301. The Neuroscience of Caffeine: Performance enhancing, Neuroprotective, and being more Alert
Do You F*cking Mind?
Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach
4.9 • 914 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.
RECOMMENDATIONS
- Read ‘Caffeine: Cognitive and Physical Performance Enhancer or Psychoactive Drug?’ from Current Neuropharmacology
- Read ‘Neuroprotective Effects of Coffee Bioactive Compounds: A Review’ from International Journal of Molecular Sciences’
- Listen to Huberman Lab podcast from Andrew Huberman and his chats about Caffeine https://bit.ly/huberman-caffeine .
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Host: Alexis Fernandez
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| 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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