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hey guys welcome back and today we’re going to  talk about coffee how much is too much it’s a  

question that keeps coming up so let’s just define  what a moderate amount of coffee would be that’s  

two to three eight ounce glasses per day or cups  per day right a high amount is four cups or more  

now going through college i was an extreme coffee  drinker i’m talking i would drink pots of coffee  

not just mild coffee but Cuban coffee thus  all the health problems the adrenal burnout  

ulcers etc that occurred after that so what i want  to discuss today is what happens when you drink  

too much coffee right now i drink a very small  amount of coffee per day it’s in the morning it’s  

a very small cup it’s probably i don’t know four  to five ounces just because if i do too much it  

does affect my sleep the biggest negative effect  that coffee has on your body is the depletion of  

potassium in fact they use serum potassium  levels that’s potassium levels in your blood  

as a biomarker for acute caffeine poisoning  so let’s just talk about what happens when  

you expose yourself to too much caffeine so we’re  not just talking about coffee it could be in sodas  

it could be in sports drinks it can also be and  all the other things that contain caffeine like  

tea chocolate so the first thing that large  amounts of caffeine will do to your body  

is it will increase your release of catecholamines  now what is catecholamines catecholamines are all  

those things on the inside of the adrenal gland  like adrenaline would be a catecholamine you have  

dopamine gaba noradrenaline but for this video  we’re just primarily talking about adrenaline  

so when you drink coffee you’re stimulating  adrenaline and when you increase adrenaline  

you lose potassium okay so that’s number one  number two you increase the sodium potassium pump  

now i’ve done other videos on this now inside  your body you have all these little tiny cells  

and in the cells you have billions of these little  pumps that are generating electrical current and  

that has a lot to do with running your nervous  system and your muscular contraction and your  

relaxation and you need a lot of potassium for  that you also need this pump for energy so when  

you start increasing the work on these pumps you  need a lot of potassium and you get this shift  

from the potassium inside the blood going out of  the blood inside your cells so you’re going to end  

up with low potassium in your blood that’s called  hypokalemia so that’s another mechanism of why you  

lose potassium you’ll also increase something  called diuresis basically you’re losing fluid  

caffeine connect is a diuretic another way to lose  potassium you also trigger something else called  

respiratory alkalosis so your body starts becoming  more excessively alkaline and when you have that  

you lose potassium now if you’re adding sugar to  your coffee you’re going to add another layer or  

a complexity because you’re going to spike insulin  and as you may know in other videos when you spike  

insulin you need potassium because you’re going  to be storing this glucose into the liver into  

the muscles as glycogen and you need potassium to  store that so you’re basically going to deplete  

your potassium even more and this also occurs if  you’re doing artificial sweeteners and i haven’t  

even talked about all the things that occur when  you’re low on potassium like heart arrhythmias  

fatigue etc in this video i just wanted to point  out and emphasize the biggest problem with too  

much caffeine is a loss of potassium so if you’re  drinking a little bit too much coffee make sure  

you add more potassium to the diet but ideally  the best thing to do is just to consume a small  

amount of coffee each day thanks for watching  before you go if you have a question about a  

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