Friday, 17 September 2010

Bloody 7 AM...and No Coffee

Have you ever had one of those mornings when you feel you've been dragged to a distant point of the multiverse inhabited by fluffy things that are not your fluffy toys? Well, for me the fluffy place today was located in a universe named No Coffee. Although at this hour I am not sure I can exactly spell it,  No Coffee is the place to be for every masochistic being out there. My landing here is not caused by a kitchen-appliance rebellion, but merely by an unfortunate happening. Last week, my GP announced me that iron doesn't like me. It kind of dislikes my body and runs away as fast as a metal can. But, what iron apparently likes are the polyphenols from coffee, tea and other marvelous beverages (and not my proteins). And yes, although polyphenol antioxidants have been shown to decrease risk of heart disease or to delay certain types of cancer, they do no good thing for my anaemia . Iron from the food I am eating would rather form complexes with the polyphenols from coffee (or tea) than stick to my haem proteins. As iron-polyphenol complexes are nice and big, they cannot enter my bloodstream.
And this is why I have to sacrifice coffee in the mornings(at least for now) for the sake of coordinative chemistry ... Now, the culprits:


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