*_Coffee and the Brain_*....🧠🖇️☕✨

✒️ Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the world, as it is famous as the morning drink for the activity it gives.


☕ It consists of:
1_ Caffeine is the main stimulant
2_ Chlorogenic acids are antioxidants
3_ Cafestol and Cowell, which are present in coffee oil
4_Trigonelin


How do these components affect the brain...?
Caffeine affects the nervous system by interacting with adenosine receptors: a neurotransmitter in the brain that boosts during sleep and usually builds up during the day.


So when caffeine is in the brain, it competes with adenosine to bind with receptors, inhibiting adenosine and stimulating the nervous system to wake it up.


🎓 However, imaging studies have found that drinking coffee regularly enhances focus and improves movement control and alertness by bringing about functional and conductive changes in the brain.


✨ However, a study also found that drinking six or more cups of coffee per day negatively affects the brain, reducing the size of gray matter in the brain and increasing the risk of dementia by 53%...