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caffeine + l-theanine + picamillon. get you going steady. awake or asleep. Sleeping though is in no way replaceable. 8-9 hrs 10-6. Even fact this is mentioned here, is a bit insulting. There should be a study of how many bugs that you produce when awake but sleep deprived with/without caffeine vs well rested( no caffeine after 1pm, no food after 6pm)
Not legal in the US... :(
Is there the TLDR version of this paper?
Anecdotally, water and sugar directly affect my alertness while using caffeine. If I don't have enough water I get headaches and can't think straight. If my blood sugar is low due to not eating enough, or eating too much sugar and "crashing" then I might as well be asleep, even though I can't from the caffeine. I may have missed it, but I don't see where they account for the diet of their test subjects.
another anecdotal story: I generally skip breakfast and lunch and do most of my eating after work. I find that the longer I fast the more I can focus, provided that I stay hydrated. I do use caffeine (almost exclusively black coffee) for alertness and appetite suppression.
I drink a lot of tea. About 1 liter a day as a baseline, but if I do some ultrahike or something I can easily drink 3 liters a day. Sometimes for some reason it's really hard to drink my tea (e.g. I'm in a hotel that doesn't have drinkable tea), so I tried to substitute with other caffeine products. Unfortunately I couldn't find out any reliable data on the caffeine content of the tea that I drink. All the informatio…
High- and medium grade green tea (especially the Japanese varieties) have significant amounts of L-theanine, which has its own effects and synergies with caffeine. For me, the same amount of caffeine will have me anxious and give me tunnel-vision if I get it from coffee while more euphoric and peppy if from green tea.
I never found it affected me.
Anecdotally, water and sugar directly affect my alertness while using caffeine. If I don't have enough water I get headaches and can't think straight. If my blood sugar is low due to not eating enough, or eating too much sugar and "crashing" then I might as well be asleep, even though I can't from the caffeine. I may have missed it, but I don't see where they account for the diet of their test subjects.
another anecdotal story: I generally skip breakfast and lunch and do most of my eating after work. I find that the longer I fast the more I can focus, provided that I stay hydrated. I do use caffeine (almost exclusively black coffee) for alertness and appetite suppression.
I drink a lot of tea. About 1 liter a day as a baseline, but if I do some ultrahike or something I can easily drink 3 liters a day. Sometimes for some reason it's really hard to drink my tea (e.g. I'm in a hotel that doesn't have drinkable tea), so I tried to substitute with other caffeine products. Unfortunately I couldn't find out any reliable data on the caffeine content of the tea that I drink. All the informatio…
Yeah, there is a whole subjective component to all of this that is hard to get good information on. I am older, and drink both tea and coffee depending on mood, need for caffeine, etc. There are some online guides that give ratios of caffeine in typical tea versus typical coffee. Of course, figuring out what "typical" is is the issue! What I've seen shows that black tea has quite a bit less caffeine per serving (bag,…
Surely there’s a better drug than coffee for staying awake for a long time.
I once spent a boring Sunday afternoon researching the alternatives on Wikipedia. As far as I could find out, they are illegal (Amphetamine), prescription-only (Modafinil) and/or very bad for your health (Methamphetamine). Amphetamine and Methamphetamine are also rather addictive and apparently quitting once you formed a habit is no fun. Ephedrine might be an alternative, but in Germany, it's prescription-only, and I…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Caffeine == Caffeine But if a Coke is ~3mg caffeine 100ml and coffee is ~40mg per 100ml, drinking 13.3 "units" of cokes will not be equivalent to 1 "unit" of coffee. 1. Timing of the intake will affect the efficacy (x mg of caffeine over 2 hours vs. 20 minutes is very different to the body) 2. Controlling for time-dependent intake (the spherical human consumed both quantities instantly), concentration of the substanc…
> To use a possibly relatable issue: most people find consuming shots of vodka more efficacious than consuming the equivalent amount of beer by alcohol. 3 shots will probably get you more wasted than necking 3 beers But it won't, after drinking 3 beers after each other your BAC will go to the same level, just takes a little more time to get there. Subjectively, you start feeling drunk much more quickly because the ch…
In case anyone found that study difficult to read, the optimal strategy was, over the course of 3 days, one 600mg dose after 12pm on days 2 and 3 of a 3 day string of sleep loss.
Sadly, my sleeping problems don't have clear external factors like that so I usually don't know if I'm going to have three days of bad sleep ahead of time like that.