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If you’re using caffeine to stay alert and operate on less sleep, you’re accumulating a sleep debt that will catch up with you.
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Prime has two offerings: one is marketed as a ‘hydration’ drink, the other as an ‘energy’ drink. But what’s actually in them?
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Used correctly, caffeine can help you lift more, run faster and cycle farther.
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Desbrow isn’t anti-caffeine – he drinks a cup of coffee every day, and is enthusiastic about its positive impact on exercise and sports performance. But his studies do suggest we should treat this wonder drug with a bit more caution, particularly given how easily and cheaply it’s acquired.
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The long read: Caffeine makes us more energetic, efficient and faster. But we have become so dependent that we need it just to get to our baseline
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It turns out a cup of coffee can help us when we're working out. But how much is helpful? And how much is too much?
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Blue Mountains man Lachlan Foote, 21, died from caffeine toxicity after ingesting one teaspoon of pure caffeine powder in a protein shake.
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Lachlan Foote, 21, never woke up after having a protein shake with caffeine powder before going to bed. After an "excruciating wait" his family now know what killed him.
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Products like Red Bull have sent thousands of adolescents to the emergency room. The people who market them insist they don’t need to be regulated.
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Many people drink coffee for that extra bit of energy to go about their day. As well as sharpening our minds, there's evidence caffeine can give us a physical boost, too.
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Whether you are a fast metabolizer or slow metabolizer of caffeine can determine whether it helps or hurts your athletic performance.
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Athletes can swim, bike or run faster if they take caffeine before an event — no need to abstain from coffee or Red Bulls for days beforehand.
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Regular caffeine intake makes us tolerant to the effect on irregular users of wanting to go to the toilet.
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Caffeine is one of the few performance enhancers that are not banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, and studies have proved that it does work in athletes' favor.
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Until recently, coffee was on the list of habits to break if you really wanted to be healthy. Not anymore.
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A few weeks before their prom king's death, students at an Ohio high school had attended an assembly on narcotics that warned about the dangers of heroin and prescription painkillers - New Zealand Herald
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Last week, 5-Hour-Energy came under fire after The New York Times reported the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received 13 reports of deaths possibly linked to the energy drink.