[mustachionut]

People who aren’t super healthy don’t typically feel like drinking lots of caffeine. I think that’s a more likely explanation than caffeine having tons of assorted health benefits.

[chrischattin]

I think it's the opposite. People drink caffeine to mask an unhealthy lifestyle – lack of sleep, hungover, poor diet, sedentary, out of shape, etc.

[herval]

Coffee is a social drink in many countries, and associated with relaxation, meeting people, being creative. And it has been like that since the first coffee houses...

[kitotik]

Haha.

So, your theory is that all the humans over the course of history who consume caffeine do so to mask generally bad health?

Can I guess that you yourself don’t drink caffeine?

[thebean11]

Not arguing one way or the other, but the comment you replied to did not imply every single caffeine drinker falls into that category

[chrischattin]

No. I think humans drink caffeine because it's a dopamine agonist and highly addictive.

The longest I've made it is four months. Currently a couple weeks back drinking coffee, about to quit again. It's ridiculously hard.