You may have noticed the chemical diagram in today's (Feb 8, 2019) Google doodle. It represents caffeine & is in recognition of the 225th birthday of its discoverer, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (8 February 1794 – 25 March 1867).
The thing I noticed is that the molecule has three - gasp - methyl groups (the CH3 bits of the diagram). Should we be worried?
Caffeine is metabolized in the liver via a single demethylation, resulting in three primary metabolites, paraxanthine (84%), theobromine (12%), and theophylline (4%), depending on which methyl group is removed.
Careful. They say Balzac died from drinking too much coffee. 2 pots a day? I would be running around this place like a mad man. By the way, had Oceans 13 movie on in the background and one guy said, "Alligators walk faster than that." I instantly thought of you and gusgold. And then I realized, if a psychiatrist gave me a Rorschach blot test after being on this site for a year the result would be "Lock him up!"
I have to have my cuppa every morning and in the late afternoon, just have to bro. I do have green teas in between as a guilty pacifier but nothing beats a flat white, coffee latte or a good old shot of the espresso...
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