About Caffeine
This is a natural ingredient of tea, coffee, and cacao plants, and also maybe the most used ingredient in the world, most of the people start their day, from this.It works on the brain and CNS system and provides energy, stimulation, and alertness. Its history is as old as 2737 BC, with the discovery of tea now, today its also main ingredient of caffeinated soft drinks and also in almost all energy drinks,(1).,(2)
Let's see
How it works?
Most of the caffeine is taken orally, and is absorbed, and goes to the main bloodstream very fast, from there it reaches the liver where it breaks down to smaller compounds which further, go to almost all parts of the body's main function is in the brain, where it blocks the effect of adenosine. Adenosine acts as a neurotransmitter and what it does is, make the brain slow down, or relax, in the end, this translate to tiredness, so caffeine overcome the effects of tiredness, make fresh good mood and feel fresh In the process of overcoming the adenosine effect, caffeine goes the other way and keeps you alert, stay awake, also increases the levels of adrenaline which increases brain activity by more release of,(3),(4)
Dopamine
Norepinephrine
These both are very important neurotransmitters, keep the brain very active.
How fast caffeine works?
Caffeine works very fast, the moment you drink coffee, it takes only less than 20 minutes for caffeine to reach the bloodstream, and almost about one hour to create the full effect
What are the health benefits of Caffeine?
1,:-Improve the brain function
It affects the brain in a big way and that too in speed
Good mood, or mood elevation
Improved alertness
Improve reaction time
Help in Alzheimer's disease
Help in Parkinson's disease
2,:-Increase metabolism
As it stimulates CNS, it increases metabolism by 11% and this results in fat burning which also get the increases by 13%, in nutshell, it means that if you take 300 mg of caffeine it can burn about 79 calories.
3,:-May enhance exercise performance
It delays muscles reaching exhaustion
It improves muscle contractions
It increases tolerance to fatigue
It reduces perceived exertion
It helps in team sports,
It helps in high intense workout
It helps in resistance exercise
4,:-May be helpful in Heart health
Caffeine does not raise heart risk, actually it is the other way around it lowers heart risk about 16 to 18% for men and women who are drinking 1 to 4 cup of coffee per day, more precisely about 100 to 400 mg caffeine per day. It can raise blood pressure in a very small margin about 3 to 4 mm, hg only, and also attend to fade after some time.
5,:-May help in diabetes
It lowers about 29% risk of developing diabetes type-2
6,:-May protect the liver
It reduces the risk of liver damage by as much as 84%It may slow disease progress It improves treatment response It lowers the risk of death because of liver problems
7,:-May help in Cancer
Drinking 2 to 3 cup of coffee may reduce cancer risk
Liver cancer by 64%
Colorectal cancer by 38%
Skin cancer by 20%
8,:- May help gut health
It may increase activities of gut-friendly bacterias, and it kills bad bacterias
9,:- May help in Gout
It may reduce the risk of developing gout
In men about 40%
In women about 57%
10,:- Reduces multiple sclerosis, (a chronic illness involving CNS )
It reduces the symptoms, in this disease, also reduces the risk of developing this disease by 30%
11,:-Longevity
Drinking coffee may decrease the risk of death by 30% in cases of diabetes
What is the negative impact?
Most importantly it is habit-forming some side effects are anxiety, tremors, restlessness, irregular heartbeat, trouble sleeping. It can increase headache and migraine and high blood pressure in some individuals It can also increase the risk of miscarriage There is the possibility that it can react with medication if you are taking and avoid caffeine if you are taking
Zanaflex, a muscle relaxant
Luvox, a antidepressant
What is recommended dosages of caffeine?
From USDA and EFSA, the recommendations are only up to 400mg/ day, in terms of coffee it is 4 cups of coffee.
Does caffeine fit as good nootropics?
Well, most of its activities are in the area of the brain, it's very affordable and manageable, and already it is used in many supplements meant for nootropics.
So as for as caffeine is concerned, from a nootropics facts point of view it's just great it works that too works very fast, about nootropics no one should have any doubt as most of the people any way using it in the form of tea or coffee, it can be a very interesting choice, the only thing it may be addicting