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Yep, I almost never drink coffee more than 3 days in a row because it loses its affect. Luckily, intolerance comes back after only a day or two off.
by salt-licker 7y ago
Yep, I almost never drink coffee more than 3 days in a row because it loses its affect. Luckily, intolerance comes back after only a day or two off.
- petargyurov 7y agoI was under the impression that on average the brain/body needs around 9 days of no caffeine consumption to get back to its natural baseline. I can't seem to find the source of that study right now...
- fultonfaknem42 7y agoYou could do the math if you look up the half-life of caffeine. Via a quick Google search it looks like it is 4-6 hours. So if I understand it correctly, it's 4-6 hours for 100mg to become 50mg, then another 4-6 for 50mg to become 25mg, etc. So like if all you did was have a single cup of 100mg coffee, then its like 12-18 hours for it to go away. If you're me though, you drink like 3-4 a day. This seems to be about 28 to 42 hours. Withdrawals could take up to 2 weeks in my experience, and are proportional to how heavy my intake was.
- samatman 7y agoThat tells you how long before it's out of your system, not how long it takes to reset after. Effect duration for a psychoactive is related to half-life, but they aren't identical, and 'reset time' varies widely, e.g. MDMA is over in about 4 hours but it takes at minimum of two weeks before one can get a comparable effect again.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoYou'd have to look at things like the rate of downregulation of the appropriate brain components that caffeine affects.
- sova 7y agoUnexpected use of the word intolerance, "caffeine sensitivity returns" -- in this case "intolerance" and "sensitivity" are synonyms, how interesting!
- chrisweekly 7y agoI'll risk being downvoted for nitpicking in an attempt to be helpful about "affect" vs "effect": Did it affect you? Yes, it had an effect. The psych study showed the meds were effective in improving patents' affect (mood). I want to effect (bring about) change by doing X. HTH!
- codyb 7y agoIt really is a pain in the butt since both effect and affect have noun and verb forms. What a language.
- sitkack 7y agoI think we should change the word to -ffect and it will automatically be the correct form in all usages.
- riversflow 7y agoI had a couple of teachers who were ridiculous sticklers about this in highschool. My hack is remembering the two phrases Affect A change vs cause and effect.
- salt-licker 7y agoOops, can’t believe I mistyped this, thanks. Should have had coffee today
- pengaru 7y agoI've dabbled with that approach but it's really miserable having a 1-2 day migraine every few days.