This results in your body moving blood and energy towards the major organs and away from your limbs and digestion, which essentially increases alertness.
One study found that participants who consumed flavonoid-rich orange juice had increased alertness and cognitive function compared to their counterparts who were fed a placebo.
They are produced by a so-called body clock in our brains that regulates our body functions: our body temperature, sleepiness and alertness, hunger, and hormone levels.
About his body there was a peculiar springiness, or resiliency, almost catlike, and a quick alertness as of one who lived in perpetual fear of things seen and unseen.
They had the vigor and alertness of country people who have spent all their lives in the open and troubled their heads very little with dull things in books.