What Happens In An Hour Of Drinking Coca Cola?

Coca Cola and other aerated drinks have high fructose along with caffeine, thus causing you damage in just an hour.

Within 20 minutes of drinking your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. (Photo: iStock)

We all love drinking Coca Cola and other sweet drinks. But do you know that it harms your body more than you can even imagine? Within just an hour of consuming the cola, your body will start undergoing dangerous changes of which you might be unaware of.

An article by Wade Meredith explains the whole process of what happens to you within an hour of consuming Coca Cola.

When somebody drinks a can of Coke or any similar sugary caffeine drink, watch what happens…

Coca Cola can do you more harm than good. (Photo: The Renegade Pharmacist)

• In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavour allowing you to keep it down.
• 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
• 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
• 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centres of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
• 60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
• 60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
• 60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.