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Is there the TLDR version of this paper?
by sAbakumoff 8y ago
Is there the TLDR version of this paper?
- Bakary 8y agoThe summary on the first page?
- albertgoeswoof 8y agoI think he/she is asking for a more actionable summary. E.g. consume 10mg of caffeine every 4 hours from 6am till 2pm etc.
- dosy 8y agoAfter 10 minute read here's what I get out of it: The study is a meta study that doesn't actually test individuals but uses data from other studies that do test individuals to assess average group performance under sleep deprivation (either total or chronic restriction) using an algorithm that tries to use the other studies as inputs and predict their results to draw out patterns by finding dosing strategies that optimize performance. The advice seems to be: reduce total caffeine amount because otherwise recovery to normal is worse, take more caffeine on days with less sleep, and less on days with more sleep, delay the dose to closer to sleep period ( otherwise your performance tanks as your approach sleep period, i.e., you only stay high for so long ), and if you can don't dose on the first and last days of your sleep restriction period, just go "natural".
- sAbakumoff 8y agoexactly :-) Me(he) is asking about actionable TLDR;
- mkirklions 8y agoIts for people who stay up for 2 entire days at a time. Probably not useful IMO.
- ejstronge 8y agoTake a look at figures 5 and 6 - it's a bit hard to parse but you'll get a lot out of them. There are four different scenarios presented, and each has its own optimal strategy. In general, their optimal model uses less caffeine overall, and seems to use it in proportion to expected sleep restriction as opposed to using it widely. They cite research on the difficult in recovering from large caffeine loads as their motivation for reducing overall caffeine intake.