Quitting Caffeine
72 hours is only three days, slightly less than half the week, a minor blip on an annual calendar. How hard could it be to remain abstinent from essentially anything of my choosing for 72 hours? I created a mental list of things I could quit, after a few hours of self-reflection I decided to make these 72 hours a challenge. While caffeine is a drug, Dr. Michael Kuhar of Emery University in Atlanta prefers to use the term “dependent” rather than “addicted” when categorizing extreme use. (Fortin, 2009) Caffeine is the substance that I consume the most in my life and I would consider myself “dependent”. I consume caffeine every day, I start every morning with coffee and continue to drink it throughout the day. I try to avoid soda and junk food in my diet so almost all of the caffeine that I consume comes from coffee. A typical 8 oz. cup of brewed coffee contains
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Again I started my day with my normal routine, sans coffee, except now the symptoms seemed to be clearing. My headache had finally started to subside, and I felt rested. The haze that I experienced on Wednesday seemed all but gone. I was optimistic that the entire day would stay like this, but I didn’t want to get my hopes up. I still struggle through my daily workout, missing my caffeine jump start, but it was an improvement from Wednesday. I continued to keep my water intake a little higher than normal in hopes that this would help to elevate some of the symptoms, as well as fill the voids where I would normally be drinking coffee. Staying hydrated had the positive effect I had envisioned, it seemed to give me an energy boost that helped propel me through the days without caffeine. Friday was the easiest of the three days, the splitting headache and lethargic feelings that I experienced on Wednesday were a distant memory. I was no longer irritable and my energy levels seemed to normalize
Energy drinks affect your body in ways people don’t think about. My experiment was created to find out what happens to your heart rate after putting an energy drink into your body. Some of the things I found by doing some research is that you can go to the hospital just for drinking an energy drink alone. Energy drinks contain more caffeine than what the label says. Based on this research a hypothesis was created. The hypothesis was, if you drink an energy drink, then your heart rate will increase due to the amount of caffeine it contains. This hypothesis made the most sense because caffeine has been labeled by doctors to not be the safest substance.
Does one drink caffeine? Caffeine is everywhere, it's in everything, it's apart of our daily lives. That’s what people doesn’t realizes; every soda drink, every cup of coffee, and every energy drink he or she gulps down before a thrilling game, all of that is caffeine. Caffeine is only completed when he or she get addicted. Caffeine can be an exceptional threat to the human body; energy drinks for example, it has enough caffeine to kill someone if he or she drinks enough. Energy drinks has been the number one drink high school students drink to stay awake in school; they even bring the drink in classrooms, and more than one energy drink. Soda has enough caffeine to destroy ones inner body. Soda is a everyday drink for some individuals, they
Caffeine functions similarly to the hormone adrenaline (State Government of Victoria, 2014), and increases dopamine levels causing you to feel happy. It blocks adenosine receptors, which prevents you from feeling drowsy (Staci, 2012). Caffeine also stimulates the brain, improves comprehension, memory, reflexes, and the clarity of thoughts (Important Facts About Caffeine, 2011).
Its 3AM in the morning and you still haven't finished your research paper. You are tired, tense and your caffeine addiction isn’t helping either. You're in need of coffee but at the same time, you're trying to evade it. You are stuck between either staying tired and tense or indulge caffeine and increase the tension. Caffeine and especially coffee became a very reliant drug by many to "perk-up" and stay productive throughout the day. Once it's excessively consumed, its effects on the human body are numerous and lead to an unhealthy lifestyle if not treated.
Caffeine, commonly found in coffee and many other beverages, and containing certain chemicals compounds leading to the constant necessity of fidgeting, jitters, sleepless hours, and health hazards as though being tormented by a hobgoblin with the irresistible sweet aroma and multiple flavors trapping you into a path, not being able to truly quit as desired or consequences attached, but is it the world’s most used legal drug addiction or something enjoyable, you decide? “The delicious chemical in caffeine is 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine”(Linn). “Caffeine is made by pressuring cooking beans with CO2 to produce the drug in powder form”(Linn). “In caffeine the consumption breakdown in Coffee is 54%, Tea it’s 43%, Food and misc it’s 3% and used as a common mood-altering drug in the world, most popular way of ingesting is through coffee”(Linn). The issue with drinking coffee is due to the fact that caffeine can cause some troubling effects like insomnia activity in the brain that prevents sleep, constant need to urinate leading to dehydration due to the lack of fluids in the body, and diarrhea causing the food right out because it accelerates the digestion in the stomach. The consumption of too much caffeine can cause damage in human health also causing an overdose leading to death. The impact in society is through how much caffeine Americans consume daily, and the effects it causes in human health and sleep patterns. Throughout the years past caffeine consumption in America has increased jarasicaly, about 90% in some form daily. “On average Americans have been known to consume 280 mg of caffeine per day or 2-3 cups of coffee”(Linn). Strangely enough, caffeine is still contained and found in decaffei...
America lives and breathes off of a drug, a drug that the American people consume every day. This drug is found in your soda, your tea, and your coffee. The drug is caffeine. Caffeine has many properties that make it useful to all of us; it has many negative uses. Caffeine has many negative effects. It is addictive like Oxycodone; however, many people believe that the positive effects outweigh the negative. Caffeine helped shape this world and it has provided medical help to those that have a disorder. On the other hand, caffeine is what drives us in the Twenty-First Century and it changes our brain’s chemistry. How do we decide if caffeine is truly an unknown weapon of destruction for the better or worse?
Waking up to a hot cup of coffee, relishing the cool tingling sensation of a cola with your lunch, or relaxing in the afternoon over a cup of tea, all have similar ingredient caffeine. Caffeine has been consumed ever since the 2700 BC, with its conjunction in tea, for the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung. In 575 AD, the first use of coffee beans where in Africa where it was used as currency and food. Even more today, caffeine consumption has become an integral part of millions of people's daily lives. According to David Weaver, "Caffeine and theophylline are among the most widely consumed neuroactive substances. These drugs are consumed most frequently in beverages, but also are present in certain over-the-counter diet aids, 'alertness tablets' some analgesic preparations, and in chocolate, and are also administered for therapeutic effects." The problem with caffeine is that many students/adults are uneducated about this subject. Stereotypically, caffeine has been labeled harmless. However, most caffeine consumers have no idea how they react to their body chemistry, the chemical mechanism, the hidden side-effects, and the actual daily amount which they intake.
Winston, Anthony P., Elizabeth Hardwick, and Neema Jaberi. "Advances in Psychiatric Treatment." Neuropsychiatric Effects of Caffeine. The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2014. Web. 15 Jan. 2014.
Caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant which can suppress the effect of adenosine on adenosine receptors and consequently reduced the drowsiness induced by adenosine.(Nehlig et al., 1992) Caffeine in beverages including coffee, tea, and energy drink has become the most commonly used psychoactive substance with researches shown that 87% of US population consume caffeine.(Frary et al., 2005) The worldwide popularity of caffeine causes concerns in its safety, thus it is important to understand its effects on metabolism. This report focuses on the ergogenic effect of caffeine on aerobic metabolism. Aerobic capacity (VO2 max) measures the maximal oxygen consumption during incremental exercise. It describes the ability of the cardiorespiratory system in distributing oxygen to muscles. Thus, VO2 max acts as a quantitative reflection of
When I was challenged with giving up a habit, food or something I rely on for a 72-hour period I initially drew a mental blank. Eventually I settled on giving up caffeine. This proved to be quite a challenge since I rely on heavy doses of caffeine to help me throughout the day. Usually, I prefer to use caffeine Monday through Friday in an attempt to jump start my work productivity. After giving up caffeine for 72 hours I noticed some initial changes in my routine, some benefits without caffeine and also some drawbacks without caffeine included in my morning routine.
Do you know what the most commonly used drug around the world is? It’s not cocaine nor marijuana, but surprisingly caffeine.
Red Bull. 5 Hour Energy. Monster. These energy drinks are becoming increasingly popular not just for teenagers and college kids, but in the world of athletics as well. Athletes around the world are drinking these beverages for a boost in athletic performance and stamina to get an edge over their opponents. These drinks are even being promoted by professional athletes! This increasing popularity and consumption begs the question: are these drinks safe? I decided to dig into this question, and I have found some pretty startling answers. The drinks may bring enhanced performance and energy, but they also come with potential health risks. These health risks heavily outweigh the benefits the drinks could possibly bring.
The addiction phase brings withdrawal symptoms that effect one’s daily lifestyle, and thus activate the anti-reward system. The anti-reward system plays a major role in the occurrence of aversive effects in the body like jitteriness, and nausea; and responsible for the negative-reinforcement that occurs through resumed drug taking. Negative reinforcement is responsible for bringing the aversive effects that occur during withdrawal (i.e., when one intends to stop consuming the drug). This highlights the importance of the neuroadaptations that occur with prolonged drug use and can occur with during over-consumption of caffeine (Meyer & Quenzer,
The term energy drinks refers to beverages that contain caffeine in combination with other ingredients such as guarana and other vitamins and minerals. In other words, energy drinks can be defined as a soft drink containing a high percentage of sugar, caffeine, or another stimulant, typically consumed during or after sporting activity or as a way of overcoming tiredness. Energy drinks are highly sweetened, caffeinated beverages that are packaged in brightly colored, slim line containers. They are sold virtually everywhere. At first, energy drinks were sold as a medicinal tonic drink and they have some benefits if person take it in limit. There are various negative effects of energy
There are many health benefits that come from drinking coffee. Coffee can overall make you a happier person. Drinking coffee can make a positive impact on your life. Does coffee really stunt your Growth? How does drinking coffee help in your day to day life? Coffee is loaded with antioxidants and beneficial nutrients that can improve your health. Studies show that coffee drinkers have a much lower risk of several serious diseases.