Current Connection- A few things you might want to know if your a coffee drinker.

In a recent article by Veronique Greenwood entitled "Why Bacteria, But Not Humans, Can Live on Caffeine," Greenwood is very descriptive and interesting to coffee drinkers (me). His purpose of writing this article is to clearly answer the question "why bacteria, but not humans, can live on caffeine.
The first point that caught my eye was this, "When the molecule seeps into the brain and interferes with neurotransmitters, blood pressure rises, neutrons work faster, and adrenaline production jumps." It's sort of common since that coffee gives you a boost when your tired.. Exactly why people drink it in the morning, before work and even before school. Except I did not know the next thing that caught my eye. Greenwood provides readers with a diagram, curiosity of Wiki media Commons, that shows the break down of the two carbon and nitrogen rings at the molecule's core. He goes on saying, "Human liver enzymes, which have the task of processing caffeine and other drugs, can get part of the way there. They can remove that Ch3 groups stuck to the rings, just as bacterial enzymes do. But after that, while humans show the caffeine derivatives, the most simple of which is known as Xanthippe, the door, the bacteria hang onto them, chopping down the rings to their component elements and harvesting energy." For all of you non science people out there, Greenwood also provides a more simple sentence, "The specific reason caffeine isn't an energy source for us, thus, is that we don't have the gear to digest derivatives further."
Myself, a big coffee drinker, obviously needs to be looking more into this.