How does coffee keep you awake?

Moment of Um

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Coffee is known for giving people energy. In fact, some say they can’t start their day without coffee! It made us wonder why coffee helps us stay awake. We asked dietician and nutritionist Maria Cruz to help us find the answer.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on this is the moment of um.
0:04.0	Moment of um.
0:06.0	Um.
0:08.0	Moment of um comes to you from 8 p.m. studios.
0:11.0	I'm producer Anna Weggle.
0:13.0	Um...
0:15.0	I'm so tired, like really, really tired. I stayed up way too late reading the most
0:26.2	amazing book and now my eyelids feel like they weigh a thousand pounds. I
0:31.6	would take a nap but I have so much to do.
0:35.0	Maybe jumping jacks will pet me up.
0:37.0	Oh, or a mini dance party.
0:39.0	I'm doing the robot, the wobble. Oh, there's my dog.
0:44.4	Come on, let's tango.
0:46.0	That was impressive. I need a seat.
0:54.8	No, now I just feel like a sloth again.
0:58.0	Adorable, but so sleepy. What do I do?
1:02.3	Oh! sleepy. What do I do? I could just drink a cup of coffee.
1:07.0	I feel better already.
1:11.0	It's like a tiny magic cheerleader cartwheeled into my brain to pet me up.
1:17.3	It kind of makes me wonder how coffee works to keep us awake. My friend Lily have the same question.
1:22.4	My question is how does coffee keep you awake?
1:25.6	So my name is Maria Cruz and I work as the dietician or nutritionist at Williams College in Massachusetts.
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