Why you should never drink coffee before breakfast

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First a cup of coffee ’in the morning and then the rest? That can backfire. Research from the University of Bath shows that a strong cup of comfort after a broken night causes your body to process glucose poorly, leading to a disrupted metabolism.

The researchers subjected 29 healthy participants to three test nights: one night they were allowed to simply sleep for eight hours followed by a sweet drink for breakfast, another time they were regularly poked awake by the researchers with that same sweet drink for breakfast, and in the third experiment they first had a cup of coffee after a bad night’s sleep and then a sweet drink.

Guinea pigs
The researchers looked every morning at how the bodies of the guinea pigs processed all the sugar from the sweet breakfast. When the test subjects started the day with coffee, glucose was broken down worse by the body. Interesting results, according to the researchers. ‘Coffee has consequences for our metabolism and our glucose breakdown. We don’t always realize that. Especially when you’ve slept poorly, you really want to drink a cup of coffee,’ says lead researcher Harry Smith.

After breakfast
Solution: drink the coffee after breakfast, then it has no effect on metabolism anymore. The researchers are not done with their research on coffee, sleep, and metabolism. ‘We also want to know how much you need to disrupt your sleep to have an effect on your system, what the long-term consequences are, and how exercise and movement can influence those harmful effects.’ The influence of decaffeinated coffee or tea at breakfast has not been studied yet.

Source: Science Daily