Re: Caffeine withdrawal advice (was Re: Is Medicine Healthy? addiction to stress)

Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
09 Apr 1999 19:12:35 +0200

CurtAdams@aol.com writes:

> Caffeine is a diuretic and leaves you dehydrated. Part of the withdrawal from
> caffeine (not all) comes just from the symptoms of dehydration. So if you
> go on a caffeine fast, drinks lots and lots of water.

Good advice.

> (Just to tweak the hunters of the Great White Nootropic, caffeine is one of
> the
> best nootropics known. :-)

While I agree in general, I wonder how to compare them - nicotine affects attention, caffeine wakefullness and alertness, cholinergic stuff memory, all have different effects. However, caffeine is remarkably non-toxic and easily accessible. 

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Anders Sandberg                                      Towards Ascension!
asa@nada.kth.se                            http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/
GCS/M/S/O d++ -p+ c++++ !l u+ e++ m++ s+/+ n--- h+/* f+ g+ w++ t+ r+ !y