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Not only Will the coffee cause havoc to your brain chemicals, but will throw your adrenal hormones into havoc. No, from now on, you see coffee as the drug that it clearly is.

However, coffee is the number one enemy of public's health. More people are addicted to coffee than to any other drug.

Ask any doctor about how much coffee you can safely drink, and the answer will be. "an eight-ounce cup or two per day

pr. Karlis Ullis, an author of the book Age Right, explains that there are three main neurotransmitters in the brain: acetylcholine, which is responsible for our memory, language, speech, and thoughts; serotonin, which is responsible for our emotional state, sleep, appetite, cravings, and obsessive-compulsive behaviors, such as

overeating and abusing different kinds of drugs; and dopamine? which is responsible for energy level, vigilance, alertness, reaction time, emotional highs, spontaneity, as well as our addiction to stimulants.

The majority of people prefer coffee as their stimulant of choice because it provides a quick release of dopamine,

It over stimulates, depletes, and leads to the degeneration of the dopamine neurons.

However, cocaine, speed, ephedrine, coffee, and other drugs and stimulants accelerate dopamine depletion. Severe depletion of dopamine neurons is known as Parkinson's disease.

If we have not vet lost all of our
0 acetylcholine neurons (complete depletion of which is by Alzheimer's disease) and the capacity to make reasoned decisions, why would we willingly and voluntarily choose to speed up our own aging process by using narcotics and stimulants.

Caffeine is a psychoactive drug that can lead to chronic tolerance.

Coffee is a stimulant that enhances dopamine activity-

Stimulants that enhance dopamine activity (caffeine is one of them) temporarily elevate mood, cause excitement, or even induce a state of euphoria. When the effect of caffeine wears of£ however, there is usually a "crash.*"'

Coffee addicts may have poor memory and reduced cognitive ability. Coffee and other stimulants disrupt sleep cycles, which also can affect memory. The brain ages faster.

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Coffee and allergy

Some people are extremely sensitive to caffeine. Others do not experience any side effects, but may develop mental and physical disorders later in life. Still others are actually allergic to caffeine, although thev mav not be aware of it

Depending on the amount of caffeine consumed daily, the symptoms can range from skin rash, eczema, agitation, palpitations, chest pain, nervousness, forgetfulness, muscle tension, and blurred vision to cognitive and mental manifestations, such as unreasonable and strange behavior, confusion, irritability, mood swings, difficulty concentrating or making decisions, paranoia, hallucinations, anxiety attacks, and dementia.

In reality, no one
V 7 needs coffee to wake up. Those who do not consume coffee wake up fresh, alert, and energetic without it Coffee drinkers, however, need their morning doses because their blood levels of caffeine drop during the night and they begin to experience its withdrawal symptoms.

excellent diuretic.

high-liber foods - bran, whole grains, kiwi, figs, prunes, beets are celery juice excellent sources-and drink plenty of water. Three or four cups of

Dehydration is also one of the reasons why heavy coffee drinkers suffer from headaches.

Children, because they weigh less than adults, are especially sensitive to the effects of coffee.

Skin

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prinking too much coffee can speed up the aging process. Uneven skin tone, redness, acne, itchiness, excessive oiliness or dryness can also be a result of hormonal imbalance caused by drinking too much coffee.

The eyes

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Excessive coffee consumption not only increases blood pressure, both systolic and diastolic, but also intraocular - that is, eye pressure. Can it be dangerous? Yes, it can.

One group of healthy participants, ages 20 to 27, drank regular coffee; the other group drank decaffeinated. decaffeinated coffee did not show pressure elevation - neither blood nor intraocular.

The historical path of coffee from its origin in Ethiopia

However regardless of how coffee was actually discovered, it remains undisputed that the plant was bom in Africa, in the Ethiopian region of Kaffa. From there the use of coffee spread to Yemen, Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey.

1475—The first coffeehouse opens in Constantinople a setting for intellectual exchange, political discussion, and business transactions-,

1650—The first coffeehouse opens in Oxford, England.

1652—The first coffeehouse opens London. Later, coffeehouses in London often grow into large businesses. Some firms that develop from original coffeehouses include Lloyds of London, the English stock exchange, as well as banks, brokerage firms, and trading companies.

1690—The Dutch steal live coffee plants from Mocha, ^Arab port. From there, the coffee trees are transported to their colony? Java (modern Indonesia), beginning a long history of cultivation, production, and export.

1890—A young German doctor. Ludwig Roselius, invents a method of decaffeination after sudden death of his father who was a coffee merchant and taster. Roselius believes that his father died from the excessive amounts of caffeine that he ingested. Roselius
patents his process of decaffeination and establishes a business in Bremen, German). His product is called Sanka, a clever abbreviadon of the French phrase "sans caffeine." In the early 1900s. his procuci >?reac$ iuugbout Europe and reaches American soil. The method of decaffeinarion is simple. The green coffee beans are mere'}' heaaai uith stein? tc raise their moismre level and a chemical is used to extract the cafeine. The beans are then washed, steamed, dried roasted and ground for consumption. This process has been siidriv rennec over the vears. but it remains much the same today, except for the chemicals that are used to extract the caffeine.

1923—Decaffeinated coffee is introduced in the United States under the name Sanka.

Addiction

Speaking of the preference of heavy interesting to note that as consumption of coffee increases, the use of decaffeinated coffee decreases. One government study found that whereas 70 percent of regular coffee consumers drink one cup per day, almost 82 percent of those who consume regular coffee drink six cups per day. Whereas only 11 percent of heavy coffee drinkers use decaffeinated coffee, about 23 percent of those who drink one cup per day consume decaffeinated coffee. This speaks volumes about caffeine's addictive nature. The more caffeine you consume, the more you want to - or have to - consume.

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A better choice

Coffee is commonly used as a brain stimulant that helps to release dopamine, which provides motivation, alertness, and emotional highs. However, excessive coffee intake leads to overstimulation and depletion of dopamine-producing brain cells, which results in your feeling dull, fatigued, and exhausted.

Instead of drinking coffee that flushes important nutrients from the body and depletes the vulnerable dopamine neurons, the number of which decreases with age even without coffee's effect on the brain, it is better to drink protein shakes, which nourish dopamine neurons and help to improve energy. Protein is a better choice to restore energy than coffee because it is an excellent source of tyrosine, an amino acid that is essential for dopamine production.

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use of arabica has plummeted, and robusta is now the mainstay of

gourmet coffee shops.

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Coffee and sleep

result has been known for thousands of years and is one of the reasons why many people drink coffee in the first place: to stay awake.

Coffee has a substantial effect on sleep, as we all know. Ingesting coffee 30 to 60 minutes before sleep will dramatically reduce your ability to fall asleep, and many coffee consumers report that even when they do slip into some good R.E.M., their sleep is fitful and minimally refreshing- short, coffee e. In short, coffee is ruining the sleep of millions of people, and they do not even know it.

Melatonin is the primary hormone responsible for sleep' Its release is controlled by serotonin, one of the main neurotransmitters. A group of Israeli researchers from Tel-Aviv University, Meir Hospital, Sapir Medical Center, and the Sackler School of Medicine found that caffeine consumption decreases melatonin secretion and affects quality and quantity of sleep,

The researchers found that drinking regular versus decaffeinated coffee caused a decrease in the 6-SMT excretion throughout the night. Regular coffee affected the quality, quantity, and length of time it took to fall asleep.

If you decide to taper off, consider taking your coffee half regular and half decaf.