Something as simple as a person's cup of coffee can create a dependency. 1,000,000 cups of coffee are reportedly served each day in the United States, that's over fifty four percent of adults over the age of eighteen that drink coffee every day in the United states alone. ("Coffee Drinking Statistics | Statistic Brain," 2014). Coffee contains a substance commonly known as caffeine. Caffeine is a crystalline compound found in tea and coffee plants, also a known stimulant of the central nervous system. Whenever a person wakes up a chemical called adenosine slowly accumulates in your brain. Adenosine binds to receptors which slow down brain activity. The more adenosine you have, the more fatigued your brain gets. The longer someone is awake, the more fatigued one will become, while sleeping the concentration of adenosine decreases slowly increasing wakefulness. ("Caffeine Withdrawal Symptoms: Top Ten,"
Something as simple as a person's cup of coffee can create a dependency. 1,000,000 cups of coffee are reportedly served each day in the United States, that's over fifty four percent of adults over the age of eighteen that drink coffee every day in the United states alone. ("Coffee Drinking Statistics | Statistic Brain," 2014). Coffee contains a substance commonly known as caffeine. Caffeine is a crystalline compound found in tea and coffee plants, also a known stimulant of the central nervous system. Whenever a person wakes up a chemical called adenosine slowly accumulates in your brain. Adenosine binds to receptors which slow down brain activity. The more adenosine you have, the more fatigued your brain gets. The longer someone is awake, the more fatigued one will become, while sleeping the concentration of adenosine decreases slowly increasing wakefulness. ("Caffeine Withdrawal Symptoms: Top Ten,"