DaveFoster
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Here's an interesting plot that shows how wealth increases in-step with coffee consumption. Coffee consumption positively correlates with the average global domestic product normalized to purchasing power parity, also known as GDP (PPP), or in simpler terms, productivity. The graph shows a natural S-curve.
As a stimulant, caffeine has powerful dopamine-like (dopaminergic) effects with potent pro-metabolic and anti-inflammatory effects in the brain, similar to thyroid hormone (liothyronine or T3).
The Enlightenment coincided with the popularity of coffee houses, and many Enlightenment thinkers exhibited high coffee consumption, such as Kant, Kierkegaard and Voltaire. Voltaire purportedly drank the equivalent of up to 40 cups per day, and he lived to be 83 years old, whereas the life expectancy of a 10-year old in 1705 (the same year as Voltaire) stood at around 50 years of age.
Arthur Charpentier plotted the data and posted it to his blog titled "Freakonometrics."
As a stimulant, caffeine has powerful dopamine-like (dopaminergic) effects with potent pro-metabolic and anti-inflammatory effects in the brain, similar to thyroid hormone (liothyronine or T3).
The Enlightenment coincided with the popularity of coffee houses, and many Enlightenment thinkers exhibited high coffee consumption, such as Kant, Kierkegaard and Voltaire. Voltaire purportedly drank the equivalent of up to 40 cups per day, and he lived to be 83 years old, whereas the life expectancy of a 10-year old in 1705 (the same year as Voltaire) stood at around 50 years of age.
Arthur Charpentier plotted the data and posted it to his blog titled "Freakonometrics."
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