You are a natural teacher! I was an elementary teacher for 17 years and I have the most respect for teachers who are able to simplify matters into understandable and creative formats using as many of the senses as possible to increase our learning capacities and store data in long term memories. Thank you so much for these wonderful videos!
after 30 days off caffine my sleep improved. blood pressure dropped. teeth grinding stopped. electrolyte balance fixed. alertness increased in the morning; not only did i feel more alert, my productivity increased probably 2x. hard drop in the evenings disappeared. also my ability to prioritize goals and make "good" decisions improved. as a result of all that i finally started losing weight very easily after 12 years of struggling.
Dang sounds like a lot. Grateful I don’t suffer for any of those ailments because I love my organic single origin coffees. Glad simply dropping coffee fixed all those things for you
@@rasbe420some of many people don’t process coffee the same and turn into angry psychos on or off it.. but it’s insidious because you don’t associates the cups you drank yesterday with exhaustion when you wake up and anger during the day. The first few cups don’t make you feel that way, so by the time you realize you may have a problem, you are already addicted and can’t quit. It plays with your thinking process, so you forget how bad in made you feel and reach for it for the euphoric and stimulating effect again.
To whom it may concern: If you are trying to quit drinking coffee but suffer with terrible headaches. SWITCH TO BLACK TEA or half caffeine coffee. Don't try to just quit but lower the amount of caffeine by half for about two week. Then you can stop with no headache! Took me years to figure this out.
Coffee is not just made up of caffeine. This is a big mistake if you want to quit drinking coffee. It has 100s of compounds that are not in the black tea. This is why even if you drink black tea instead of coffee people still get headaches as you’re not only “addicted” to caffeine but also other compounds in coffee. And coffee is not a bad thing if you’re not drinking more than a a few cups a day. Coffee has A LOT of antioxidants people don’t know this. Black Tea also does have some antioxidants but it doesn’t contain as much as coffee. Cocoa also has a lot of antioxidants as well as caffeine but again, not the same as drinking coffee. If you want to quit coffee you can gradually reduce drinking coffee. But drinking tea or other drinks is not going to make you feel better as you experience withdrawal as people get dependent on the coffee which is made up of 100s of compounds not in tea or any other drink, and not just caffeine.
@@KittenBowl1 slowly reducing the amount of coffee absolutely did not work for me. I tried many many times. The headaches were unbearable. Switching over to black tea worked for me when nothing else did. That was my experience and I stand by it 100%
I quit coffee recently. I’ve drank it since I was a little kid and for years I thought I had severe anxiety. Then once I factored out the caffeine, almost all my anxiety symptoms vanished. I’ll still enjoy a cup of coffee from time to time but it’s definitely not a routine.
I wish it was that simple for me but I just remembered how I rarely ever drank caffeine as a kid but still had anxiety nonetheless. Maybe it contributes to the problem but definitely isn't the cause in my case. Generalized anxiety is a bitch.
Yeah, I was a coffee drinker when I was a kid too. However I never experienced anxiety from it and as I got older the quantity and concentration of it got higher and higher to the point that I looked like I was tweaking out as my fine motor skills became garbage. I can't drink coffee now and, man, do I wish I could go back to drinking a liter of max filtered coffee. It was the bomb.
The fact im able to learn and understand how caffine effects my brain (and body) on a molecular level after watching a casual YT video is actually quite amazing. Great work explaing this!
I started doing a 3 month caffeine break/tolerance reset on January 1st (I was drinking about 200-300 mg of it a day) and the third day of not having caffeine I had constant headaches for almost two weeks!! But now I’m feeling good without it, and noticing the affect different food has on my energy levels. Crazy to see how addictive caffeine is 🙌🏽
I also do this on a regular basis. I think it’s good to reset your tolerances about once a year. And after that break the coffee tastes wonderful again and a small cup is enough to boost your morning (instead of 2 huge mugs:)
I gave up coffee when we were trying to get my partner pregnant, as we were told there are some links. I had no withdrawal cravings for caffeine, but the withdrawal headaches were nasty by golly I suffered for nearly 2 weeks. I never went back to drinking as much caffeine afterwards, mostly just occasional decaf and green tea now.
I just completed 1 year of no caffeine. While it did take a couple weeks to kick the withdrawls, I felt good overall. I instead supplemented with vitamins for the entire year. B12 was a key aspect of this regiment to help convert food into energy, and I highly recommend fitting that into a daily regiment. If you are looking to kick caffeine, look towards B12 as a start.
I've been drinking energy drinks with 300mg of caffeine everyday for YEARS, and I'm already tired all of the time. I'm scared of how bad my withdraws will be especially cuz I have kids
@@metallica961025 not plenty. There are many meat eater who have low rates of b12, so supplementation for most is a good idea. B12 is one of the view supplements who has shown again and again that it is save to take unlike for example alot of multivitamins
Quitting caffeine, was the best decision I have ever made. Prior to quitting, I suffered social anxiety, fatigue, lack of motivation, and so many things. I made the decision to stop, and let me tell you it wasn't as easy as I had read and thought. Yes the headaches vanished in the first 2 weeks, I was still lethargic, depressed, and did not have motivations for anything. After about 3 months or so I started to feel normal again, and at around 6 months I feel like a child again, full of energy, focus, motivation, cheerfulness, its an amazing feeling. I made the conclusion that on the contrary of some research claims that it only take 2 weeks of withdrawals, some take much more time specially me who drank 3 cups of coffee a day. Now years since I stoped I still feel so great, its a bless.
In 2012 I first learned that caffeine can be used to treat pain. I was hospitalized and had to undergo a spinal tap. Following the procedure, I developed a massive headache which came on whenever I sat up in bed or if I tried the stand. Interestingly, there was no pain whenever I was laying down. For over a week they administered almost every narcotic pain meds they could possibly find, but to no avail. Then one day a doctor said to the other doctors on the team, "Did anyone try caffeine?" They got the caffeine and hooked it to the IV, and BAM, within 15 to 20 minutes the headache went away and never bothered me for the remaining 30 days I spent in the hospital.
The Army treated all complaints with two things. One was aspirin, phenacetin and caffeine. Cures many complaints. The do gooders decided that caffeine was bad, bad, bad for you and had it removed from most drug combos. The other thing the Army issued by the vat, ahem, I mean the pint was something called G.I. Gin. Codeine was the opportive agent.
What you described was caused by a spinal CSF leak. This can be somewhat common in women who get epidurals. They normally do a blood patch to try to fix the leak but if you're on anticoagulants, it won't work. It usually resolves itself within 10 days if nothing else corrects it before then.
Yes, there are several studies confirming coffeine consumption helps with headaches. In more severe cases it can be paired with Aspirin for a stronger effect!
One important point of this video is that cells can respond to a treatment, in this case by increasing the number of adenosine receptors with chronic caffeine consumption. The fact that cells can alter their structure to counteract a treatment is important in understanding the basis of pharmacology. Even cancer cells are able to do this sometimes to evade cancer treatments. It is good to see this topic was discussed in relation to caffeine.
Could this explain why the 1 day a week I don't consume caffeine I am extremely lethargic? I normally consume 400-500mg of caffeine a day except Sundays to reset.
@@sidious501 yea definitely. I think you drink a lot of caffeine tbh. I usually drink one cup of espresso a day. I don t think it has more than 50 to 60 mg of caffeine.
Would love to see a video on how artificial sweeteners affect our body. There's so much contradicting information about it that it's hard to really understand what to believe. Especially on a controversial aspartame. :)
I have absolutely no clinical, academic, or other medical ambitions. I was fascinated with anatomy in high school and I learned a great deal from our physiology class, and the research I did on my own. My family has too many doctors, nurses, etc., so I opted for a career in computer science. I am still intrigued by anatomy - and each video I watch with you explaining things makes me want to take a course at your school just for the experience and the in-depth knowledge. You have an amazing brain, Jonathan - how could anyone NOT retain all that knowledge with the way you explain it?. Keep up the good work!
Hey, could you do video about what sugar does to your body? And if there's any difference between refined sugar and "healthy" sugar? Would be also cool if you could include long term effects of each substance you discuss. Would love to see, for example, how cannabinoids (or sugar for that matter) can affect us after years of indulgence.
@@gina_mocafitnessactivewear1192 this guy is not a good source. Not saying sugar is good, but he’s just trying to pick for his narrative on ketogenic diet.
There is no safe level to eat of sucrose (table sugar) or brown sugar, or honey, or high fructose corn syrup. It's entirely too concentrated amount of fructose that absolutely hammers the liver, since fructose cannot be used like glucose. Table sugar is 50% glucose, 50% fructose. Fructose from fruit you have to chew up with your teeth is perfectly safe, because it takes time to absorb into the liver; so it does it slowly at a safe rate. Honey is just as bad as table sugar. It is about 40% liquid fructose. It's just too much work for your already overworked liver to process. Your liver already performs over 500 crucial tasks, so take it easy on your liver.
Once again, a most interesting video. I’m a retired clinical nurse. I was an educator in occupational health. So I’m partial to your style and find your videos enjoyable. Congratulations. You use this medium to great affect. Excellent. I’m sure there’s plenty more of us that feel the same way about your presentations and the positive effect they’re on health education. Cheers. Colin
I began drinking coffee since I struggle a lot with mental health, there is a hint I may have ADHD, so I decided to start drinking. It does wonders to my mental state. It lowers my social anxiety to an acceptable level where I can actually function. Turns off suicidal thoughts, makes me focused and willing to actually work on the things I come up with
I drank a lot of coffee over the years but it used to make my anxiety a lot worse. I gave up caffeine almost 7 months ago and I feel much better. I occasionally drink decaffeinated and it still makes me a bit jittery.
I said the same thing to a neurologist once that my Anxiety was still bad and I got the jitters even after a cup of decaffeinated coffee only to be told it still has Caffeine in it 🤦🏻♂️😂 Just not as much as normal coffee.
I quit caffeine two years ago. I quit coffee first, then tea. The first thing I noticed was how my sleep improved within a few months, followed by an increased level of energy. About five years ago I also quit soft drinks, this also brought many health benefits. I don’t intend to drink coffee again; however, I do have the occasional green tea if I visit a friend or go for a meal (green tea has some caffeine). Mint tea is always an option too. I recently read about caffeine induced anxiety, something I’ve seen manifest in many people. I’m not saying everyone should quit caffeine, though it would be beneficial, I’m saying people should moderate their caffeine intake. One caffeine drink per week or per day is sufficient, anything over one per day could lead to health problems.
Excellent job. I'd love to stop using caffeine but I'd have to stop using caffeine to do it 🤣🤣. But seriously though, thanks for sharing your experience, it actually makes it more appealing to know that you actually noticed the results. At times my caffeine intake has bordered obscene as I work nights and it's been a part of my routine for many years. I'm in my mid fifties now and I'm relatively fit, at my ideal body weight, and I don't indulge in any drugs or alcohol by choice. I know I could give it up, because I quit smoking around 15 years ago and I battled that for several years before I finally quit for good. I never thought I would ever consider giving up caffeine but I have high blood pressure and have noticed that my hands get Shakey when I drink too much. It doesn't make me feel anxious necessarily, but it is embarrassing to see my hands shake and others notice. I have actually gone days before without using caffeine when not at work and honestly other than my hands no longer shaking I can't tell any difference. I guess I have used it so long that it doesn't have much effect on me as a stimulant anyway. It's probably just a bad habit I should drop. Thanks again for your insight, most helpful.
@@nurzrachit7133 You're welcome. My caffeine intake was excessive too, I'd drink coffee even at night, up until around midnight. It took me a few years to ween myself off, it's not easy, especially if your social circle spends a lot of time in coffee shops! I would choose a hot chocolate some days, other times it would be a mochaccino. I've worked in teaching so I can relate to those 'shaky' hands, seen it in many teachers, their stress doesn't help either. I knew one lady that would have 20 cups of coffee per day! I think it's good to ween off caffeine no matter what age you're at, the benefits are always going to be seen sooner or later. I hope you get to switch to hot chocolate or decaf too! Cheers!
Congrats for that! I know that it's very hard to give up caffein. The first 2-3 weeks could be very uncomfortable. Unfortunately I have gone back to coffee. I changed to decaf version, and a small amount of regular before workout. But the fact is when I forgot the pre workout coffee I feel the workout is worse. At the beginning I performed better in the gym, but later just feeling weak without coffee and normal with it. It's crazy your body how can addict to it.
My older brother grew up with ADHD and the doctor had him actually eat coffee beans when he was a kid, which actually worked. I'm told the effects of caffeine were different for him because he had ADHD. Would love to know why that is.
As someone who has ADHD, coffee is essentially a replacement for medication for me. it makes me more focused and calm without all the "negative" side effects.
@@tobinalmackx8626 that’s exactly what my brother says as well. I remember the reason the coffee was suggested was because when he was on the normal medication, he developed an aggressive twitch and a tick. The coffee practically worked a miracle for him. Went from the kid that couldn’t read aloud in class, to someone that didn’t stutter a single word.
There are credible theories to suggest that coffee played a huge roll in the age of enlightenment. Humans moved from using depressants and sedatives to stimulants. Fantastic reads. Thank you for the videos!
Ditto! I can recommend Food of the gods by Terrance McKenna. He also talks about the politics/wars/slavery/trade/lobbying driving the history of people and substances, which I found really interesting
As someone who has struggled with long term depression, caffeine has been a blessing. A couple cups of coffee lift me out of laziness and help bring focus to my scattered brain.
Thanks for this. I quit caffeine for a year. No good. Suffered constant migraine/ tension headache. Started back caffein with exercise and EDM feeling sooo good.
If you are depressed because you believe in death, get the book Hands of Light. A physicist, Barbara Brennan, wrote it in 1987. We can't die because we are constantly being created.
@@hummingbirdbumblebee4618 yeah, yeah. Every night I drift away, wondering if I'll be born again in the morning. It's this life that gets depressing. I look forward to moving on.
@@DADela-ht6ux According to physics, quarks are constantly bursting forth spinning billions of times a second as 3 points of light forming protons and neutrons. This is how we are constantly being born. If not for quarks spinning into atoms, the 7 billion, billion, billion atoms we consist of, then we would not have the next heart beat or breath. I am not religious. There was never enough information to be found. Our literal souls are creating these quarks of light into the atoms of light we are. At what is called death, we pop out of these bodies of dense energy to see we have always existed in other dimensions that show us the electrical beings we are. Some people like me want to relieve the burdens others feel when they can only see so far. Apparently, this is my job on earth.
I had a liver disease and my doctor recommended me to drink 3 cups of coffee per day. Black coffee with no sugar, no cream. It seems that coffee somehow helps the liver cells and studies showed that could help in reducing the risk of cirrhosis.
You are a natural teacher! I was an elementary teacher for 17 years and I have the most respect for teachers who are able to simplify matters into understandable and creative formats using as many of the senses as possible to increase our learning capacities and store data in long term memories. Thank you so much for these wonderful videos!
I absolutely love that I found this channel and feel like a little kid geeking over everything I'm learning. I've always been an English nerd but here I am actually learning about the human body and falling in love with science. Thank you for making each topic so simple and intriguing, and actually having a passion for what you do. Makes the world of a difference. Especially to someone like me ❤️❤️❤️😭🥺☺️
Agreed. I've always had a passion for how the body works and followed up with constant and advanced study. Justin is amazing at exposing things, thorough yet clear and concise which was missing from my prior teachers in the field. That made me seek on my own, further clarification by other books. Yes I wish had someone like him during my studies. All of his videos are so amazing.
I am not a big fan of coffee taste (only with sugar together with some cookies,.. and that's not ideal). However coffee has helped me a lot of times when a migraine hit me. Maybe it has something to do with very low blood pressure but it definitely helps me. Once when my bp reached 79/56 and I felt really unwell, coffee literally rescued me. So for me it's a medicament :) Don't drink it regularly only when I feel unwell due to low bp, have a migraine, etc. Btw thank you for the amazing videos!! I've always dreamt of studying medicine but because I can't handle dead bodies, "cutting" any bodies, injecting needles, etc. I gave up. On here it's safe :) I learn without fainting :) Keep it up!!
Been over 6 months since I’ve had a coffee. I’d have migraines the days I didn’t have one. Took two weeks without to end headaches. Now I have a smoothie every morning. Never felt better.
I use to be a heavy coffee drinker for about 15 years, but I had to cut way down on coffee. I only drink 1 cup a day now. Because, when I was drinking coffee heavily I ended up being rushed to the hospital different times for severe dehydration where one time I was so bad my hands and feet were numb and each time I could not function, I could not stand, I could not sit, and I was pale white. I looked like I was dying. I had to have fluids put into me through an IV. This video does not talk about this, but I just want to let you know what can happen to you. Coffee dehydrates you very much. so, now I plan out when and where I will have that daily cup of coffee. Sometimes I plan to have that coffee in the morning, or I wait till later in the day and order an blended annihilator coffee at Dutch Brothers.
Wow dude! Glad you figured it out brother! My thinking on being dehydrated is just to make sure you drink more water throughout the day. Did that not lessen the negative effects of having so much caffeine?
Yes caffeine irritates the bladder and makes you pee, therefore it can dehydrate you or act as a diaretic. Maybe not so much when your younger but especially as you get older.
I was heavily using caffeine many years ago (as a result of stopping alcohol) and found I had a serious problem with aggression from the stress it caused. So I started taking dl phenylalanine. You don't taper off on coffee when you take it, you substitute the phenylalanine for coffee and you seriously don't want to drink any coffee while you're taking it. It eliminated the withdrawl symtoms and made me feel 100 times better than I did when drinking coffee. Not very long after I stopped taking it because I woke up feeling rested from natural sleep.
Phenylalanine is in diet coke and coke no sugar, and caffeine is in these too. Caffeine is also in milk chocolate and dark chocolate. Do not drink any coke, diet coke, coke no sugar and do not eat any milk chocolate and dark chocolate while taking Phenylalanine.
@@littlemisskimmycat78 You'd have to eat 7 oz of dark chocolate or 3 cups of milk chocolate chips to get the same caffeine as in a cup of coffee (96mg).
@@andsotheadventurebegins2030 I had a friend that did the 4 corners ride (motorcycle ride that goes east to west from a northern route and back from a southern route, and goes north to south and vice versa on both coasts. Just a big box. I shoulda said just look it up.) Anyway, a long way to say she had gotten off coffee before the ride using phenylalanine but at some stop, not thinking, ordered coffee. She said she ground her teeth for a few hundred miles from being so amped up.
This was interesting and informative. I have SVT, which is a condition where heart rate increases dramatically, e.g., 150-200bpm, not caused by exercise or exertion. I’ve gone to the ER when my heart rate wouldn’t return to normal and what did they give me? A bolus of adenosine. Actually, two because the first didn’t work. Now I know why they gave me adenosine. I’ve been drinking coffee for more than 65 years so I would say I’m not naïve regarding caffeine. I just recently became aware that black coffee (unsweetened) raises my blood sugar by 25-30 points. Don’t know the reason for that unless it’s because coffee increases adrenaline which increases blood sugar. Anyway I thoroughly enjoy these videos as I always learn something.
The adenosine you received is the med to "restart" your heart if you will. It's in the crash cart for code blues. It pretty much make you flat line, then turning the heart back on much like a computer that's frozen and you need to reboot it. But you brought an interesting point tho. I want to know the difference between the naturally occurring adenosine in the brain vs the medication. If the medication affect the brain the same way as well...probably not tho, considering it has a short half-life? And the brain adenosine doesn't come to the heart right? Otherwise, you'll die. lol Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
@@lzhang92 chemically I’m certain they are the same. Adenosine affects the electrical system of the heart, and the bolus one receives to reset the heart by blocking the AV node, is way more than what you get normally get from the brain. Not being a cardiologist I can’t know for sure.
I drink black coffee throughout the day. And I don't drink soda very often. First week of every month I cut out coffee completely and my body does its usual withdrawals. Pretty fun :D
I do it every 2 weeks as my body completely ignore the caffeine pretty quickly, really a bummer. That's why I stopped drinking it nowadays, as every times I experienced withdrawal it took me 2 unproductive days before it goes away...
Love this channel. Going through nursing school rn and this channels helps me maintain my anatomy and physiology knowledge. Thank you, and thank you to the people that donated their body to make this possible.
Just graduated nursing school with my BSN in May and now I’m working in the neuro ICU at a trauma 1 facility. It’s a tough road but best of luck. It is so worth it. The pay is pretty nice too. Wishing you the greatest success in your journey (:
Caffeine makes my anxiety worse. I’ve always had a sensitivity to it. I stopped for a while and now I drink decaf here and there. I just love the taste.
It's a tragedy that decaf beans are not even half as good tasting. I tried. Nothing compares, so I'm limiting to once or twice a week with the real thing.
@@kimberlychristy-saviano7673 I’ve tried a few different brands. They’re good enough and you get used to the taste, eventually. One of the brands I get is an organic store brand from Publix, which is a grow store in Florida. It’s decent enough. I definitely had to get used to the taste.
I have a few friends doing a 40 day fast from caffeine rn and this video really helped me understand a bit of why they might be acting different and gave me a couple ideas of how to possibly help make it a bit easier for them so thank you for this :)
The thing is that a lot of people neglect their sleep (let’s say they don’t have sleeping problems) because they know they can just drink coffee and be fine :( that’s not the ideal thing to do 🌝
I had two kids with high ADD symptoms that we used caffeine to help with the synaptic interaction. It worked beautifully. It is probably why I use coffee… plus, it is one of my favorite flavors. There is nothing more satisfying and relaxing than a good cup of coffee.
This is such a great channel! It has always been a fascination of mine learning how the human body works. Your clear and concise way of speaking is really great and helps to make it easy to digest the information. Thanks so much for the content!
I would love for you to do one on how the immune system recovers after an illness. I know getting sick, and recovering creates antibodies. But, I have always wondered if the immune system is tired immediately after fighting off something and that might increase your chance of picking up the very next virus that you come across. As a family, it always seemed like we would all be healthy for months and then one of us would catch something, pass it around the family, and then immediately after we'd all catch something new.
yess thank you!!!! please keep posting more of these, knowledge of how drugs work and affect the body is incredibly important in the world we live in. you can help so many people by showing them the damage they can do to themselves. the war on drugs didn't teach anyone why drugs are bad, just that they are.
Another great video! Would be helpful to supplement this video with another one dealing with caffeine‘s affect on sleep. According to Michael Pollan, the author, many if not most researchers who study sleep seem to have reduced or cut caffeine use. Apparently it has a half-life of some 12 hours in the body.
I gave up caffeine 5 years ago and never felt better but those 2 months were horrible. The constant headache was horrible but once that cleared it was smooth sailing. this video was still informative. Thank you sir
I try few times my problem is Pepsi don’t drink coffee or tea don’t really like water so Pepsi after Pepsi try to stop get bad headaches don’t like diet
People can avoid the headaches if they wean off over 1 week, rather than stop abruptly. Just put less and less in your cup over 7 days until you reach empty.
Would liked to have heard about: 1. Caffeine and prostate health. My GP has advised to cut caffeine, alcohol and spicy foods to mitigate prostatis. 2. A gastroenterologist has recommended reducing caffeine to help with reflux issues. 3. When I was younger, caffeine acted as a laxitive. It no longer does. I have experienced the withdrawal headaches when I quit coffee several years ago. Hated myself for being so dependent on a chemical.
When I got sick with covid I drank only water for 2 weeks and refused anything like soda and tea. And I believe I broke the caffeine addiction I had. I now only drink tea and 1 energy drink every blue moon or so
Justin, as usual, you are the best at what you do. You are a born teacher. I love anatomy and physiology and overall you are the best. Love your videos. Thank you for your compassionate sharing.
As for headaches, a friend of mine recommended to me in general for them is to drink water because a headache can indicate dehydration. Considering the (edit) _diuretic_ character of caffeine, I can see water as part of its mitigation, although waiting it out is most of it.
As a medical student this is actually true, Dehydration can cause headaches, migraine or even vertigo. So guys always drink water and don't let yourself dehydrated because our body mostly contains water.
If I didn't drink enough water the day before, I usually woke up the following day with a slight headache. When that happened, I drink a cup of water and my headache would be gone in an hour.
Damn why didn't I think of this common sense. I actually stopped drinking coffee because of constant headaches but now that I think since it's winter and exam period I am drinking water at all barely two cups a day. Gotta hydrate!
I dont drink coffee often, but i found while coffee does deliver an instant "wake up" response to me, good tea (generally not bagged, but full leaf ones) keeps me focused and aware for a far longer period and it doesn't have that sudden drop off in energy that coffee gives.
My father was a huge coffee drinker starting the day off with a few cups and on thru the day. He was the kindest man you'd ever hope to meet using his many skills to help anyone just for the asking. He died at the age of 90. I guess it was all that coffee that did him in. True story. Mayo clinic has discovered many benefits to coffee.
My father passed away at 97. Very kind & patient person & drank coffee every morning for over 70 years. He was still riding his bike in his 90's, as well as driving.
As a coffee lover i was skeptical first to watch this video since i had a fear it tells me not drink coffee for lablab reasons or coffee bad for your health but i am glad it wasn't like that. Then without hesitation i continue to enjoy my coffee morning. Thanks for sharing.
You can be a coffee lover while still understanding the risks and downsides, just like people smoke while knowing it can kill them, no point in denying the truth, I wish more videos would actually talk about the negatives of coffee instead of pretending that it’s healthy…
A very important point that - though it is somewhat obvious - in that context it might have been stressed that coffee is far more complex than caffeine. There are more than 850 substances in coffee about 100 of which are neither researched nor clearly identified yet. Then there are different strains, regions of origin, processing methods, the roast ... and finally the preparation: water temperature, grind size, steeping time, agitation. Being pretty sensible to many substances and foods i want to state that i feel noticeably different after drinking same brewed coffee from different beans. Most important If a coffee tastes bitter and/or is harsh on the stomach chances are temperature and/or steep time was too high. Mostly slow artisanal roasts are much more beneficial. I once had nice tasting wild beans that caused me ocular migraine and also a Yirgacheffe that was highly motivational. Cheers! :)
A very detailed, but also easy to understand way to explain how caffeine works on a pharmacological level and this comes from a pharmacist. Keep up the great work :)
@@nonzenz ‘Effects of caffeine on bone and the calcium economy’ (2002): ‘The negative effect of caffeine on calcium absorption is small enough to be fully offset by as little as 1-2 tablespoons of milk’. Are you sure it’s relevant enough?
I’ve been addicted to caffeine since being a toddler! I also suffer from insomnia and being a nervous wreck and had bad side effects when completing stopping the intake! This video helps in my decision to completely removing it from my life given the fact I’m more likely to have Parkinson’s and dementia in later life! Thank you for the knowledge I have gained!🙏
I've been drinking tea ever since I was a toddler. Oddly enough, tea doesn't give you the jitters that coffee does. No idea if all the caffeine I've ingested over the years led to strokes & Parkinsons.
Enjoy your explanations of how the body works and how certain substances like coffee affect the body! I have been a coffee drinker for many years I am 73 at this point in my life and use it as a mild diuretic! I have backed off on it slightly I used to drink a lot of coffee when I was working but now only have approximately three to four cups a day I feel this is enough to give you the energy I need to do what I need to do and I do like the taste of it. Also like the different kind of creamers to put in it, probably not the best thing to use but I look at it this way I'm 73 years old what have I got to lose! Ha ha! Ha! Thank you for making sense of it!!!
I used to drink 2-3 energy drinks a day. The crash after they wear off was sometimes too much. I quit caffeine for 3 days and had a heavy feeling in my head followed by headaches and severe anxiety attacks. I went back to caffeine after that but a smaller dose. Now I drink 1 energy drink a day and a soft drink for lunch. Everything seems fine -but don't try to quit cold turkey
Energy drink is almost just sugar...i mean, you shoudnt worry that much about the caffeine in this case. Your simptoms are more due to the sugar itself.
This explains a lot 😂 during pregnancy we tend to all of a sudden cut down the caffeine immensely and I'm just now realizing this might contribute to the already existing pregnancy symptoms of fatigue, headache, etc. Especially when you're feeling sick and all of a sudden almost never drink caffeine when you used to have several cups a day..
I’m retired I guess. I wake when I like. My husband and I have a coffee ritual. Grinding the beans and putting them in the Coffee press. We watch the news together and decide what the farm needs us to do for the day.
Thank you for this! Just today I realized why my feet sweat sometimes, making me very cold all day! I am very sensitive to caffeine in any form. I have been drinking hot chocolate to avoid caffeine and still notice the side effects on my system.
I recently switched to a plant based drink called Dandy Blend. Made of roasted plant extracts. It’s not for everyone, but I enjoy the coffee like flavor. Found it on another UA-cam channel. I rarely add anything to it, but I still have a box of Stevia I bought from Costco that I refuse to throw out. So once in a blue moon, a 1/2 a packet goes in. Gave up sugar, so a whole packet is too sweet. It just may outlive me 😁!!!
I quit Coffee and all caffeine 18 days ago. I’ve had at least 3 espresso a day for the last 20 years. I’m still feeling withdrawal symptoms. It takes at least 30 days to kick the habit. I’m gonna say even a few months for someone who has a morning “ritual” built around coffee, like I did. But I do notice I am already a nicer person. My inner lake is the calmest it’s ever been. 🕉💟☮️
I'd guess you get headaches on the first few days, especially on the first. However sugar avoidance and having more stable foods like beans is by far the more significant factor to a healthy diet.
I found that coffee had been making my joints ache, particularly in the shoulders after a long and tedious self-evaluation of my diet and other things. I decided to stop drinking coffee which turned out to be not that difficult/bad. Now, I instead take a morning wake-up caffeine pill and it works fantastic. Something in the coffee itself is known to cause inflamation and it was harsh for me. My gym workouts are back to where they should be and no joint pain.
I never made the correlation before! I noticed a strange ache in my knee joints while running in the past month & a half. Prior to that month, I had been caffeine-free for a year. I'm cutting out caffeine again, I'll be very pleasantly surprised to see some changes. :)
I don't know how I found this video, but I want to share my experience as a heavy coffee drinker. I drink between 4 -6 cups of black coffee per day. I can drink like this several month then i can to stop drink coffee with no problemas. The first time when i tried to stop my coffee intake i had two days headaches. As many others i thought that was the typical caffeine addictive person simptom. Now lots of years later i know the problem it's not the coffee(supposing you drink good 100% arabica coffee). The real problem was the sugar because I always had my coffee with sugar. Now i don't use sugar anymore not even artificial sweeteners, just plain good black coffee and i can to stop drink the coffee any time with zero problems.
I've only used caffeine once for a driving emergency the past 3 years. In the past it was the main reason for my persistent cystic acne. Any small amount of caffeine is the difference between attempting to sleep for an hour vs falling asleep within 5-10 mins. Like alcohol, caffeine is unfortunately a socially acceptable drug where most people wouldn't think twice about their dependency. I know my past anxiety came from caffeine preventing good sleep because after quitting, my mood became a lot calmer. I suggest supplementing with vitamin D & fish oil in the morning; zinc and magnesium at night.
I've been drinking coffee for 6 years since I was 14 which is around when I hit puberty and started getting acne. I've had chronic cystic acne since then (though not as bad in the last 3 years or so) I quit caffeine about 2 weeks ago to see if it would help, not much improvement yet but I know acne takes about 2 weeks to form and cystic acne probably longer, so I'm going to keep going and see what happens. Didn't mean to write a book.
This. So frustrating hearing people being so judgmental of other peoples drug dependency but "I need my cup of coffee in the morning or can't function" not to mention drinking 2 more cups throughout the day.
@@justryan5697 maybe after you’re done with that experiment, try cutting out dairy and see if that has an effect. There is a chemical in milk called IGF-1 that directly correlates with breakouts
Thanks for this video - I've read dozens of articles over the years about caffeine, but have never had its effects explained this well and succinctly. I have been a heavy coffee drinker from around age 14 (I'm 58 now), often drinking several pots in a day and have sometimes worried (a little) about the effects on my body. Your explanation does that extremely well.
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Caffeine is so underrated as an addict substance. I used to drink coffee every 2-3 days, then it became everyday, then it became 2 times a day. I feel empty if I don't drink, it's not about getting energised or waking up. It's just the need to drink
I’ve been cutting down on my caffeine intake lately, I switched to drinking mostly black coffee and went down to 2 small cups a day, eventually I’ll lower it to 1 but for now baby steps as I’ve been drinking coffee consistently since I was 14 and I’m now almost 30. I used to drink half a pot everyday with cream and sugar, but as I’ve decided to get healthier I’ve started lowering the intake but still enough to use it as an appetite surpressant, and a good pre workout
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This was so informative! I drink only 1 coffee a day but because I suffer from migraines and it’s the only thing that helps me when I get them, so I I just drink it daily just in case. It would be awesome if you guys made more videos about migraines and caffeine in the future! ☺️
I've never found caffeine to be stopping or starting my migraines, I don't really have anything to prevent them but maxalt is my holy grail. Works wonders when I start to see the aura, just makes the headache feel like a mild hangover
@@winks8202 yeah the only thing that works for me and it only makes it tolerable is excedrin maximum strength and only if I take it right when i notice it coming and I take two of them then another one a little bit later but if I miss that window then I have to just ride it out and I lose my vision also when I get a migraine
@latinagirlcat Years ago, I learned that the Diamond Institute (in Chicago, I believe) had described that migraines have several phases. There is one phase where caffeine is helpful and the later phases where caffeine is not helpful. The phases are determined by knowing that the blood vessels in the brain are dilated (opened up) at one phase and they are constricted at another phase. My doctor figured out that I shouldn't have caffeine. This was before the excedrine product was on the market. However, many years later I found that the excedrin did really help me. BTW--- I was never a coffee drinker at that point so it wasn't a coffee withdrawal effect for me. My migraines were triggered by chemicals that are found in certain foods like cheese, chocolate, nitrates, wine, certain fruits ( look for the tyramine list -- there are many items that trigger migraines.) Chocolate has a related chemical called phenylethylamine.
This was really interesting. I recently developed some sort of caffeine intolerance overnight. Went from 2 cups of coffee a day to having a hard time tolerating even the trace amounts in decaff. I get bad nausea, headaches, fatigue, heart palpitations and can’t focus. It took a few days of trial and error to figure out what the issue was
@@shervanyphilizaire9735 never found out why, I just avoid it now. I hadn’t changed anything with my diet, lifestyle or medications at the time so it’s just been a mystery
I live on coffee, my brain can’t function without the morning caffeine’ but besides than that I think you have the coolest job in the world, you explain things so well, it makes so much sense.
I never got into caffeine with coffee and even my sweet tea intake is low. I always noticed when I was young, and this gradually became more obvious, that caffeine made kids and adults who drank it super hyper and they acted weirdly more emotional than usual. I'm in my 30s now and I still rarely drink caffeine heavy drinks and I still keep pace with those who would, if they could, pump it into their veins via IV.
I started drinking caffeine when working long hours as it was a simple pleasure, then every day after my family abandoned me. The days are long and boring, tedious and tiresome. Caffeine kept me going.
Love your videos! I’m taking biology and anatomy class so these really make the classes make sense! I’m also a coffee addict, lover , so I love to learn about this.
Looking forward to the video about how cafein affects physical performance since I exercise at least 2 hours per day on a crosstrainer and think my cafein gives my body that extra kick to my exercise! 😊
Other than it's nervous system effects... Coffee stops the body from absorbing calcium... Brittle bones & osteoporosis as you age isn't going to go well with your cross fit💀💔
i was surprised to se the ag1 frame. i use ag1 and i do feel better when i get my morning cup. i always go to this channel for review of a lot of my graduate work in exercise and sport science. .i still do some instruction with athletes as well as competing in usmswimming. at 81 i feel like i'm 60 !!! this channel is one of my go to places for info. thanks.
@@theanatomylab Any ideas on what caffeine is doing to those of us it puts to sleep? So many people have tried telling me that I'd be less tired if I had some caffeine. (In reality, I'd be less tired if I didn't have kids and could take an actual vacation... 😆😭) Problem is, it puts me to sleep. And I've met other people with the same problem. (Both lack of sleep due to kids and inability to use caffeine. 🤣)
Brilliant video and just what I needed to hear. I gave up caffeine, (coffee and tea) completely a while back because I found I was having quite a few cups a day to deal with stress and deadlines while at work, etc. It was really difficult at first because I just one day decided not to take it any more, rather than ease off of it slowly. But now, a few months down the road, I no longer crave it or need it or even want it anymore and am feeling mentally and physically so much better for it. I can honestly say the benefits of not taking caffeine really start to show up in the long run and greatly outweigh any of the short term highs you think it provides you with. Thanks for such a descriptive and detailed video!
Watching this while drinking coffee for full experience. As a big fan of coffee never really felt energetic after drinking it(I drink it because I love the taste), however it does makes me pee alot😅 I also have issues with blood pressure which causes really bad headaches, but a cup of strong espresso takes all the pain away and literally saves my day! Thank you for the video! The neuron drawing looks amazing!
Small amounts of caffeine, such as from a can of coca-cola, makes me speed like crazy for at least an hour. The effects begin within a few minutes of drinking a coke. So obviously I'm sensitive to it, so I don't use it much or too often. Strangely, if I drink a coke in the evening, I sleep really well, usually all night without waking up. If I don't use any caffeine at night, I tend to wake up several times at night, feeling anxious with fast heart rate until I calm down. So there must be some study out there explaining how this works. Why would it make me sleep better? Does it stimulate a part of the brain that's not functioning correctly while sleeping, making it work properly? I don't know but it's weird how it does actually work for better sleep.
Try that while taking 80mg's of Lasix a day ( I have kidney stones and edema) Been taking Lasix since I was 21, now 72. I love my 100% colombian coffee. Some days only 1- 20oz. mug, some day 3 - 20 oz. travel mugs.
You get addicted bec younfeel giod when you drinking it. You pee a lot bec it is a diuretic and if you do not reflenish with water tendecny of dehydration is always there. Caffeine also a vasoconstrictor means it constricted your blood vessels.. thats why some people palpitate when they drink coffeee due to constriction of blood vessels and heart compensate to pump harder due to limited supplies of bloood to your body. Sum it up if really good and if you reflenish with water after drinking and peeing plus if you have other ihealth issues that may affect your condition.
Great video! The one thing I would add is that there is a difference between addiction and dependency. For example, someone who is dependent on caffeine will typically intake the same amount per day while someone addicted will take in more and more over time. Plus, addiction implies that there is a problem that interferes with how well someone functions in their day to day life because of it. The impact on function caffeine has does blur the line between dependency vs addiction but the psychological aspect, especially if someone has an addictive personality, is my main concern regarding these definitions.
How do you think one builds tolerance or becomes dependent unless by literally taking in more and more at a time? The reason he was talking about receptors and tolerance is because your body literally adjusts to caffeine by building more receptors over time requiring more and more caffeine to achieve the same effect hence it fitting your definition of addiction by default of building tolerance over time. It's why many quit or cycle off and on caffeine because their heavy dependence is usually a sign of addiction because they literally cannot function without it since you body builds tolerance to it naturally. Now obviously the addiction isn't as bad or has as many withdrawals as hard drugs but it is there. Same with sugar people are literally eating it to the point they die of obesity and heart disease yet we fail to call it addictive.
@@hectorzero8545couldn’t have said it better, you can’t really have dependence without addiction. Doesn’t really matter what you wanna call it, if you stop, you’ll experience withdrawals. No matter the drug, you build tolerance over time & have to intake more to get similar effects. Life for me was a lot better without caffeine, I can’t wait to get off of it again, but school right now is killer.
The issue with addiction is it relies on the person not being able to function. An alcohol addiction is easy to spot because if you can't show up to work sober than obviously you are an addict. With caffeine even while jittery you can still function.
Great video as usual! What I admire about your presentation approach is after watching this no one who drinks coffee feels attacked by the way that you presented the information nor is it given in such a way that a non-coffee drinker could boast after watching it; It’s scientifically delivered in such a way that the observer/listener can draw their own conclusions. My personal opinion is that I believe that dependency upon caffeine can really be an issue. I’ve been drinking 2 to 3 cups daily for the past six or seven years and I know that I need to eliminate or extremely reduce the intake of caffeine based on how I been feeling about it both physically and emotionally. I am addicted to it in the sense that I have trouble picturing what a day without “needing” it would feel like. That’s a real issue. I also have a theory that it may be causing excessive tension in my muscles, which possibly may be hindering my potential mobility/flexibility (I’m a grappler so every bit counts). I’m currently reducing the amount every day and hope to quit within the next couple of weeks just to break free from the dependency. Thank you again for another amazing video! As an anatomy and physiology geek myself, your content are top notch 👌
hey brother/sister i am too is interested in antonomy pls can u suggest any youtube chanell or website for the same ,which you like or have explore .pls reply and by the way have you reduced your coffe drinking habbit?
I have asthma, and caffeine really helps alleviate the tightness in my chest when breathing become difficult. I notice the difference after 3 days of not drinking coffee.
Back in my bodybuilding days we would mix bronk-aid (asthma medicine OTC) with 200mg caffeine pills for the ultimate appetitive suppressant. They have a synergistic effect supposedly
Its been said that an apple will wake a person up just as effectively as coffee. As a coffee drinker, I concur that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. But what is happening on a cellular level? Love your videos!
Your video is informative and well worth watching. If I might make a suggestion, it may have offered furthered information to include what caffeine does and how it effects person with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD). I have ADD and cannot drink caffeine in large doses. If I were to drink anything with caffeine when I am tired or fatigued, it doesn't act as a stimulant and instead I end up falling asleep. The one time I tried to drink a 20oz bottle of Jolt Cola, it took me three weeks to finish because every sip I had caused me to fall asleep (the same thing happened when I tried a four ounce cone cup filled with pure Pepsi syrup). The most caffeine I usually have is in the cup of green tea I have every morning with breakfast, roughly 25 mg, which has no effect on me.
Thanks for another great informative video. Please do a video on What Benzodiazepines do to the brain/body. Especially Xanax. And what happens when you stop taking them abruptly after being dependent. . Do they cause brain damage or just changes. How dangerous are they?
We will add that to the video list. You can definitely develop a physiological dependence to those medications. Granted everyone's situation is different (dosing, how long they've been on them, etc.), but tapering off is often recommended rather than stopping abruptly.
I just went off all meds cold turkey after 20 something years of medical dependancy as of new years eve 2022 they knee jerked my xanax years ago n i jumped out in front of them this time so that would be a very interesting video as my caseworker mentioned seizures from valium a possibility. So please do a video on these hopefully sooner than later. As my journey to crash land has already begun. Thank you Jonathan n Justin for all you share with us🙌💯🤗
Hi Jonathan, thanks for all you do, for your viewers/students. Could you please consider creating a video regarding the effects of Creatine, on the human body? Thanks!
Just discovered this channel a few days ago and loving it so far! The videos are informative and satisfy my science loving brain haha. Presenter is great and has a way of simplifying and is very engaging. Thanks for the videos!!
I don’t drink caffeine to wake up, I wake up to drink caffeine 😂
😂😂😂 same!!!
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Same here 😂
My kind of man !!!
Same here😂😂
My dad, who passed away a year ago, would've loved this channel and this specific video. Awesome work, fellas.
I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm hopeful you'll be reunited with your dad soon. Now let us pray 🙏.
A year later and I hope you are doing well mate
You are a natural teacher! I was an elementary teacher for 17 years and I have the most respect for teachers who are able to simplify matters into understandable and creative formats using as many of the senses as possible to increase our learning capacities and store data in long term memories. Thank you so much for these wonderful videos!
I agree! He's a great teacher because he's so approachable.
@@arianebennion thank you
after 30 days off caffine my sleep improved. blood pressure dropped. teeth grinding stopped. electrolyte balance fixed. alertness increased in the morning; not only did i feel more alert, my productivity increased probably 2x. hard drop in the evenings disappeared. also my ability to prioritize goals and make "good" decisions improved. as a result of all that i finally started losing weight very easily after 12 years of struggling.
Dang sounds like a lot. Grateful I don’t suffer for any of those ailments because I love my organic single origin coffees. Glad simply dropping coffee fixed all those things for you
@@rasbe420some of many people don’t process coffee the same and turn into angry psychos on or off it.. but it’s insidious because you don’t associates the cups you drank yesterday with exhaustion when you wake up and anger during the day. The first few cups don’t make you feel that way, so by the time you realize you may have a problem, you are already addicted and can’t quit. It plays with your thinking process, so you forget how bad in made you feel and reach for it for the euphoric and stimulating effect again.
And he get some superpower wwwwwwhat .....? 😅
So caffeine was driving up cortisol making it hard to lose weight.
I totally agree but can't quit
To whom it may concern: If you are trying to quit drinking coffee but suffer with terrible headaches. SWITCH TO BLACK TEA or half caffeine coffee. Don't try to just quit but lower the amount of caffeine by half for about two week. Then you can stop with no headache! Took me years to figure this out.
One should discriminate it's type,Biology,quality,safety and other factors w/h are controversial or?
Cacao is better solution
I've done this too. Switched to black tea for a week then green tea for a few days. Didn't need caffeine anymore. No headaches. Worked great
Coffee is not just made up of caffeine. This is a big mistake if you want to quit drinking coffee. It has 100s of compounds that are not in the black tea. This is why even if you drink black tea instead of coffee people still get headaches as you’re not only “addicted” to caffeine but also other compounds in coffee. And coffee is not a bad thing if you’re not drinking more than a a few cups a day. Coffee has A LOT of antioxidants people don’t know this. Black Tea also does have some antioxidants but it doesn’t contain as much as coffee. Cocoa also has a lot of antioxidants as well as caffeine but again, not the same as drinking coffee. If you want to quit coffee you can gradually reduce drinking coffee. But drinking tea or other drinks is not going to make you feel better as you experience withdrawal as people get dependent on the coffee which is made up of 100s of compounds not in tea or any other drink, and not just caffeine.
@@KittenBowl1 slowly reducing the amount of coffee absolutely did not work for me. I tried many many times. The headaches were unbearable. Switching over to black tea worked for me when nothing else did. That was my experience and I stand by it 100%
I quit coffee recently. I’ve drank it since I was a little kid and for years I thought I had severe anxiety. Then once I factored out the caffeine, almost all my anxiety symptoms vanished. I’ll still enjoy a cup of coffee from time to time but it’s definitely not a routine.
LITERALLY ME!!!
@@dianastalkshow a lot of people relate to us
MY ANXIETY LIFTED AFTER I STOPPED COFFEE.
I wish it was that simple for me but I just remembered how I rarely ever drank caffeine as a kid but still had anxiety nonetheless. Maybe it contributes to the problem but definitely isn't the cause in my case. Generalized anxiety is a bitch.
Yeah, I was a coffee drinker when I was a kid too. However I never experienced anxiety from it and as I got older the quantity and concentration of it got higher and higher to the point that I looked like I was tweaking out as my fine motor skills became garbage. I can't drink coffee now and, man, do I wish I could go back to drinking a liter of max filtered coffee. It was the bomb.
The fact im able to learn and understand how caffine effects my brain (and body) on a molecular level after watching a casual YT video is actually quite amazing. Great work explaing this!
Videos like this, if taught in a school setting in conjunction with a lab, would be such an effective learning tool
I love how this doctor explains everything so plainly so the common person can understand it!!
I started doing a 3 month caffeine break/tolerance reset on January 1st (I was drinking about 200-300 mg of it a day) and the third day of not having caffeine I had constant headaches for almost two weeks!! But now I’m feeling good without it, and noticing the affect different food has on my energy levels. Crazy to see how addictive caffeine is 🙌🏽
I also do this on a regular basis. I think it’s good to reset your tolerances about once a year. And after that break the coffee tastes wonderful again and a small cup is enough to boost your morning (instead of 2 huge mugs:)
Good luck with the withdrawal migraines😬
I gave up coffee when we were trying to get my partner pregnant, as we were told there are some links. I had no withdrawal cravings for caffeine, but the withdrawal headaches were nasty by golly I suffered for nearly 2 weeks. I never went back to drinking as much caffeine afterwards, mostly just occasional decaf and green tea now.
@@jorgesuza8486 withdrawal migraines?
@@avilacanario yup i am taking apprx 400mg a day and i wanted to stop for a month so i did and got the absolute worst headaches of my life
I just completed 1 year of no caffeine. While it did take a couple weeks to kick the withdrawls, I felt good overall. I instead supplemented with vitamins for the entire year. B12 was a key aspect of this regiment to help convert food into energy, and I highly recommend fitting that into a daily regiment. If you are looking to kick caffeine, look towards B12 as a start.
How you take those b12 daily, what food and suppliment you consume?
Hey, I'm just wondering why supplement with B12? As in the meat and eggs there is plenty of B12. Correct me if I'm wrong, of course 🥚
I've been drinking energy drinks with 300mg of caffeine everyday for YEARS, and I'm already tired all of the time. I'm scared of how bad my withdraws will be especially cuz I have kids
@@333kireinahime just take 1 week of vacation and focus on just resting, sleeping, surely after 1 week the symptoms will have faded to some extent
@@metallica961025 not plenty.
There are many meat eater who have low rates of b12, so supplementation for most is a good idea. B12 is one of the view supplements who has shown again and again that it is save to take unlike for example alot of multivitamins
Quitting caffeine, was the best decision I have ever made. Prior to quitting, I suffered social anxiety, fatigue, lack of motivation, and so many things. I made the decision to stop, and let me tell you it wasn't as easy as I had read and thought. Yes the headaches vanished in the first 2 weeks, I was still lethargic, depressed, and did not have motivations for anything. After about 3 months or so I started to feel normal again, and at around 6 months I feel like a child again, full of energy, focus, motivation, cheerfulness, its an amazing feeling. I made the conclusion that on the contrary of some research claims that it only take 2 weeks of withdrawals, some take much more time specially me who drank 3 cups of coffee a day. Now years since I stoped I still feel so great, its a bless.
In 2012 I first learned that caffeine can be used to treat pain. I was hospitalized and had to undergo a spinal tap. Following the procedure, I developed a massive headache which came on whenever I sat up in bed or if I tried the stand. Interestingly, there was no pain whenever I was laying down. For over a week they administered almost every narcotic pain meds they could possibly find, but to no avail. Then one day a doctor said to the other doctors on the team, "Did anyone try caffeine?" They got the caffeine and hooked it to the IV, and BAM, within 15 to 20 minutes the headache went away and never bothered me for the remaining 30 days I spent in the hospital.
The Army treated all complaints with two things. One was aspirin, phenacetin and caffeine. Cures many complaints. The do gooders decided that caffeine was bad, bad, bad for you and had it removed from most drug combos. The other thing the Army issued by the vat, ahem, I mean the pint was something called G.I. Gin. Codeine was the opportive agent.
What you described was caused by a spinal CSF leak. This can be somewhat common in women who get epidurals. They normally do a blood patch to try to fix the leak but if you're on anticoagulants, it won't work. It usually resolves itself within 10 days if nothing else corrects it before then.
Yes, there are several studies confirming coffeine consumption helps with headaches. In more severe cases it can be paired with Aspirin for a stronger effect!
That's why Excederin puts caffeine in their pain killers. That's also why Midol - for menstruation - has caffeine in it.
@@IMWeira Codein is adictive drugs.
One important point of this video is that cells can respond to a treatment, in this case by increasing the number of adenosine receptors with chronic caffeine consumption. The fact that cells can alter their structure to counteract a treatment is important in understanding the basis of pharmacology. Even cancer cells are able to do this sometimes to evade cancer treatments. It is good to see this topic was discussed in relation to caffeine.
what does it mean if the cells are increasing the number of adenosine receptors? Do you need more caffeine then to get some effects?
@@rz5b1qszkdf44 exactly
@@rz5b1qszkdf44 kinda means that the body gets used to the amount of caffeine you drink and you won`t feel the effect as well as before
Could this explain why the 1 day a week I don't consume caffeine I am extremely lethargic? I normally consume 400-500mg of caffeine a day except Sundays to reset.
@@sidious501 yea definitely. I think you drink a lot of caffeine tbh. I usually drink one cup of espresso a day. I don t think it has more than 50 to 60 mg of caffeine.
Would love to see a video on how artificial sweeteners affect our body. There's so much contradicting information about it that it's hard to really understand what to believe. Especially on a controversial aspartame. :)
Yeah
Agreed. There needs to be more discussion about this.
That would be a very short video cause they pretty much don't. Unless you take a bag of it and binge eat it.
They fuck you up. That's all you need to know.
@@eveythingthatsadam Can't find any evidence on that.
This channel is a huge gift. Awesome how he's breaking it down and helping the viewer make connections with things they may know already.. super work
I have absolutely no clinical, academic, or other medical ambitions. I was fascinated with anatomy in high school and I learned a great deal from our physiology class, and the research I did on my own. My family has too many doctors, nurses, etc., so I opted for a career in computer science. I am still intrigued by anatomy - and each video I watch with you explaining things makes me want to take a course at your school just for the experience and the in-depth knowledge. You have an amazing brain, Jonathan - how could anyone NOT retain all that knowledge with the way you explain it?. Keep up the good work!
Hey, could you do video about what sugar does to your body? And if there's any difference between refined sugar and "healthy" sugar? Would be also cool if you could include long term effects of each substance you discuss. Would love to see, for example, how cannabinoids (or sugar for that matter) can affect us after years of indulgence.
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@@gina_mocafitnessactivewear1192 this guy is not a good source. Not saying sugar is good, but he’s just trying to pick for his narrative on ketogenic diet.
How to Cool That has a good explanation on their channel.
@@Rileyed I don’t see science fictional books as a good source, nor waiting for an invisible man in the sky to come and help us.
There is no safe level to eat of sucrose (table sugar) or brown sugar, or honey, or high fructose corn syrup. It's entirely too concentrated amount of fructose that absolutely hammers the liver, since fructose cannot be used like glucose. Table sugar is 50% glucose, 50% fructose. Fructose from fruit you have to chew up with your teeth is perfectly safe, because it takes time to absorb into the liver; so it does it slowly at a safe rate. Honey is just as bad as table sugar. It is about 40% liquid fructose. It's just too much work for your already overworked liver to process. Your liver already performs over 500 crucial tasks, so take it easy on your liver.
Once again, a most interesting video. I’m a retired clinical nurse. I was an educator in occupational health. So I’m partial to your style and find your videos enjoyable. Congratulations. You use this medium to great affect. Excellent. I’m sure there’s plenty more of us that feel the same way about your presentations and the positive effect they’re on health education. Cheers. Colin
Thank you 😊 for your medical service to humanity. 💪
I began drinking coffee since I struggle a lot with mental health, there is a hint I may have ADHD, so I decided to start drinking. It does wonders to my mental state. It lowers my social anxiety to an acceptable level where I can actually function. Turns off suicidal thoughts, makes me focused and willing to actually work on the things I come up with
So how do you think you have adhd ? You say you may have ? Have you been searched about it ?
@@tobiasandersen1168 Currently working on a diagnosis with a psychologist.
@@lajzeq7588 good i got diagnosed with it 8 years ago I Hope you figure it out ❤
@@tobiasandersen1168 thanks my guy!
So you need a drug to cope with your mental health
I drank a lot of coffee over the years but it used to make my anxiety a lot worse. I gave up caffeine almost 7 months ago and I feel much better. I occasionally drink decaffeinated and it still makes me a bit jittery.
I said the same thing to a neurologist once that my Anxiety was still bad and I got the jitters even after a cup of decaffeinated coffee only to be told it still has Caffeine in it 🤦🏻♂️😂 Just not as much as normal coffee.
Yes - people with anxiety disorders should not drink caffeine. I’ve felt so much better since quitting.
Decaf coffee still have caffeine in them
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ya, i releases stress hormones in the body. the same thing that happens to your body when you're in fear or anxious.
with my exams coming up and my coffee intake skyrocketing, this was certainly a very enlightening video
Good luck on your exams!
Try Glucose tablets or a bottle of coke during your exams .... hmmmm .... yummy!!
I quit caffeine two years ago. I quit coffee first, then tea. The first thing I noticed was how my sleep improved within a few months, followed by an increased level of energy. About five years ago I also quit soft drinks, this also brought many health benefits. I don’t intend to drink coffee again; however, I do have the occasional green tea if I visit a friend or go for a meal (green tea has some caffeine). Mint tea is always an option too. I recently read about caffeine induced anxiety, something I’ve seen manifest in many people. I’m not saying everyone should quit caffeine, though it would be beneficial, I’m saying people should moderate their caffeine intake. One caffeine drink per week or per day is sufficient, anything over one per day could lead to health problems.
Excellent job. I'd love to stop using caffeine but I'd have to stop using caffeine to do it 🤣🤣. But seriously though, thanks for sharing your experience, it actually makes it more appealing to know that you actually noticed the results. At times my caffeine intake has bordered obscene as I work nights and it's been a part of my routine for many years. I'm in my mid fifties now and I'm relatively fit, at my ideal body weight, and I don't indulge in any drugs or alcohol by choice. I know I could give it up, because I quit smoking around 15 years ago and I battled that for several years before I finally quit for good. I never thought I would ever consider giving up caffeine but I have high blood pressure and have noticed that my hands get Shakey when I drink too much. It doesn't make me feel anxious necessarily, but it is embarrassing to see my hands shake and others notice. I have actually gone days before without using caffeine when not at work and honestly other than my hands no longer shaking I can't tell any difference. I guess I have used it so long that it doesn't have much effect on me as a stimulant anyway. It's probably just a bad habit I should drop. Thanks again for your insight, most helpful.
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@@nurzrachit7133 You're welcome. My caffeine intake was excessive too, I'd drink coffee even at night, up until around midnight. It took me a few years to ween myself off, it's not easy, especially if your social circle spends a lot of time in coffee shops! I would choose a hot chocolate some days, other times it would be a mochaccino. I've worked in teaching so I can relate to those 'shaky' hands, seen it in many teachers, their stress doesn't help either. I knew one lady that would have 20 cups of coffee per day! I think it's good to ween off caffeine no matter what age you're at, the benefits are always going to be seen sooner or later. I hope you get to switch to hot chocolate or decaf too! Cheers!
Congrats for that! I know that it's very hard to give up caffein. The first 2-3 weeks could be very uncomfortable. Unfortunately I have gone back to coffee. I changed to decaf version, and a small amount of regular before workout. But the fact is when I forgot the pre workout coffee I feel the workout is worse. At the beginning I performed better in the gym, but later just feeling weak without coffee and normal with it. It's crazy your body how can addict to it.
Thank you. I started drinking tea because it felt calming. Oddly enough I noticed I had more anxiety. It’s the caffeine!
My older brother grew up with ADHD and the doctor had him actually eat coffee beans when he was a kid, which actually worked. I'm told the effects of caffeine were different for him because he had ADHD. Would love to know why that is.
I have heard the same-give coffee to kids with ADHD.
My cousin said the same thing who has ADHD
As someone who has ADHD, coffee is essentially a replacement for medication for me. it makes me more focused and calm without all the "negative" side effects.
It's a stimulant, and in the normal person, stimulants cause jitters, but for ADD people, it helps the frontal lobe focus.
@@tobinalmackx8626 that’s exactly what my brother says as well. I remember the reason the coffee was suggested was because when he was on the normal medication, he developed an aggressive twitch and a tick. The coffee practically worked a miracle for him. Went from the kid that couldn’t read aloud in class, to someone that didn’t stutter a single word.
There are credible theories to suggest that coffee played a huge roll in the age of enlightenment. Humans moved from using depressants and sedatives to stimulants. Fantastic reads. Thank you for the videos!
Ditto! I can recommend Food of the gods by Terrance McKenna. He also talks about the politics/wars/slavery/trade/lobbying driving the history of people and substances, which I found really interesting
Food Theory’s coffee video
As someone who has struggled with long term depression, caffeine has been a blessing. A couple cups of coffee lift me out of laziness and help bring focus to my scattered brain.
Thanks for this. I quit caffeine for a year. No good. Suffered constant migraine/ tension headache. Started back caffein with exercise and EDM feeling sooo good.
If you are depressed because you believe in death, get the book Hands of Light. A physicist, Barbara Brennan, wrote it in 1987. We can't die because we are constantly being created.
@@hummingbirdbumblebee4618 yeah, yeah. Every night I drift away, wondering if I'll be born again in the morning. It's this life that gets depressing. I look forward to moving on.
@@ShakthiPrasadGS exercise makes a notable difference for me. AM workouts give my energy the added boost it needs.
@@DADela-ht6ux According to physics, quarks are constantly bursting forth spinning billions of times a second as 3 points of light forming protons and neutrons. This is how we are constantly being born. If not for quarks spinning into atoms, the 7 billion, billion, billion atoms we consist of, then we would not have the next heart beat or breath. I am not religious. There was never enough information to be found. Our literal souls are creating these quarks of light into the atoms of light we are. At what is called death, we pop out of these bodies of dense energy to see we have always existed in other dimensions that show us the electrical beings we are. Some people like me want to relieve the burdens others feel when they can only see so far. Apparently, this is my job on earth.
Yes, I take psychoactive stimulant everyday to push myself through the day.
Thank you.
Pop a couple uppers down a couple downers slim shady style
@@se6586 why not some blue and yellow purple pills while you're at it
@@caitlinhannigan9294 😋👍😜
I had a liver disease and my doctor recommended me to drink 3 cups of coffee per day. Black coffee with no sugar, no cream. It seems that coffee somehow helps the liver cells and studies showed that could help in reducing the risk of cirrhosis.
You are a natural teacher! I was an elementary teacher for 17 years and I have the most respect for teachers who are able to simplify matters into understandable and creative formats using as many of the senses as possible to increase our learning capacities and store data in long term memories. Thank you so much for these wonderful videos!
I absolutely love that I found this channel and feel like a little kid geeking over everything I'm learning. I've always been an English nerd but here I am actually learning about the human body and falling in love with science. Thank you for making each topic so simple and intriguing, and actually having a passion for what you do. Makes the world of a difference. Especially to someone like me ❤️❤️❤️😭🥺☺️
Amen God bless you
Agreed. I've always had a passion for how the body works and followed up with constant and advanced study. Justin is amazing at exposing things, thorough yet clear and concise which was missing from my prior teachers in the field. That made me seek on my own, further clarification by other books. Yes I wish had someone like him during my studies. All of his videos are so amazing.
It’s awesome I stumbled upon it 4 years ago. A sorts of things that you can learn
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I feel the same way. These guys are amazing!!!
I am not a big fan of coffee taste (only with sugar together with some cookies,.. and that's not ideal). However coffee has helped me a lot of times when a migraine hit me. Maybe it has something to do with very low blood pressure but it definitely helps me. Once when my bp reached 79/56 and I felt really unwell, coffee literally rescued me. So for me it's a medicament :) Don't drink it regularly only when I feel unwell due to low bp, have a migraine, etc. Btw thank you for the amazing videos!! I've always dreamt of studying medicine but because I can't handle dead bodies, "cutting" any bodies, injecting needles, etc. I gave up. On here it's safe :) I learn without fainting :) Keep it up!!
Been over 6 months since I’ve had a coffee. I’d have migraines the days I didn’t have one. Took two weeks without to end headaches. Now I have a smoothie every morning. Never felt better.
Doctor, Doctor, why do I learn so much more from your than all my teachers combined? Thank you so much.
I use to be a heavy coffee drinker for about 15 years, but I had to cut way down on coffee. I only drink 1 cup a day now. Because, when I was drinking coffee heavily I ended up being rushed to the hospital different times for severe dehydration where one time I was so bad my hands and feet were numb and each time I could not function, I could not stand, I could not sit, and I was pale white. I looked like I was dying. I had to have fluids put into me through an IV. This video does not talk about this, but I just want to let you know what can happen to you. Coffee dehydrates you very much. so, now I plan out when and where I will have that daily cup of coffee. Sometimes I plan to have that coffee in the morning, or I wait till later in the day and order an blended annihilator coffee at Dutch Brothers.
Wow dude! Glad you figured it out brother! My thinking on being dehydrated is just to make sure you drink more water throughout the day. Did that not lessen the negative effects of having so much caffeine?
That just sounds like you weren’t drinking enough water and nothing to do with caffeine lol
Caramel kicker at Dutch bros is really good !
Yes caffeine irritates the bladder and makes you pee, therefore it can dehydrate you or act as a diaretic. Maybe not so much when your younger but especially as you get older.
@@killionaire486 right? I drink a lot of damn coffee but also a lot of water. No issues with dehydration whatsoever.
I was heavily using caffeine many years ago (as a result of stopping alcohol) and found I had a serious problem with aggression from the stress it caused. So I started taking dl phenylalanine. You don't taper off on coffee when you take it, you substitute the phenylalanine for coffee and you seriously don't want to drink any coffee while you're taking it. It eliminated the withdrawl symtoms and made me feel 100 times better than I did when drinking coffee. Not very long after I stopped taking it because I woke up feeling rested from natural sleep.
Phenylalanine is in diet coke and coke no sugar, and caffeine is in these too. Caffeine is also in milk chocolate and dark chocolate. Do not drink any coke, diet coke, coke no sugar and do not eat any milk chocolate and dark chocolate while taking Phenylalanine.
@@littlemisskimmycat78 You'd have to eat 7 oz of dark chocolate or 3 cups of milk chocolate chips to get the same caffeine as in a cup of coffee (96mg).
@@Maxid1 Challenge accepted
@@andsotheadventurebegins2030 I had a friend that did the 4 corners ride (motorcycle ride that goes east to west from a northern route and back from a southern route, and goes north to south and vice versa on both coasts. Just a big box. I shoulda said just look it up.) Anyway, a long way to say she had gotten off coffee before the ride using phenylalanine but at some stop, not thinking, ordered coffee. She said she ground her teeth for a few hundred miles from being so amped up.
The DL PHL messed with my nervous system when I tried using it to get off of caffeine.
This was interesting and informative. I have SVT, which is a condition where heart rate increases dramatically, e.g., 150-200bpm, not caused by exercise or exertion. I’ve gone to the ER when my heart rate wouldn’t return to normal and what did they give me? A bolus of adenosine. Actually, two because the first didn’t work. Now I know why they gave me adenosine. I’ve been drinking coffee for more than 65 years so I would say I’m not naïve regarding caffeine. I just recently became aware that black coffee (unsweetened) raises my blood sugar by 25-30 points. Don’t know the reason for that unless it’s because coffee increases adrenaline which increases blood sugar. Anyway I thoroughly enjoy these videos as I always learn something.
The adenosine you received is the med to "restart" your heart if you will. It's in the crash cart for code blues. It pretty much make you flat line, then turning the heart back on much like a computer that's frozen and you need to reboot it. But you brought an interesting point tho. I want to know the difference between the naturally occurring adenosine in the brain vs the medication. If the medication affect the brain the same way as well...probably not tho, considering it has a short half-life? And the brain adenosine doesn't come to the heart right? Otherwise, you'll die. lol
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Interesting
@@lzhang92 chemically I’m certain they are the same. Adenosine affects the electrical system of the heart, and the bolus one receives to reset the heart by blocking the AV node, is way more than what you get normally get from the brain. Not being a cardiologist I can’t know for sure.
I drink black coffee throughout the day. And I don't drink soda very often. First week of every month I cut out coffee completely and my body does its usual withdrawals. Pretty fun :D
Interesting method! Made me chuckle, might have to try it
I only get migraines when I skip a coffee with caffeine.
I do it every 2 weeks as my body completely ignore the caffeine pretty quickly, really a bummer. That's why I stopped drinking it nowadays, as every times I experienced withdrawal it took me 2 unproductive days before it goes away...
Love this channel. Going through nursing school rn and this channels helps me maintain my anatomy and physiology knowledge.
Thank you, and thank you to the people that donated their body to make this possible.
Just graduated nursing school with my BSN in May and now I’m working in the neuro ICU at a trauma 1 facility. It’s a tough road but best of luck. It is so worth it. The pay is pretty nice too. Wishing you the greatest success in your journey (:
Caffeine makes my anxiety worse. I’ve always had a sensitivity to it. I stopped for a while and now I drink decaf here and there. I just love the taste.
Try ceremonial Matcha green tea
It's a tragedy that decaf beans are not even half as good tasting. I tried. Nothing compares, so I'm limiting to once or twice a week with the real thing.
Have you found a good brand of decaf that tastes good?
@@MX-S agreed. And there’s not many varieties but after drinking it a while, I’ve gotten used to the taste. I miss my Sumatra dark roast so much 😭
@@kimberlychristy-saviano7673 I’ve tried a few different brands. They’re good enough and you get used to the taste, eventually. One of the brands I get is an organic store brand from Publix, which is a grow store in Florida. It’s decent enough. I definitely had to get used to the taste.
I have a few friends doing a 40 day fast from caffeine rn and this video really helped me understand a bit of why they might be acting different and gave me a couple ideas of how to possibly help make it a bit easier for them so thank you for this :)
The thing is that a lot of people neglect their sleep (let’s say they don’t have sleeping problems) because they know they can just drink coffee and be fine :( that’s not the ideal thing to do 🌝
I had two kids with high ADD symptoms that we used caffeine to help with the synaptic interaction. It worked beautifully. It is probably why I use coffee… plus, it is one of my favorite flavors. There is nothing more satisfying and relaxing than a good cup of coffee.
This is such a great channel! It has always been a fascination of mine learning how the human body works. Your clear and concise way of speaking is really great and helps to make it easy to digest the information. Thanks so much for the content!
Ikr, the human body is truly amazing, makes me want to go to med school.
I would love for you to do one on how the immune system recovers after an illness. I know getting sick, and recovering creates antibodies. But, I have always wondered if the immune system is tired immediately after fighting off something and that might increase your chance of picking up the very next virus that you come across. As a family, it always seemed like we would all be healthy for months and then one of us would catch something, pass it around the family, and then immediately after we'd all catch something new.
I wanna see that too!!
Your immune system is tired when going thru the sickness, and is rested once you don’t feel sick anymore, from my understanding.
yess thank you!!!! please keep posting more of these, knowledge of how drugs work and affect the body is incredibly important in the world we live in. you can help so many people by showing them the damage they can do to themselves. the war on drugs didn't teach anyone why drugs are bad, just that they are.
Another great video! Would be helpful to supplement this video with another one dealing with caffeine‘s affect on sleep. According to Michael Pollan, the author, many if not most researchers who study sleep seem to have reduced or cut caffeine use. Apparently it has a half-life of some 12 hours in the body.
12 hours is a half life of amphetamine my friend. 😅 Caffeine half life is about 4 to 6 hours max
adderall has a half life of 12hrs and caffein 6hr~
Coffee actually helps asthma. Has helped mine and some of my family members, as well.
I gave up caffeine 5 years ago and never felt better but those 2 months were horrible. The constant headache was horrible but once that cleared it was smooth sailing. this video was still informative. Thank you sir
Can I ask why or what inspired you to give up caffeine and what results have you seen since you gave that up?
I try few times my problem is Pepsi don’t drink coffee or tea don’t really like water so Pepsi after Pepsi try to stop get bad headaches don’t like diet
People can avoid the headaches if they wean off over 1 week, rather than stop abruptly. Just put less and less in your cup over 7 days until you reach empty.
Jonathan, I wish you could help me with understanding my nursing courses! You make everything make sense!
Thank you for the comment! Nursing and medical courses can definitely be overwhelming, but keeping working at it and I'm sure you'll do fine!
Would liked to have heard about:
1. Caffeine and prostate health.
My GP has advised to cut caffeine, alcohol and spicy foods to mitigate prostatis.
2. A gastroenterologist has recommended reducing caffeine to help with reflux issues.
3. When I was younger, caffeine acted as a laxitive. It no longer does.
I have experienced the withdrawal headaches when I quit coffee several years ago.
Hated myself for being so dependent on a chemical.
PLEASE! MAKE A ViDeO
When I got sick with covid I drank only water for 2 weeks and refused anything like soda and tea. And I believe I broke the caffeine addiction I had. I now only drink tea and 1 energy drink every blue moon or so
Justin, as usual, you are the best at what you do. You are a born teacher. I love anatomy and physiology and overall you are the best. Love your videos. Thank you for your compassionate sharing.
As for headaches, a friend of mine recommended to me in general for them is to drink water because a headache can indicate dehydration. Considering the (edit) _diuretic_ character of caffeine, I can see water as part of its mitigation, although waiting it out is most of it.
As a medical student this is actually true, Dehydration can cause headaches, migraine or even vertigo. So guys always drink water and don't let yourself dehydrated because our body mostly contains water.
Diuretic* not diarrhetic lol. Just a friendly correction
If I didn't drink enough water the day before, I usually woke up the following day with a slight headache. When that happened, I drink a cup of water and my headache would be gone in an hour.
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Damn why didn't I think of this common sense. I actually stopped drinking coffee because of constant headaches but now that I think since it's winter and exam period I am drinking water at all barely two cups a day. Gotta hydrate!
I dont drink coffee often, but i found while coffee does deliver an instant "wake up" response to me, good tea (generally not bagged, but full leaf ones) keeps me focused and aware for a far longer period and it doesn't have that sudden drop off in energy that coffee gives.
I very recently started drinking coffee, so it’s a huge coincidence that you guys made this video
Hopefully it was informative! Thanks for watching!
My father was a huge coffee drinker starting the day off with a few cups and on thru the day. He was the kindest man you'd ever hope to meet using his many skills to help anyone just for the asking. He died at the age of 90. I guess it was all that coffee that did him in.
True story.
Mayo clinic has discovered many benefits to coffee.
My father passed away at 97. Very kind & patient person & drank coffee every morning for over 70 years. He was still riding his bike in his 90's, as well as driving.
As a coffee lover i was skeptical first to watch this video since i had a fear it tells me not drink coffee for lablab reasons or coffee bad for your health but i am glad it wasn't like that. Then without hesitation i continue to enjoy my coffee morning. Thanks for sharing.
Same here😁
You can be a coffee lover while still understanding the risks and downsides, just like people smoke while knowing it can kill them, no point in denying the truth, I wish more videos would actually talk about the negatives of coffee instead of pretending that it’s healthy…
@@starryeyedshugoki4312 that's healty x)
A very important point that - though it is somewhat obvious - in that context it might have been stressed that coffee is far more complex than caffeine. There are more than 850 substances in coffee about 100 of which are neither researched nor clearly identified yet. Then there are different strains, regions of origin, processing methods, the roast ... and finally the preparation: water temperature, grind size, steeping time, agitation. Being pretty sensible to many substances and foods i want to state that i feel noticeably different after drinking same brewed coffee from different beans. Most important If a coffee tastes bitter and/or is harsh on the stomach chances are temperature and/or steep time was too high. Mostly slow artisanal roasts are much more beneficial. I once had nice tasting wild beans that caused me ocular migraine and also a Yirgacheffe that was highly motivational. Cheers! :)
Wow! 😮
A very detailed, but also easy to understand way to explain how caffeine works on a pharmacological level and this comes from a pharmacist. Keep up the great work :)
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No it was not. No one cares that you peddle drugs either
@@Kevin-fy2fg let me guess: you’re 8 years old.
What about him not pointing out how it messes with vitamin D / calcium / iron to name a few ?
@@nonzenz ‘Effects of caffeine on bone and the calcium economy’ (2002): ‘The negative effect of caffeine on calcium absorption is small enough to be fully offset by as little as 1-2 tablespoons of milk’.
Are you sure it’s relevant enough?
I’ve been addicted to caffeine since being a toddler! I also suffer from insomnia and being a nervous wreck and had bad side effects when completing stopping the intake! This video helps in my decision to completely removing it from my life given the fact I’m more likely to have Parkinson’s and dementia in later life!
Thank you for the knowledge I have gained!🙏
It reduces those disorders not promotes it
I've been drinking tea ever since I was a toddler. Oddly enough, tea doesn't give you the jitters that coffee does. No idea if all the caffeine I've ingested over the years led to strokes & Parkinsons.
@@Cricket2731 At 16:29 he said there are studies that may imply that caffeine may reduce the risk of Parkinsons and Alzheimers
What in the world we're people doing letting you have caffeine as a toddler
Enjoy your explanations of how the body works and how certain substances like coffee affect the body! I have been a coffee drinker for many years I am 73 at this point in my life and use it as a mild diuretic! I have backed off on it slightly I used to drink a lot of coffee when I was working but now only have approximately three to four cups a day I feel this is enough to give you the energy I need to do what I need to do and I do like the taste of it. Also like the different kind of creamers to put in it, probably not the best thing to use but I look at it this way I'm 73 years old what have I got to lose! Ha ha! Ha! Thank you for making sense of it!!!
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I used to drink 2-3 energy drinks a day. The crash after they wear off was sometimes too much. I quit caffeine for 3 days and had a heavy feeling in my head followed by headaches and severe anxiety attacks.
I went back to caffeine after that but a smaller dose. Now I drink 1 energy drink a day and a soft drink for lunch. Everything seems fine -but don't try to quit cold turkey
I confess l have the same experience with it at times..
Energy drink is almost just sugar...i mean, you shoudnt worry that much about the caffeine in this case. Your simptoms are more due to the sugar itself.
This explains a lot 😂 during pregnancy we tend to all of a sudden cut down the caffeine immensely and I'm just now realizing this might contribute to the already existing pregnancy symptoms of fatigue, headache, etc. Especially when you're feeling sick and all of a sudden almost never drink caffeine when you used to have several cups a day..
I’m retired I guess. I wake when I like. My husband and I have a coffee ritual. Grinding the beans and putting them in the
Coffee press. We watch the news together and decide what the farm needs us to do for the day.
I had to give up caffeine due to health issues. At first it was really difficult; bad headaches, fuzzy brain. A few months later and I have adjusted.
You do a wonderful job as you describe EVERYTHING.
Such a smart young man.
Thank you!
Thank you for this! Just today I realized why my feet sweat sometimes, making me very cold all day! I am very sensitive to caffeine in any form. I have been drinking hot chocolate to avoid caffeine and still notice the side effects on my system.
LMAO gurlll chocolate is nothing but caffeine 🤣
Chocolate has caffeine in it. Try switching to a non-caffeine tea like chamomile.
I recently switched to a plant based drink called Dandy Blend. Made of roasted plant extracts. It’s not for everyone, but I enjoy the coffee like flavor. Found it on another UA-cam channel. I rarely add anything to it, but I still have a box of Stevia I bought from Costco that I refuse to throw out. So once in a blue moon, a 1/2 a packet goes in. Gave up sugar, so a whole packet is too sweet. It just may outlive me 😁!!!
Thank you for everything you do! Didn’t know til discovering your channel how fascinating the human body can be
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching!
@@theanatomylab does consuming excessive(450-500ml) tea damage your kidneys
I quit Coffee and all caffeine 18 days ago.
I’ve had at least 3 espresso a day for the last 20 years. I’m still feeling withdrawal symptoms. It takes at least 30 days to kick the habit. I’m gonna say even a few months for someone who has a morning “ritual” built around coffee, like I did.
But I do notice I am already a nicer person.
My inner lake is the calmest it’s ever been.
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You will live longer and have more money. Great decision
Good for you!! Good luck!!
It takes more than 30 days.Quit caffeine 8 months ago but still get cravings.But very good for you.❣
I'd guess you get headaches on the first few days, especially on the first. However sugar avoidance and having more stable foods like beans is by far the more significant factor to a healthy diet.
I started to have aniexty and panic attacks stemming from family issues but when I quit coffee I was able to deal with my emotions better.
I found that coffee had been making my joints ache, particularly in the shoulders after a long and tedious self-evaluation of my diet and other things. I decided to stop drinking coffee which turned out to be not that difficult/bad. Now, I instead take a morning wake-up caffeine pill and it works fantastic. Something in the coffee itself is known to cause inflamation and it was harsh for me. My gym workouts are back to where they should be and no joint pain.
I never made the correlation before! I noticed a strange ache in my knee joints while running in the past month & a half. Prior to that month, I had been caffeine-free for a year. I'm cutting out caffeine again, I'll be very pleasantly surprised to see some changes. :)
@@daliadeak1015 Shoulder pain is almost completely gone for me. Something else in the coffee must have been working badly for me
@@perryball4909 and now quit the caffeine pill addiction too...
Can we just apperciate him for his best efforts of making good content for us👌
Thank you!
We can't.
He's incredible, literally explains everything out
So, let's talk about Jesus. Everyone open your bible to John 7:1-12...
I just can't appreciate someone telling me about my love for coffee.
@@theanatomylab I keep getting message to claim prize from Institute of anatomy but notice senders name 'human' is missing.... is that an imposter??
I don't know how I found this video, but I want to share my experience as a heavy coffee drinker. I drink between 4 -6 cups of black coffee per day. I can drink like this several month then i can to stop drink coffee with no problemas. The first time when i tried to stop my coffee intake i had two days headaches. As many others i thought that was the typical caffeine addictive person simptom. Now lots of years later i know the problem it's not the coffee(supposing you drink good 100% arabica coffee). The real problem was the sugar because I always had my coffee with sugar. Now i don't use sugar anymore not even artificial sweeteners, just plain good black coffee and i can to stop drink the coffee any time with zero problems.
That's my boi..i also drink just 1 glass around 200ml made with 1spoon and jaggery instead of sugar...sugar is also real culprit for addiction
I've only used caffeine once for a driving emergency the past 3 years. In the past it was the main reason for my persistent cystic acne. Any small amount of caffeine is the difference between attempting to sleep for an hour vs falling asleep within 5-10 mins. Like alcohol, caffeine is unfortunately a socially acceptable drug where most people wouldn't think twice about their dependency. I know my past anxiety came from caffeine preventing good sleep because after quitting, my mood became a lot calmer. I suggest supplementing with vitamin D & fish oil in the morning; zinc and magnesium at night.
I've been drinking coffee for 6 years since I was 14 which is around when I hit puberty and started getting acne. I've had chronic cystic acne since then (though not as bad in the last 3 years or so) I quit caffeine about 2 weeks ago to see if it would help, not much improvement yet but I know acne takes about 2 weeks to form and cystic acne probably longer, so I'm going to keep going and see what happens. Didn't mean to write a book.
This. So frustrating hearing people being so judgmental of other peoples drug dependency but "I need my cup of coffee in the morning or can't function" not to mention drinking 2 more cups throughout the day.
@@justryan5697 maybe after you’re done with that experiment, try cutting out dairy and see if that has an effect. There is a chemical in milk called IGF-1 that directly correlates with breakouts
There’s nothing unfortunate about it, if you have problems with caffeine then stop drinking it. There are loads of people who are just fine with it.
I came here looking for a reason to stop drinking caffeine but the opposite happened. Thank you!! 😊
Thanks for this video - I've read dozens of articles over the years about caffeine, but have never had its effects explained this well and succinctly. I have been a heavy coffee drinker from around age 14 (I'm 58 now), often drinking several pots in a day and have sometimes worried (a little) about the effects on my body. Your explanation does that extremely well.
@@thebiblicalawakening4662 Looks like someone hit the coffee a bit hard.
@@StevenBaranowski I know how to properly nourish my temple APTTMH. Only ignorant people in denial would still believe everything is just some fantasy 'coincidence' or conspiracy "THEORY" after visiting the site at the end of my comment. i quote theory in caps because it indeed is a conspiracy alone. Conspiracy is a plan. This world is under a huge conspiracy that some of you robot people won't would have no clue seeing coming because you lack knowledge this matter. I encourage you to do your research if you aren't a complete bot as The Matrix Movie implies.
@@thebiblicalawakening4662 what is going on??😅
@@whitelight739 majority of this world being stuck in 2 thessalonians 2:11-12 is whats going on
@@thebiblicalawakening4662 You are absolutely insane. It worries me that people like you live in our society without receiving any mental healthcare.
Caffeine is so underrated as an addict substance. I used to drink coffee every 2-3 days, then it became everyday, then it became 2 times a day. I feel empty if I don't drink, it's not about getting energised or waking up. It's just the need to drink
Id say 60% of that is the flavor 😋.
I’ve been cutting down on my caffeine intake lately, I switched to drinking mostly black coffee and went down to 2 small cups a day, eventually I’ll lower it to 1 but for now baby steps as I’ve been drinking coffee consistently since I was 14 and I’m now almost 30. I used to drink half a pot everyday with cream and sugar, but as I’ve decided to get healthier I’ve started lowering the intake but still enough to use it as an appetite surpressant, and a good pre workout
Try “mushroom coffee.”
Black tee is concerogen. Very unhealthy.
The darker the roast the less caffeine there is so you could implement that into your weening, too.
@@Teodede I did not know that interesting
Part of that bitterness in lighter roast coffee is the level of caffeine present- hence why longer roasted coffee (dark) has a smoother taste quality.
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This was so informative! I drink only 1 coffee a day but because I suffer from migraines and it’s the only thing that helps me when I get them, so I I just drink it daily just in case. It would be awesome if you guys made more videos about migraines and caffeine in the future! ☺️
Excedrin maximum strength doesn't help you?
I've never found caffeine to be stopping or starting my migraines, I don't really have anything to prevent them but maxalt is my holy grail. Works wonders when I start to see the aura, just makes the headache feel like a mild hangover
@@winks8202 yeah the only thing that works for me and it only makes it tolerable is excedrin maximum strength and only if I take it right when i notice it coming and I take two of them then another one a little bit later but if I miss that window then I have to just ride it out and I lose my vision also when I get a migraine
Same! I've had headaches since fourth grade and started drinking coffee maybe freshman yr of highschool. It's the only thing that worked :)
@latinagirlcat Years ago, I learned that the Diamond Institute (in Chicago, I believe) had described that migraines have several phases. There is one phase where caffeine is helpful and the later phases where caffeine is not helpful. The phases are determined by knowing that the blood vessels in the brain are dilated (opened up) at one phase and they are constricted at another phase. My doctor figured out that I shouldn't have caffeine. This was before the excedrine product was on the market. However, many years later I found that the excedrin did really help me. BTW--- I was never a coffee drinker at that point so it wasn't a coffee withdrawal effect for me. My migraines were triggered by chemicals that are found in certain foods like cheese, chocolate, nitrates, wine, certain fruits ( look for the tyramine list -- there are many items that trigger migraines.) Chocolate has a related chemical called phenylethylamine.
This was really interesting. I recently developed some sort of caffeine intolerance overnight. Went from 2 cups of coffee a day to having a hard time tolerating even the trace amounts in decaff. I get bad nausea, headaches, fatigue, heart palpitations and can’t focus. It took a few days of trial and error to figure out what the issue was
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@@AndreGomes1987 nah that happened before the vax was even available where I live
Wait, so did u ever find out why you had the caffeine intolerance? And if so, can u share why because my story is somewhat similar to yours
@@shervanyphilizaire9735 never found out why, I just avoid it now. I hadn’t changed anything with my diet, lifestyle or medications at the time so it’s just been a mystery
I had that too. It was anxiety. Now i can tolerate the occasional cup again.
I live on coffee, my brain can’t function without the morning caffeine’ but besides than that I think you have the coolest job in the world, you explain things so well, it makes so much sense.
I never got into caffeine with coffee and even my sweet tea intake is low. I always noticed when I was young, and this gradually became more obvious, that caffeine made kids and adults who drank it super hyper and they acted weirdly more emotional than usual. I'm in my 30s now and I still rarely drink caffeine heavy drinks and I still keep pace with those who would, if they could, pump it into their veins via IV.
I think of caffeine as liquid anxiety.
@@PeterTroutman No doubt!
I started drinking caffeine when working long hours as it was a simple pleasure, then every day after my family abandoned me. The days are long and boring, tedious and tiresome. Caffeine kept me going.
I drink reigns and bangs which at 300 milligrams of caffeine per can is practically just that lol.
Love your videos! I’m taking biology and anatomy class so these really make the classes make sense! I’m also a coffee addict, lover , so I love to learn about this.
This dude's communication skills are so top notch that I'm still listening while he's promoting the ag1.
Ha same!
Looking forward to the video about how cafein affects physical performance since I exercise at least 2 hours per day on a crosstrainer and think my cafein gives my body that extra kick to my exercise! 😊
Other than it's nervous system effects... Coffee stops the body from absorbing calcium... Brittle bones & osteoporosis as you age isn't going to go well with your cross fit💀💔
Read about Orthostatic hypotension in athletes who use (caffeinated) energy drinks
i was surprised to se the ag1 frame. i use ag1 and i do feel better when i get my morning cup. i always go to this channel for review of a lot of my graduate work in exercise and sport science. .i still do some instruction with athletes as well as competing in usmswimming. at 81 i feel like i'm 60 !!! this channel is one of my go to places for info. thanks.
Again an informative and interesting video has been uploaded, as a medical aspirant it is one of the great content on UA-cam 😊❤️❤️❤️
Thank you team 🙏🏻
Thank you!
@@theanatomylab Any ideas on what caffeine is doing to those of us it puts to sleep? So many people have tried telling me that I'd be less tired if I had some caffeine. (In reality, I'd be less tired if I didn't have kids and could take an actual vacation... 😆😭) Problem is, it puts me to sleep. And I've met other people with the same problem. (Both lack of sleep due to kids and inability to use caffeine. 🤣)
Yes..I find all their videos really helpful
Makes me want to follow my dreams more of going into the medical field
Brilliant video and just what I needed to hear. I gave up caffeine, (coffee and tea) completely a while back because I found I was having quite a few cups a day to deal with stress and deadlines while at work, etc. It was really difficult at first because I just one day decided not to take it any more, rather than ease off of it slowly. But now, a few months down the road, I no longer crave it or need it or even want it anymore and am feeling mentally and physically so much better for it. I can honestly say the benefits of not taking caffeine really start to show up in the long run and greatly outweigh any of the short term highs you think it provides you with. Thanks for such a descriptive and detailed video!
Take it easy my friend it’s just a coffee..
I mean please..
Maybe a silly question, but do you only drink water now? I want to stop diet soda, but am not a big fan of water. I know, I know, it's terrible. 😁
Thanks for sharing! I have never noticed a boost of energy, I mainly drink coffee for its taste.
I love this channel
Both you and Justin explain your subject in a clear, concise manner
Im able to learn and retain so much from you both
Thank-you
Watching this while drinking coffee for full experience. As a big fan of coffee never really felt energetic after drinking it(I drink it because I love the taste), however it does makes me pee alot😅 I also have issues with blood pressure which causes really bad headaches, but a cup of strong espresso takes all the pain away and literally saves my day! Thank you for the video! The neuron drawing looks amazing!
you love the dependence :D
Small amounts of caffeine, such as from a can of coca-cola, makes me speed like crazy for at least an hour. The effects begin within a few minutes of drinking a coke. So obviously I'm sensitive to it, so I don't use it much or too often. Strangely, if I drink a coke in the evening, I sleep really well, usually all night without waking up. If I don't use any caffeine at night, I tend to wake up several times at night, feeling anxious with fast heart rate until I calm down. So there must be some study out there explaining how this works. Why would it make me sleep better? Does it stimulate a part of the brain that's not functioning correctly while sleeping, making it work properly? I don't know but it's weird how it does actually work for better sleep.
Try that while taking 80mg's of Lasix a day ( I have kidney stones and edema) Been taking Lasix since I was 21, now 72. I love my 100% colombian coffee. Some days only 1- 20oz. mug, some day 3 - 20 oz. travel mugs.
@@mihaibalint4952 I sulery do😇
You get addicted bec younfeel giod when you drinking it. You pee a lot bec it is a diuretic and if you do not reflenish with water tendecny of dehydration is always there. Caffeine also a vasoconstrictor means it constricted your blood vessels.. thats why some people palpitate when they drink coffeee due to constriction of blood vessels and heart compensate to pump harder due to limited supplies of bloood to your body. Sum it up if really good and if you reflenish with water after drinking and peeing plus if you have other ihealth issues that may affect your condition.
Great video! The one thing I would add is that there is a difference between addiction and dependency. For example, someone who is dependent on caffeine will typically intake the same amount per day while someone addicted will take in more and more over time. Plus, addiction implies that there is a problem that interferes with how well someone functions in their day to day life because of it. The impact on function caffeine has does blur the line between dependency vs addiction but the psychological aspect, especially if someone has an addictive personality, is my main concern regarding these definitions.
Good point!
Would the difference between physical dependency vs psychological dependency enter this conversation at all? I have no idea, genuinely curious.
How do you think one builds tolerance or becomes dependent unless by literally taking in more and more at a time? The reason he was talking about receptors and tolerance is because your body literally adjusts to caffeine by building more receptors over time requiring more and more caffeine to achieve the same effect hence it fitting your definition of addiction by default of building tolerance over time. It's why many quit or cycle off and on caffeine because their heavy dependence is usually a sign of addiction because they literally cannot function without it since you body builds tolerance to it naturally. Now obviously the addiction isn't as bad or has as many withdrawals as hard drugs but it is there. Same with sugar people are literally eating it to the point they die of obesity and heart disease yet we fail to call it addictive.
@@hectorzero8545couldn’t have said it better, you can’t really have dependence without addiction. Doesn’t really matter what you wanna call it, if you stop, you’ll experience withdrawals. No matter the drug, you build tolerance over time & have to intake more to get similar effects. Life for me was a lot better without caffeine, I can’t wait to get off of it again, but school right now is killer.
The issue with addiction is it relies on the person not being able to function.
An alcohol addiction is easy to spot because if you can't show up to work sober than obviously you are an addict.
With caffeine even while jittery you can still function.
What a coincidence, I just finished drinking my coffee rn. 😂😭
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Great video as usual! What I admire about your presentation approach is after watching this no one who drinks coffee feels attacked by the way that you presented the information nor is it given in such a way that a non-coffee drinker could boast after watching it; It’s scientifically delivered in such a way that the observer/listener can draw their own conclusions.
My personal opinion is that I believe that dependency upon caffeine can really be an issue. I’ve been drinking 2 to 3 cups daily for the past six or seven years and I know that I need to eliminate or extremely reduce the intake of caffeine based on how I been feeling about it both physically and emotionally. I am addicted to it in the sense that I have trouble picturing what a day without “needing” it would feel like. That’s a real issue. I also have a theory that it may be causing excessive tension in my muscles, which possibly may be hindering my potential mobility/flexibility (I’m a grappler so every bit counts). I’m currently reducing the amount every day and hope to quit within the next couple of weeks just to break free from the dependency.
Thank you again for another amazing video! As an anatomy and physiology geek myself, your content are top notch 👌
hey brother/sister i am too is interested in antonomy pls can u suggest any youtube chanell or website for the same ,which you like or have explore .pls reply and by the way have you reduced your coffe drinking habbit?
hope u have and may god give u healthy and fit life.may they bless you!
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I have asthma, and caffeine really helps alleviate the tightness in my chest when breathing become difficult. I notice the difference after 3 days of not drinking coffee.
Back in my bodybuilding days we would mix bronk-aid (asthma medicine OTC) with 200mg caffeine pills for the ultimate appetitive suppressant. They have a synergistic effect supposedly
Its been said that an apple will wake a person up just as effectively as coffee. As a coffee drinker, I concur that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. But what is happening on a cellular level?
Love your videos!
It maybe wakes you up but it doesnt coffe-wake you up😂
@@igorilic5099 wonderful apples u got there....
Your video is informative and well worth watching. If I might make a suggestion, it may have offered furthered information to include what caffeine does and how it effects person with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD). I have ADD and cannot drink caffeine in large doses. If I were to drink anything with caffeine when I am tired or fatigued, it doesn't act as a stimulant and instead I end up falling asleep. The one time I tried to drink a 20oz bottle of Jolt Cola, it took me three weeks to finish because every sip I had caused me to fall asleep (the same thing happened when I tried a four ounce cone cup filled with pure Pepsi syrup). The most caffeine I usually have is in the cup of green tea I have every morning with breakfast, roughly 25 mg, which has no effect on me.
Caffeine also dehydrates, this can lead to fatigue too.
anatomy is mind-blowing, natural technology. growth of complex systems guided by microscopic instructions. amazing.
I've been sober for 7-8 years now, but the coffee smell in the morning is all I need👍
Lol that’s me today..
it smells awful now
Thanks for another great informative video. Please do a video on What Benzodiazepines do to the brain/body. Especially Xanax. And what happens when you stop taking them abruptly after being dependent. . Do they cause brain damage or just changes. How dangerous are they?
We will add that to the video list. You can definitely develop a physiological dependence to those medications. Granted everyone's situation is different (dosing, how long they've been on them, etc.), but tapering off is often recommended rather than stopping abruptly.
I just went off all meds cold turkey after 20 something years of medical dependancy as of new years eve 2022 they knee jerked my xanax years ago n i jumped out in front of them this time so that would be a very interesting video as my caseworker mentioned seizures from valium a possibility. So please do a video on these hopefully sooner than later. As my journey to crash land has already begun. Thank you Jonathan n Justin for all you share with us🙌💯🤗
Hi Jonathan, thanks for all you do, for your viewers/students. Could you please consider creating a video regarding the effects of Creatine, on the human body? Thanks!
5 Deep Logic. Ditto!!
Just discovered this channel a few days ago and loving it so far! The videos are informative and satisfy my science loving brain haha. Presenter is great and has a way of simplifying and is very engaging. Thanks for the videos!!