In recent years, the consumption of stimulants and energy drinks has become extremely widespread. Are we using these purely out of fashion or compulsion?
WHAT DO WE NEED ENERGY FOR AND HOW DO WE EVEN GET IT?
Just like vehicles, our bodies have their own power plant, where they use fuel to generate energy. This is the energy we use when we maintain our internal balance. Our movement, our heart function, our digestion processes all require energy.
The energy required to function is formed in a cell organ called mitochondria.
In these microscopic bio-power plants, energy from burning carbohydrates and fats consumed with food is converted into chemical energy. Our bioenergy is stored in high-energy phosphate bonds with the formation of molecules called ATP (adenosine triphosphate). When phosphates are released from this molecule, energy is released and that energy can be used by our cells to function. Then the process repeats over and over again with the formation of ATP.
The more intense a cell works, the more mitochondria it contains. Some muscle cells contain up to 10,000, while they are completely absent in red blood cells!
Mitochondria is an internal gel-like structure surrounded by a bean-shaped double lipid membrane, the matrix. The membrane’s internal foldings give its distinctive lamellar structure. Embedded in the plates are the iron, sulphur, copper-containing particles and enzymes known as the breathing chain, which are key elements in energy formation. Coenzyme Q10 operates within this chain.
Peter Mitchell won the Nobel Prize for describing the process called chemiosmosis in 1978. His theory explains how the energy from burning sugars and fatty acids leads to ATP production. In the oxygen-intensive multi-stage process, participants pass energy through each other, while hydrogen is pumped into the space between the outer and inner membranes in the mitochondria. This hydrogen then trickles back into the matrix and gives the final power to the enzyme that performs the synthesis of the ATP. The efficiency of the process as well as the chemical properties in the mitochondria and the membrane stress are all dependent on the concentration of hydrogen Mitochondria also produce reactive oxygen radicals in addition to water and carbon dioxide as a by-product. The oxygen radicals, on the loose, cause damage to every structure in their path.
Not oxygen, but hydrogen is the fuel of life!
(Dr. Albert Szentgyörgyi)
Coffee and energy drinks not only stimulate the energy production process as outlined above, but indirectly consume the existing energy supplies. Excessive consumption is particularly harmful. They spin our heart, raise our blood pressure, and are diuretic. Increased sweating, tremor and insomnia are the symptoms of caffeine overdose. The condition, that is similar to stress, is followed by fatigue as a negative feedback signal, indicating our low ATP stocks. Energy drinks are dangerous not only because of their caffeine content, which is 1.5-2x per dose compared to coffee, but also because their long term consumption, due to the high sugar content, can lead to diabetes. Kids are particularly sensitive to caffeine.
For more energy, it is better to move regularly, eat fresh leafy vegetables, broccoli, beets and red berries. It is also advisable to supplement your omega3 fatty acid and coenzyme Q10 intake.
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OGYÉI notifikációs szám: 20323/2018
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Készítette: Dr. József Erika
