eli5: Since caffeine doesn’t actually give you energy and only blocks the chemical that makes you sleepy, what causes the “jittery” feeling when you drink too much strong coffee?

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eli5: Since caffeine doesn’t actually give you energy and only blocks the chemical that makes you sleepy, what causes the “jittery” feeling when you drink too much strong coffee?

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The whole “caffeine just blocks sleep chemicals” is what I like to refer to as a reddit folklore. It falls in like with a bunch of bits of trivia that people see on Reddit or the rest of the Internet that sort of just becomes this collective memory in our brain. Its kind of a weird phenomenon.