If you believe that five calories from a cup of coffee is what is taking you to the next level with your physical performance,

then by golly we have 300 episodes of Grower Dyes you must listen to before this one.

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Welcome back to your favorite podcast, the Gordai Podcast.

I am your host, Shuss and Ma Haley, and today I am going to destroy the notion that caffeine gives

you energy because it in fact does not. Send this to a friend

that's going to be triggered and wait for the reaction. Share it with me. I'll see you inside.

One of our most viral reels was when I discussed the notion that caffeine doesn't give you energy and people were so

angry and heated up about it so I figured let's get them even more triggered.

Let's do an entire podcast on Why Caffeine,

which is in coffee, which I have right here in my hand

if you're watching on YouTube.

It's not giving me energy.

So what is it actually doing? Well, it's not giving a true metabolic, energetic

boost. There's just no usable chemical energy to the body. Unfortunately this cup isn't actually

supplying my body with a single chemical that gives it energy now energy has to be able to be generated via

a T.P. through cellular respiration.

Coffee doesn't do that. Any perceived energy gain stems from neural signaling effects on focus, on alertness, and fatigue, but without augmenting any caloric availability from dietary sources you just can't say

there's a single drop of energy in this thing.

Now there's a widespread misconception that caffeine's metabolic impact are more nuanced

than just neural effects. So I figured to understand caffeine's biological effects.

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