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Did anyone see what the interval from caffeine dose to bedtime was in this experiment? I won't claim to have read every sentence, but I did skim the whole paper
by 0xTJ 1y ago
Did anyone see what the interval from caffeine dose to bedtime was in this experiment? I won't claim to have read every sentence, but I did skim the whole paper, read through the procedure parts, and did a couple key-word searches, but wasn't able to find that figure.
- jnwatson 1y agoI'm stunned that the paper doesn't mention this. I think the paper is simply "caffeine before bedtime is bad for sleep".
- bdbenton5255 1y agoEspecially when you consider that similar studies conclude that caffeine has an overall positive effect on brain function when consumed at 200mg per sitting and 400mg per day. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26677204/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26677204/ 100mg being equivalent to one cup of coffee or two cups of tea. I personally prefer tea as it is milder and the lower caffeine content means I can drink it all day.
- bravoetch 1y agoTea also has l-theanine, and that removes the jitters from consuming a lot of caffeine.
- redtaperat 1y agoAll caffeine consumption stopped at noon. It’s literally in the paper.
- 0xTJ 1y agoThat's the time that the subjects stopped consuming caffeine as part of their usual diet, not the time that the pill (either 200 mg caffeine or a placebo) was administered. The subjects were required to maintain their usual caffeine intake (to prevent withdrawal), but had to stop by noon to prevent that caffeine from interfering with the experiment.
- redtaperat 1y agoThanks for clarifying.
- bitmasher9 1y agoThe paper spends more space talking about data analysis methods than it spends talking about the protocol of collecting the data. I think scientists judge each other too much on their statistical analysis and not enough on their experimental design.