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Coffee actually changes your body clock and can ‘produce the same effect as jet lag’

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Coffee can totally skew your body clock (Picture: Getty)

If you’re currently supping a coffee, you might want to put it down.

We all know that coffee gives you a shot of energy and helps wake you up/ keep you awake, but new research has found its effect on the body is far more profound than previously thought.

Through a seriously hardcore experiment – which saw five brave souls live in a windowless, clockless laboratory for 49 days (OMGWTF) and then tormented with given either a double-espresso, dim or bright light or a placebo before bedtime – scientists discovered that coffee can actually alter your body clock, and make your brain think you’re in a completely different time zone.

Freaky.

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