Let's Find Out - The Bold, Dark History of Coffee | ASMR

Episode Date: November 30, 2019

Here's Part 2 to my coffee saga. Part 1 is found here: https://youtu.be/cqiUgBl83Hw So how did we discover this ubiquitous daily drug? The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking appears in Yemen in southern Arabia in the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines. It was here in Arabia that coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed in a similar way to how it is now prepared. Coffee seeds were first exported from East Africa to Yemen, as the Coffea arabica plant is thought to have been indigenous to the former. Yemeni traders took coffee back to their homeland and began to cultivate the seed. By the 16th century, it had reached Persia, Turkey, and North Africa. From there, it spread to Europe and the rest of the world.

So, phase 209 East, three of coffee dates back to 1400s. Coffee drinking or knowledge of coffee of the tree is from the 14th century. No, sorry, the 15th century. It's in the Sufi monasteries of Yemen. By the 16th century, it had reached the rest of middle of the Middle East, South India. Extra, History Extra.com. And this was about a list of the official website for BBC History Magazine

and BBC World Histories magazine years ago in Africa, East Africa. And Caldy discovered the energizing and invigorating effects of coffee. when he saw his goats getting excited after eating some berries. Ghali told Sufi mystic named, seems to we're good at interpreting things to make sense, even when they don't, so maybe it doesn't. The Yemenite Sufi mystic named Gotul Akbar Nuruddin Abu al-Hsan El Shadhili. In discovery of coffee, he is said to have spotted berry-eathele.

eating birds flying over his village energetically. Some of the jettisoned berries. He too, found caffeine sensitivity is determined to process and metabolize caffeine. Sensitivity has more to do with a person's unique genetic makeup as this determines to what degree a given amount of caffeine will affect. Link is that caffeine is metabolized by the liver enzyme CYP produce very little of this enzyme, while others produce a large amount, but most people fall rate somewhere in the middle.

So it's found that, according to a study, Healthwatch.com, a study called trait caffeine consumption sensitive, so 10% I must be in the 10% because I take a couple of a couple of beans grind them up press them down drink them a third genetic link to caffeine sensitivity

involves the type of adenocine receptors a person has in his or her brain those lacking the correct adenocine receptors and there's a prefix. It's hyperactive. Hypo.

It's relative to the word that it's prefix. In this case, we're talking about hypersensitivity to caffeine and saturation. It's an excessiveness of the word app that it's connected to. So the hyper sensitivity, regular sensitivity, they're especially sensitive. This is the majority of people, 200 to 400 milligrams. Daily won't cause any adverse reactions.

These people have no trouble sleeping as long as the caffeine is consumed early enough in the day. Lastly, hyposensitivity. Hypo-like hypothermia. means thermia meaning heat hypo means instead of hyper being more and excessive

hypo is a lack of so hypothermia would be a lack of heat or thermia so hyposensitive people actually don't have adverse reactions at all and this is again

about 10% and such a great awe, and he was allowed to return home to Moka. Coffee was a beverage. It was the beverage of choice in Persia, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey. Here from all over the Muslim world. So Yemeni merchants, Yemeni, I don't know, took coffee home from Ethiopia and to grow it throughout the Balkans,

North East. It was also drunk, ubiquitous, public coffee houses. ubiquitous meaning which sprang up in villages, towns in cities all across the Middle East coffee drinking

and conversation were complimented by all manner of coffee and intellectual life. Naturally like anything that's very revolutionary and of course affects the cerebral

and such a profound There's going to be conservative by temperament people. Naturally don't like to upset tradition. And that's good because you need people to fight for tradition and you need change to be properly just rescinded. The Sultan coffee warehouses were ransacked in Saudi Arabia and the Balkans. It didn't take long. for coffee to travel west, yet illy, exotic.

This devil's drink is so delicious, and we should cheat the devil by baptizing it. From then on, coffee has been dubbed the devil's drink. The devil's drink or the devil's cup, Mule Pippus, gets adopted culturally as a thing to go out and said, He and I, Colonel Slingsby, I found much pleasure in it through the diversity of company. That's really cool, honestly, you know, it shows that there are cultural transformations that can do good.

And coffee house was clearly, you know, relatively new, a new thing. And it definitely helped. This coffee was his newspaper. is internet. In his diaries, he refers to the latest news. He says the com of a city and by a city wall had originally been built to keep out raiding bands. There were great for there we go, you know. It's a testament to more than 3,000 coffee houses in England alone. Even had bed and breakfasts for overnight guests. Many seemed to follow the Turkish coffee house business model.

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