Energy Drinks: Can it Cure Parkinson's Disease?
- By:Ma Ku
Treating Parkinson's disease with caffeine, as discussed in medical research, has started many heated conversations. I can't help but think that caffeine has a high cost, even if it does help. Over doing caffeine takes away your dopamine, as I illustrate in my book titled, "The Truth About Caffeine". An individual will continue to want bigger quantities of caffeine, no matter what amount he started consuming. When the body gets used to caffeine it cancels its effect, like any drug, needing a growing consumption to regain its potency. Even still, a lot of caffeine can cause harm and take away life.
Caffeine is the most popular brain stimulant that helps to release dopamine, which provides motivation, alertness, and emotional highs. Similar to various drugs, caffeine is sought after for a fast surge of dopamine, as it stimulates our brain. As the chief neuro-transmitter, dopamine performs as a messenger for the brain, taking care of the vitality levels, vigilance, acuity, ability to respond, spontaneity and similar functions. Added to this, dopamine is in control of addiction to stimulates.
The body's growth of dopamine manufacturing brain cells is greatly diminished, as dopamine gets depleted with a massive consumption of caffeine. Then, comes a feeling of being exhausted and worn out. Yet, more caffeine is consumed returning the rush of vitality. This is the how the process of the reduction of dopamine nerve cell works.
Dopamine declines with age, however caffeine and other stimulants accelerate the dopamine decline and speed up the process of the brain aging. Parkinson's disease is the result of a serious reduction of dopamine nerve cell. Parkinson's disease suffers can benefit with dopamine flow stimulated by caffeine. Even so, about seventy to eighty percent of dopamine nerve cell become permanently lost previous to becoming aware of its symptoms.
Caffeine leads to the development of other health problems. As caffeine speeds up the production of our anxiety hormone, our adrenal glands become depleted. It only takes a single cup of a caffeinated drink to start the brain's pituitary glands to release a signal to at the adrenal glands to let out the hormonal anxiety chemicals cortisol and adrenalininto the bloodstream.
Whenever you're in a dangerous situation, your anxiety hormones are released, sending a blast of warmth throughout your body. The quick "pick-me-up" from caffeine actually comes from a anxiety hormone. As a effective stimulant as well as an irritant, caffeine alerts the body's defense mechanisms which send out our anxiety hormones. Later on, this defense response gets worn out.
Relentless false adrenalin sent by caffeine consumption, wears out the glands until they can not release enough hormones. The caffeine consumer starts to increase larger amounts, adding additional anxiety on the glands, that can't keep up with the demands of the addiction. As these actions continue, the results will show.
Eventually, caffeine consumers deplete their adrenal gland. Everyday overproduction of anxiety hormones, which are toxic in excess, eventually changes the blood composition, which, in turn, negatively affects proper function of the immune, endocrine, and nervous systems.
The consequences might be one or all of these situations; repeating fatigue, heightened blood sugar and insulin levels, weight gain, higher blood pressure, irritation, anxiety, depression, sleeping disorder, common viral infections, ulcers, thinning of the skin, bone loss, thyroid problems, and other disturbing messages of health deterioration.
----------About the author:
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|