Energy improves the work of the heart
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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With each passing day, the so-called energy drinks are gaining popularity among the population. Especially the energy in the honor of the youth.
Compared with 2010, in 2011, global consumption of these drinks increased by 14% and increased to 4.8 billion liters, and its producers earned $ 37 billion profit.
What makes people drink energy, if most researchers point out the harm that "life-giving" cocktails do to the human body?
Perhaps it is the frenzied pace of life of modern people, who can not withstand that, they are trying to find additional sources of energy to maintain their strength?
Of course, to feel the surge of new strength and increase mental and physical activity, you can drink coffee, but energy drinks literally come on the traditional energy sources on the heels. Producers of such cocktails assure that, after drinking it, a person will cheer up, and his wings will grow "(for sure many remember the slogan from the well-known advertisement of one of these drinks). In one jar of energy contains from 150 to 400 mg of caffeine and on each one a warning about the recommended dose is written - no more than one bank a day, but many ignore these warnings.
So where is the truth? Do energy drinks actually cause irreparable harm to a person, or is there still a benefit in them?
This is what Dr. Matteo Kameli, a cardiologist at the University of Cardiology in Siena, and author of one of the few studies on the benefits of energy drinks tried to find out.
The main component of power engineers is caffeine - a powerful stimulant, acting on the nervous system is exciting, due to which a person feels "winged".
According to Dr. Kamel, energy drinks have a tonic and stimulating effect on the nervous system, thereby causing problems with the stomach, disrupting normal sleep, causing a sharp decline in strength after the end of its action and damaging the cardiovascular system.
However, more recently, beverages have begun to add a component such as taurine, due to which cardiac activity can on the contrary improve.
In the course of the research, Dr. Kamelie found that the new component stimulates the release of calcium, which has an inotropic effect on myocardial function.
Scientists recorded the state of the heartbeat at the beginning of the test and after receiving experimental energy drinks with a variety of dominant components.
As it turned out, the power industry caused only a slight increase in the frequency of systolic blood pressure (the figure that appears first when measuring pressure), and the diastolic blood pressure increased by 6%.
Thus, experts came to the conclusion that beverages, which contain taurine, can lead to positive results in terms of cardiac output.
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