{"id":2760,"date":"2012-01-19T15:49:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T19:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2012-01-19T15:58:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T19:58:22","slug":"caffeine-doesn%e2%80%99t-energize-%e2%80%93-it%e2%80%99s-but-a-cheap-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2760","title":{"rendered":"Caffeine doesn\u2019t energize \u2013 it\u2019s but a cheap trick!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/coffee-cup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2761\" title=\"coffee cup\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/coffee-cup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, you think those\u00a0cups of java provide you with \u201cthe shots\u201d to get you through the day? Wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that coffee does not energize \u2013 but instead fools your body into thinking it has more energy than it actual does. \u00a0Consider that your body functions by first storing and then drawing on energy called adenosine triphosphate (ATD). \u00a0That cup of coffee works with the ATD process in two ways to give you a false sense of being energized.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1) Caffeine will block adenosine from binding together and it delays your energy from being stored.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2) It also blocks signals to inform your body that it is out of energy \u2013 in other words, it tricks your body into thinking that it has a store of\u00a0energy.<\/p>\n<p>Research tells us that the effects of\u00a0caffeine can kick in within 10 minutes and last up to 4-6 hours! In that time, your body&#8217;s energy is not being stored properly and you are being tricked into thinking you have more energy than you actually do. (That&#8217;s not a jolt as much as it is a\u00a0double whammy!) That&#8217;s why when the effect of caffeine runs out, you will &#8220;crash&#8221;\u00a0as your body is trying\u00a0to use ATP it doesn&#8217;t have.* \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, really, what would we do without our coffee?<\/p>\n<p>* Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/7bigspoons.com\/nootropics\/caffeine\/how-caffeine-works\/\">http:\/\/7bigspoons.com\/nootropics\/caffeine\/how-caffeine-works\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/coffee-cup.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, you think those\u00a0cups of java provide you with \u201cthe shots\u201d to get you through the day? Wrong. The fact is that coffee does not energize \u2013 but instead fools your body into thinking it has more energy than it actual does. \u00a0Consider that your body functions by first storing and then drawing on energy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}