Your experience with coffee is probably not the exact experience every other coffee drinker has.
***** There has been some debate over it because coffee is specifically banned and some people assume that it applies to caffeine too, but the leaders of the church have clarified that caffeine is just fine. I am Mormon and I have a Coca Cola bottle on my desk right now. Now before anyone starts spamming me with links to anti-Mormon articles (because that happens more then you might think) I want to make it clear that chances are I've heard that argument before, I have better things to do with my life then debate my religion for the hundredth time, and I already am beginning to question that religion (for reasons completely unrelated to the things people have told me on the internet). I just want to end this before it starts because literally every time I have mentioned my religion on the internet I have received a flood of people trying to debunk it. As you might imagine it gets annoying after a while.
Just wait a few years. Human taste does not fully develop until age 35. Even with beer, college-age youngsters drink it only because it gets them high. The true taste for beer does not set in until the mid-20s. Try ales about that time. At your present age, I would not be surprised if beer tastes horse pee to you. As children we love sweeter drinks. As we mature, we appreciate sours and bitters. You will love coffee (black coffee) in due time.
Indeed. It often takes a few cups (as well as some experimentation with cream, sugar, and what-not) before you start developing a taste for the stuff (that's how it was for me, at least). Still, if you don't like coffee, then you don't like coffee. Everyone has their preferences!
Grey, the first step is admitting you have a problem
Lmao
¿Por qué no los dos?
If you know you know
@@TheBluePhoenix008 I know
@@TheBluePhoenix008
Why Not both what? BOTH WHAT???? BOTH ADMITTING HE HAS A PROBLEM AND CONTINUING TO DRINK IT??? IM CONFUSEEEDDD
Someone is trying to justify his addiction...
+mouwersor And your point would be? :-)
spotted the mormon
Kevan Cryan I'm not a mormon.. You may need to replace your mormon-detection system.
+mouwersor oh just a buzzkill detected then, sorry
+mouwersor
The so called benifits are only short lasting and you like any other drug need more to get what you once had. Also caffeen is known to negatively affect your bones, robbing them of minerals. So heavy drinkers are at a higher risk of getting osteo. Especially if they have the so called Energy drinks where it is even worse than coffee.
I like to live a life where I can enjoy things and not have to worry about where to get my next fix. I just smile and grin to myself when the power goes out for an hour. People think the world has come to an end because the can't have thier coffee. Me no such problems :-)
Ten years later: The research *does* seem to imply that caffeine has a few drawbacks. Namely that it can over-stimulate the sympathetic nervous system, causing anxiety, sleeplessness, jitters, and a temporary loss in cardiovascular performance. But it also depends on how fast you can metabolize it
yep, that's why I quit, cold turkey, after drinking coffee since childhood.
Same here, I drank coffee since high school & I noticed I alway wanted to sleep + it helped to develop freaking hemorrhoids in my ass :'(((((
& I thought it was healthy
@@yaago You sure you were drinking coffee? I have never heard of hemorrhoids being caused by coffee.
@@johnhill160 Always wanting to sleep is also the opposite of sleeplessness. I think the guy has others issues.
cause or correlate??? i mean some people drinks coffee to be able to stay up late and chances are they are sleep deprived too, so maybe it's the lack of sleep that causes this. i do have once read that it can decrease quality of sleep if you have it close to your night bedtime.
"Every day the world consumes 300 tones of caffeine - enough for one cup of coffee for every man, woman and child."
Well, one of you is clearly drinking 2 cups a day, seeing as I'm not drinking mine...
make that two!
only 2 HA! 6 at least in Sweden XD
Don't forget about the 2.2 billion that don't have access to clean drinking water, all the kids that don't drink coffee and all the people who can't afford it because their wage is less than 2$/day
That would still mean that an f ton of people are consuming more than 1 cup. Cus this estimate contains every person. A lot of people in developing as well as poor country can't even afford it. I wonder who is drinking that much
@@arneshgupta1364 Caffeine isn't only present in coffee, so it also get consumed from other source, like energy drink. So there's that to take into account into the worldwide caffeine consumption.
"Caffeine is technically lethal." This is just a statement of the main general principle of toxicology: the difference between a medicine and a poison is the dose. Almost anything is lethal in sufficient quantity.
Pure caffeine in small doses can be lethal
right, mercury in small enough doses cannot kill.
@@adrianatgaming8640 They said sufficient, not small.
Murder is lethal in sufficient quantities
This is widely known. You don't have to throw jargon around to make yourself seem smart.
You know a channel is good if you can't tell if it's from 2019 or 2011
Holly fuck this video is from 2011, man he was so ahead of his time, how hasn't him blown up yet?
Wtf, just noticed. #pretty damn good quality video from 2011.
you can tell because there are 2011 memes in the video
same but in 2020
Same i couldnt tell the difference
This guy speaks so fast, it's like he drinks 100 cups of coffee every day!
He does.
Only 100?
69th comment.
Cause he does
i speak tons faster than him lmao
Love how he’s talking like he just snorted espresso
Ikr! Cpg Grey puts so much effort in his videos, it's a real treat.
It's like an ad from the cigar companies but for coffee.
Exactly.
Now it's alcohol ads
And hopefully more true!
In a lot of places, including where I live, this would be super illegal if it were a cigar ad...
Yeah but you can't compare tobacco too coffee ^^ If you drink coffee in moderate ammounts its actually healthy. Yeah to much is bad, bad that counts for everything ^^
I remember sitting at a cafe with my friend as he explained to me his issues with anxiety, insomnia and frequent visits to the bathroom, all while he was sipping away at a cup of coffee. I wish I was joking
Oh wow...
Caffiene makes me alot less anxious.
@@patrickcampbell957 The UK NHS advises that avoiding coffee may reduce anxiety.[160] Caffeine, the major active ingredient in coffee, is associated with anxiety.[161][162] At high doses, typically greater than 300 mg, caffeine can both cause and worsen anxiety.[163] For some people, discontinuing caffeine use can significantly reduce anxiety.[164] Caffeine-induced anxiety disorder is a subclass of substance- or medication-induced anxiety disorder.[165]
From wikipedia.
Unless you get used to coffee like grey and then it controlled your mind and forces you to sponsor it without a vidio to put it in.
Quitting caffeine helped control my anxiety.
But coffee being a stimulant means that its not giving you energy, its only managing your energy. Your body feels tired because its low on energy. Using coffee to stimulate it means you're delaying the crash, not eliminating it.
That being said, I think coffee is ok for the occasional energy boost, maybe to get you through the hardest part of your day. Consuming it all the time will just lead to the same thing that happens with other drugs: you will stop getting benefits and instead just need it to stay normal.
Worse, it's only changing your perception of how much energy you have.
Just be sure to eat and sleep well so you actually have some juice when you flip the overdrive switch
just take more coffee XD
Not managing your energy, more like ignoring your fatique, that's a different story.
It blocks your fatique adenine's receptors, that's all. Not "managing your energy".
This is why coffee is great in the morning to help you get up
You don't feel the fatigue you have from just waking up and by the time the caffeine fades it's the middle of the day and you (should) be fine
Its a healthy stimulant.... unless you're part of the ADD club, in which case its a depressant, but still makes me happy all the same. ♥
I have ADD I drink coffee I’m depressed...
Yo what I have ADHD and am Norwegian
Edit: I drink a shitton of coffee every day
isn't it ADHD?
@@bernian4
ADD and ADHD are two totally separate disorders that have complete opposite reactions to caffeine. There's a lot of similarities between the two, but they are still very different.
Dist0rt3d Hum0r I’m happy some one knows that there is a difference between the two
Imagine having to DRINK to get energized.....
This post was Made by the cocain gang
They should let me have coca leaves. Cocaine in its natural state without purification is actually surprisingly safe, and also I want to.
@@diablominero who's "they"? The police? Dont let them control you man, make all the coke you want. If they try and stop you then engage in war
@@diablominero all psychoactive plants should be legal
@@juliopiotti8807 Ascended basism
bruh.
Coffee is for babies. Real men stay awake through SHEER FORCE OF WILL!!! Unfortunately, I have none. (Chug, chug, chug)
HAH NO REAL MEN DON'T USE PUNCTUATION AND THEIR MORNING JOLT IS WHEN THEY SHOOT THEMSELVES OUT OF BED IN THE MORNING WITH A TORGUE GUN IM MR TORGUE AND I APPROVE THIS MESSGAE
Damn right. Either you kill something with sheer force due to explosions or just don't kill that something at all.
and aderall
😂😂😂
Nah cocaines the thing
I wonder if he is still as passionate about coffee…
"So go grab a cup guilt free!"
Coffee Child *'Labor'* has entered the chat
Go buy local roasters that has humaine forms of farming. Slightly more expensive but it tastes better and is more humaine
@@Theironminer-ky2pg can't buy from local roasters if you don't live in the coffee belt.
@@ashtar3876 Yea you can, its really the roast date that makes coffee fresh, not the farm date.
You know you’re an addict when you’re in denial.
That is such a retarded logic. First of all that is complete bullshit because there are plenty of addicts whoa are not in denial and there are plenty of non-addicts who are rightfully denying being addicted. By your logic someone basically must be addicted if you say he is, because denying it only makes you think more that that it's the case. This kind of thinking is incredibly childish and just a terrible way to engage with the world.
@@ToBeIsWasWere First off: he literally calls it a physiological addiction.
Second: Denying being addicted is what all addicts do at some point or another and the majority of coffee drinkers are indeed addicted due to caffeine inherently addictive chemical structure.
@Bob Bob And, BAM your wait pays off
Denial is a nice river, nothing wrong with swimming in it.
How am I supposed to know I am in denial? If I am in denial, I do not know. If I know, then I am not in denial anymore.
So if you slow to .5, he speaks normal speed. But because of how he speaks, he ends up sounding drunk. It's the best thing ever.
Ethan Salie Oh my goodness I love it xD
Ethan Salie Some people get aggressive when drunk, others get too honest; CGP Grey starts a classroom lesson on coffee.
Ethan Salie This was actually really funny :) Thanks!
+Ethan Salie I'm in tears over here!! This is so perfect.
+Ethan Salie Hahaha, that made my evening
We call them “beans” but they’re actually more like cherry pits.
Indeed, botanically that fruit form is called a _drupe_ or more commonly a stone fruit.
CGP Grey: "Who would want to get rid of coffee?"
Me, with my caffeine induced migraines: "Unfortunately I've had to."
CGP Grey: "They can even get rid of migraines!"
Me: "What?"
Actually majority of migraines are due to caffeine withdrawal. Coffee causes vasoconstriction and once you stop drinking it your blood vessels widen with a surge of blood going to your head and causing a headache. This usually happens 24-48 hours after last caffeinated beverage. Once you drink it your vessels will constrict and the pain will go away. In fact almost all anti migraine drugs have caffeine in them for that very reason. It's very shady. Basically curing a migraine by feeding your addiction. After several days of no caffeine migraines go away.
I had to get rid of caffeine due to my seizures... Now I just have swiss water decaf
You're just drinking it wrong
Drink less coffee. Just fixed your problem.
@@gratefulfrisko8645 I drink hot chocolate now instead. The amount of sugar can't be any better for me. XD
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Starbucks is a fun way to spell squarespace
Noooooo..
Don't think about it
? I don’t get it
habalula15
This dutch one
Starbucks is desert masquerading as coffee.
As a person who doesn't drink coffee, I feel like a just got, like, ad-ed.
Attention deficit erectile dysfunction?
Oh, this video makes sense now after the road trip one where Grey was just pounding the coffee. I mean, so long as your anxiety isn't bad, your heart isn't acting funky, and you can sleep, drink all the coffee you want
l theanine
Grey, you're not being objective. We know you love your coffee.
This is propaganda!
Yes
“Caffeine can remove migraines”
Me: “ooo just what I need”
*See’s method*
Me: “No”
Is the See's method where you get a bunch of randomly assorted coffee products and eat them all at once
OCEAN Man i found out that there are people addicted to let’s say the method
i've migraine and coffe trigres my headache then I quit and no longer headaches though
The weak shall suffer!
@@deagledeagle-jb6pe You fool, you were supposed to drink more coffee to get rid of the headaches!
Coffee is not a replacement for sleep. If you are so tired you need to drink coffee to function properly, it is likely a sign that you should sleep more.
Most people don’t sleep enough, which is extremely unhealthy.
Of course it's not. But it can give a little boost if you need an extra hour or two once in a while. Or to wake up faster/ stay alive during night shifts (can save lives).
And if you are already addicted..... a cup of latte won't help you (except for hydration and umm.... taste?), it will just bring you back to "normal". And since there are 0 side-effects to drinking a cup of coffee daily, why stop.
btw. I mean coffee, not a coffee-flavored dessert
CGP Grey: "Go grab a cup of coffee, guilt-free!"
The people working in slave-like conditions to hand-pick the berries: "Am I a joke to you?"
A.k.a. Costarrican kids.
I kept waiting for the HOWEVER part
I'm still not convinced this is 100% honest lol
It's an honest way to justify my addiction :P
@@frankie5928 It's not a joke and the positive benefits of coffee have only grown in certainty since this video was made. Check out Healthcare Triage's video on the studies that have been done on coffee and tea.
There are studies that show some negative effects but that's only if you drink at least 6 cups a day, less than that and it's beneficial
However drinking coffee too often may prove to be a bad thing to your wallet
I googled it.
Coffee is good for you.
"It's not like the coffee trees WANT humans cutting bits off of them."
I'm telling ya, man, the most effective survival strategy in the history of EVER is "be useful to humans".
As a species, sure, as an individual, not so much.
I thought it was being a cockroach
Coffee
Did you come to terms with your addiction yet?
Coffee!
☕
huh
Coffee: The Greatest Addiction Ever
Sugar: "I m a joke to you ? "
sugar causes obesity and salt blood pressure related complications
coffee however, a drug only effecting the brain does not cause illnesses related to other organs causes the worst effect of all
it increases the amount of coffee you need to drink
The difference between a medicine and a poison is the dose. Both Coffee and Sugar can be beneficial in small doses and harmful in large doses.
The average westerner eats an unhealthy amount of sugar. That is an fact. Whether we drink an unhealthy amount of coffee is still up for debate
Bold of your assuming I don't put a lot of sugar in my coffee
Sugar is bad for you tho. And so is coffee. All addictions are awful
@jocaguz18 yeah but sugar is addictive and you really don't need that much, and it makes you obese. Water is none of those. Also why are you defending sugar? Fat is the one that gets all the hate even though sugar is worse
sounds like your trying to convince yourself not us
Grammar nazi to the rescue!!! *you're
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Cinestar Productions Grammar nazi number two to the rescue! *you're* (Two Asterisks.
Harry Krek Two? Why two? Because you're the second grammar nazi?
Elohim
Convince? About what? :)
Imagine doing 100 hours research for justify your addiction
imagine
Not 100 hours, he did it in 72 hours, but HAD TO DRINK a LOT of coffee to to it ! hahah
@@trol4889 The negatives happen to be not very significant unless you are drinking like 6 cups a day, which is not the idea from what I can tell.
That's what every true drug addict aspires to do
@@toomanycharacter even if he talked about the negatives this video wouldn't change much.
As long as you are drinking it in moderation the negatives are mild at worst.
My weirdest experience with coffee was uncovering ADHD. I had a friend who flatly refused to drink caffeine citing anxiety, until she was so out of it one day I convinced her to try a small, weak batch. She drank it and, as it is a stimulant, the caffeine had a paradoxical effect of calming her down. That nudged her towards visiting a psychiatrist, who indeed confirmed an ADHD diagnosis!
If anyone remembers, in his tesla roadtrip he ran on coffee on that whole trip
it makes you have to poop
& that's a beautiful, beautiful thing!
There are better things that will make you poop. Like going to Zoo. To see a Tiger. Inside it's gace. And you are in this cage too. And Tiger is slowly walking towards you.
Koniaczek Koń Probably much more expensive than a $2 cup of coffee though, all in all...
Only a small percentage of people though.
also, the compound that makes you want to poop makes IBS coffee addict patients' lives a living hell
Finnish citizen here!!! We're #1!!
+MegaMrFroggy Torilla tavataan!!
+Pudde Putte PERKELEEE!!!!!!1!
+MegaMrFroggy based on 2010/2011 data.......
andy56duky We are 1# every year
+MegaMrFroggy #1 most autistic self deprecating retards.
I love coffee, but one has to be willfully blind to say there's no negative side effects. here just a few from my own experience:
● increased blood pressure
● increased heart rate
● headache
● manic euphoria
● anxiety
● withdrawal-induced depression
● more work for the kidneys
and that's just from a single 1 liter thermos on an odd day. I have no idea how Grey is still alive.
Also, stained teeth. Not to mention, if you're barely surviving when it comes to food, being addicted to a specific drink that costs money to have (some beans / grounds are more pricey than others) and does all of these other things isn't exactly the best situation.
The increased blood pressure and heart rate are short-lived side effects and are reduced if caffeine is consumed regularly, most likely due to a buildup of tolerance.
Headaches are generally caused by withdrawal or other factors which correlate with caffeine consumption but are not affected by it, such as stress.
If you're experiencing manic euphoria from coffee then either you are consuming too much and definitely need to cut down, have a genetic sensitivity to caffeine and need to cut down, or the two things are not actually related.
Anxiety can be uncovered by increased alertness and maybe exacerbated by a short-term increase in blood pressure, particularly in individuals with already high blood pressure, but caffeine is very unlikely to routinely cause anxiety on its own from normal doses.
caffeine withdrawal only lasts for a few days at most and will often lead to tiredness and irritability, but not actual depression.
Studies have shown a correlation between moderate coffee consumption and *improved* kidney function, as well as a slightly lower chance of renal cell carcinoma, certainly no negative kidney effects to worry about.
I would suggest that a full litre (equivalent to about 4 cups) "on an odd day" is ill-advised, it would be more healthy to drink less coffee more regularly if you're concerned about blood pressure and heart rate, or ideally less coffee less regularly to minimise negative effects while still increasing energy. Since you aren't drinking it regularly, you're going from 0mg to around 400mg of caffeine, which your body isn't used to dealing with, so it will have a much increased effect than if you were used to, say, 200mg per day.
"there's really no reason to ever stop using the stuff"
I dunno, I'd say a caffeine allergy is a pretty good reason to not consume it
bruhhh
oh noooo rip 😭
@@adrianwalden9788 why rip? I function perfectly fine without it, and the allergy isn't so severe that I can't have chocolate. I actually tend to be more awake than my caffeine addicted friends 90% of the time.
@@8-bitsarda747 I personally have problems with caffeine, but I am also an unmedicated adhd-haver. So, my situation is different than yours probably. Just, for me that'd be really sucky, yk?
@@8-bitsarda747 can you drink cola?
I sat on the end card the entire time waiting for there to be a "But no, actually"
"There's really no reason to ever stop using this stuff"? I mean, there's one very fundamental bodily function that caffeine greatly interferes with: sleep. Coffee hinders a person's ability to sleep, and also compromises the quality of that sleep, making the individual feel tired. And the tired individual turns to what? More coffee. Yay!
Then just, don't drink it before you go to bed? Honestly it's incredibly obvious.
I used to be addicted to sugar since I was young. Recently I started to drink coffee, got addicted and always combined it with sugar. Then I tried to drink it without any sugar and it tastes much, much better so now I don't put sugar on anything. Coffee helped me get rid of sugar addiction and since then I also quit the coffee adiction so I only drink it a couple times a week.
All my friends are always going on and on about how coffee is the best thing ever and they could never live with out it, but me, someone with unusually high levels of acid in their stomach at all times and constantly dealing with acid reflux, gets incredibly nauseous from coffee, so much so that I can't drink it to be more productive because it makes me feel worse.
Then stop voring so much
I absolutely love this video but as someone who has drank coffee and quit like 5 different times, I guarantee you that if you have anxiety, coffee can make it much worse. It’s great when you really need it but if you drink it regularly, it can have some negative effects on your mental health. That’s just my experience with it though, you do you.
DON'T FORGET TO PUT A COVER SHEET ON YOUR TPS REPORT
I didn't get the memo.
EL Kabong yeaaaaaaaaah, well if you could just go ahead and put a coversheet on ALL the new TPS reports, that'd be greaaaaaaat.
Leon Rosenberg mmmmmmKAY ?
10 years later Grey compelled me to drink a cup of coffee. What a magic
Reminds me of that one futurama episode where Fry drinks a hundred cups of coffee and becomes the flash
Some people actually buy a $4 cup from Starbucks everyday, spending $120 a month, when you can buy a month's worth bag of dry coffee for $3. That's a savings of $117!
+VTS -NL what drug you on?
+FuriousGaming Starbucks only likes to call their desserts coffee, but that shit is not worthy to call coffee.
Besides, a month's worth bag of fresh coffee beans is here about 20 bucks per pound and 600 to 6000 bucks for the espresso machine + grinder + time. So I am not sure if starbucks would be such a bad deal if they would start to actually sell coffee ;-)
Citizens need to stimulate the economy. Also, the more expensive the stuff is, the better it's taste and valued.
but then you have to make it yourself and drink at home or transport it to where you want to drink it.
I call bullshit on that flavor business.
There are two downfalls to this drink. The most understated one is that it's addicting. I know you said this, but the implications are such, something has a stranglehold on your mood and your actions. The addiction - calling you back for another cup, regardless if you want it. The second thing is that it amplifies your current emotion. That's bad for someone with chronic anxiety or other mental disorder. Coffee CAN make it harder to enjoy life, regardless of its short term effects.
It can also stain the fuck out of your teeth.
Marquise Williams That's true too. Three downfalls then.
What about insomnia?
Maximal Now you've got four. We're really on a roll.
He's a coffee addict, that's why he sugar coats the video. It's like porn, everybody does it so it probably isn't that bad right?
Im impressed brazil wasnt mentioned on the video. Coffee is our economy, history and so engrained our culture that breakfast is "café da manhã" which means morning coffee
Nice! Its great to see how coffee has shaped other cultures and languages in similar ways.
In Costa Rica a lot of people have a morning coffee and an afternoon coffee. We also use the expression "drink coffee" to mean take a light meal, often in the afternoon, even if the person won't actually drink coffee or doesn't even like coffee.
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Your capacity for research has truly, truly grown since this video was made.
I do think he could maybe go back and try fact checking his old videos and adding corrections or doubts to a comment for new viewers of them to see.
Don't forget that if you've consumed caffeine consistently for long enough to suffer withdrawal symptoms, you're probably not being stimulated by the same amount anymore but instead just drink coffee/soda to feel normal and not be sleepy. It's a bad habit and every drug in the world that has benefits takes something from you in return don't forget that.
This is the only video of Grey's that I considered giving a thumbs down. If nothing else, coffee is a stimulant, and just as you describe, at the very least it will eventually be required by your body to function as efficiently as it used to before you started using it and in turn developed a tolerance for it.
And of course this is anecdotal but I know many people that swear by their decision to stop drinking coffee after being a regular drinker for many years, citing a ton of improvements in their lives (physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, professionally).
I just think saying it is completely free of negative effects is inaccurate.
A lof of the positive effects after quitting coffee come from the sugar. Not so much the coffee itself.
Too much strain on the kidneys
I don't think everyone who habitually drinks coffee considers it a bad habit. I don't even think most people who drink coffee consider it a bad habit. That's your subjective opinion. Not saying that Grey didn't have a subjective opinion that he was freely expressing without calling it as much, but I think that goes without saying. I doubt anybody took this as actual medical advice....
Manny
NOPE, I never* had coffee with sugar and after quitting I still feel better overall.
What Einar said is true, you really become dependent on it just to function and what's even worse it can actually lead to you not getting enough sleep in the long term because you can't really distinguish between caffeine withdrawal and actually feeling tired anymore.
Which seems allright at first (well, not really since sleep deprivation can have awful long term effects if you do it constantly) but it does kinda suck out the joy of your life. I remember just a few weeks ago everything, even the GREAT things weren't really that interesting or great and everything was just kinda faded out. Now I'm still kinda tired (school starts way too early) but I'm in a much better mood (things are actually fun now!) and I'm starting to do productive things again (a comic) when I was in an artistic rut for about a year or longer before.
That is not to say that I'm principally against any coffee consumption, just that it's generally a better idea to not let it become a habit since then you'd be getting into tolerance which is just no good at all. At least if you're coffee-free** for the most part you actually get the desired effect if you really need it.
*well, a handful of times I put in a little as a treat, but that was about 20-30 times total spread over 3 years.
**including soda and tee in coffee because they contain caffeine as well.
As someone who has a lot of Mormon friends, I can tell you that I'm their eyes, the whole point of avoiding caffeine is the same as avoiding nicotine, other drugs, alcohol, and also pornography. The whole point is avoid addiction to something that is viewed as unnecessary, repulsive and/or just plain filthy.
Also money. All the money spent on addictive substances is spent on more usefull things.
@@dingo1547 Most sodas/coffees are cheaper than most juices, and the sugar levels in the latter are often extremely high too
@@dingo1547 Oh boy, you really need to read into some scientific (I'm talking real papers, not the opinions of yome dude on the internet) studies performed with thr limited amount of shrooms scientisty are allowed to study
And that's why you're wasting your lives with those primitive beliefs.
@@Nazuiko Most water is cheaper than sodas/coffees/juices and contain as much or more water than them.
Caffeine doesn’t work on me, it just makes my heart rate go up.
I know I'm awesome
Coffee Fresh
Thanks for being my life support
Coffee Fresh I love you.
thanks for the headaches ya liquid jerk
I don't even drink you
I love you so much. You saved me from going to jail so many times.
Dude you gotta at least mention the side effects like insomnia, anxiety, ulcers and for some, arrhythmia. It's not ALL upsides. Like any drug it needs to be used carefully.
No shit, but there is a difference between one cup a day plus a possible other one later in the day and dropping 6 cups in the span of 16 waking hours.
@@Hyperversum3 As a swede i feel attacked
@@GlassWeringAwesomnes Italian speaking, it's not like we don't have a big ass tradition of coffee (the words "Espresso" and "Cappuccino" surely ain't english) and my city, Trieste, even has different dialectal ways to speak about coffee compared to the rest of Italy, but it's pretty rare to see people consuming coffee that many times everyday, it's more after meals.
@@Hyperversum3 I meant it as a comment on swedes general coffe consumtion. Drinking 6 cups a day is't unusual
@@Hyperversum3 The problem with coffee, that Gray doesnt mention, is adaptation. Drink one cup per day for a month, and your body will adapt. To get the same effects, you will either have to drink 2 cups, or stop drinking for a month. I have never drank coffee, and never will. Drinking a glass of water every morning does great job in waking me up.
Caffeine is a double edged sword. One of those edges is just really, really, really dull.
As a kid I suffered from heavy migraines due to difficulty from my body absorving vitamin D. Despite being very young, a time from when I have very few and far between memories, I still remember VIVIDLY the sensation of taking a suppository. And now, 15 or so years later, Im learning that it was a caffeine based suppository.
Life goes on I guess
So... Someone rathered give you a suppository than a cup of coffee...
@@BardockSSJL I believe the delivery method is necessary for the effect.
You forgot to mention the disadvantages
+Jacob Nugent (yacabo) like? legitimately asking, no sarcasm intended as I don't drink coffee myself
TasosZ If you drink it too often you will eventally become dependent on it to the point where you literaly can't start the day without it.
True but that applies for other drugs as well, but isnt actually a health issue. Consuming with care only gives you the positives, unless there are actual health risks which are what im asking for, and which will appear even without excessive consumption
+Jacob Nugent (yacabo) Lol that is completely false. Did you miss the part about withdrawal? If you start your day without it, after drinking it very often, your mood will shift and you'll and possibly experience a headache. If someone wakes up late and doesn't get a chance to drink coffee do you think they just say fuck it and go back to sleep because they "literally can't start the day without it"? No. You can still get your shit done if you forget to drink a cup of coffee in the morning, no matter how often you drink it.
ELH255 Right but the brain will eventually start to adapt to the constant flow of caffeine and will assume it will get the necessary energy from there.
2:39 So that's how it works. I knew it! Every time you drink coffee, you make a deal with the devil!
In that case, I make a deal with the Devil 'bout... well, let's say 6 times a day. LOL! :D
It's funny he mentioned death from withdrawal, because the withdrawal symptoms of heroin can not kill a human. They're horribly torturous to endure, and if you combine them with severe health problems cause by living life as a homeless junkie, then it's possible. But the heroin withdrawal alone can't do it. The not so fun fact is that only 1 substance has lethal withdrawals; alcohol. When a person gets to the point of pounding hard liquor during every waking hour, the body actually becomes dependent on it to survive and sudden withdrawals will cause seizures and death.
Cheers!
Interesting, so you're saying I should quit drinking and start shooting heroin?
I wish there were more studies on ADHD and caffeine. I feel like coffee helps me focus so much while if I miss a day of coffee, I can’t seem to keep my thoughts on one task
It increase your dopamine which helps with adhd
Grey: 1:40 "imperial unit barbarians"
Also Grey: "BuT fAhReNhEiT iS sTilL mY fAvOrIte"
I’d like to see his ego in imperial units
Farenhite is not neccesrilly imperial
@Age Restrictions ha, you are so funny.
nOrMiE
@@iDunnoMC 1.spelling
And 2. Yes Fahrenheit is most definitely imperial.
Some part of me still thinks that we'll discover side effects of caffeine. There's just no way something can have only benefits and zero negatives ( yes, I know addiction can be considered a negative, but, like Grey stated, there's no reason to give up coffee so you won't experience the withdraw anyway).
They're already discovered. Just Google Side Effects of Caffeine, it's downside is much worse than the upside, in addition the ingredients in coffee itself are even more unhealthy.
that is side effects of caffeine not coffee and like cgp said you would have to be snorting a pile of PURE REFINED caffeine
lmgtfy.com/?q=Side+effects+of+coffee
there is a side effect for men, it has estrogen meaning if you drink to much you may grow man boobs XD
+Bhume TM Yes. It absolutely is xenoestrogenic and can cause a number of problems if consumed in large quantities (3+ cups a day) - not to mention the man boobs of which you speak. :). Women need to be careful also because it cause lactation (when not pregnant or post partum) and uterine polyps.
“Coffee: The Greatest Addiction Ever”
Sugar: Allow me to *reintroduce* myself
With every rewatch, I feel better.
Cpg Gray : coffee is pure awesome and there is no reason to stop using it
Insomnia and Cardiovascular risks : are we a joke to you ?
It says in the video it may PROTECT from cardiovascular disease
@@bastbo3225 Yes, but the data he used for that might not be reliable. There's a heavy bias people have where they tend to believe what they want to believe, leading to people cherry picking data, only looking at data that supports their POV. I don't think CPG Gray is a medical professional, and I'd also bet he's some form of millennial who needs (or really wants) caffeine to get that boost of energy for a typically exhausting day, though I can't verify if either of my assumptions are true.
I don't know what has happened in this scenario, but rest assured the best way to find an answer to whether or not caffeine is healthy is to look for a meta analysis comparing many many studies, for which all these studies were unbiased and controlled for all variables, including possible other components of coffee that may be healthy, like how people tout red wine as healthy (even though it isn't) just because it has antioxidants, which fruits, berries, greens, beans, etc also have in larger quantities.
@Succubus Chan great counter argument lmao
@William Brynn Do you have adhd? I've heard people with adhd who drink it get tired.
@@maisiedonohue3234 where is the evidence that red wine in moderation isn't healthy? The longest-lived populations in the world, in Ikaria and Sardinia, drink one or more glasses a day. I have heard from doctors and medical students I know that moderate drinkers outlive non-drinkers. And just because fruits, berries etc. have more antioxidants is not an argument against drinking red wine for its antioxidant properties.
This was Sponsored by the Coffee Inc.
Or is it? *Vsauce music starts playing*
It’s all a ploy by big coffee
@@sameggenton1077 B.i.g. C.o.f.f.e.e.
it's just like Big Pharma and Big Banana. yeek!
This video was made by Big Coffee to sell more coffee
More like Black Rifle coffee company
This video is from 10 years ago but the quality of the content is so great that it looks from this year
*sips my coffee while watching this*
Grey...
Admit it.
Starbucks sponsored this video, didn't they?
Haha
Lol
I literally scrolled down to the comment section just to type this exact comment 😂😂
Were videos regularly sponsored back then?
Smart cat
0:28 Suomi mainittu, torilla tavataan! Perkele!
Kyllä!
voi vittu saatana perkele
Helvetti
Max Wilderson Yes, that's all what it is. You have done your homework well.
"Perkele," what does that mean? Anywhere close to "Percolate," which is to "brew?"
From a evolutionary point of view humans consuming coffee beans was the biggest win for the plant. Nothing would have allowed it to multiply as much as human farming.
Great job on the pace of this video. Subscribed!
i've been drinking insecticide all this time???
In addition, caffeine increases anxiety in people who are already prone to it, increases heart rate, is usually consumed with sugar or milk which both lead to obesity when consumed at the level of an addict.
There are lots of reasons to take it easy on the brew.
Well most people drink 1-2 cups in the morning, I drink 1 in the morning and another after dinner.
You can tell that this was written while drinking a lot of coffee.
My dads always having a headache every time we go camping, and now I know why
this video was brought to you by starbucks
you mean tim hortons
bones Great place. Patron Saint of Canada
I'm Canadian and Tim Hortons has complete and utter shit coffee
+Silhouette
get
out
of here
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
panteleimon panomarenko That's not even the saddest thing about that shithole. It's the fact that it isn't even owned by Canadians... My work here is done, I'll leave with my superior 1$ instant coffee now.
A video about why some people don't get affected by caffeine would be nice. I can drink coffee before bed with no problems and it really doesn't feel like it has any effect on me
That seems like you're ether desesitized or part of the ADHD club./g /lh
Thank you for supporting my caffeine addict
“You can stay awake for DAYS with no side effects!”
I don't drink coffee just because I don't want to have to rely on something so heavily
Acer Scout
It's (kinda) an acquired taste but after a while you'll figure out to put into it to make it taste best for you.
You still there?
4:20 mins. Oh, BLAZE IT
🚬😎
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I love coffee especially the way it’s made in my country, although I can’t drink it constantly cause I produce kidney stones like factory
Once a year I don't consume coffein for 7 weeks. For the first 3 days I have headaches and feel overall bad (not massivley but clearly noticeable). After 2 weeks I am not tired thoughout the day anymore and I don't feel the urge to get a nap around early afternoon. After 3 weeks I get back to a natural sleep cycle where I go to bed because of tiredness, not exhaustion, and where I wake up not tired but "full of energy" to overexaggerate a little. After 5-6 weeks I feel like I don't need coffe in my life ever again. I feel as awake as I normally feel after 3 cups of coffee. After 7 weeks I allow myself to drink coffee again, but only occasionally and because of the taste and "warm feeling" one gets after consuming the drug. Not to be awake. This of course gets lost in the normal everyday life until I reach the point where I "only drink one cup per day" and finally I arrive at the point where I do whatever I ""want"".
So in the end I understand that coffee tastes nice, leaves a nice feeling, is warm and great to hold in your hand and everything positive about coffee and I am a victim of it myself. BUT the are downsides. It is a drug. A drug in your body always changes the balance of hormones and what not. Drink a lot of coffee to be more awake? - you get more tired elsewhen. Smoke to calm down and get a feeling of beeing ok? - You get more unresting elsewhen. There is no "only positive" thing and for sure not a "only positive" drug.
Coffee will not ruin your life and I don't see me stopping to drink it. I simply advise everyone to at least consider / be aware of the downsides. If you have ever taken a few weeks off I am sure you will have noticed similar things. Oh, and don't forget your teeth which will thank you. And the smell of your breath.
Ive found many studies saying that coffee helps you do things better for a while but after a couple week you actually work worse then you did originally.
I saw one recently that showed a positive effect on memory from long-term caffeine consumption
@@thebuddercweeper Same with nicotine
I actually heard someone say once "I'm totally anti drugs", then have gone on to say "I cant function with my starbucks everyday", some people are as dumb as a sack of walnut shells.
Hah good one
Coffee is nothing compared to actual drugs
@@klake5375 coffee IS an "actual drug"
@@klake5375 caffeine withdrawl is worst and longest of aaalll drugs it can take years to be normal again
@@MrDrew2220 Compared to cocaine and Heroin? It's nothing.
This video hits different since I missed my coffee this morning
I'm really surprised that I hadn't seen this before -- great work as always!
Average coffee drinker: I am very addicted to this substance and need it just ab every day to be useful ... but that’s a good thing because it makes me useful
You sure that is supposed to be the average coffee drinker?
Unless you're working in the coffee fields themselves there's really no point to this strawman
It is impossible to drink 90 cups of coffee
Matt Stonie: Hold my sandwich
From a boy raised in a coffee farm family, im so glad to see this video
Like most stimulants, caffeine has different effects on different people. It calms some down and makes other hyperactive and anxious. Your experience with coffee is probably not the exact experience every other coffee drinker has.
It should be noted that Mormons are not against caffeine in general, just coffee.
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I have no idea.
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There has been some debate over it because coffee is specifically banned and some people assume that it applies to caffeine too, but the leaders of the church have clarified that caffeine is just fine. I am Mormon and I have a Coca Cola bottle on my desk right now.
Now before anyone starts spamming me with links to anti-Mormon articles (because that happens more then you might think) I want to make it clear that chances are I've heard that argument before, I have better things to do with my life then debate my religion for the hundredth time, and I already am beginning to question that religion (for reasons completely unrelated to the things people have told me on the internet). I just want to end this before it starts because literally every time I have mentioned my religion on the internet I have received a flood of people trying to debunk it. As you might imagine it gets annoying after a while.
So what is the point of disliking coffee if not for the caffeine?
What about caffeine-free soda, like Sprite, Fanta, or Ginger Ale?
+Erik the God Eating Penguin The man who founded Mormonism hated hot drinks, so he banned them (not a joke)
Yeah, no thanks. I can barely handle the smell of coffee without wanting to throw up, so I don't think I'm going to be drinking it anytime soon.
How old are you? curious.
bircruz555 I turned 20 last month.
Just wait a few years. Human taste does not fully develop until age 35. Even with beer, college-age youngsters drink it only because it gets them high. The true taste for beer does not set in until the mid-20s. Try ales about that time. At your present age, I would not be surprised if beer tastes horse pee to you.
As children we love sweeter drinks. As we mature, we appreciate sours and bitters. You will love coffee (black coffee) in due time.
bircruz555 Eh, I guess it's possible, but I doubt it. My parents are the same way (well, maybe not as bad, but still).
Indeed. It often takes a few cups (as well as some experimentation with cream, sugar, and what-not) before you start developing a taste for the stuff (that's how it was for me, at least). Still, if you don't like coffee, then you don't like coffee. Everyone has their preferences!
Coffee belt! I don't really enjoy coffee that much, but that may change soon 👀
When I moved to California I promised my mother that I wouldn't start doing drugs Mr.Grey. so thanks, I'll pass.