Not only does it make you smarter and more physically adept, but caffeine’s also the key to curing headaches!
They found that 58 per cent of those who took either caffeine or ibuprofen alone reported complete pain relief from a headache – and the caffeine-takers typically experienced relief about half an hour faster. The caffeine dose was equivalent to that in a large mug of coffee, says Seymour Diamond, who led the study.
[…]After 90 minutes, pain began to recur in the caffeine-only group. However, drinking a second cup of coffee could probably prolong the analgesia, Diamond says.
This is, of course, old news to the makers of pain relievers laced with caffeine (Excedrin, I believe, is this way), but now we have Science to stand behind such claims.
None of this explains, of course, the frequent headaches I get at the office, even though I heavily self-medicate with coffee. But that’s just another mystery for Science to figure out.
(Via Blather, which, for my money, is one of the most attractive and soothing-looking sites out there. And he didn’t even pay me to say that.)