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AnSionnachRua · 4597 days ago · link · · parent · post: High Blood Caffeine Levels in Older Adults Linked to Avoidance of Alzheimer’s Disease
Well then, I must remember to get a moka pot. Aside from the stimulating effect, it'll stave off Alzheimer's. Brilliant.
I must say, tea is still my main hot beverage. Milder in taste and effect, and better for biscuit-dunking. Thomas de Quincey on tea: "From the latter weeks of October to Christmas Eve, therefore, is the period during which happiness is in season, which, in my judgment, enters the room with the tea-tray; for tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally of coarse nerves, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual"