What Causes Palpitations and Shakiness After Coffee?
Palpitations, trembling hands and dizziness after coffee are not necessarily caused by caffeine acting directly on the heart. Triggers include individual sensitivity, low blood sugar from drinking on an empty stomach, drinking while extremely fatigued, or exceeding a personal daily caffeine limit. Eating something sweet or salty, drinking fluids, and taking a nap are suggested ways to ease the reaction.
Research presented at the 2022 American College of Cardiology scientific session, covering 35,000 adults with cardiovascular disease, found no increased risk of heart rhythm problems from coffee at any dose, and coffee drinkers showed lower mortality risk. For most people, the reaction reflects personal tolerance and timing rather than whether a bean such as does colombian coffee have more caffeine.
Research on coffee’s health benefits continues to grow, but many people experience palpitations, trembling hands, or even dizziness after drinking coffee. These reactions are not necessarily caused by caffeine acting directly on the heart; they may involve individual constitutional differences, hypoglycemia triggered by drinking on an empty stomach, drinking when extremely fatigued, or exceeding one’s total daily caffeine intake. This article reviews relevant medical research and offers coping methods such as eating sweets or salty meats, replenishing fluids, and taking a proper nap, to help coffee lovers enjoy coffee more safely. It also retains Front Street Coffee’s specialty bean recommendations and communication channel information.
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In recent years, many studies have confirmed that coffee has numerous positive effects on the human body. Many medical journals and research reports point out that drinking a moderate amount of black coffee every day can help reduce the probability of chronic diseases. At the same time, as the pace of life and work continues to accelerate, the number of coffee drinkers has also continued to grow.
However, some people have noticed! Even when they drink the same coffee and consume the same amount as others, others enjoy it while drinking, but they start having palpitations, or even trembling hands and dizziness... Why is there such a difference? Could it be caffeine causing the trouble?
Coffee does contain a large amount of caffeine, which increases the excitability of the nervous system. But a faster heartbeat after drinking coffee is not necessarily directly caused by caffeine. At the 71st Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology in 2022, medical research mentioned that for 35,000 adults with a certain cardiovascular disease, analysis of heart rate data after coffee intake showed that drinking coffee at any dose did not increase the risk of heart rhythm problems.
Moreover, in the records of the study subjects’ daily coffee consumption and health examinations, it was also found that patients who drank coffee had a lower risk of death than patients who did not drink coffee. If it is pure black coffee, the bioactive compounds it contains can help reduce oxidative stress and inflammation, improve insulin sensitivity, promote metabolism, inhibit the intestinal absorption of fat, and block receptors known to be associated with abnormal heart rhythms.
Of course, this only shows that the possibility of caffeine directly affecting the heartbeat is relatively small, but everyone’s constitution is different, and sensitivity to caffeine also varies, so it cannot be generalized. When a faster heartbeat or trembling hands occurs after drinking coffee, we can first eat some sweets or salty meats. At the same time, these situations are more often caused by drinking coffee on an empty stomach, which enhances sympathetic nervous system excitability and speeds up one’s basal metabolic rate, thereby triggering symptoms of hypoglycemia.
Another situation is that when a person is very tired and suddenly gulps down a cup, caffeine immediately excites the central nervous system, but the person is still very tired. At this time, it does not produce any other refreshing effect; instead, dizziness and headache may occur. What needs to be done at this point is to take a short rest or sleep for a while; otherwise, you will only feel worse and worse.
There is also another situation: excessive caffeine intake in one day!! Caffeine is not only found in coffee; foods such as cola, tea, chocolate, and energy drinks also contain caffeine. If the daily intake exceeds what your body can tolerate, symptoms such as chest tightness and a faster heartbeat will occur. What needs to be done at this point is to drink more water, so that while cells metabolize water, they also expel caffeine from the body at the same time, alleviating the symptoms.
If consuming even a small amount of coffee each time causes physical discomfort, it is not recommended to continue drinking coffee. The drinking of all coffee and the amount consumed need to be decided according to one’s own condition. When it is not suitable, let’s not force ourselves!
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The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.
