Caffeine: Friend or Foe?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Caffeine is one of the only legal psychoactive stimulants but is it good or bad for our health? This week, the Naked Scientists are delving into the science to find out. Plus, the latest on Zika virus, bed bugs get their genomes sequenced, and will going out with wet hair give you pneumonia? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.2	Hello.
0:04.2	Hello.
0:05.2	Welcome.
0:06.2	Science.
0:09.2	And that is the same.
0:10.6	physics, medicine, nature.
0:12.2	Space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:16.8	This week the world's favorite addiction, caffeine, but is it bad for you?
0:21.4	We're delving into the science to find out.
0:23.4	Plus the latest on zeca virus.
0:25.8	Bed bugs get their genome sequenced and will going out with wet hair give you pneumonia.
0:31.2	I'm Chris Smith.
0:32.2	And I'm Greer Jackson and this is the
0:34.4	Naked Scientists. The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.
0:40.0	UK. The virus in Brazil, where as many as a million people could have been infected with this agent since last year.
0:59.0	The virus has been linked with a birth defect known as microkefully, which means an undersized brain in children
1:06.2	born to women who pick up the infection when they're pregnant. Zika virus was first described in the 1940s in one part of Africa and it's transmitted
1:15.2	by mosquitoes, but scientists don't know what's causing the sudden flurry of cases in Brazil
1:20.6	or the true scale of the disease.
1:23.0	Next week the UK Science and Technology Committee have announced that they're
1:26.6	convening a special hearing on Zika to examine the threat.
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