Coffee and Aerobics: Can Exercise Revitalise People Like Caffeine?

"New Year's Day -- It's time for your alarm clock to start a new dayWhat's your first step? Maybe a cup of coffee? You may consider going for a quick walkCoffee is the most common drink in Canada for adults after waterCaffeine is a psychoactive ingredient in coffee and it has several positive effects such as alertness, energy and mood but caffeine is not good news for everyoneSome people suffer negative effects from caffeine consumption, such as increased anxiety symptoms and muscle tremorsResearchers' concerns about caffeine intake in children and pregnant women have also prompted these groups to reduce their intake guidelinesTo some extent, most caffeine consumers experience the negative effects of withdrawal symptomsIt feels like headaches, fatigue and grumblingSo here's the question: How do you provide caffeine-like benefits without having side effects? The answer may lie in aerobic exercisePhoto Source: Caffeine and Exercise and The Lab Tested How Exercise Improves Various Health Outcomes One of Which is CognitionIn a recent study, they conducted face-to-face studies of aerobic exercise and caffeine to examine their ability to "promote" cognitive abilities, or working memoryWorking memory refers to our ability to temporarily store and manipulate information to complete tasksWorking memory is the memory you use when you're trying to quickly recall items on your list at the grocery store while updating information with a price tag in front of youIt is used in our daily lives and has something to do with our performance in school and at workIn our study, we tested the effects of having healthy adults walk on a treadmill for a quick minute and giving them the same amount of caffeine to drink a small cup of coffee on working memoryOur results suggest that a moderate-intensity exercise in adults who regularly consumes caffeine and does not consume caffeine is essentially equivalent to a single dose of caffeine in improving working memoryThe results suggest that replacing coffee with one aerobic exercise not only improves cognitive ability like coffee, but also brings other health benefits from exerciseWalking can reduce withdrawal symptoms In order to study caffeine, exercise and cognition in greater depth their team wanted to study what happens during caffeine withdrawalThis time they asked caffeine consumers to go through an hour-long caffeine deprivation periodThey then had to go to the lab so the researchers could assess their caffeine withdrawal symptoms, including fatigue, difficulty concentrating, poor mood, lack of motivation and headachesThe researchers also assessed their working memory and found that it was not affected by caffeine withdrawalPhoto Source: The researchers then tested whether walking or caffeine intake could reduce their withdrawal symptoms and improve their working memoryInterestingly, the results showed that walking minutes could reduce their withdrawal symptoms, especially fatigue and depressionHowever, working memory was not affected by withdrawal remained the sameSo how does aerobic exercise improve cognitive ability and reduce caffeine withdrawal symptoms? While there is still much debate investigating previous studies that have shown that improving the brain's blood flow releases neurotrophic factors such as food on brain cells and hormones such as dopamine and epinephrine associated with mood and energy may be partly responsible for these effectsThese findings are encouraging because they suggest that simple things like walking quickly during lunch breaks may help combat the afternoon's energy declineIn addition, short aerobic exercise may be a convincing option for improving several health conditions for those who may not want to drink coffee() Reference: : ?
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