#caffeineandsleep
Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder report that caffeine has a physiological impact on sleep. It delays the body’s natural surge to produce the hormone melatonin. This causes your body’s circadian clock to be pushed back. So, instead of drinking caffeine based beverages to stay awake like coffee or energy drinks, you should drink alkaline ionized water, which will give you our body energy naturally without messing up your natural internal systems.
The problem with caffeine interfering with our circadian clock is that the circadian clock is present in your cells throughout your whole body. It’s in your fat cells and in your muscle cells and every other cell. When you drink caffeine, you are messing up your entire body’s ability to rest and restore.
Participants in the study at the University of Colorado drank a double espresso three hours before their normal bedtime and experienced a 40 minute delay in the normal melatonin surge. Considering that Americans already don’t get enough sleep, this is a serious delay in your body being able to rest and restore. Americans are supposed to get at least seven hours of sleep every night. But if you drink coffee 3 hours or sooner before you go to bed, you’re going to cut off at least 40 minutes from your natural sleep cycle.
People drink caffeinated beverages in order to get an energy boost to make it through their day. For me personally, my energy tends to dip about 5 or 6 p.m. so that’s when I start looking to sugary snacks and caffeinated beverages to stay awake. But I’ve discovered that drinking a glass or two of alkaline ionized water gives me natural energy and keeps me awake without needing to get energy from sugar and caffeine.
Alkaline ionized water, produced by EOS Water Ionizers gives, your body natural energy because it is a strong antioxidant. An antioxidant works by lending an extra ion to an unstable oxygen molecule inside your cells called a free radical. Once this unstable oxygen molecule receives the extra iron from the antioxidant, that unstable oxygen molecule turns into regular oxygen that your body absorbs and uses for energy.
A glass of alkaline ionized water has more antioxidants than a glass of freshly squeezed grapefruit juice, blueberry juice, and even orange juice. So when you drink alkaline ionized water, you are infusing your body with billions and trillions of antioxidants and every single one of those antioxidants will convert a free radical into oxygen that your body uses for energy. The sum of fact of drinking alkaline ionized water is that you feel energized, and it also detoxifies your body and makes you feel lighter and clears up any haze that you might experiencing in your head.
Next time it is evening or perhaps in the middle of the afternoon and you’re feeling sluggish and sleepy, instead of reaching for coffee, tea, or some sugary snacks, reach for a glass of alkaline ionized water from an EOS water ionizer and you’ll get the energy that your body needs naturally without messing up any of your body’s natural sleep cycle. When it comes to caffeine and sleep, it’s just not worth the damage caffeine does to your naturally sleep cycle.
To your health!
