What is Caffeine?

Caffeine is the world’s most widely consumed central nervous system stimulant. The most popular, reliable, and effective ergogenic aid is fast-absorbing, promotes elevated alertness, supports endurance, boosts stamina, and increases power output. Caffeine helps burn calories, improves physical strength, recovery, and delays fatigue.

What is the benefit of Caffeine supplements?

Caffeine functions as a metabolic stimulant as well as a fatigue reducer. Caffeine supplements can stimulate the central nervous system to improve mental and physical performance, and increase alertness. Caffeine can encourage working muscles to use fat as fuel by mobilizing fat stores, and has a significant effect on delaying depletion of muscle glycogen. Caffeine can assist in better body coordination, gives you the energy to get through your morning, afternoon slumps, studying, travel, and training. Caffeine increases stamina, physical strength, increases the number of offensive actions, muscle power, reduces time to complete a set distance.

Who can consume Caffeine supplements?

Gym-goers, athletes, and those who need an extra energy boost to power through the day can consume caffeine supplements. Research to date suggests that sporting people who do running, cycling, swimming, sprinting, jumping, and throwing actions can benefit from caffeine supplementation. A wide range of aerobic, anaerobic sport-specific actions involving muscular endurance, muscular strength, muscle power, and movement velocity will get consistent moderate-to-large benefits from caffeine use.

How to consume Caffeine capsules?

Caffeine is both water and fat-soluble, it is rapidly absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract and moves through cellular membranes, it is quickly absorbed by all our body’s tissues, including the brain. Caffeine capsules are ideal to be consumed with water, juice, or protein shakes.

I don’t do workouts, can I use Caffeine?

Yes, caffeine appears to improve physical performance in both trained and untrained individuals. Caffeine has been shown to be a potent ergogenic aid for cognitive function including attention and vigilance, in most individuals.

Does Caffeine support weight loss?

Yes, caffeine may support weight loss, the results being more evident when combined with endurance training. Caffeine promotes thermogenesis, which increases the rate at which your body burns calories. Caffeine increases lipolysis which determines increased burning of accumulated fat for energy and a decreased dependence on glycogen use. Caffeine switches the substrate preference from glycogen to lipids by stimulating hormone-sensitive lipase activity. Caffeine helps suppress appetite by activating the sympathetic nervous system, it helps burn calories at rest. Caffeine provides energy burst with zero sugar and zero added calories.

What is the recommended dosage of Caffeine?

Minimal effective doses of caffeine have not been determined by studies and hence remain unclear, however, the studies suggest minimum doses could be as low as 2mg/Kg of body mass. AS-IT-IS caffeine capsules provide 200mg of caffeine anhydrous per serving.

Does Caffeine help reduce fatigue?

Yes. Generally, muscles use glycogen, a stored form of glucose, for energy, when glycogen stores run out, muscles become less efficient to power through intense workouts, which could lead to exhaustion. Caffeine spares the preserved glycogen stores by quickly shifting muscles to burn fat thereby giving muscles more time before exhaustion sets in. The benefits of caffeine are more obvious in longer bouts of endurance exercise rather than in short-term kinds of exercise. Caffeine supplements result in attenuation of pain during exercise, which results in a decrease in the rate of perceived exertion.

Does Caffeine supplement help for running performance?

Yes, caffeine acts as a quick source of energy, promotes elevated alertness, improves energy output, it appears to be more beneficial in sports where you exercise over a longer duration and where there is increased chances of accumulation of fatigue. When you workout for longer, your body produces a chemical called adenosine which makes you feel tired. Caffeine’s performance-enhancing effects come mainly from its effect on your central nervous system, it competes with adenosine by binding to receptors in the brain.

I am a basketball player, does Caffeine supplement benefit my performance?

Yes, caffeine supplementation can improve a cognitive process like alertness, mood as well muscular strength, movement velocity, and endurance associated with exercise. Caffeine supplementation reduces fatigue during exercise and your perception of effort.

How does Caffeine boost exercise performance?

Caffeine is a reliable and effective ergogenic aid that helps in increasing the state of wakefulness by blocking the adenosine from binding to receptors in the brain. With this action, caffeine boosts wakefulness, alertness, and better focus. Caffeine, when consumed in conjunction with a carbohydrate source, improves post-exercise muscle glycogen stacking in comparison to consuming carbohydrates alone. As per studies, trained men have greater adenosine receptor densities than untrained men, this means there is a greater binding of caffeine to these receptors, thereby increasing the magnitude of the exercise performance following caffeine consumption.

Are Caffeine supplements addictive?

No, caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant that cannot be considered addictive because it does not affect a person’s physical health or cause drug-seeking behavior as in the case of alcohol or other drugs. Caffeine supplements do not cause negative symptoms of withdrawal except for temporary headaches in a few rare cases. Caffeine does not accumulate in the bloodstream and gets excreted in the urine. Compulsive caffeine consumption under any circumstances has not been observed by studies.

What is the best time to take Caffeine supplements?

The ideal time to take caffeine is one-hour pre-workout. Caffeine is metabolized by the liver, absorbed through the small intestine and stomach. Caffeine enters the bloodstream within 30 minutes to 45 minutes after consumption. Caffeine easily crosses membranes of the nerve and muscle cells and even the blood-brain barrier. It can stay elevated for up to 3-6 hours after consumption. The perfect timing of supplementation with caffeine ensures you will have peak levels of caffeine in your bloodstream right when you hit the gym. Caffeine supplementation helps benefit athletic performance, represents a potential method of mitigating the performance decrement seen particularly as demonstrated in the morning hours of workout or preserve performance during periods of sleep deprivation.

What is the difference between Caffeine & Caffeine anhydrous?

Caffeine anhydrous and caffeine are essentially the same thing but Caffeine anhydrous is the dehydrated caffeine (water content is filtered out) and hence it is in a more concentrated form than caffeine.

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