Nutrition and Your Body: Your Body on Caffeine

Nutrition and Your Body: Your Body on Caffeine — page 5
Alex's blood The BEFORE THE blood carries it through COFFEE DRINK the body and brain Coffee is made from coffee beans But they aren't actually This makes Alex feel beans They are the pits inside awake and happy It coffee shrub berries People did not start making coffee also keeps him from beans into a hot drink until sleeping Because of the 1200s CE Before then the caffeine his body some people mixed the ripe berries with animal fat This ignores the usual made a kind of protein bar signals that make Sometimes they made the berries into a drink like wine him sleepy Later they roasted coffee beans They did this to see if THE the beans would become less AFTERMATH bitter Then they boiled the beans to make them softer The chemicals that The result was something like caffeine releases today's coffee into the body don't stay forever They will eventually leave the body during urination Then Alex's brain can do what it was supposed to do hours ago It makes Alex sleepy The chemicals that flooded 8