To many people, the smell of coffee can wake them up, even when they’re asleep. Even people who don’t drink coffee (like me) can have a momentary focus of attention from just the smell. Since coffee is loaded with caffeine (at least the good coffee is, so my coffee-drinking friends tell me), I had assumed that over the years, the brain just came to associate the smell of coffee with waking up.

I assumed wrong. New studies conclude that the aroma of a cup o’ joe activates genes in our brains. The genes tell our brains to WAKE. UP. NOW…but yet we relax afterthe smell. Although there have been many studies done on coffee’s affect on your health, this is one of the first studies to just concentrate on coffee’s smell.

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...