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>It's one of the few addictions that probably ends up being good for you I thought that for a long time, until I realized that afternoon caffeine was correlate
by 1penny42cents 5y ago
>It's one of the few addictions that probably ends up being good for you
I thought that for a long time, until I realized that afternoon caffeine was correlated with my inability to fall asleep at night. Cutting coffee (even dark chocolate) after lunch has greatly improved my sleep quality. Still love it in the mornings though.
- sva_ 5y agoI'd usually aim for drinking the first coffee/tea about 1-2 hours after waking (it is important to wake up by circadian rhythms to get the best effect) and drink the last beverage around 2pm, or at latest 3pm.
- MrYellowP 5y ago> until I realized that afternoon caffeine was correlated with my inability to fall asleep at night. That sounds like it wasn't obvious to you from the start. You see me flabbergasted. How is that even possible?
- 1penny42cents 5y agoHaha.. Yes it's obvious in hindsight. I think a few factors played into it. First was an underestimation of the half life of caffeine. It stays in your system for a while, and stacks when you have multiple throughout the day. Another was my personal sensitivity to caffeine with regards to sleep. I know many people who can't drink coffee at all and others who can drink it as a digestif. I'm somewhere in the middle. The last is being embedded in a coffee-drinking culture, without personal awareness of the above two points. So I would drink it later than I should with people who didn't (or didn't know they) have a problem drinking it at that time.