Morning Coffee

Does morning coffee fix help? Beebs chimes in with some coffee research news.

I drink coffee in the early morning and it appears to nudge my brain to its proper place. "Really?", you ask, "Your brain moves in the night? Where to?". I suspect it moves down the body. There's some circumstantial evidence. On the days when I haven't had coffee, Ramya worries aloud if a kidney has slid into my brain's place. So, apparently the brain slides down to where my kidneys are during the night.

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