Have you ever considered that your morning coffee might be giving you heart disease?

Or how about that it might be helping you lose weight or be sharp for that morning meeting.

And is it really stunting your growth or harming your bone health?

Turns out, these are only a few of the many, many coffee myths floating around out there.

Which ones of them are true?

Oh, we're gonna find out today on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com. 15 coffee myths.

Welcome to the show that separates fact from fiction, science from pseudoscience, real history from fake history,

and helps us all make better life decisions by knowing what's real and what's not.

If you're like many Skeptoid listeners,

there's a good chance you're in your car right now

on your morning commute,

perhaps sipping your favorite coffee from your very awesome insulated stainless

steel tumbler that you got on the Skeptoid store and if that's the case you might

be wondering how much truth there is to that thing some

insufferable person told you about coffee the other day.

For it turns out the world is full of coffee myths.

Any popular product, and coffee certainly qualifies, is going to draw myths

and misinformation like flies. Today we're going to do our best to separate the true beans from the fake beans.

That's not even a good pun or joke or whatever.

Let's get right and do it.

We'll start with myth number one. The caffeine and coffee gets you

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