Caffeine breaks down to form many biologically active metabolites that in turn greatly affect neurological & biochemical systems throughout the human body. Individuals exhibit great variability in their metabolic processing of caffeine. Factors such as the use of pharmaceutical drugs & smoking tobacco can significantly increase or decrease the half life of caffeine in terms of its pharmacokinetics, or movement of the caffeine molecules through the human body's biochemical genetic information chemistry self assembling general intelligence emergent stochastic awareness generation system of systems.
Consuming Caffeine
Coffee & Tea are not equivalent to caffeine, especially considering the many thousands of bioactive molecules present in roasted coffee beans & tea leaves. As an alkaloid readily soluble in heated water, aqueous infusions of these plant sources produce effective caffeine extraction. Traditional coffee & tea brewing procedures and methods are sufficient to achieve the solubility extraction that produce coffee & tea hot drink infusions.
Caffeine affects adenosine receptors that normally plug up with adenosine to cause drowsiness to increase during the day so that by evening time your biochemistry is primed from sleep, which is essential to metabolite clearing of the human brain. Sleep allows our brain to purge itself of gunk. Caffeine binds to the adenosine receptor sites (a few different ones are activated by caffeine) blocking the function of the drowsiness promoting adenosine. Thus caffeine stimulates wakefulness by inhibiting adenosine by competitively binding to and blocking adenosines target receptor sites.
By increasing cAMP levels the immune system & inflammatory processes are inhibited, while the inhibition of acetylecholinesterase enzyme increases the neurological plasticity inducing acetylcholine levels. The enzyme modulating effects of caffeine together with the biological activity of its daughter species comprise a complex biological impact that vastly exceeds the scope of other stimulants.
Personal
I love green tea. Over the years I have developed a deep fondness & appreciation of green tea.
I mostly brew up about 2.2grams per day using a stainless mug mounted tea steeping apparatus in one of a few different ceramic mugs. I often use two mugs and double, triple or quad brew by rotating a pair of mugs through the process.
The night before I filter tap-water in a room temperature filtering jug and use this filtered water to fill a 16oz glass measuring cup with 2 cups of filtered water. I microwave the filled measuring cup for 5 min 55 seconds to achieve 190 deg F.
While the water is heating in the microwave I procure a mug, lightly clean up the brewing apparatus & place it into the mug.
Then I grab a metal tea tin that holds about 454 grams of tea. A small plastic scoop recovered from another product is used to withdraw about 2-2.5 grams of dry green tea from this vessel. I restore the lid immediately to keep the remaining tea dry between serving removals. I poor the dry green tea from the plastic scoop into the stainless steel brewing apparatus mounted into the top of a ceramic mug.
I move the setup closer to the microwave to facilitate a rapid processing stage when the heating interval completes after almost 6 minutes of RF heating :) When the microwave finishes I remove the heated water & immediately pour the water into the mug + brewer with dry tea added.
The heated water causes the setup to increase in temperature while the absorbed heat from the setup reduces the water temperature by ~12 deg. The glass vessel used to heat the water retains enough heat to prewarm the next addition of filtered water from 63 deg to 80 deg, allowing for a slightly shorter 5:43 heating interval to over 200 deg F :) After 3-15 minutes I remove the steeping setup from mug 1 and place it in mug two while the second microwave water heating interval is underway.
I only drink my tea when my mug tea temperature cools off to a safe drinking temp below 140 deg F. I can feel the cup with my hand to estimate if it will burn my mouth. If it feels to holt to hold for more than 20 seconds, the fluid is likely more than 140 deg F, and consuming overly hot fluids can damage the stem cells in the tissues lining the inside of your mouth, which can cause mouth cancer by repeated thermal denaturing damage of the squamous cells.
Tea
Thousands of years ago the Chinese discovered the medicinal properties of tea. The rest is history! Our knowledge about food chemistry & its affect on the human body through biochemistry & pharmacokinetics will continue to expand and develop as scientists, researchers, doctors & large corporations seek to enhance medicine with the best of nature's biochemistry. More knowledge will pave the way to greater understanding, enabling more innovations across more fields and disciplines. The arts, culture, science, philosophy and all other aspects of modern human civilization are affected by tea, coffee and caffeinated beverages.
To stimulate the mind & urine production simultaneously while the immune system calms down and inflammatory processes subside, caffeine is a performance enhancing drug from a lot of different reasons. The application of artificial intelligence to the medicinal properties of tea mean that tea will become an even more important part of our future. In traditional cultures tea was known to contain spiritual energy. Every person will experience the effects of beverages containing caffeine in their genome, age, gender, drug & diet unique reality.
We are all slightly different because of tiny differences in our genes, the genetic instruction set we inherit from our parents. Each person alive today is the biological legacy of the previous generations genetic transfer. Evolution of the human species occurring in both our minds & our bodies, slowly and continuously over long periods of time. We get the sparkle of smartphones but it takes years for the true ramifications of such a thing to become known and even longer before behavior begins to modulate the use of said technology with reasonable balance. Today people have neck & thumb problems from the overuse of smartphones. Many people experience poor health from drinking too much caffeine & bright lights at night, especially those bright smartwatch, smartphone, tablet, laptop and computer + TV screens.
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