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Caffeine Can It Boost Your Memory?

Coffee, caffeine just like chocolate quite often receives negative publicity. While in some cases and in excess consumption these can have negative effect on your body, they also have some quite beneficial effects. I am not going to dispute that there are some people who are more sensitive to negative effect of caffeine then others. As an example excess consumption of caffeine can create nausea, anxiety and quite often will result in an increased heart rate and sometimes it can even cause depression in some people. And chocolate is defiantly not something that should form someoneтЂ™s diet. But after years of research scientists have found some interesting facts about caffeine. One example of it is that caffeine blocks effects of a neurotransmitter in the brain, which otherwise makes people feel tired. This is why coffee works quite well to keep us awake. It also increases the release of brain chemical, dopamine and also adrenaline. Dopamine is a chemical which creates a feeling of well being. There was two major studies conducted one which was a population based study which found that consumption of caffeine containing products like coffee and tea had a protective effect for people who are at risk in developing a liver disease. Т Т Problems that the study participants had and which resulted in the higher risk of liver disease before the study included the following obesity, alcoholism, hepatitis B or some other complications. The result of the study was quite an interesting one as it showed that people drinking two or more cups of coffee a day had about forty four percent lower chance of liver damaged in comparison to those who consumed no caffeine. Just to make it clear this was not a clinical trial and also the reasons why tea and coffee had that effect is not known. Tea and coffee contain a range of different plant chemicals which potentially could be responsible for that result. There was another study done in 2005 in Norway which had similar results. Although you may not be at a risk of liver disease caffeine has some other advantages as well. Recent study in Australia showed that caffeine has the potential to enhance short term memory. Research has shown that after consuming coffee there was an increase in brain activity in the part of the brain, which is responsible for your attention and memory. The study which was conducted was a placebo controlled study, which means that some people during the study were not given any caffeine. There was also another study conducted in early 2004 which found that caffeine improves your short term memory. There are two sides to each story in this world so in my opinion everything is good in moderation as long as you do not abuse any particular substance you will be fine and have a healthy and long life

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