Are you a coffee, chocolate, or tea lover who frequently consumes caffeine? Don't be panic about it! Let's explore the benefits of caffeine brought to our bodies!

  
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1. Helps Burn Fat

Consuming caffeine before a workout is able to enhance fat burning. Caffeine is able to boost the metabolism rate by up to 11%. However, one should be noted that if sugar or creamer is added, it will ruin your fat loss goal. However, you can add monk fruit sweetener which is zero calories to replace sugar to improve the taste of black coffee or tea.

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2. Improves Physical Performance

Drinking coffee before doing cardio workout can help to improve your performance by 11-12% as coffee helps to break down body fats and gives you the energy to prevent the body from getting fatigued easily. Hence, drinking coffee about an hour before heading to the gym but one should be mindful that sugar is a 'NO' as sugar will increase energy slump.

    
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 3. Makes you smarter

Studies show that students who love drinking coffee tend to have a good memory as caffeine is good for our brains due to its' essential nutrients and it helps us to focus. Even though caffeine can make you smarter, however, excessive consuming caffeine will give you the 'caffeine jitters' which makes you sleepless and anxious.

  
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4. Restore Mental Alertness

Caffeine can help to restore our mental alertness and keep us focused especially in the morning. This explains why most people love drinking coffee in the morning. However, it is not recommended that caffeine can be used to replace sleep. Lack of sleep may cause you to suffer from depression, obesity, and high blood pressure. Keeping focus is important but lack of sleep will affect our physical and mental health.

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5. Antioxidant

Caffeine is a good source of antioxidants as we expose to free radicals daily such as smoking, pollution, and chemicals which can boost up the aging rate and affect our health. The antioxidant is important to slow down the damage of body cells. For coffee lovers, there is good news for you. Coffee is proved to contain a rich source of antioxidants. However, once again, try to stop addicting to sugar as sugar will accelerate the aging rate.

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