What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?
December 8, 2006 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Drink, Prevention, Your Body
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Have you ever wondered why Coke comes with a smile? It’s because it gets you high. They took the cocaine out almost a hundred years ago. You know why? It was redundant.
- In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
- 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
- 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
- 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
- >60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
- >60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
- >60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.
This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.) But, hey, have another Coke, it’ll make you feel better.
[tags] coke, effects, pharmacology, soda, caffeine, sugar [/tags]
*FYI: The Coke itself is not the enemy, here. It’s the dynamic combo of massive sugar doses combined with caffeine and phosphoric acid. Things which are found in almost all soda.
Further Reading/Sources
- What Happens To Your Body If You Stop Smoking Right Now? [internal link]
- This Is Your Life On Caffeine [internal link]
- Wikipedia - Sugar
- Wikipedia - Caffeine
- Processed Sugar Can Cause Addiction and Depression
- Counting The Many Ways Sugar Harms Your Health - Dr. Mercola
- How Caffeine Affects The Body
- I also had a practicing MD and member of The American College of Surgeons consult on this article about some blood chemistry issues. He mainly just looked over the article after I had written it and, after correcting a few time line issues, said that it was on the up and up.
Kelly Townsend
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yea, sugar love johnston that is so digustin
But i Love Coke
you’re goin to sick from it
yea,i think coke is bad for our bodies.Because, it is bad it has 10 teaspoons of sugar in it …. your blood pressure will be bad and you might have t o stay in the hospital for a good while….
THE INFORMATION WHAT YOU PROVIDED IS GOOD BUT SOMETIMES THERE IS MIDICAL
WORD WHICH IS NOT EASILY UNDERSTAND ANY WAY IT IS GOOD AND NOW PLEAS WRITE TO ME ABOUT THE RISK OF SOFT DRINK.
yea, i think it is bad for your body. Because, it can shut down your whole body and your blood will stop flowing inside your body….
misleading…especially the correlation to heroin. That same pathway is activated when you eat anything. Coke may have some relatively enhanced metabolic effects on the consumer, but comparing it to heroin in any way is too far.
What a stupid “guilt by association” heroin reference. It destroys any credibility the article may have otherwise had. What’s next? “Hitler also enjoyed a Coke and a smile, by the way.”
Everything has a limit and what we can do is to moderation of everything that we insert in our body!
I hate coke! Is bad for my acne!
no wonder i have hyper-tension!!
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geez. fast food and cola combined?? seems like i’m only waiting for diabetes to happen.
Type two diabetes, mind you. Sorry, had to throw that out there.
but, how about a diet coke? is it give the same effect? it says zero sugar.
lnice post! thanks
thank yea, i think it is bad for your body. Because, it can shut down your whole body and your blood will stop flowing inside your body
are those 10 teaspoons of sugar ment per 0,5 litres?
I think whatever happens the moment i drink coke i feel at the top of the world i just can’t stop fighting with the fear of dyeing one day hehehehe well thats me others best of luck happy long living…………
well truely speaking i was drinking soda when i wrote the comment i just can;t stay away from this pleasure……….
That’s all fine, i agree with it. but i like coke and i dont drink it that often anyway so i think ill be ok
However its mentioned that the “high” from coke is physically similar to heroin. actually its like cocaine not heroin. the latter works on the opiod receptors in ur brain and dopamine is a mind stimulant == like coke == like cocaine. look it up !!
interesting…makes me want to not drink coke.
very intresting!!! have heard cocaine mentioned along side coke before… Do you have sites that can back this up… very intresting!!!
good job and easily understood!
Really, topics like this are redundant.
When you break it down that way everything except fruit, meat and milk is bad for you.
And you guys always exaggerate. I drink a LOT of coke, daily, and have been for the past few years. I don’t remember the last time I didn’t drink at least one 2l bottle for two days. I’ve never experienced anything except occasional short-breath right after gulping down the first gulp.
You forgot to mention that as long as you eat properly and exercise, the possibility to experience anything at all is very low.
I’m drinking a coke right now no lie. “…providing a further boost in metabolism”. That’s good for me. I’m just increasing my metabolism.
Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. If possible, as you gain expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more information? It is extremely helpful and beneficial to your readers
Wow, soda is almost toxic if you break it down by the effects it have on our bodies. Why do we always end up putting bad stuff into our bodies even if we know it is not good for us?
yeah soda’s bad but beer is good!
Everything is good if you even it out with good foods (salads, fruit, WHOLE grains, ect ect.)
Doctor studies show that sugar DOES NOT actually make you hyper. (Source: My Science Teacher)
p.s. is this information from a 12 oz. can of coke… a 16 oz bottle of coke… 2 liter bottle of coke… 5 gallon tub of coke… ?
I like coke.
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