Caffeine is one of the most common and safe stimulants. Traditionally, caffeine is ingested in liquid form.
Chocolate, which also contains caffeine, is remembered only when it comes to caffeine addiction, and you need to give up all caffeine at once.
If any athlete needs to spur their physical performance, then caffeine is very suitable here.
In addition to athletes, caffeine is respected by the military. They need to fight sleep by maintaining a high level of alertness. That is, stay "on the watch". Moreover, it is desirable for them to come to this state very quickly.
All drinking and swallowing forms of caffeine are too slow for the military, so they tested chewing gum and a gel that could be absorbed in the mouth. This is a well-known method of delivering chemistry to the bloodstream. You've probably heard of nicotine chewing gum. Here is about the same mechanism - the drug is absorbed through the buccal mucosa saturated with blood vessels.
Athletes also use caffeine mouthwashes. So the drug is not only quickly absorbed into the bloodstream, but can also tickle the nerve endings in a special way and immediately act on the brain. The reasoning does not start to work much better from this, but the muscles contract more efficiently. Most likely, this process is triggered through the taste buds to a bitter taste.
Athletes rinsed their mouths with a caffeine solution for 20 seconds, and their physical performance immediately jumped. The truth is only not a few minutes.
Interestingly, when athletes drank energy drinks with caffeine, their performance did not increase.
And now the time has come for snuffing caffeine, which is injected into the nose in the form of an aerosol.
It turned out that such a thing does not really increase the physical performance of athletes, but they identified as many as three ways in which caffeine through the nose can stimulate the brain:
- it can instantly act on taste buds for bitter, which are also found in the nose;
- it can be rapidly absorbed into the blood vessels that go to the brain;
- he can literally crawl along the nerves into the brain.
It turns out that sniffing caffeine would be useful for those who want to quickly boost their mental abilities.
It seems that in the coming years they will come up with special spray sprays for this business.
