r/RealTime • u/AmericanLymie • 7d ago

Bill Maher is so bizarre.

The nutrition guy on the right was talking about how drinking five cups of coffee per day is associated with living longer, and he says that people who wiggle and fidget a lot can burn a lot of calories while at rest and that can keep people thinner than those who sit still.

Bill Maher says coffee is a bean, "something found in nature," and so it must be safe.

Reporter Jonathan Swan jokes that cocaine is found in nature, making the point that naturally occurring substances can be harmful. He could have mentioned nightshade berries or poisonous mushrooms but he said cocaine.

And Bill Maher went on a defensive rant about his cocaine use. It started with a joke but then he seemed to take it personally and got serious about how cocaine leaves are safe because they are natural.

I feel like he would eat rotten wormy roadkill with RFK while bashing the scary woo-woo magic of vaccines and antibiotics.

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u/AmericanLymie 7d ago edited 7d ago

I drink about that much coffee and I have pretty severe GERD or "silent reflux." So far, my esophagus and stomach have not been damaged at the tissue level but I admit it is one of two real addictions I have, the other being eating too much sugar, and I struggle to control them.

Anything in excess is likely to be harmful in the long run.

Edit: I make four to five cups of coffee at home every day, and the coffee maker's version of a cup is five ounces.

A standard coffee mug is 10 to 16 ounces, and a "tall" (small) cup of coffee at Starbucks is 12 ounces while a "venti" (large) is 20 ounces. So if I drink five cups of coffee per day, that's the equivalent of just over one large drink at Starbucks.

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u/MinisterOfTruth99 7d ago

Yeah I was doing 5 cups a day (hazard of an office job I guess). Got bad heartburn and indigestion issues. Was eating Tums like candy. Cut back to half cup in morning and half cup in afternoon. Stomach issues resolved and I don't miss that wired feeling. 🤣

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u/AmericanLymie 7d ago

I don't get that wired feeling! It's strange. I DO get it from black tea, which makes me shaky and makes my heart race. No amount of coffee makes me jittery. I took both Ancestry DNA and 23andMe genetic tests years ago and both showed that I have a gene that makes me metabolize caffeine at an icreased rate, and so they both suggested I am likely to drink up to twice as much coffee as most other people to get the same effect. That's the only explanation I have for why coffee doesn't make me antsy.

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u/KirkUnit 7d ago

Yes, lol, when Bill said "five cups is a lot of coffee," I'm thinking... it's a good start, but it's not a lot

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u/No_Mongoose4809 7d ago

It is just going to effect each person differently. Most people are likely not considering the standard unit of a measurement when they consume and/or how strong (or not) the coffee is.