If you’ve ever rolled out of bed 30 minutes too late, sprinted to work without time for your regular coffee run, and paid for it with a splitting headache an hour or so later, you might be addicted to caffeine.
And that’s not the only side effect you could be faced with — here are a few more.
You can’t go a morning without it.
If you can’t be bothered to do (or say) anything worthwhile before filling your body with caffeine, you may have a problem. After all, caffeine is a stimulant, which is why many people rely on it.
"It stimulates the dopamine receptors in our brain, kind of like cocaine and other certain drugs, just not nearly to the same extent,"Dana Hunnes, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., senior dietitian at UCLA Medical Center and adjunct assistant professor at the Fielding School of Public Health told SELF.
You have a high tolerance.
Just like any other drug, the more you use caffeine, the more used to it your body gets. That’s why you may notice that it gradually needs more and more coffee, energy drink, or your source of choice to get moving.
"While caffeine can give people a buzz, raising alertness, the effect only works in those unused to the drink," BBC reported.
You can't go to the bathroom until you've had a cup.
This applies to coffee especially, but most people know that caffeine has a pretty direct effect on the bowels.
Most people are used to making a pit stop at the bathroom after having their first cup — so much so that it becomes a bodily routine.
Dr. Paul Bertrand, senior lecturer and researcher into gut and neurosciences at RMIT told HuffPost, however, that if you stop drinking coffee, "it might throw things off a little bit, but over time the digestive system would get used to no coffee."
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