커피와 카페인 섭취에 관한 복잡한 진실

### 커피의 어두운 면: 건강 위험, 중독, 그리고 역사적 맥락
* ☕ 새로운 연구에 따르면 **하루에 8잔의 커피**를 마시면 일부 암의 위험을 낮출 수 있으며, 커피의 건강상의 이점에 대한 지속적인 논쟁에 기여할 수 있다고 합니다.
* 🧠 그러나 과학자들은 이제 많은 사람이 경험하는 두통과 과민 반응으로 이어지는 **강렬한 '카페인 충돌'**을 잠재적인 의학적 질환으로 인식하고 있습니다.
* 📜 커피의 역사는 **9세기 한 농부가 염소에게 활력을 주는 효과**를 발견한 것으로 거슬러 올라가지만, 유럽에서 사회적 필수품이 될 때까지 커피의 인기는 천천히 성장했습니다.
* 🌍 그러나 커피 산업은 생산과 관련된 착취와 환경 파괴 등 어두운 역사를 가지고 있어 **커피의 건강상 이점**을 둘러싼 이야기에 의문이 제기되고 있습니다.
* 💰 카페인은 중독성이 강한 물질이므로, **커피 판매로 이익을 얻는 기업이 건강에 좋다는 주장**에 얼마나 많은 영향을 미치는지 생각해 볼 필요가 있습니다.
* 📉 연구에 따르면 카페인은 **일시적으로 주의력을 높일 수 있지만**, 뇌로 가는 혈류를 감소시켜 **인지 기능 저하와 알츠하이머 같은 질병의 위험**을 높일 수 있다고 합니다.
* 🚨 또한 카페인은 **스트레스 호르몬을 증가**시켜 불안과 건강에 부정적인 영향을 미칠 수 있으며, 이는 자연스러운 성격 특성으로 오인될 수 있습니다.
* 🔍 궁극적으로 커피를 즐길 수는 있지만, **커피의 잠재적인 단점과 중독과 인지된 혜택 사이의 복잡한 관계**를 인식하는 것이 중요합니다.

카페인의 중독성 때문에 카페인의 잠재적인 해악이 가려져 많은 사람이 카페인의 스트레스 유발 효과를 간과합니다.

eight cups a day can actually lower your risk for some cancers. A new study, the latest in a slew of evidence that supports the health benefits of coffee, coffee, and how much many of us drink every day. Scientists, in fact, looking at that feeling you get when the caffeine wears off, sometimes that chemical crash so intense. They're now considering it a medical condition. I ended up with a really bad headache. You wouldn't want to be around me without caffeine. What happens when caffeine is dislodged from the adenosine receptor? Unfortunate things happen, and that's what we call the caffeine crash. Even up until a few weeks ago when I quit caffeine, I could not sit down and start work unless I had C. Saying it's healthy is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Coffee all began in the 9th century when a farmer noticed his goats were getting, well, a little frisky. He saw that they were all eating a specific berry from a specific tree, so he gave it.

a try for himself. And just like that, the story of getting free energy from bitter bean juice began. But coffee didn't quite catch on immediately. Its strong, bitter taste didn't appeal to everyone at first, and it wasn't until traders in the Middle East began to rely on it to stay alert during long journeys that its popularity started to grow. Eventually, it traveled through the trade routes of the Middle East and was smuggled into India. This is where it truly began to take root as the social drink, boosting productivity and gathering people together. Here, Europeans eventually got their hands on coffee, and soon enough, coffee shops began popping up all over London. These places quickly became the go-to spots for conversation, debate, and of course, that much-needed caffeine kick. But it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. European empires were raking in profits by exploiting and enslaving workers in the Caribbean, Latin America, and Asia. Native people were either killed or forced off their land, and entire forests were burned down, all for the sake of this so-called magic bean juice, caffeine.

is the perfect product to drive a billion-dollar industry. It's addictive. It's something you consume every day, and practically everyone can drink it. And let's not forget, it's supposedly good for you, right? But have you ever wondered how much of that good for you narrative is crafted by the very corporations making billions off your daily cup? Because there's no way these billion-dollar corporations would manipulate the data just to keep profits rolling in, right? Remember when cigarettes were marketed as good for us? Doctors in all parts of the country were asked, What cigarette do you smoke, doctor? That's right. Back in the day, doctors used to promote certain cigarette brands, claiming they were healthier and less irritating to the throat than others. Now, I'm not saying coffee and caffeine are as bad as cigarettes, but here's what's interesting: many of the big players in the coffee industry have significant ties to these same corporations that produce almost all of the same food that you eat. Now that's fresh Mountain-grown coffee from the hills of Colombia. These are the same

corporations that have been known to manipulate data to serve their interests. So, is it really so far-fetched to think that these giant corporations with billions of dollars at stake could also manipulate the data surrounding coffee's health benefits? After all, they claim coffee is almost like a superfood, loaded with antioxidants and linked to benefits like increased longevity, improved mood, physical performance, and a reduced risk of various diseases. But how much of this is genuinely true, and how much is just clever marketing designed to keep you hooked? And if there are actually so many benefits, why are some of the leading scientists on these projects some of the only people that don't consume caffeine? Most of the caffeine researchers I interviewed do not drink coffee or tea. Now, the common narrative is that 400 mg of caffeine is the safe limit, which is exactly what this ABC reporter Dr. doctors say. Caffeine, which is a drug, is safe for adults who consume up to about 400 mg a day. That's about 4 cups of

coffee ABC's Lisa Stark drank that much and took an MRI to show what it did to her brain. Here's before, and here's after. Her blood flow went down 40%, and her blood pressure shot up. And this isn't a standalone case. In this 2019 study, participants were given almost half the amount of the daily safe limit and still saw an average of a 27% reduction in blood flow to the brain. So why does this matter? Well, as leading brain doctor Daniel Damon puts it, So if you want to damage your bright, bright minds, the B is for blood flow. Low blood flow is the number one brain imaging predictor of Alzheimer's disease. How do you get low blood flow? Caffeine. Oh [__]. But if caffeine reduces blood flow to the brain, why does it make you feel smarter and give you a boost of energy? How caffeine works. Um, caffeine is in a class of drugs that we call the psychoactive stimulants, so it works through a variety of mechanisms. Um, one is a dopamine

mechanism dopamine we often think of as a reward chemical or um but dopamine is also very much an alerting neurochemical as well. And caffeine has some role it seems to play in increasing do me but its principal mode of action we believe in terms of making me more alert and keeping me awake throughout the day is on the effects of adenosine. Adenosine it's the chemical in your brain that regulates your sleep-wake cycle, helps you feel calm, and protects your brain from stress. So by blocking out this chemical could caffeine turn you into an overly anxious stressed-out person who has panic attacks for no reason. Well more on that later but for now let's take a look at some of the chemicals inside your coffee that might make you think twice. After all did you know that caffeine is actually just a pesticide? Remember how we said that the goats were eating those berries? Well it's actually the seed inside of the berry where the real magic happens. Beans richly roasted and finely ground for

great waking up Aroma with that Aroma can do a day for menu the best part of w see the real thing that we're after here is the caffeine but what exactly is caffeine caffeine is actually a natural pesticides that the plant produces to stop animals from eating it that's right that magic high that you get in the morning is actually just a chemical produced by the plant to specifically repel insects and wreak havoc on animals but here's the thing all plants produce chemicals like this to protect themselves from being eaten in fact 99 99% of the pesticides we consume are already naturally occurring within the plant themselves and here's where it gets interesting in botney the study of plants it's well known that the part of the plant with the highest concentration of these defense chemicals is actually the seed why because plants want to protect their seeds their future Offspring that's why this part of the plant is loaded with chemicals like tannins oxalates and of course caffeine these chemicals are often overlooked

because they don't just kill us outright like they do insects, so we just assume that they're harmless. People might say that these chemicals have a hormetic effect, meaning that in small doses they might actually make us stronger and healthier, but the reality is a lot more complicated than that. And what makes it so difficult to absorb many of the vitamins and minerals found in plants is that plants also contain something called anti-nutrients. This can range from phytates to lectins to oxalates to tannins to protease inhibitors to phytoestrogens, and all of these things make it very difficult for humans to absorb the vitamins and minerals out of many plants. So, this is the study from Professor Bruce Ames from Berkeley. This was published in 1989, and he showed that just the natural plants and vegetables contain 10,000 times more naturally occurring pesticides by weight than the industrial pesticides that we were using on them, and that they were orders of magnitude times more likely to cause cancer. Okay.

so while the effects of these antinutrients are still debated, we can't deny that they're actually there. And even if they do have a hormetic effect, meaning that these small doses might help our bodies build resilience, we still have to consider the real issue: what coffee does to your stress levels. Picture your typical day, full of well, stress. You've got work to handle, school to manage, and of course, those people on the road who just don't know how to drive. There's no world here, and of course, in the morning or sometime during the day, you just need that cup of coffee to help you get through it all. After all, these everyday situations can be tiring, so a little cup of joe couldn't do any harm, right? Wrong. And what if it's just not a little harm, but almost all of the harm? Seriously, what if all of your daily stress that you obviously perceive as stressful is actually being caused by coffee? See, when you drink coffee or caffeine, your body starts pumping out stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. So, this

basically puts your body into a fight or flight response. Yes, these same responses your body would have used tens of thousands of years ago when you came across something that might end your life. Maybe not the best way for your body to function when you're already dealing with these stressors of modern life. This happens because caffeine works by blocking adenosine receptors, as we mentioned earlier, receptors that are essential for relaxation. So by default, the mechanism which makes you feel alert and awake is also putting you into a heightened state of stress. Of course, with our bodies now pumping with stress hormones, it's not so surprising that this 1984 paper found that caffeine not only increased anxiety but also depression and hostility. And it's not just for a short period of time; it can be up to 18 hours before your cortisol levels start to come back down. This prolonged elevation can lead to your body storing more fat, particularly around your gut. But it doesn't just stop at getting fat and anxious; the effects of caffeine are nearly identical to the

effects of a panic attack. In his book Caffeine Blues, by Stephan Chernus, discusses how countless people have reduced or even completely cured their panic disorders simply by eliminating coffee. And just because it didn't give you panic attacks and anxiety before doesn't mean that it won't do it now. I remember a couple of years back, I would always feel anxious, and I really thought I was just an anxious person. Then COVID hit, and I started drinking more coffee, about four cups a day instead of my usual two. It eventually got to the point that I was almost having panic attacks. Normal stressors in life would bring an overwhelming sense of doom in my brain. I realized that it wasn't that big of a deal, but to the rest of my body, it was the end of the world. And then I tried something. I just stopped drinking coffee, and within two days, nearly all of my anxiety disappeared. I thought there was no way it was from coffee at first, which is why it took me so long to stop. But once I did, I realized I wasn't

even an anxious person. I was just drinking coffee. Even later, when I started to drink just a small amount, I noticed that same slight anxiety creeping back. So, if you think you're an anxious or stressed person, just stop drinking caffeine and see if it's actually who you are, because most likely, it's not. But there's just one thing that you need to be aware of. I struggled through my work for 3 hours. It was impossible to concentrate. My head was pulsing. I felt my veins in my head throbbing. It started with a hangover-like headache the moment that I got up. What I want to do now is I want to talk about the cons and the short-term cons, and then the long-term cons of not drinking coffee. The long-term cons are very minimal. The short-term cons are huge, okay? But the long-term benefits are insane. Withdrawals, yes, coffee is a drug, and when suddenly stopped, most people feel withdrawals: a pounding headache, fatigue, and an inability to concentrate. It's not a fun experience, but here's the

good news! It doesn't have to be this way. By the end of this, I'll tell you exactly how you can break free from this addictive being without suffering through the worst of these symptoms. But now you may be thinking, But I love the taste. I love waking up in the morning and having something warm. In Stephan Chernis' book, he states, Research has proven that people acquire taste and preferences based on the psychological action of caffeine. What this basically means is that the poetic aroma and great flavor of coffee that you love so much are actually tied to addiction. The only reason you find the smell and taste so appealing is because caffeine is addictive. Think back to when you were a kid. Did you ever try coffee? If you ever did, you were probably wondering why so many people drink such a bitter and disgusting bean juice all the time. But over time, you likely started adding cream and sugar, and before long, you began to enjoy that sweet taste of coffee. What you might not realize is

that your love for coffee's flavor was shaped by the caffeine itself, an addiction that slowly made you crave what you once found bitter. And the best way to come off coffee is to gradually wean off over a couple of weeks like this. This method helps your body adjust without experiencing the worst withdrawal symptoms. And here's the surprising part: once you're off coffee, all the benefits that you thought you were getting likely don't even occur. But why is this? Take this study for example. It shows that people who don't consume caffeine actually performed worse on cognitive tasks after drinking coffee. What the researchers found was that the only reason people think they perform better with coffee is because it temporarily relieves their withdrawal symptoms. So what does this mean? Essentially, if you drink a lot of coffee, it just brings you back to your baseline. But if you don't normally drink coffee and then you have some, your performance usually suffers. Even if coffee brings you back to your baseline, you're likely only operating at 80 to 90% of what

you're truly capable of. Now think of it this way: does something that reduces blood flow to your brain by 40% really seem like the ideal way to maintain long-term brain function? Now, I'm not saying I'll never drink coffee again, and of course, you're free to make your own choices, but it's important to be mindful of what this substance really is and how it impacts our lives. If you remember earlier when I talked about the plant toxins in coffee beans, you might be curious to learn more. So if you want to dive deeper into what these toxins are and why some people choose to eliminate them completely, be sure to check out this video right here. And if you got any value out of this video, be sure to drop a like and turn on the notification bell so that you don't miss any future videos.

The Disturbing Truth About Coffee

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커피 섭취는 일부 암의 위험을 낮출 수 있지만 중독성이 강해 금단 증상을 일으킬 수 있습니다.

커피의 인기는 중동 상인들을 통해 유럽으로 퍼져나갔고, 이후 커피숍이 사회적 중심지가 된 유럽으로 퍼져나갔습니다.

그러나 커피 산업의 성공 뒤에는 커피 생산 지역의 착취와 환경 파괴라는 대가가 따랐습니다.

논란의 여지가 있는 카페인의 영향

기업들은 커피의 건강 효능을 홍보하기 위해 데이터를 조작하여 이러한 주장의 진실에 대한 의문을 제기할 수 있습니다.

카페인 연구의 선도적인 과학자들은 카페인의 광범위한 지지에도 불구하고 카페인을 섭취하지 않는 경우가 많습니다.

카페인이 혈류와 뇌 기능에 미치는 영향은 알츠하이머병의 예측 인자이며, 아데노신을 차단하는 카페인의 역할은 불안과 스트레스를 증가시킬 수 있다는 점에서 우려를 불러일으키고 있습니다.

카페인과 식물성 화학 물질의 놀라운 영향

식물에서 생성되는 천연 살충제인 카페인은 동물을 퇴치하고 씨앗을 보호하기 위해 만들어졌습니다.

이러한 방어 화학 물질은 종종 간과되지만, 비타민과 미네랄의 인체 흡수를 방해할 수 있습니다.

또한 카페인 및 기타 식물 화합물은 체내 코르티솔과 아드레날린 분비를 촉진하여 스트레스 수준을 높일 수 있습니다.

카페인이 스트레스와 불안에 미치는 영향

카페인은 투쟁 또는 도피 반응을 유발하여 이완에 필수적인 아데노신 수용체를 차단함으로써 스트레스 수치를 높입니다.

이렇게 높아진 스트레스 상태는 불안, 우울증, 특히 장 주변에 지방 축적을 증가시킬 수 있으며, 코르티솔 수치 상승은 최대 18시간까지 지속될 수 있습니다.

카페인의 효과는 공황 발작을 모방할 수 있으며, 커피 섭취를 줄이거나 없애면 많은 사람이 공황 장애와 불안을 완화하는 데 도움이 됩니다.

카페인이 불안과 금단 증상에 미치는 영향

카페인은 불안과 스트레스를 유발할 수 있으며, 커피를 끊으면 이러한 감정이 내재된 것이 아니라는 것을 알게 될 수 있습니다.

커피를 중단하면 두통, 피로, 집중력 저하 등 단기적인 금단 증상이 심하게 나타날 수 있습니다.

카페인의 중독성은 심리적 효과와 관련이 있어 시간이 지날수록 커피의 맛과 향이 매력적으로 느껴짐니다.

커피가 카페인 중독에 미치는 영향

카페인 중독은 커피에 대한 애착을 형성하여 쓴맛을 갈망하게 만들 수 있습니다.

몇 주에 걸쳐 서서히 커피를 끊으면 신체가 적응하고 금단 증상을 최소화하는 데 도움이 됩니다.

놀랍게도 커피는 금단 증상을 완화하는 데 그치고 실제 잠재력의 80~90%만 작동하게 할 수 있기 때문에 기대했던 인지 기능 개선 효과는 크지 않을 수 있습니다.