Ep. 159 Caffeine Pt 1: The Most Popular Psychoactive Drug in the World
Petri Dish
English - August 15, 2022 11:00 - 32 minutes - 30 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsLife Sciences Science Comedy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
First episode of our two-parter on caffeine! For such a small and unassuming molecule, this drug is really popular, consumed all over the world for millennia! What is caffeine? How does it work? We'll even begin to discuss why some people are more sensitive to caffeine than other people.
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