The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
It kind of is, but it kind of isn't either. It's not the diuretic that we used to think about it as. It is still fluid consumption. So it's only a diuretic if it causes you to excrete more fluid than actually was being intake.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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caffeine is a diuretic. It actually causes the excretion of fluids from the body in part, because it causes the excretion of sodium.