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Coffee As An Addictive Substance
- Coffee is the world’s most popular psychoactive drug, with over 80 percent of American adults having it daily.
- Quitting caffeine produces withdrawal symptoms like lack of alertness, fatigue, and headache.
- While it is a well-known fact that caffeine is a chemically addictive substance, the withdrawal symptoms are now categorized as a mental disorder.
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Addicted To Coffee
The chemistry of the brain changes when a person takes a regular intake of caffeine, as it grows more adenosine receptors.
Eventually, it takes more caffeine to feel the effects, and as there are now more receptors, not having a stimulant results in ‘caffeine withdrawal headache’...
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How Coffee Affects Us
- When we have coffee, it gets absorbed in our gut as well as in our bloodstream. As the chemical is soluble in water and fat both, it can easily enter the brain.
- Adenosine, a molecule present in our brain which is remarkably similar to caffeine,
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Coffee Is Easy To Quit
The good news is that the caffeine habit is easy to break, as your brain sets to baseline levels in about two weeks of caffeine resistance.
The withdrawal symptoms only persist for about 7 to 12 days, after which your brain decreases the number of adenosine receptors, bre...
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Everything About Coffee
- Billions of people relish coffee every day, in various forms, making it one of the most popular beverages in the world.
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- It is bad if you feel your system doesn't work properly without it: lack of concentration, tiredness, bad temper, headache.
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