What You Don't Know About Caffeine & Parkinson's Disease


by NoCaf4Me - Date: 2007-11-10 - Word Count: 671 Share This!

Caffeine's medical use for treating Parkinson's sickness is a subject of much debate. I can't help but think that caffeine has a high cost, even if it does help. It may come as a shock to you that, as I discuss in my book, "The Truth About Caffeine", large amounts of caffeine use removes some of your dopamine somatic cell. And, even if a person consumes it moderately, sooner or later, he will increase his dosages. Just like other substances, our body adapts itself to caffeine, negating its potency so that only increased amounts still provide an effect. However, high levels of caffeine can be dangerous and even fatal.

Caffeine is prized for its ability to stimulate our brain and open the brains' doorway of dopamine, giving us higher emotions, mental sharpness and stronger urges to act. People crave caffeine because it gets dopamine out of our brains quickly, like other strong substances. Dopamine is a neuro-transmitter, the brain' chemical messenger which is responsible for energy level, vigilance, alertness, reaction time, spontaneity, etc. However, dopamine is also responsible for addiction to stimulants.

Large quantities of caffeine can quickly expend the levels of dopamine and diminish the production of dopamine creating brain cells. As a result, you feel, fatigued, and exhausted. To fix this, you reach for another dose of caffeine. This is the how the process of the reduction of dopamine somatic cell works.

Dopamine reduction quickens with age and caffeine ingestion. Parkinson's sickness is the result of a serious reduction of dopamine somatic cell. Those with Parkinson's sickness gain from caffeine's stimulation on dopamine discharge. Even so, about seventy to eighty percent of dopamine somatic cell become permanently lost previous to becoming aware of its symptoms.

In addition, caffeine is linked to growth of more health problems. The creation of stress hormones by the adrenal glands is dangerously accelerated by caffeine. Right into the bloodstream goes the stress hormones adrenalin and cortisol, when the adrenal gland receives the message from our pituitary gland, in our brain, that is all started from a single cup of a caffeinated drink.

A natural consequence of an dangerous situation is a feeling of warm blood shooting through our veins, while the stress hormones are let out. The quick "pick-me-up" from caffeine actually comes from a stress hormone. Caffeine is a strong stimulant and an irritant that triggers the body's defense response by releasing the stress hormones. After a while though, the defense mechanism becomes frail.

With the use of caffeine moving a constant supply of artificial adrenalin, the glands are exhausted and aren't able to secrete enough hormones. With greater pressure put on the glands, a caffeine addict is driven to revive his energy rush, and keep increasing his ingestion, causing the glands to become exhausted. Consequences will occur, as this cycle continues.

Gradually, adrenal depletion occurs for caffeine consumers. Negative changes happen in the correct operation of the immune, endocrine, and nervous system as daily overproduction of stress hormones, which too much are poisonous, gradually altering the blood makeup.

Any or all of these situations may eventually happen; chronic fatigue, increased insulin and blood sugar levels, weight gain, increased blood pressure, irritation, anxiety, depression, sleeping disorder, frequent virus outbreaks, ulcers, thinning of the skin, bone loss, thyroid problems, and other dangerous signs of severe health difficulties.

Author Biography:

Marina Kushner is the founder of the Caffeine Awareness Alliance, a non-profit organization, which sponsors National Caffeine Awareness Month and is held annually in March across America. Ms. Kushner is an authority on caffeine and the detrimental effects it has on the body and mind. Her latest book called "The Truth About Caffeine" explores the historical and social impact of the drug throughout the ages while offering healthy alternatives to its usage. Blog at www.TruthAboutCaffeine.com

Marina Kushner is the founder of the Caffeine Awareness Alliance and author of Truth About Caffeine, explores the historical and social impact of the drug throughout the ages while offering healthy alternatives to its usage. . {{{More information is available at worthwhilecause(at)yahoo.com|

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