Thanks guys.
Currently I do, on average, 8 ounces of cold brew coffee every morning. I make it myself, bottle it, and give some away to friends and neighbors. People love it. I use organic beans and mountain valley spring water. I brew for up to 38 hours.
Eventually I will temper my addiction, for now I've made some* peace with where I'm at. Life's a journey.
I read this scientific study yesterday after noticing this thread:
Abstract
Caffeine is the most commonly used psycho stimulant. In addition to its widely known
peripheral effects, caffeine is also an adenosine antagonist. Adenosine, a neuromodulator, is
present in all areas ofthe brain, making caffeine's effects widespread. These effects differ based
on variables such as dose, prior exposure, and timing of administration. The goal ofthe present
study was to examine the effects of acute and chronic caffeine on spatial learning.
A radial arm water maze task was used to assess the behavioral effects of caffeine on
caffeine-acclimated and caffeine-naive rats. After an initial caffeine pretreatment (caffeine
administration for four weeks), half the rats were given caffeine injections during the learning
task. This resulted in four groups: caffeine administration during the pretreatment and during the
learning task (caffeine/caffeine), caffeine during the pretreatment and saline during the training
task (caffeine/saline), saline during the pretreatment and caffeine during the training task
(saline/caffeine), and saline during the pretreatment and during the training task (saline/saline).
The differences in latency to reach the platform, reference, and working memory errors were
observed between all groups.
The results ofthe pilot study and the main experiment are consistent with each other,
showing that rats given chronic (pretreatment) caffeine make significantly more memory errors
than rats given acute caffeine only. These results imply that while acute caffeine may not cause
any impairment in learning, chronic caffeine impairs memory over time.
https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1235&context=theses
