“Pop” goes the tab on a can of Coke. Maybe you sip it and it’s gone in 20 minutes, or maybe you were thirsty and downed it in just a few glugs.
Either way, 39 grams of sugar, 45 grams of sodium, in addition to some phosphoric acid, caffeine and other ingredients, from a 12-ounce serving are now in your system. And while you might not be actively thinking about it at the time, your body is hard at work processing the beverage.
Here’s a nice visual by former U.K. pharmacist Niraj Naik, also known as the Renegade Pharmacist, showing what happens in the hour after you drink a can of Coke.
Niraj Naik, the brain behind website The Renegade Pharmacist has revealed disturbing effect of a can of Coke to our system within the first hour of drinking it.
Here’s how it went:
1. In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
2. 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
3. 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
4. 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
5. >60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
6. >60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
7. >60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.
Naik said that he’s helped others wean themselves off long-term medication, especially blood pressure medication, statins and diabetic drugs. One of his first recommendations would be to stop drinking sugary beverages.
“My first advice to them would be to do a simple swap. Replacing fizzy drinks with water with fresh lemon or lime juice,” he wrote. “In many cases just doing this would have a dramatic effect on their health. So this indicated to me that fizzy drinks and sugar were big issues relating to blood pressure and metabolic diseases like diabetes and heart disease.”
Naik wrote more about how the ingredients in most sodas react in the body in a post on his blog the Renegade Pharmacist back in May. It’s starting to get play again after it was reposted by Truth Theory.
(H/T - Google)
Either way, 39 grams of sugar, 45 grams of sodium, in addition to some phosphoric acid, caffeine and other ingredients, from a 12-ounce serving are now in your system. And while you might not be actively thinking about it at the time, your body is hard at work processing the beverage.
Here’s a nice visual by former U.K. pharmacist Niraj Naik, also known as the Renegade Pharmacist, showing what happens in the hour after you drink a can of Coke.
Niraj Naik, the brain behind website The Renegade Pharmacist has revealed disturbing effect of a can of Coke to our system within the first hour of drinking it.
Here’s how it went:
1. In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
2. 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
3. 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
4. 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
5. >60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
6. >60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
7. >60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.
Naik said that he’s helped others wean themselves off long-term medication, especially blood pressure medication, statins and diabetic drugs. One of his first recommendations would be to stop drinking sugary beverages.
“My first advice to them would be to do a simple swap. Replacing fizzy drinks with water with fresh lemon or lime juice,” he wrote. “In many cases just doing this would have a dramatic effect on their health. So this indicated to me that fizzy drinks and sugar were big issues relating to blood pressure and metabolic diseases like diabetes and heart disease.”
Naik wrote more about how the ingredients in most sodas react in the body in a post on his blog the Renegade Pharmacist back in May. It’s starting to get play again after it was reposted by Truth Theory.
(H/T - Google)
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