#453: Nick Gant, PhD – Cognitive Performance: Impact of Caffeine, Nicotine & Creatine (Rebroadcast)
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Is Caffeine a Stimulant for Fatigue?
Caffeine is a stimulant that can be used to treat some of the effects of prolonged exercise on the central nervous system. It's very individual with caffeine number of factors that listeners might be familiar with in terms of how mature your central nervous system is. When we take it before exercise obviously we get a super so we get our eye movements and ocular motor system that's amped up. We think probably about 10% of that is probably lies within the brain.10% as you'll know is well within the margin of being first or last in any kind of elite sport.
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