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.
s the most popular soft drink out there! do you enjoy drinking coke Liz Lewis? why did you write this article… could you not think of anything else to write about? was it assigned? do you happen to hate soda?
This article is what people who have no knowledge of medicine really believe
Many doctors have assembled data that has been well known for years about the bad things drinking pop (Coke/Pepsi/Sprite etc) can cause, but they have always left out the most important factor that is causing the obesity plaguing the U.S. particularly. CO2 impregnated (carbonated) sodas are often consumed in large amounts when the victim is also consuming large amounts of food. CO2 is a waste product as far as the brain is concerned- elevated levels of CO2 in the bloodstream causes the normal digestive process to fail completely. This failure causes proteins to not be absorbed and when this happens the food’s fat content passes into the bloodstream unchecked and therefore directly into the tissues (obesity). When the body processes protein properly it burns one and one third of it’s own weight in fat naturally! That’s right, when your intenstines are clear, and not full of pork fatty oils, bread paste, enriched pasta paste and the like you will loose weight naturally buy merely consuming protein!
Fast food purveyors would do the public a great service to discourage consuming any liquids other than small amounts of water when they eat: and do not consume any carbonated drinks for at least 2 hours after they eat. Last, CO2 is the same exact “greenhouse gas” that is responsible climate change! That’s right, the soda pop companies are putting purified car exhaust into a can and selling it to you!
Great post … Really good breakdown. Is coke the worst offender or are there worse drinks? I’m sure red bull has a similar cycle.
Super loto, coke may be the most popular soft drink out there, but it is mostly drank ( in huge amounts) by ignorant peasants that have no idea about healthy eating. I myself enjoy a can 1-2 times a week, however I am fully aware of the teeth rotting, gut rotting, calcium depleting problem this drink can cause if used in over abundance.
hi kid lol dont belive that
As a rule I don’t drink soda, but without credible references this information sounds like a bunch of fearmongering aimed at conspiracy theorists. Show me the study/paper/etc put forth in a respectable publication, and I’ll buy it. Without documented research, this is technically just speculation.
I just look at all the obese people that fill up there 64 OZ thirstbusters full of COKE or any other SODA. No THANKS I will stick with WATER.
These people wonder why there so FAT and still drink 120 + OZ of SODA per DAY!!
This lady is right, even if there are no evidence STUDY/PAPER/ETC just look at these people who drink soda.
Or do you own test, drink a soda for dinner and see how you wake up in the morning, Your probably not going to sleep for an hour or two cause your so sugared up and caffined up.
Then you will wake up more sluggish than ever.
GOOD JOB ON THIS ARTICLE…..
You would have to an IDOIT not to know that sodas are bad for you. If you are an adult consuming soda that’s your right, but to see children consuming sodas should be a crime.
The worse thing I seen is parents putting soda in baby bottles. I’m sure the baby would just be happy with water.
hav any one die from drinkin coke??
Has anyone died from drinking Coke? Not immediately
but it is a slow, slow death. Obesity and health problems from junk (which is
what coke is) will eventually get you. As Gloria Swanson once
said about sugar….I won’t have that stuff in my house let alone
my body!!
you know im an 11 year old girl and im doing a powerpoint on bad food for youe body and as soon as i read this i said this is perfect it gives me everything i need.And plus i saw your name and i said even better….lol.thank you for this it hgelps me alot!
I seriously did not know this about coke. How awful! Why would anyone ever drink Coke.. why isn’t this highly publicized? No more cokes in my house EVER!! This is scary– it seems like coke could cause you to have a heart attack!
-Sylvia
I started reading this article as I’m genuinely concerned about the health effects of coke, but was very disappointed in it’s lack of science. To be honest point 2, wehere your body “turns sugar into fat” ended my interest and I haven’t read further as I imagine the rest will be just as badly researched. People get fat from sugar because your body will burn sugar BEFORE fat and therefore leave the fat on your body. Sugar cannot TURN INTO fat. It is physically impossible for one to TURN INTO the other. I think this is a great topic but would prefer to read some actual scientific findings rather than someone’s summary of rumours and old wive’s tales.
Jacsta, you are incorrect. The author has explained quite accurately exactly what happens. Your body DOES turn sugar into fat. This is basic metabolism. When one floods the bloodstream with all that sugar, you must either burn it immediately, or the Pancreas will have Insulin try to store in in the Liver and muscles. Chronically elevated sugar, leaves no room to store anymore sugar. In a desperate attempt to get the sugar out of the bloodstream, where it is damaging proteins and lipids in a process called Glycation, the Liver will begin converting the sugar into Triglycerides (FAT). Better not to speak if uninformed.
quit fucking bitching and drink the damn thing, maybe then you’ll stop being such an anal loser. “This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.” I’ve had two glasses of coke in the last hour and feel no different. Go stick a carrot up your ass
I strongly agree and have forwarded it to a number of associates who found it very useful, keep up the good work.
From reading the posts here I can see that many do NOT want to accept responsibility for their own health!Anyone with half a brain knows soda’s are horrible for you.The problem is people are way too spoiled,ignorant and brainwashed to think constrctivley for themselves.Corperations are evil and its only the most ignorant people out there who do not see that the government doen NOT have your best interests at heart!(Take alook at what the powers that be have done to this society and planet and I wonder how long things are going to last!)
People have to wake up and stop trusting whatever the government tells you!(Nazi germany will return if people don’t wake up!)