How Adderall Hurts Studying, 3 Gym Class Mistakes, and How Much Coffee You Should Drink
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Learn why you should think twice before using Adderall as a study tool; 3 things gym class got wrong; and the healthiest number of cups of coffee to drink per day, according to a huge umbrella review.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Adderall Doesn't Make Everyone "Smarter"
- 3 Things Gym Class Got Wrong
- This Is the Healthiest Number of Cups of Coffee to Drink Per Day
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.0 | Today you learn why you should think twice before using Adderall to study. |
| 0:10.6 | Three things gym class got wrong, and the healthiest number of cups of coffee to |
| 0:14.5 | drink per day according to a lot of research. |
| 0:17.0 | Plus we'll tell you about some fun stuff we have planned for the weekend and |
| 0:20.0 | why you might find an extra podcast episode in your feed. |
| 0:23.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:24.6 | If you've spent any time in school over the last 15 years or so, |
| 0:28.0 | then you may have known someone who used Adderall |
| 0:30.5 | as a study drug. |
| 0:31.8 | Adderall is a drug that's often prescribed to treat symptoms of ADHD and narcolepsy, |
| 0:37.0 | but Adderal also gets abused by people without ADHD, |
| 0:41.0 | hoping it will make them smarter or better able to concentrate on their studies. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, a new study looked into whether this actually works and it turns out Adderall does not make everyone smarter. |
| 0:51.0 | Did you have friends like this? I never knew anybody who used Adderall, but it was something I definitely heard about. |
| 0:56.7 | The current Adderall brand was introduced in 1996, so it's been around for a really long time. |
| 1:01.1 | Wow, that is a lot older than I thought it was. |
| 1:03.3 | Right, I feel like it just kind of caught on as this study thing |
| 1:06.6 | in the last few years. |
| 1:07.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.5 | But it might not be the study hack that people think it is. |
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