In 1995, NASA’s Dr. David Noever and his fellow researchers at the Marshall Space Flight Center studied the webs spun by common house spiders (Araneus diadematus) dosed with several drugs, including LSD, marijuana, benzedrine, chloral hydrate and caffeine. The more toxic the drug, the less organized the web the spider created.
The spider on marijuana drifted off before finishing the job. The spider on benzedrine, an upper, worked energetically but without much planning. The spider dosed with chloral hydrate, a sedative, soon fell asleep.
To the surprise of Dr. Noever et al, caffeine did the most damage of all the substances tested. The spider dosed with it proved incapable of creating even a single organized cell, and its web showed no sign of the “hub and spokes” pattern fundamental to conventional web design.
What does the web of a caffeinated spider (which can hardly be accustomed to the jolt of a morning latte) have to do with human behavior? Unlikely as it sounds, it may be the most vivid illustration of caffeine’s disorienting effect on caffeine-sensitive people, many of whom may be misdiagnosed as mentally ill:
“Caffeine-induced psychosis, whether it be delirium, manic depression, schizophrenia, or merely an anxiety syndrome, in most cases will be hard to differentiate from other organic or non-organic psychoses….The treatment for caffeine-induced psychosis is to withhold further caffeine.”
Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose, 3rd ed., 1998
Michael W. Shannon, MD, MPH, Director, Lead and Toxicology Clinic, The Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Staff Toxicologist, Massachusetts Poison Control System; Lester M. Haddad, MD, Clinical Professor in Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina; Emergency Physician and Active Staff, Bon Secours St. Francis Xavier Hospital; James F. Winchester, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Georgetown University Medical Center.
Source: The Caffeine Web
That could be a reason to stay away from caffeine. :p
Coffee is life! No coffee, no life.
The notion that the behaviour of a particular chelicerata’s nervous system under the influence of neurotransmitter-like psychoactives says anything whatsoever about the behaviour of H. sapiens is fantasy.
When it comes to neurotransmitters, we may use very similar molecules as spiders, but we use them for very different purposes.
That is true. I’ve never come across anything that related coffee to a specific damage to humans, although some say it can cause stress, rise in heart attack risk and rise in blood sugar levels, which ultimately can lead to some kind of behaviour alteration. That’s very unlikely, though. Some people get hyper, others focussed, but then it depends on the person. Some don’t feel anything at all.
Still, it’s funny to see how spiders react to it. That’s why one shouldn’t dope the poor things.^^
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Caffeine is present in some plants (coffee, tea) to ward off or kill insects. Caffeine is a nerve agent. No wonder the spider had a hard time with it.
Caffeine has also been associated with pancreatic cancer and diabetes in mice and humans. In diabetes, the beta cells in the pancreas are slowly destroyed by caffeine, resulting in type 1 (insulin dependent) diabetes.
I stopped all consumption of caffeine (coffee, tea, soda, chocolate) 3 weeks ago, (after 40 years of drinking multiple cups every day), and I feel very good now. The first 3-4 days after stopping my intake, I could feel slight withdrawal symptoms. For the first 5 days, I used a taper-down technique to quit, rather than do it cold turkey, but it wasn’t hard to do.
I recommend you give life a try without caffeine because it could greatly benefit to your health.
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