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One of its tasks in the body is to let you know when you get tired. Caffeine has a similar structure as adenosine, a messenger substance of your body. It is able to permeate the brain blood barrier and thus reach your brain directly. Once it’s in your blood caffeine will affect your physical processes. The maximum blood concentration is reached after 20 to 30 minutes, it doesn’t accumulate but gets degraded with a half-life of 4 to 6 hours. The moment you drink your cup of coffee caffeine enters your body and within five minutes it enters your blood. Caffeine quickly gets absorbed by the human body. Caffeine is the world most widely used drug and is found in over 60 different plants as cola nut, tea bush etc. Though both are the same molecule I will continue to use the terms caffeine and theine. We need to take on an overall view before answering this question. Does that mean both are absorbed and processed the same way? In addition to that we will see some facts and figures.įig.1 Chemical structure of caffeine - Sourceįig.2 Chemical structure of theine- Sourceĭid anyone of you spot a difference? I hope you didn't spend too much time since there is no difference because caffeine and theine are the same chemical molecule. Then we will discuss the positive and negative effects.
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Let's have a look at the chemical structure of caffeine and theine first. A friend of mine told me theine is the same as caffeine, another friend told me they are totally different. Many people swear by the positive and stimulating effect of coffee since it contains caffeine. What do you choose? Of course to wake up! There are many ways to become wide awake: take a cold shower, do your morning sports routine or take a cup of coffee or tea. You have two choices now: wake up or go back to sleep. We are all familiar with the situation – the alarm clock goes off and you don’t want to wake up. Welcome my dear Steemian friends to another episode of Myth or Fact!