Just the smell of coffee is amazing or Inhale the Coffee, Exhale the bullshit.

Just the smell of coffee is amazing or Inhale the Coffee, Exhale the bullshit.

Turns out you don’t actually have to drink coffee to get some of its benefits. A researcher at Seoul National University exposed some exhausted lab rats to the aroma of coffee.

They found that the rats who got to smell coffee — but not drink it — expressed proteins that help protect nerve cells from stress-related damage. Those same changes are the ones that make people more alert when they drink coffee.

So, the next time you need a pick-me-up, all you really need to do is take a good whiff of the air at your local coffee shop.

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