On Wall Street, you work long hours, so a coffee addiction is almost inescapable.
It's not just that you need that caffeine, it's that it's a part of the job's culture. When you start out as a young analyst, the boring hours between spreadsheets and pitch books are spent going on Starbucks runs.
Unless you can get the interns to go get it, of course.
Our love of coffee noted, it's very possible to drink too much coffee, and that can be harmful to your body. Research shows that ingesting too much caffeine (500-600 milligrams or 5 or more cups of coffee) can cause anything from restlessness to muscle tremors.
So keep all this in mind when you order your next double shot of espresso.
A University of Melbourne study called caffeine "the most commonly used psychoactive drug," and said drinking more than 5 cups a day can have you hearing things.
From A 2011 story published in The Daily Mail:
Professor Simon Crowe, of La Trobe University in Melbourne, said: "We also told them that within the white noise there may be parts of the song White Christmas and if you hear it, press a button. We didn’t include White Christmas in the white noise but found that more people who were very stressed and had high levels of caffeine thought they heard the song. The combination of caffeine and stress affect the likelihood of an individual experiencing a psychosis-like symptom."
High levels of caffeine can damage your liver, especially if you take pain medication regularly as well.
According to studies by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
It can raise your blood pressure.
That's according to a 2012 Carnegie Mellon study which also says that coffee can stimulate the heart and cause shallow breathing.
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