Researchers assessed how effective caffeine was in counteracting the negative effects of sleep deprivation on cognition. As it turns out, caffeine can only get you so far.
Caffeine isn’t good at Fighting Sleep Deprivation

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HealthLifestyle
Level
Pre-Intermediate: A2+Intermediate: B1Upper-Intermediate: B2Advanced: C1
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2-3 student pagesAudio
Teaching time 90-120 mins
Activities
DiscussionListeningMatchingMultiple-choiceReadingSentence completionTrue or false
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