Sentences with phrase «slow metabolizers of»

We know the most adverse symptoms occur in people who are genetically programmed to be slow metabolizers of caffeine.

More than 50 percent of Americans are slow metabolizers of caffeine, so there's a good chance you'll sleep better and feel less anxious and revved up if you stop for twenty - one days.

It turns out that your «cardiac twitch» is related to your caffeine metabolism — slow metabolizers of caffeine have a higher risk of heart attacks if they drink more than two cups of coffee per day; however, fast metabolizers have a reduced risk of a heart attack if they have at least a cup of coffee a day.

Of course, there are potential downsides, especially if you're a slow metabolizer of caffeine.

Not exact matches

As I wrote in my book, The Genetics of Health people with the AA variant of the CYP1A2 gene are fast metabolizers, while those with the AC or CC subtypes of the gene are slow metabolizers.

These fast metabolizers break down caffeine up to four times more quickly than those people who inherited one or two of the slow - variant version of CYP1A2.

The same amount of caffeine will tend to have more stimulating effect on slow metabolizers than on fast metabolizers.

If you have two copies of this gene variant, you metabolize caffeine much slower than «fast» caffeine metabolizers.

If you know you're a slow caffeine metabolizer, it's safest to limit your caffeine to one cup of coffee daily, or two at most, due to the potential for it to stay in your system longer.

Coffee is metabolized in Phase I of the liver detoxification pathway, and some people have a harder time breaking it down — we call them «slow metabolizers.»

Our findings show that coffee consumption increases the risk of MI only among individuals with a slow metabolizer genotype.