Mindful Caffeine Intake

• The caffeine in your morning coffee binds to your brain's adenosine receptors, preventing the biochemical from making you tired.
• Caffeine also builds your adrenaline supply, which increases your heart rate and allows blood to pump faster.
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The explanation behind the surge of energy you get from drinking coffee is: caffeine blocks the receptors that are meant to be for adenosine.

Adenosine plays a number of bodily functions, but during our bodies' waking hours it builds up in the receptors which caus...

Caffeine works primarily by blocking the action of a chemical called adenosine, which slows down our neural activity, allowing us to relax, rest, and sleep.

By interfering with it, caffeine cuts the brake lines of the brain’s alertness system. Eventually, if we don’t allow our body to relax...