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[-] venusaur@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Causation vs correlation. I’m thinking caffeine keeps your brain stimulated which lowers risk of dementia. You can probably equally keep your brain stimulated other ways especially if you already have an active lifestyle.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It's fine to highlight it's correlation, but your guess is a theory of causation. It's likely either some genetic combo that drives the desire for coffee or some lifestyle arrangement that drives the need.

Even the idea that an inactive mind leads to deterioration isn't definitively causation. Correlation goes both ways. Are they mentally healthy because they're mentally active? Or are they mentally active because they're mentally healthy? The degree of mental deterioration goes up as you age, which is also when you can retire, when you don't have to support your family, when you're physically incapacitated, and when you slow down overall. So yeah, I plan to stay active because I'll take my chances that it helps, but at some point, something will simply break. Maybe I'll inherit the dimentia. Maybe I'll inherit the neuropathy. Maybe both. Maybe neither.

[-] Viceversa@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe I'll inherit the dimentia.

Well...

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