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do you consume any caffeine after 12:00 noon? Caffeine's half life is 6 hours. So if you consume at 3pm, you still have 1/2 that caffeine in your body at 9 pm.

do you consume any caffeine after 12:00 noon? Caffeine's half life is 6 hours. So if you consume at 3pm, you still have 1/2 that caffeine in your body at 9 pm. 1/4 of it at 3am.

alar44 4y ago
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BenjiWiebe 4y ago
I have similar sleeping habits, and I generally have caffeine only at breakfast.
- thebigspacefuck 4y ago
  I stop drinking caffeine at 5pm and I can fall asleep at 10pm or 11pm. Sometimes it feels like if I don’t drink enough caffeine during the day I can’t fall asleep.
  - ArchOversight 4y ago
    Do you have ADHD? For me caffeine helps calm my mind, and I can fall asleep having had caffeine without any issues.
fknorangesite 4y ago
I'm in the exact same boat as the commenter you're responding to: I'm in my 40s, been a night owl my whole life. I very, very rarely fall asleep before 1am, despite decades of trying. I usually (but not even always) have a cup of coffee when I get up in the morning, but that's it. Why is it so difficult to imagine that people have different sleep schedules? Like, we do not blink at the thought that, say, height exists on a bell curve. Why wouldn't a circadian rhythm? God save me from the early-riser moralists.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
  No morals implied here. I had the same pattern as you until I learned about sleep health from Matt Walker. There are very specific things you can do to change sleep habits, but only if you want to. Of tremendous importance to me was learning that not all sleep is of the same “quality”, and that quality affects you the next day. You can learn how to improve sleep quality. Matt Walker is a good start in case your interested. Andrew Huberman has some episodes on it, too, as does Rhonda Patrick. If you’re happy with 1AM then by all means, don’t change. I wasn’t happy with how I felt during waking hours. I was getting enough sleep, but it was low quality.
ArchOversight 4y ago
No. One cup of coffee at around 9:30 AM after I wake up, except on very rare occasions. That being said, when I used to be on aderall for my ADHD I would often take my second dose of the day right before going to bed, as it would help me calm my brain down and fall asleep. Caffeine does not affect me or my sleep cycles, it does help me focus though by quieting my mind down, and on the weekends I enjoy drinking a cup of coffee and going back to sleep for 30 - 90 minutes of deep relaxing sleep.

do you consume any caffeine after 12:00 noon? Caffeine's half life is 6 hours. So if you consume at 3pm, you still have 1/2 that caffeine in your body at 9 pm. 1/4 of it at 3am.

alar44 4y ago

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BenjiWiebe 4y ago

I have similar sleeping habits, and I generally have caffeine only at breakfast.

thebigspacefuck 4y ago
I stop drinking caffeine at 5pm and I can fall asleep at 10pm or 11pm. Sometimes it feels like if I don’t drink enough caffeine during the day I can’t fall asleep.
- ArchOversight 4y ago
  Do you have ADHD? For me caffeine helps calm my mind, and I can fall asleep having had caffeine without any issues.

fknorangesite 4y ago

I'm in the exact same boat as the commenter you're responding to: I'm in my 40s, been a night owl my whole life. I very, very rarely fall asleep before 1am, despite decades of trying. I usually (but not even always) have a cup of coffee when I get up in the morning, but that's it. Why is it so difficult to imagine that people have different sleep schedules? Like, we do not blink at the thought that, say, height exists on a bell curve. Why wouldn't a circadian rhythm? God save me from the early-riser moralists.

TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
No morals implied here. I had the same pattern as you until I learned about sleep health from Matt Walker. There are very specific things you can do to change sleep habits, but only if you want to. Of tremendous importance to me was learning that not all sleep is of the same “quality”, and that quality affects you the next day. You can learn how to improve sleep quality. Matt Walker is a good start in case your interested. Andrew Huberman has some episodes on it, too, as does Rhonda Patrick. If you’re happy with 1AM then by all means, don’t change. I wasn’t happy with how I felt during waking hours. I was getting enough sleep, but it was low quality.

ArchOversight 4y ago

No. One cup of coffee at around 9:30 AM after I wake up, except on very rare occasions. That being said, when I used to be on aderall for my ADHD I would often take my second dose of the day right before going to bed, as it would help me calm my brain down and fall asleep. Caffeine does not affect me or my sleep cycles, it does help me focus though by quieting my mind down, and on the weekends I enjoy drinking a cup of coffee and going back to sleep for 30 - 90 minutes of deep relaxing sleep.