The Process Of Caffeine
What's going on in your body when you take caffeine?
How caffeine works in your body...
When caffeine is in your body it takes a process for it to finally kick in, or work on the side effects of caffeine. It takes 15 minuets (at the shortest) for caffeine to kick in and start working on you. Let's see what happens inside your body in that 15 minuets before caffeine kicks in...
Body parts that caffeine go through
Brain
- When you intake caffeine, caffeine looks exactly like adenine neurons, so caffeine replaces adenine neurons in the brain.
- With caffeine blocking adenine neurons, the brain works harder.
Pituitary Gland
- The pituitary gland sees that the brain is working harder, and increases firing.
- The body reacts to this as an emergency. So the pituitary gland sends out harmons.
Adrenal Gland
- The adrenal gland receive the harmons the pituitary gland sent out.
- The harmons tell the adrenal gland to produce more adrenaline
Liver
- Caffeine flows into your liver
- The sugar is removed by the liver
- Since the sugar is removed only caffeine is left making you more awake
Blood and body tissues
- Caffeine enters body
- The caffeine is absorbed by the blood and body tissues
- It is absorbed by the nervous body tissue
Heart
- The heart starts pumping faster because of the brain
- The high blood-pressure is caused by the heart pumping faster
- This causes you to stay awake, and nervous