Caffeine is the most widely known and most used drug in the world. Why just last year, 167 million coffee drinking Americans consumed about 6.3 billion gallons of coffee. But caffeine has both negative and positive effects on the human body. When caffeine is consumed in the right amount, it can make you more clear of your surroundings, and can boost your adrenaline making you move quicker and think faster. However, when consumed too much or too late at night, caffeine has no positive effect on the body.
While you have caffeine in your diet, it raises your adrenaline, cortisol, and cortisol levels in your body. Having all these raised levels is proven to give you insomnia. Without that sleep your body doesn't end to function as well, which causes you more stress. Also having too much adrenaline in your body makes you crash and can lead you to depression.
It takes so the body around 6 to 4 hours to leave the system, so having caffeine late in the afternoon and at night is not recommended for anyone. Containing a large amount of caffeine most likely will give you a caffeine addiction. If you have a caffeine addiction and are deprived of caffeine, you will turn moody and aggressive. It also makes you drowsy and tired at midday. Becoming addicted to caffeine can lead to serious problems.
Caffeine consumption may lead to even more serious health effects, including heart disease and diabetes. These stressors are unnecessary and unhealthy. Having all of these chemicals released in your body is ok in small amounts. But when you are constantly under the influence of caffeine, it releases more than enough of these chemicals. And studies have shown that these chemicals over time destroy your body. When you are stressed your body naturally releases these, and when you overdue caffeine you're just adding more stress.
Like I said before, a little amount of caffeine is good for you. It boosts your metabolism right after you work out, and that means that you'll burn more fat. Also caffeine has been shown to lower risk of having Parkinson's disease and Type 2 Diabetes. So caffeine is totally evil, it is a good drug to use. However, with the population consuming about 3.4 cups of coffee a day, they are missing the glorious benefits of caffeine.
Overall, from this information gathered you can see that caffeine is very helpfully drug when taken in the proper amounts. But unfortunately, a majority of the population ignores this and overdoes their caffeine intake. Overdoses on caffeine leads to jittering, insomnia, depression, caffeine addiction, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes. All of these side effects show negative results when dealing with your stress. To get the full effect of caffeine, take it in small amounts and don't take it late in the afternoon or night.
