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> I need a quick fix. I make a Nespresso. It's good enough. I'll make a french press after this cup wakes me up.

Sounds like you approach caffeine like an addict. Coffee is actually good for you though:

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/coffee-be...

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Like with every substance, the dosage and regularity of intake are the key factors that determine what it does to you. Coffee can be good for your health, but it also can be detrimental... Every habit can become an addiction, even coffee -- with less severe withdrawal symptoms than other stimulants, but still...

Coffee the plant may be good, caffeine the molecule is not. There are other things in coffee that may be helpful, but caffeine is a poison and only that, I think there is no debating that (but I'm interested if anybody has hints to the contrary).

> but caffeine is a poison and only that, I think there is no debating that

There's so much data to dispute that that it isn't even funny. Countless articles have been written.

What's usually under debate is to what extent consumption can be beneficial or detrimental.

Caffeine is only very obviously a poison when it comes to arachnids.

Isn't that about coffee not caffeine? I don't see how what caffeine alone does could be in any way helpful, outside of as a pure performance enhancer for very specific situations.

Dose makes the poison.

Exactly the opposite. There are a lot stronger psychoactives in coffee than caffeine is, and some of them are neurotoxic.

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