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Dec 2021
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How does caffeine make you not sleepy?

Melissa and Jam, Bleav
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#059 Rebroadcast

Ok so, caffeine. Some of us live on the stuff, and others of us want nothing to do with it. There's a lot of things caffeine can do to our bodies, but of course the number one question, is how does it keep the sleepiness away? Let's get into it. And we may find out a few other things caffeine does along the way.

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References from this episode

  1. https://twitter.com/BethEyre3/status/1276036218300612608
  2. https://www.instagram.com/bethsbrainbites/
  3. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/reactions/videos/2014/the-science-of-caffeine-the-worlds-most-popular-drug.html
  4. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20164566/


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