alt Hacker News> nicotine is significantly more harmful than caffeine
“Significantly” is an opinion.
It’s more toxic by weight, yes.
Messes with vascular more than caffeine.
Both are an excellent way to screw up heart health.
> let’s not get started on the CFS stuff, treatments for functional disorders are often placebo-resembling.
Personally haven’t needed or wanted to use nicotine, but I have recovered from an array of chronic illnesses; I’ll get started on anything I please, thanks,
especially seeing how many of my peers are hopelessly exhausted and existing on abusive amounts of caffeine/prescription stimulants to get by.
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whimsicalism • yesterday at 3:18 PM
cfs, like other functional disorders like chronic lyme, is best treated by cognitive behavioral therapy.
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> Both are an excellent way to screw up heart health.
Plain black coffee has, somewhat surprisingly, been repeatedly demonstrated to be very healthy - with substantial reductions in all-cause mortality as well as the chances of developing cardiovascular disease. I tend to live somewhat spartanly in terms of consumption, and wanted to drop my coffee habit which looks something like this [1], but looking up the data on it left me dropping that idea real fast.
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhdCslFcKFU