What if I accidentally drink too much coffee? How does caffeine excessive anxiety palpitation solve?

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Busy office workers, always used to get up early or a cup of coffee after dinner, cheer up or support their sleepy soul…Coffee lovers, often have the habit of visiting restaurants, sometimes meet favorite shops and beans, but accidentally drink too much coffee, feel palpitations in two or three hours, heartbeat acceleration, how should I do?

When caffeine intake exceeds the body's capacity, it may cause excessive excitation of the central nervous system, resulting in obvious symptoms such as palpitations, tremors, rapid breathing, excessive excitement, sleeplessness and anxiety.

How can I enjoy coffee and avoid discomfort?

Here are three quick ways to relieve symptoms. Try them!

Drink plenty of water when you feel palpitations

Caffeine in coffee is a water-soluble substance.

As long as the intake of sufficient water, cells metabolize water at the same time, can simultaneously expel caffeine from the body, relieve symptoms.

Drink sparkling beverages

When palpitations occur, drinking sparkling water, soda, etc. containing carbon dioxide will make carbon dioxide hold caffeine tightly, accelerate metabolism, and quickly take caffeine out of the body. This is one of the most common but unknown practices in the coffee industry.

It works on the same principle as one of the processes used to make decaffeinated coffee beans: the supercritical CO2 process. This is one of the most efficient ways to remove caffeine, with an extraction rate of 96% to 98%.

One thing to note is that when choosing bubbly water containing carbon dioxide, avoid choosing cola!

Because cola also contains a small amount of caffeine, but it will cause the opposite effect!

Drink lemon juice

There is also a folk saying that lemon juice is used to relieve the discomfort caused by caffeine.

When we taste coffee, we can often feel sour or bitter, but the taste has nothing to do with the acid or base of the food. Coffee, for example, is generally weak in pH (PH 4.5 ~ 5.5 ), but the culprit causing discomfort caffeine, but alkaline substances. The citric acid in lemon juice is acidic, perhaps through acid-base neutralization, to alleviate the discomfort caused by caffeine. However, this method still needed further verification.

Coffee tips

1. Caffeine contained in coffee is an easily soluble substance, but also a central nervous system stimulant, can make the central nervous system excited, so can increase alertness, attention and maintain a better mental state.

2. Caffeine is completely absorbed by the stomach and small intestine within 45 minutes of ingestion, and its effects disappear within about 3 to 4 hours. Therefore, drinking coffee does not reduce the amount of sleep required, it only temporarily reduces the feeling of drowsiness.

3. Avoid drinking coffee in the evening. Caffeine can effectively block the brain slow down the brain nerve activity, promote sleep "adenosine (adenosine)" effect, if the intake of caffeine-containing food or drink after the evening, it may block the role of adenosine, so that caffeine caused by the state of excitement continued to work, and then interfere with sleep at night.

4. The recommended caffeine intake per person per day is less than 300 mg, calculated as: body weight (kg) x daily intake of coffee up to 5 mg (mg), if the intake of caffeine in excess of the recommended dose may cause discomfort.