Caffeine Informative Speech

What we know as caffeine is also know as an alkaloid which can be found in different kinds of plants around the world. Caffeine it's self is a powerful stimulant which directly effects your central nervous system. The effect is that heightened alternates and focus you feel after drinking your morning cup of coffee or tea. And this effect is one we all love as it helps us get through every groggy morning. But the question many americans face today is caffeine good or bad for us? There doesn't seem to be a clear answer as there are strong points for each side, so we are left to wonder which one is really right? For the most part we are told from our parents and doctors that caffeine is nothing but some other harmful drug that if we don't watch how much we take can lead things like depression, restlessness, anxiety, infertility, miscarriages, and even high blood pressure. Though with that said new …show more content…
So to start off in case you don't know Parkinson's disease is a life threatening brain disease that damages a persons nerves and causing them to have muscle stiffness, tremors, and balance issues. Though caffeine has been found to interfer with the gene called “GRIN2A”. This is important because a number of people have this gene and it is linked to the compound glutamte which is said to causing the dying off of brain cells in Parkinsons's disease pationets. Along with that caffeine also effects the comound adenosine which then directly effects glutamate. It does this by pausing your central nervous system, which helps with the negitive effectes Parkinson's disease has on it. So in the end caffeine helps reduce your risk of Parkinson's disease by a staggering fifty to eighty precent because of it's effects on