A GOOD Cup of Coffee
I do love a good cup of coffee. When I see something that says it is good for me, I would feel guilty if I didn’t share it with my readers. On the other hand, if something comes along that says anything else, I would share that as well. I would just less likely to notice it. That must be called a bias of some kind.
In a study at the University of Illinois, Doctor Robert Motl has found that when his subjects ingested a caffeine laden pill they were able to exercise with less pain. The pain-killing quality of the caffeine seemed to be unrelated to previous use of caffeine. If you are a coffee drinker this is an important point. You can get those same pain relieving benefits as a coffee piker.
A Cup of Coffee GOOD
“Clearly, if you regularly consume caffeine, you have to have more to have that bigger, mental-energy effect. But the tolerance effect is not ubiquitous across all stimuli. Even brain metabolism doesn’t show this tolerance-type effect. That is, with individuals who are habitual users versus non-habitual users, if you give them caffeine and do brain imaging, the activation is identical. It’s really interesting why some processes show tolerance and others don’t,” the former cyclist turned professor concludes.
I do wonder at times if larger doses of caffeine have any positive effect. At times, it seems to me that an “overdose” of caffeine has almost an opposite effect, sapping energy and throwing a subject (that subject being me) into a moderately depressed state. I believe in “the olden days” of weed, whites, and wine, that may have been called over-amping.
That being said, the strategic use of caffeine for both pain resistance during exercise and brain fitness assistance seems to . As Dr. Motl says,
Apparently, caffeine works in parts of the spinal cord and the brain, it involves processing painful stimuli and has the ability to reduce activity in these regions.
So…
Drink up. In healthy doses, of course.
Mike
Exercising Is Easier with a Cup of Coffee – The drink eases muscular pain – Softpedia.
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