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Episode 197: The Effects of Coffee and Caffeine on Health and Performance

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Does Caffeine Increase Performance?

There are a variety of different substances that can impact basically at the bottom of the esophagus, there's this muscular sphincter. caffeine is one of them that can kind of reduce the tone of that spHincter or cause that muscle to relax a bit and that can allow for reflux to happen. The thing is though that these kind of triggers, so to speak, are pretty individual and they can vary in other situations like context dependentlike is this associated with a meal or independent of a meal or whatever's going on. But as far as if you were wondering, does caffeine increase performance have the potential to increase performance? The answer is yes.

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