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https://hermetabolism.org/habits/caffeine/
Updated and Verified: October 18, 2024 (News page records significant changes.)
Accessed on October 18, 2024
Caffeine is a drug: a psychoactive stimulant affecting body, mind, and mood.1 As a habit, caffeine significantly harms her metabolism in many ways. The National Library of Medicine reports the following common harms to her metabolism, among others, from caffeine2:
In an article titled The surprising health benefits of coffee - the Mayo Clinic reports that caffeine is dangerous to pregnancy and lactation.3 Meanwhile, the Journal of the American Medical Association reports evidence and analysis showing that more and more caffeine for a pregnant woman causes more and more disease and deformity to the child, in utero: "lower birth weight, shorter length, and smaller head, arm, and thigh circumference."4 Meanwhile, low prenatal birth weight is hugely dangerous and a key cause of death to babies: "Low birthweight is a major determinant of infant mortality."5
Despite the rampant, serious - and sometimes deadly - harms that caffeine routinely causes to her metabolism, researchers routinely and negligently publish pro-caffeine pseudoscience. For example, the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that - not - drinking eight cups of coffee a day - increases - her risk of disease and death.6 The researchers then sheepishly add that their report is not scientific in any rigorous sense but rather "based on observational data,"6 and so the researchers admit that their counterintuitive - and manifestly false - claims about caffeine "should be interpreted with caution."6
Despite the reckless researchers recommending caution - unsurprisingly, the inevitable damage is done: now, entities such as the American Heart Association credulously report - without the advised caution - that "studies suggest [people who regularly drink coffee] are less likely to die from heart disease and other illnesses."7
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Here in the USA, jurisdiction matters a lot. It is generally illegal and a bad idea for anyone but a jurisdiction-licensed physician to give medical advice, anyone but a jurisdiction-licensed attorney to give legal advice, anyone but a jurisdiction-licensed nutritionist or registered dietician to give metabolic advice, and so forth. This website's information is generally incomplete to predict how applying it may affect a given visitor - because the effects depend on the person's unique circumstances and characteristics.
So, here is the only medical, legal, and metabolic advice on this website: None of this website is individualized medical, legal, or metabolic advice. It is general information. You should not try to apply any of this information to your life, unless you know what you are doing. Generally, the governments of USA's jurisdictions (states and territories) declare two things through law:
Obviously, those standards are extremely conservative, if not heavy-handed. However, one should remember that many of those people in government who uphold such strict standards have seen the stuff of nightmares: predictable, preventable, terrible consequences when the least capable and least conscientious people make the worst decisions - whether medically, legally, nutritionally, or otherwise. So, it is not wildly unreasonable to promote - even to legally command - erring on the safe side. Still, various jurisdictions do provide some exceptions to those exceptionally strict standards under law.
Here in Minnesota (and in many other U.S. states and territories) a person can help you with certain aspects of your medical, legal, and metabolic status and circumstances - even when that person is not formally licensed by the jurisdiction. Minnesota, for example, allows various people besides licensed nutritionists and registered dieticians to give metabolic advice and guidance: certain Complementary and Alternative Health Care providers, which Minnesota allows under law. Minn. Stat. ยง 146A. Thus, one need not feel completely locked into the strict standards listed above (though jurisdictions do typically still hold alternative providers to certain basic standards under law). Instead, in the USA, one can discuss the information on this website, and receive guidance about it, from various experts - whether jurisdiction-licensed or not. Meanwhile, this thorough and smart-sounding notice and explanation should not tempt any visitor into having any extra trust for the information in this website. At most, as the saying goes: "trust but verify."
Sincerely,
Dr. R. Floyd Lindquist
Her Metabolism: Founder, Treasurer, Secretary, Lead Data Scientist, and Director of Communications and Research
PhD (Thanatology), PsyD (Psychology), DLP (Law and Policy), MPH (Nutrition & Epidemiology), MS (Nutrition), MA (Counseling)
floyd[at]hermetabolism[dot]org
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