Question by magnetbox: How does sugar increase the beneficial effects of caffeine?
Anyone notice “less” of a buzz when you have a sugar-free caffeinated beverage, versus the alternative?

I have been trying to remove refined sugar from my diet, but in the process I notice–unfortunately–less of a kick from my normal caffeine intake when taken without sugar.

Apart from caffeine and sugar combining to increase blood sugar, is there another kind of synergy at work that makes for the “more potent” effect when taken together?
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(One person I know, who’s knowledgeable in this area, says that taking caffeine without sugar is “almost pointless” because caffeine “has to utilize brain sugars anyway.”)

Best answer:

Answer by Hesaguys
I would claim that the kick you talk about is just something you get when you get hit by the taste of the drug variant you have been getting to know over years. Now without the sugar in it it’s not the same. Best is to skip coffeine completely as humans don’t need any kind of drugs.

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