More on the #caffeine myths today. A popular Instagram account, called Cafeholic101 posted an infographic claiming a shot of espresso has only 27mg of caffeine.
I guess if it's in an infographic, it's gotta be true, right? :eyeroll: Sadly, this post has thousands of likes; another example of influencers providing false info.
Because it's utterly untrue. Well maybe the 5g coffee amounts in a nespresso pod, if brewed at very low temperatures, might be under 30mg in the cup.
Real espresso? A full double from 18.5g coffee will give 100-135mg caffeine, in the cup.
The vast majority of teabags are bad. But the other day I saw one that broke some kind of record for being pointless and absurd. It contained a mix of rooibos, the well-known #caffeine-free substitute for #tea, AND GREEN TEA. And it was flavoured with one of those absurd combinations, like licorice and root beer or some such shit.
My neurologist recommended to avoid #caffeine at all costs. So I'm trying out caffeine free cereal #coffee. It's coffee made not from coffee beans but from wheat and rye. 🌾
I am at a constant crossroads with my caffeine addiction, I know that it isn't good for me in the long term, but also I'm averaging around 3ish hours of sleep a night so it's currently a necessary evil.
I love this arch decorated with images of the Green Man over the entrance to James Miller's 1896 Saint Enoch Underground Station building in central Glasgow.
It's now a coffee house and I wonder how many people going in to get their daily caffeine fix look up and see these wonderful little sculptures as they pass underneath.
I tried #strattera to treat #adhd but it didn't do anything for me, so my doctor switched me to #vyvanse, but the pharmacy has been out of stock for nearly a month so I haven't got to try it yet. I'm about ready to just give up again, and go back to #caffeine and #cannabis. At least I can actually get those.
The caffeine finally kicked in. Yuck I have too much of a tolerance for this stuff. I do like coffee but I want it to work and be yummy. #rant#coffee#caffeine
The Albina Press, the #coffeeShop in NE #Portland is a real #caffeine junkie's #coffee shop; open at 6am, close at 6pm, every day, coffee's intense. They serve #coava, and have lots of seating in and outdoor. Pretty much perfect #pdx#cafe!
Coffee consumption decreases the connectivity of the posterior Default Mode Network (DMN) at rest
Investigators found that “certain changes in brain activity were attributable only to coffee, while others were attributable to caffeine as well.”
The scan study revealed that “drinking #coffee increased activity in parts of the #brain involved in short-term #memory, #attention and focus, whereas ingesting #caffeine on its own did not.”
Sometimes I have trouble getting to sleep at night. Some nights I don’t sleep at all. Tonight was one of them. Apparently insomnia is more prevalent among autistic people but I can’t blame my autism tonight. No, I dosed myself with too much caffeine because Final Fantasy XVI released at midnight last night.
Catherine and I have both been looking forward to the game, especially once a demo became available a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been a FF fan since I was 12 and after Cat and I got married she got dragged into it.
It’s also how she got into power metal and symphonic metal.
She doesn’t have the patience to play the games herself, but likes to watch the cutscenes. She’s there for the music and melodrama. But since she’s a sensible woman and wasn’t jacked up on caffeine she eventually needed to go to bed.
I joined her rather than play without her. Except I couldn’t get to sleep. My usual methods didn’t work. I ended up reading the last third of Fires of Azeroth by C. J. Cherryh with a little USB-charged reading light on its dimmest tolerable setting. I got up twenty minutes ago because in addition to the birdsong outside the house’s open windows I could hear our dog scratching at the door because she wanted out. Never mind that it was around ten after five in the morning.
Maybe she wanted to go out and piss before the garbage trucks started traversing the neighborhood? She always gets a little crazy on Thursdays; we suspect but can’t prove that big trucks are part of the reason our rescue dog is such a trauma puppy.
Regardless, I’m awake and having some more caffeine. My usual bottle of cold-brewed matcha in the morning should keep me going until nightfall and as long as I don’t have any more caffeine later I should be able to sleep tonight.
‘Cause I’m not 19 anymore. I got away with going three nights without sleep to play Final Fantasy VII back then, but I’m entirely too old to even consider such insanity now.
The game will still be there if I sleep tonight, as will my day job. But I’m damned well taking today off from work. Not to worry; I had told management I intended to take today off a few weeks ago.
There’s just the question of how to amuse myself while I wait for Catherine to wake up. I still don’t want to play when she’s not around to enjoy the story.
I guess I’ll tinker with my website. I’ve been meaning to change the way I generate my links page; I want to be able to generate an OPML file, mainly so that I can import my subscriptions into any feed reader that will process OPML. I figure others might find such a file useful as well. And if not, tough shit; it’s my website and I’ll do with it as I please.
And I’m all over the place, rambling into my text editor. This, kids, is why you shouldn’t ingest any caffeine after noon if you want to get a decent night’s sleep. At least the dog is settled and I’ve got a cat in my lap.
I have some degree of #caffeine dependency, it seems. I’m at 30-something hours without and I feel like I’ve been run over by a golf cart. #Experiment cancelled. Heading for #coffee now.