Ep 54 Wake Up and Smell the Caffeine
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The Effects of Caffeine on Sleepiness
The effects of caffeine are very greatly, depending on like interpersonal differences in metabolism and things like that. Caffeine causes vasoconstriction of your cerebral blood vessels to your brain and vasodilation of your peripheral blood vessels. For example, there are adenosine receptors in our heart that block electric signaling in our heart. So if a denosine can stop and slow your heart rate, what do you think caffeine can do if it blocks those receptors? Yeah. That's an effect that you mentioned, Matt, right? You feel your heart rate. Okay. Can you ask me the details, please? Why? It does do that. What about my hollow bones? Your hollow
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