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Re:Talismans of Productivity: Or give up coffee. by jdietrich on Thursday January 13, 2011 @11:13AM (#2100236)
Switch to tea. Coffee is a markedly inferior stimulant and the only reason Americans drink as much as they do is because of a certain political skirmish over taxation.

Tea contains L-theanine, which acts synergistically with caffeine. It increases levels of dopamine as caffeine does, but also levels of GABA, helping to reduce stress and take away the jittery, distractible edge that comes with coffee drinking. If you were to sit down and design a drug to help with mentally taxing work, you'd be hard pressed to concoct something better than tea.

Re:Talismans of Productivity: Or give up coffee. by nickluft on Thursday January 13, 2011 @11:15AM (#2100245)
But please avoid strong tea. It still has a lot of caffeine in it and tea can also hinder the absorption of iron and other long-term effects.

http://www.stashtea.com/caffeine+and+tea.aspx

Tea has approximately half the caffeine that coffee has.

Re:Talismans of Productivity: Or give up coffee. by tony584 on Thursday January 13, 2011 @04:27PM (#2101390)
Stash is making strong generalizations, try this: http://chadao.blogspot.com/2008/02/caffeine-and-tea-myth-and...