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Put down your cups. Or at least, leave them up to then breakfast.
New research from the Center for Nutrition, Exercise and Metabolism at the University of Bath has found that drinking coffee after your morning meal is best for maintaining healthy blood sugar levels after a bad night’s sleep.
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A limited study showed that drinking coffee before breakfast altered blood sugar control.
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According to the scientists behind the research, which was published in the British Journal of Nutrition, drinking coffee as a way to wake up first thing in the morning can have a negative effect on blood glucose control.
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“Simply put, our blood sugar control suffers when the first thing our body comes into contact with is coffee, especially after a night of interrupted sleep. We could improve this by eating first and then drinking coffee later if we feel like we still need it. Knowing this can have important health benefits for all of us, ”said Professor James Betts, co-director of the Center for Nutrition, Exercise and Metabolism at the University of Bath, who supervised the study.
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For the study, 29 men and women were studied after three different overnight experiments. In them, the participants had a peaceful night’s sleep and then drank a sugary drink first thing in the morning; a disturbed night’s sleep (waking up every hour for five minutes, SciTech Daily reported) and then drinking a sugary drink in the morning; and a similar night of sleep interruption, but first drank coffee just 30 minutes before drinking the sugary beverage.
Each of the men and women took a blood test before and after ingesting anything.
According to the study, when participants first drank coffee, their blood glucose levels increased by approximately 50% after drinking the “breakfast” beverage. However, when the participants first drank the breakfast meal replacement drink, there did not appear to be a negative effect on glucose levels or insulin responses.
Although the study was limited and more research is needed on the effects of caffeine on metabolism first thing in the morning, early findings suggest that drinking coffee first could limit the body’s ability to process sugar immediately afterward.
“There is much more we need to learn about the effects of sleep on our metabolism, like how much sleep disruption is necessary to affect our metabolism and what are some of the long-term implications of this, as well as how exercise, for example, might help counter some of this, ”said lead researcher Harry Smith of the Bath Department of Health.
But, for all those morning people “don’t talk to me until I’ve had my cup of coffee”, you may want to check for “don’t talk to me until I’ve had my toast”, or whatever else people eat at breakfast. Maybe these little pancakes, which TikTok fell in love with during quarantine.
Speaking of quarantine setbacks, maybe shake coffee makes a nice post-meal treat.
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