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    Jan162009

    Study Finds Seven Cups of Coffee a Day May Lead to Hallucinations

    Boy Would This Explain Alot! A Potential Defense for Madoff?

    It's really all Starbucks' Fault

    I am beginning to get a handle on what might have happened with this whole Bernie Madoff thing. Perhaps he wasn't the biggest crook of all time. He was just drinking waaaay too much coffee and thought he was actually investing all that money. He actually believed he was executing stocks trades with Goldman Sachs all along. He was just hallucinating for ten years.

    That might at least me feel better that no one could be this big an evil-doer. He was just like one of those somnambulists on ambien who take the car out at night, kill some one, come home, raid the fridge and eat two quarts of B&J's cherry garcia, wake up the next morning and don't remember a damn thing. Nah!!! Still wouldn't explain how the SEC fockered this one up. Oh well... there goes that theory. Felt better for second... unfortunately it's back to reality and more digging for truth.

     

    By Naomi Kresge

    January 14, 2009

    Consuming the caffeine in seven cups of instant coffee a day may leave you more likely to see, hear and smell things that aren’t there, U.K. researchers said.

    People who drink at least 330 milligrams of the stimulant a day were three times as likely to have hallucinations as those who consumed less than 10 milligrams a day, Durham University researchers found in a study of 219 college students published today in Personality and Individual Differences.

    The study, the first to link caffeine and hallucinations, explored the relationship between high caffeine consumption and an increased release of cortisol, a stress hormone believed to contribute to delusions, lead researcher Simon Jones said. It forms the first step toward examining nutrition as a factor in the occurrence of hallucinations, he said.

    “Given the link between food and mood, and particularly between caffeine and the body’s response to stress, it seems sensible to examine what a nutritional perspective might add,” Jones said in a statement.

    It may also be that people under stress and more susceptible to hallucinations are also more likely to consume high levels of caffeine, Jones said in an interview. Caffeine is also contained in tea, chocolate, energy drinks, and some foods.

    “There would be no real reason for me to stop drinking tea,” said Jones. “I don’t see a reason to change a moderate intake.”

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