The Medporium Podcast: Recent Episodes

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ATTENTION ALL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS! Are you interested in pursuing medicine one day? Are you an aspiring physician? Do you have questions about what you can do during high school in preparation for college and medical school? Have a listen to learn about MedPorium's amazing platform, and hear experienced advice from med students about what you can do RIGHT NOW to better prepare yourselves for the rigors of medical school!

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In today's podcast episode, we will discuss the effects of caffeine. In this podcast you will learn what caffeine is and where it can be found, where caffeine originated, how caffeine affects the nervous system and metabolism, some side effects of caffeine, how caffeine can reduce or increase your risk for certain chronic diseases, how caffeine affects pregnancy and nursing infants, does caffeine/coffee stunt a child growth?, and how to optimize the effects of caffeine. I have linked below some of the articles I briefly discussed throughout this podcast.

The History of caffeine:

https://supplementfactoryuk.com/blog/2018/06/the-history-of-caffeine-supplementation/#:~:text=Caffeine%20was%20first%20extracted%20from,products%20that%20are%20consumed%20daily.

Coffee statistics:

https://www.ncausa.org/Newsroom/NCA-releases-Atlas-of-American-Coffee

How Caffeine affects the Nervous System:

https://www.sleepscore.com/blog/learn-about-adenosine/

https://www.scielo.br/j/bjmbr/a/mGLm74NjKhzdSrYPBPZmJCy/?format=pdf⟨=en

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-11574-6#ref-CR24

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21326363/

How Caffeine affects Metabolism:

https://pharmrev.aspetjournals.org/content/pharmrev/70/2/384.full.pdf

https://academic.oup.com/hmg/article/25/24/5472/2581117?login=true

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1816604

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4335269/

https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bph.13187

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31891374/

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In today's podcast episode, we will discuss fat and its relation to obesity. In this podcast, you will learn the true definition of fat and why it is so important for our physiological needs, the two different fat tissues and their purpose, what obesity really is and how much of a problem it has become, what caused this obesity epidemic, and how to lose fat scientifically. If you want to learn more about fat and obesity, click the links down below. These are sources I used for the podcast that are reliable.

*In the podcast, when I discuss being overweight, I accidentally said that overweight means having a BMI greater than or less than 25. I meant that being overweight means having a BMI greater than or EQUAL to 25.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra2032804

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/comments/S1550-4131(17)30220-6#fig4

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2931339/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14715917/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666379121001786

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308044447_Sugar_Industry_and_Coronary_Heart_Disease_Research_A_Historical_Analysis_of_Internal_Industry_Documents

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413115001199

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/drug-activates-brown-fat-improves-glucose-metabolism-healthy-women

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity-adult-17-18/overweight-obesity-adults-H.pdf