Coffee is a popular drink, especially office workers because of the delicious taste, helping to increase the ability to focus and alert.Coffee is also known for its health benefits such as preventing type 2 diabetes, cancer, reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease and promoting weight loss.

Many people have a habit of drinking coffee right after waking up to start the day awake.However, according to the doctorMichael Mosley, British nutritionist,This has many potential risks, especially when taken at an empty stomach.After waking up is the time when the cortisol stress hormone of the body is at the highest level.

“Drinking coffee when hungry will activate the release of stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol.So instead of drinking coffee as soon as you get up, try to hold back until after breakfast ”,Dr. Mosley shared.

Drinking coffee when cortisol is at the highest level that can increase this hormone concentration even higher.Cortisol levels in a long time can impair our immune system, causing health problems.

This doctor added:“Although cortisol is essential to help us stay awake in the morning, excessive absorption of this substance from the beginning can lead to excessive irritation of the body and produce a stressful reaction.Unwanted.This can adversely affect the intestinal tract, hormones, adrenal glands and make our mood worse. ”

Dr. Mosley confirmed that hungry stomachs will be able to stimulate cortisol, increasing blood sugar."The sudden increase in blood sugar can make us fall into a shortage of blood sugar for the rest of the day, causing fatigue, exhaustion.", nutritionist Gabi works with Dr. Mosley.

According to Dr. Michael Mosley, people should wait at least 90 minutes after waking up to drink the first coffee.90-120 minutes from the time of awakening is also the appropriate time that Professor at Stanford University (USA) Andrew Huberman advises people to drink coffee.

The golden time is considered by many experts to be the right time to drink coffee from 9:30 am to 11:30 am, when Cortisol's concentration begins to decrease.Then the drinker will benefit more from the nerve stimulation effect of coffee.

For those who want to increase sports performance, can drink coffee for 30-60 minutes.Besides, because of the stimulating effect of caffeine from coffee lasting from 3–5 hours depending on the location of each person, about half of the total amount of caffeine consumed is still in the body after 5 hours of drinking, should notDrink coffee after 12 noon.

Drinking coffee after this time affects the quality of sleep, causing insomnia or daily -life arrhythmia.Lack of sleep can cause some serious health problems such as heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, obesity and depression.

Despite being shown to have many health benefits, the common coffee that people often drink is instant coffee or coffee containing sugar, cream, milk powder ... with high calories, causing increased increasedWeight, obesity, even diabetes.So doctors always advise people to drink pure coffee and limit sugar and milk as possible.

(According to Express)