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The Cognitive Benefits of Caffeine
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick discusses how research suggests that abstaining from caffeine prior to learning and then consuming it immediately afterward can improve memory retention, and shares tips on how to extract caffeine’s performance-enhancing effects.
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