Taking a bath and having a cup of coffee is such a pleasant thing… Have you ever thought that coffee is a really unique drink? Scientists still cannot open all its secrets and determine qualities. Caffeine’s sphere of use is incredibly wide, so it is very important studying a popular energy drink from all sides.
Humankind has been enjoying this drink’s scent long before North America was discovered and typography invented. Numerous legends say that prophet Mahomet was the first one who learned coffee, he made a complete recovery from severe illness due to it.
However, coffee is rather a whimsical drink. It has special relations with everyone. Coffee presents its unique taste and scent generously, spoils with variety of sorts and methods of preparation, but its physiological influence on organism is individual and not always useful.
Researchers keep on disputing about things prevailing in these magic seeds – use or harm, however, they will hardly come to a general conclusion soon.
Coffee struggles with diseases
Well-known caffeine is a most active coffee element, it represents a chemical stimulator of central nervous system. Most popular foods, containing caffeine are – coffee, cacao, chocolate, tea and also about 60 sorts of plants. It is widely used many light drinks, such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and medicinal preparations for increase of appetite and vivacity, to cure chills, bronchial asthma etc.
What’s the secret?
So, why we are hooked on coffee? The most popular motive – is its ability to tone one up quickly after sleep, fill with energy in a moment, increase speed of intellectual and physical reactions. This effect is connected with caffeine’s intervention in certain processes, happening in different parts of brain. Under the influence of caffeine, hypophysis secretes a hormone, which in its turn stimulates a higher adrenalin production. It is adrenalin that makes heart contracting more frequently, and liver – producing more glucose into blood, so that organism could use additional energy. Besides, caffeine constricts blood vessels, relaxes respiratory tract, what makes breathing easier and allows muscles contracting with surprising lightness. Thus, a cup of coffee in the morning mobilizes organism for activity during a day.
However…
Coffee’s antipathy can be found everywhere. Everything depends on a person drinking coffee, its portion and atmosphere. Permissible dose should be counted for everyone individually. Do you want to decide how many cups of coffee your organism needs? Here’s a whole spectrum of coffee’s effect on human organism:
Plus: Caffeine helps people who do intellectual work. It stimulates brain cells, increases receptivity and disposes to concentrated thinking.
Minus: Overdose causes strong headaches, nervousness, giddiness, anxiety and tension.
Plus: It is already proved that regular coffee drinking 93-4 cups a day) lowers risk of cirrhosis for those who are alcohol addicted, however, it is wiser not to misuse alcohol.
Minus: If you drink alcohol after coffee, coffee’s negative effect on organism becomes significantly increased.
Plus: Coffee is very useful for people who suffer from hypotony.
Minus: Those who combine coffee with smoking have 35-60% higher risk of hypertension.
Plus: Our favorite morning drink can affect teeth positively, protecting them from caries, as it has a certain set of prophylactic qualities, protecting buccal cavity from pathogenic bacteria efficiently.
Minus: There’s a risk to lose your snow-white smile, as coffee tinges enamel in yellow.
Plus: Caffeine promotes serotonin’s (hormone of happiness) accumulation in organism.
Minus: Experts state this influence is narcotic: while caffeine lack one can suffer from a real withdrawals – a severest depression.
Plus: very pleasant news: coffee contains vitamin PP and about 300 mineral substances, including irreplaceable antioxidants.
Minus: Like any other stimulant, coffee has a series of contra-indications. It should not be combined with calming or soporific preparations.
Facts from all over the world
- English scientists state; coffee can provide an analgetic action, but only for women. Tests showed that caffeine has no such effect on men. We are lucky!
- German scientists assure that drinking big doses of caffeine prevents alopecia! However, in this case caffeine has better effect while application (for example, rubbing in special solutions). According to experts, you should drink in up to 60-80 cups of coffee a day to provide your hair roots with enough quantity of the substance.
- Scientists determined that caffeine affects sight positively and increases retina’s sensitiveness. It is caffeine that makes it reacting to outer world higher. As a result, surrounding objects become brighter, have more tints and earlier invisible details can be seen.
- Canadian scientists discovered that caffeine has a valuable quality: it increases organism’s capacity for physical loads, this way augmenting training effect. And it also promotes fat’s transformation into fuel for muscles.
Being beautiful
So, coffee has unique gustatory qualities – we’ve already found out this fact. Besides, it is an inexhaustible source of series of valuable cosmetic ingredients.
Thus, linoleic acid it contains recovers skin’s elasticity, prevents its ageing, and also has anti-inflammatory and photoprotective actions, i.e. it is a peculiar UV-filter. This super quality allows universal skincare brands creating luxurious face creams. Caffeine they contain controls not only skin protection against outer aggression, but also its elasticity and smooth surface. Due to caffeine’s action, skin becomes stronger, facial contours is pulled and tissue ageing slows down.
Natural components caffeine contains help getting rid from toxins, activate lipolysis: that’s why most anti-cellulite creams are based on caffeine.
Due to caffeine’s lipolysis effect, they created modeling body creams containing special green coffee. They also create special aromatic perfumes, containing caffeine, as Japanese scientists confirmed: coffee’s aroma promotes weight loss also on psychological level.
