Caffeine Boosts Pain Relief of Strong Narcotics

 Caffeine increases the analgesic power of morphine and other strong opiates! Caffeine’s psychological and physiological effects including elevated mood, favorable cardiovascular effects, and increased mental acuity, have been well documented.  However, until recently, the effects of caffeine on severe, chronic pain had not been recognized.             In findings published in […]

Wake the Dead — Again!

As reported this week by the Associated Press, an addled coroner declared that a South Carolina high school student who had no heart problems died from heart failure because he consumed too much caffeine.  The boy had drunk a big bottle of Mountain Dew, a cup of coffee, and an “energy drink.”   The caffeine he ingested was […]

Caffeine Makes Tylenol Work Better!

It’s common knowledge that Tylenol (acetaminophen) is a pain killer.  It’s less well known that caffeine reduces pain even more than Tylenol.  But, in addition, as reported in The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, a double-blind, placebo-controlled study has proven that caffeine actually enables the body to absorb Tylenol in a way that increases its analgesic, or […]

How Caffeine Helps People Live Longer

It has been known for decades, from longitudinal studies of hundreds of thousands of people, that, in large part because of the benefits of caffeine for the heart, the use of caffeine enables people to live longer.  But now a study at Stanford University reveals one of primary ways in which caffeine achieves this effect: By reducing […]

Notorious Anti-Caffeine Screwball Convicted for Fraud

As leader of the phony Caffeine Awareness Association, Marina Kushner, who has written and published various anti-caffeine e-books, had been travelling the United States for years to lobby State legislators to institute a so-called “Caffeine Awareness Month.”  Now, after she was arrested and charged with fraud, her group has been disbanded as part of her plea bargaining agreement. […]

Exercise Takes Toll on your Eyes…but Caffeine Restores Them!

Everyone knows that caffeine can help you exercise better and longer, but most of us don’t realize that caffeine can reverse a detrimental effect that endurance exercise can have on your vision.  CAFFEINE RUNNER! In a University of Waterloo study, participants experienced an almost 10 per cent reduction in their rapid eye movements after performing […]

Monster Sues in Federal Court over Caffeine in Energy Drinks

It is astonishing to us, but the brouhaha over the caffeine content of so-called “energy drinks” never seems to end.  We should repeat that an average energy drink contains about 80mg of caffeine, in comparison with 150mg of caffeine in a 6oz cup of Arabica coffee or 400mg of caffeine in an 8oz cup of Robusta coffee. In other words, a […]

Caffeine-Based Gold Compounds May Fight Cancer

It has been known for some time that caffeine can kill cancer cells.  In fact, the therapeutic power of caffeine has been documented for potentially treating brain cancer, head and neck cancer, breast cancer, uterine cancer, liver cancer, skin cancer, oral/pharyngeal cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, and even lung cancer.  Now, researchers report in the […]

Wake the Dead with Caffeine!

An Englishman was recently was found dead in his West Midlands flat, and, at his inquest, the Black Country Coroner, Mr. Robin Balmain, blamed his death on a “massive overdose of caffeine.”  In fact, the man had consumed a bag of twelve caffeinated Hero Instant Energy Mints containing a total of 500 mg of caffeine.  This […]

Memories, Memories — Good News about Caffeine!

A new study from Johns Hopkins University has proven for the first time that caffeine consolidates and preserves long-term memory.  It has long been known that a little caffeine ramps up concentration, attention, vigilance, visuospatial reasoning, and the ability to perform calculations and think logically.   It has also been recognized that caffeine improves short-term memory, […]