How to get the most use and pleasure from coffee?

How caffeine affects the brain? Is it harmful to drink coffee before training? Whether he is able to help to sleep? The answers to these and many other questions you can find in our post.

1. What does caffeine do to our brain?

If you drink coffee in moderate amounts, it will give you a boost of energy. But if you overdo it, you can get the opposite effect: lethargy, fatigue, and even anxiety.

It’s all in the adenosine, that accumulates in the body, and causes a feeling of sleepiness. Caffeine is similar to adenosine structure, and therefore can partially block its effect, allowing us to Wake up after a Cup of coffee.

A lethal dose of caffeine is 150 mg/kg. This means that if your weight is 70 kg you need to drink at once about 70 cups of coffee to end badly. Fortunately, you are not physically able to do so.

More about how coffee affects the brain, explains in this video.

2. Can I drink coffee before a workout?

Moderate amount of coffee is useful not only in the morning, but also immediately prior to exercise. Caffeine helps to cheer up and boost endurance.

Attention! If you have any cardiovascular diseases, neither of which cup of coffee before training and speech can not be.

A small cup of coffee or some caffeine pills pre-workout accelerate metabolism and allows to burn more calories. In addition, coffee allows you to train longer and more efficiently, and also reduces muscle pain after exercise performed the day before.

3. Does coffee help to have a good sleep?

Caffeine is an extremely versatile thing. He is even able to help those who really wants to sleep.

If you want to take a nap and wake up much refreshed, try the so-called coffee dream. The recipe is simple: turn on your coffee maker, make a cup of coffee and a twenty-minute rest. This time will be enough to caffeine penetrated into the brain. Drink coffee, lie down, relax. Twenty minutes and you can move a couple of small mountains.

4. Can Early birds drink coffee at night?

Many people try to avoid late drinking of coffee for fear to go into overdrive and can’t sleep all night. Indeed, caffeine has the ability to knock down circadian rhythms through which our bodies understand that we need to get to sleep.

This problem is more familiar to early birds. A cup of coffee before bedtime is able to turn the sprightly lover to get up at the unthinkable early hour in the real owl. However, to predict how coffee will affect a particular person is impossible. As the saying goes: do not try — do not know.

5. Where else besides coffee, you can find caffeine?

There is a widespread misconception that the highest percentage of caffeine contains just coffee. It is not so. If you are interested in drinks that are created in order to fight fatigue and drowsiness, then look to tea, lemonade and energy drinks. In some varieties of tea caffeine content is so great that they can match even the strongest coffee.

6. Is it possible to regulate the amount of caffeine?

The caffeine in tea works differently than coffee. The main difference is that the dosage can be adjusted. The caffeine content in tea depends on the variety, temperature, and duration of brewing.

It is believed that most of the caffeine in black tea sorts. If the tea is poured with boiling water and the water heated to 70 degrees, the caffeine content in it is reduced. But the longer the tea is brewed, the more caffeine it has.

7. Which coffee to choose?

Many people think that the concentration of caffeine in coffee depends on the degree of roasting. In fact, it is not. You need to pay attention to the kind of the coffee tree. Softer and more delicate Arabica contains less caffeine and strong robust it two to three times more.

8. When to drink coffee?

You are greatly mistaken if you believe that the perfect time for a Cup of coffee is the first 10 minutes after waking up. From 8:00 to 9:00 secrete more of all of cortisol, a hormone that affects our activity during the day. This means that our body is able to wake yourself up without coffee.

If you waking up does not come out, from a scientific point of view the best time for collection coffee is from 9:30 to 11:30. Why — you learn from the video.

9. How to deal with a coffee addiction?

To reduce the amount of coffee or even give it up gradually, switch to tea or alternate coffee with caffeine and coffee without it.

If you begin to notice that you do not receive coffee from the same enjoyment as before, make a monthly detox. Try not to drink coffee to reboot your body and restore the missing sensitivity.

10. How much should you drink coffee?

A small dose of caffeine would be enough to cheer up a bit and get my thoughts in order. To periodically improve performance, drink coffee by small cups every half hour. If this option is not very comfortable, pour yourself a cup, but do not drink in one gulp and stretch the pleasure.