Drinking coffee every 4 hours may improve your depressed winter mood



Seasonal affective disorder, which causes symptoms such as depression and increased sleep time from autumn to winter, is also called 'winter depression' and is annoying to many people. A new study of 5,000 people living in Europe and a review of previous studies have reported that drinking coffee may improve the depressed mood in winter.

Drinking coffee helps to improve mood as days get shorter
https://www.coffeeandhealth.org/2021/10/drinking-coffee-helps-to-improve-mood-as-days-get-shorter/

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Seasonal affective disorder is characterized by a seasonal cycle in which depression begins in the fall or winter and the symptoms subside in the spring and summer. Symptoms include depression, decreased energy, increased sleep time and drowsiness, overeating, and decreased exercise, and as the daylight hours decrease, the amount of serotonin, a hormone that causes motivation and happiness, decreases. It is believed that this is the cause.

A study commissioned by the Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee, a non-profit organization, surveyed more than 5,000 adults living in the United Kingdom, Italy, Finland, Germany and Poland in terms of seasons, lifestyles and mentality. We surveyed about the relationship with health. As a result, it was found that 28% of the participants experienced depressive symptoms with decreased daylight hours, and 28% also experienced increased sad feelings. Specifically, 24% of respondents answered that 'shorter daylight hours increase anxiety', 24% 'difficult to concentrate', 25% 'decrease motivation for exercise', 21 % Said that 'exercise performance deteriorates'.



The questionnaire also asked about coffee habits and mental health relationships during the season when daylight hours are short. Twenty-nine percent of the subjects said that their main motivation for drinking coffee in the fall and winter was 'to feel vitality,' and 20% said they 'drinked coffee to improve their mood and emotions.' Twenty-one percent said that drinking coffee helps to awaken and concentrate.

A 2010

study suggests that taking 75 mg of caffeine, which is equivalent to a cup of coffee, every 4 hours may sustain a day-long improvement in mood. In addition, with the effect that only smell the coffee aroma of improving the workings of the brain can be obtained research results and, caffeine is to improve the mood and performance research results with, caffeine can improve the performance of motion study results The Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee claims that coffee consumption has many benefits against seasonal affective disorder.

Giuseppe Grosso, assistant professor at the University of Catania School of Medicine, said, ' Polyphenols in coffee cross the blood-brain barrier , exert anti-neuroinflammatory effects and promote neurogenesis , reducing the risk of cognitive and emotional disorders. There is evidence that . '



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