If you want to be free from pain due to exhaustion or fatigue after exercise, drink a cup of coffee.
A new study shows that coffee reduces pain due to fatigue no matter a person has a habit of drinking coffee or not. According to the official news agency, China, Xinhua.
Professor of public health and kinesiology at the University of Illinois Robert Motl said, “Caffeine works on one system in the brain and spinal cord that is involved in processing pain. And because caffeine blocking adenosine, a chemical that plays an important role in energy transfer and if exercise, caffeine can reduce the pain. "
The researcher, a former bicycle racer, divided 25 healthy college students into two distinctive groups.
In one group there are men who consume caffeine every day is very low to nonexistent, and other groups include people with an average caffeine intake of 400 milligrams per day, equal to three to four cups of coffee.
After completing the initial exercise test in the laboratory by using a stationary bike in order to ensure maximal oxygen consumption or aerobic energy, the research object return tosports activity for 30 minutes with high intensity are monitored.
One hour before each activity, the bicycle-rider who has been instructed not to consume caffeine during the 24 hours previously-given one pill.
On one occasion, it contained a dose of caffeine pills the size of 5 milligrams per kilogram of body weight, or equal to two or three cups of coffee, and on other occasions they were given a replacement.
During the second period of exercise, the object of vision research on pain of a four-part muscle at the front of the thigh are recorded with a gap remains, along with data on oxygen consumption, heart rate, and share activities.
"What we are witnessing is something we did not expect," Motl said. "People who do not normally consume caffeine and consume it have the same level of reduction in pain during exercise after caffeine they consume," he said.
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