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Do You F*cking Mind?

301. The Neuroscience of Caffeine: Performance enhancing, Neuroprotective, and being more Alert

Do You F*cking Mind?

Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9914 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we dive deep into the science behind Caffeine, the psychoactive substance found in coffee, tea, gels and other products. I chat about what it does to the brain, how it keeps you awake, why it’s a performance enhancer. Plus I explore how it interacts with dopamine within the brain to increase alertness as well as dopamine signalling in the brain.

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Host: Alexis Fernandez       
Executive Producer & Editor: Elise Cooper
Digital Producer: Zoe Panaretos
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0:00.0

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0:07.3

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0:11.7

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0:15.2

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0:16.9

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0:19.4

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0:23.3

Hosted by me, Alexis Fernandez.

0:25.5

Hello, my beautiful beans and welcome to the episode of today.

0:29.9

So in today's episode, this is a kind of neuroscience-focused episode on caffeine on the brain. I'm going to be talking about, I'm going

0:39.4

doing a little bit of a dive into why caffeine keeps you awake, why it's also a performance

0:44.5

enhancer, how caffeine interacts with dopamine within the brain and alertness and all these

0:53.5

things and kind of like what's the dosage that you should be having

0:56.4

why it's good for you and why in general for the most part it's just not bad for you at all

1:03.5

obviously I will be going into some exceptions of you know if it personally makes you feel a

1:09.6

certain way then of course you want to be

1:11.2

veering away from that, but we're going to be talking about kind of how good caffeine is in general

1:16.6

for the brain when used properly. So let's get straight into it. So we're talking about caffeine,

1:23.2

which is in coffee, but it's also in a lot of things. So sometimes I might say the word coffee

1:28.3

as far as like when you're drinking coffee throughout the day, but the active component,

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