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Side Effects of Caffeine and Side Effects of Coffee
Learn about the side effects of caffeine when drinking one of the most acidic drinks around - Coffee.
The side effects of drinking coffee can dehydrate you and coffee will definitely promote acidosis in your body because that's what acidic drinks do.
Wearing out your adrenal glands is one of the major side effects of caffeine and you may want to cut down on your consumption or quit before wearing your system out.
The Side Effects of Coffee
Most people know that coffee is a strong diuretic and it will make you urinate more than usual due to increasing the blood flow through the kidneys.
Therefore, it can dehydrate you! It takes water out of your body's cells.
Coffee can cause the body to lose alkaline minerals such as calcium and potassium.
Coffee can produce insomnia when drank too late in the day.
It seems to help people with breathing problems with its effect on respiration, by increasing blood flow through the lungs and increasing the supply of air by relaxing certain muscles.
On the flip side, some people experience tremors after drinking coffee...due to the over-stimulation of the central nervous system.
Too much coffee may not be good for complex reasoning tasks, but on the flip side it can improve mental speed related tasks.
The Side Effects of Caffeine
Caffeine is a psycho-stimulant which means it speeds up the action of your brain and also makes you more alert.
Studies have shown that as little as 100 mg. or a cup of coffee, can cause caffeine dependency.
The half life of caffeine in the human body is about 6 hours.
That means if you drink a cup at noon and it contains 100 mg of caffeine...at about 6:00 pm your body would have metabolized 50 mgs. and you would have 50 more to go.
Plan on sleeping at Midnight!
Caffeine's Effect on Your Neurotransmitters
To a nerve cell, caffeine looks like adenosine.
The chemical adenosine is produced by your brain and is responsible for slowing down nerve cell activity.
When caffeine binds to the receptors instead of adenosine, problems start....especially if you want to sleep in the near future.
With caffeine blocking the adenosine receptors, you have increased neuron firing in the brain.
The pituitary gland sees all of the activity and thinks some sort of emergency must be occurring, so adrenaline is produced.
Adrenaline is of course, the "Fight or Flight" hormone and it has a number of effects on your body:
Glucose is Released into Your Bloodstream
Your Heart Rate Increases
Your Pupils Dilate
And you can forget about Digestion
Every cup of coffee is like an injection of adrenaline
The side effects of caffeine can leave you feeling depressed and fatigued after the adrenaline rush wears off
Coffee is The Most Popular of Acidic Drinks
This drink is not only very popular in America, but it appears to be the most popular drink in the world - no wonder the world is so crazy!!
It has been said that you will need to drink about 14 cups of water just to neutralize the acidity of drinking a cup of coffee.
Yikes!
Your body can find a way to neutralize acidic drinks, but this will use up some of its most valuable minerals like magnesium.
I think that is why so many coffee drinkers become so uptight because they lose the minerals that help them to relax.
Coffee does appear to have some health benefits and "Good Coffee" can be considered one of the
Antioxidant Drinks
that can help with free radical elimination.
Most people know that coffee is a strong diuretic and it will make you urinate more than usual due to increasing the blood flow through the kidneys.
