There is a drink that increases the pain threshold and thus makes a person less susceptible to pain syndromes. A study of a group of American scientists under the leadership of psychologist Burrell Goodwin of the University of Alabama have shown to improve the ability to endure pain helps drinking coffee.
How were able to see the specialists, caffeine actually produces quite a powerful effect of anesthesia, is the property of drink has been proved experimentally. Scientists have collected group of volunteers, the authors of the project have carefully studied the preferences of people in regard to drinks. Of these participants separately selected ardent coffee lovers – those who daily consumed about 170 mg of caffeine (two cups).
Then the researchers had conducted tests which allow to determine the degree of pain tolerance participants of the experiment. In particular, in the region of the forearms of people exposed to a heating device with a different degree of pressure and temperature– up to what the participants already could not withstand. As a result, according to the researchers, they were able to establish that the “threshold of pain really improved with regular consumption of caffeine to a certain amount.”
In parallel, scientists have found that the analgesic effect of coffee takes place even taking into account other factors that may affect sensitivity to pain, for example, such as Smoking and sex.
Pain syndrome is considered one of the most pressing problems of health care: according to conservative estimates, every year for the purchase of painkillers like over-the-counter and dispensed under strict control spent millions of dollars. The authors admit that coffee drinking could be one of the easiest ways to solve the problem, because caffeine acts on the very cause of the pain.
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