Ep 54 Wake Up and Smell the Caffeine

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Are you one of the billions of people around the world who starts your day with a freshly brewed and deliciously aromatic cup of coffee or tea or maybe even hot chocolate? Or are you caffeine-avoidant, looking on at your coffee-addicted friends with confusion and maybe even pity? In either case, this episode is for you. We are joined by the one and only Matt Candeias of In Defense of Plants to tackle the world’s most consumed psychoactive drug: caffeine. First we get a taste of the massive history of the most popular caffeine-containing beverages, then we trace what exactly caffeine does in your body after that first scrumptious sip. And finally, we explore what role this compound has for those many, many plants that produce it. We hope you find this episode as stimulating as its subject!

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0:00.0	This is exactly right.
0:03.5	This is Justin from The Generation Why and we're doing a four-part series unraveling
0:10.7	the story of Khalif Browder, a young boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held
0:15.6	at Rikers Island for three years without trial.
0:18.7	This story is about a young life caught in the middle of the justice system, listen to
0:23.0	The Generation Why on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:53.0	Hi, I'm Erin Welsh and I'm Erin Almond Updike.
1:12.8	And I'm Matt Kandace.
1:16.2	And this podcast will kill you.
1:19.3	Cross over edition.
1:22.2	I'm so excited.
1:26.2	Really excited.
1:27.2	We've been waiting a long time.
1:29.2	I can't believe this is the first one we've done this season.
1:32.2	No, we did ricein.
1:34.2	When was that?
1:36.2	That felt like forever ago, by the way.
1:39.2	I think it was like seven years ago.
1:41.2	Easily.
1:42.2	Much has changed in the meantime.
1:44.2	I don't remember anything about ricein.
1:47.2	I got to tell ya.
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