Are there any secret recipes to refresh your mind? Doctor: Using the wrong method can harm your health

In order to improve "work efficiency", office workers all hope to be more energetic. However, maintaining the best mental state at all times is indeed a big challenge for office workers who are under great work pressure. So some people begin to try to use some small folk remedies to refresh themselves. However, doctors and nutritionists have called for people to be careful if they use the wrong methods to avoid feeling drowsy in the workplace for a long time. Once this becomes a habit, it can cause considerable harm to the body.

Mistake 1: Drinking refreshing drinks can protect the liver

Many office workers believe that drinking energy drinks can boost their spirits, and even mistakenly believe that eliminating fatigue is equivalent to protecting the liver, so they drink them frequently. In fact, the main ingredients of commercially available energy drinks are caffeine or theophylline, which can only temporarily eliminate sleepiness but have absolutely no effect on protecting the liver. Since energy drinks contain sugar and artificial flavors, people will keep drinking them unconsciously. Drinking too much can easily lead to insomnia or palpitations, and also put a burden on physical health.

Mistake 2: Drinking too much coffee to stay awake

Many office workers have a common experience: if they don’t drink coffee in the morning, their brains cannot wake up and they feel extremely tired. Many companies and businesses even have coffee machines for employees to use when they are not in good spirits, which leads to many people drinking too much without realizing it. Doctors suggest that 2 cups of coffee a day is the upper limit. Excessive caffeine in the body is not only harmful to people with fragile cardiovascular system, but caffeine itself will also release free calcium in the bones and excrete it out of the body with urine, which can easily lead to symptoms of osteoporosis over time. In addition, do not drink coffee on an empty stomach. It is best to drink it with carbohydrates, otherwise it will hurt your stomach.

Mistake 3: Drinking more strong tea to refresh yourself

Some people believe that drinking coffee is harmful to the body, so they drink strong tea to refresh themselves. They also claim that the "catechins" in tea can effectively promote metabolism and have antioxidant effects. In fact, in addition to catechins, tea also contains "tannic acid". The longer the tea is brewed and the stronger it becomes, the higher the accumulated amount of tannic acid will be. Once it enters the human body, it will be detrimental to the absorption of iron ions, and symptoms of anemia will easily appear over a long period of time. It should also be noted that drinking strong tea for a long time may aggravate high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, nephritis, hepatitis and other diseases.

Mistake 4: Smoking to refresh and relieve stress

Taiwan has long banned smoking indoors or in public places, so you can often see many office workers gathering in groups outside office buildings to "puff smoke." For smokers, the "benefits" of smoking seem to outweigh the disadvantages, including being able to refresh and relieve stress. In fact, everyone knows that long-term inhalation of nicotine and other substances can cause lesions in the respiratory organs, but addicts just can't quit this "addiction". If they don't inhale, they will feel uncomfortable all over. The so-called refreshing and stress-relieving effects are at best psychological effects and have no scientific basis at all.