Does this work to assess each individual'd actual caffeine half life? Every individual is metabolizing caffeine at a different rate...
I think it's just a cool toy for people who think coffee is cool, I don't feel like it's supposed to be accurate.
Coffee Stats – Maximize Caffeine Intake and Get to Bed at Night
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My problem isn't falling asleep, it's staying asleep. Restlessness at night has become more noticeable as I've gotten older. Cutting down on caffeine, especially later in the day, seems to have helped some. I now have one cup of coffee in the morning, and a cup or two of tea in the early afternoon. This is instead of the two cups in the morning and espresso in the afternoon that I used to have before.
Everyone is different, but if you aren't already, and have the time for it, try incorporating more physical exercise into your day. That helped me deal with restlessness at night
For me personally, exercising makes me wake up multiple times at night and makes it hard to go back to sleep. I already never exercise after 6:00pm, it still happens. Any thoughts why?
Update: did a quick search, Reddit says it could be overtraining or dehydration.
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#143I had a similar idea to track my caffeine intake(assuming that the half-life is 6 hours). The only question I haven't had time to look into yet is what is the biological effect of previously taken vs newly taken caffeine? Say I had a cup of coffee at 9 am and then have another one at 9+6 hours=3 pm. Assume that 1 cup of coffee has 90 mg of caffeine. Does it mean that at that moment, I will have to track 2 different h…
If I were to estimate my blood caffeine, I'd calculate the caffeine right before I took more, add that to the new caffeine, and use that in the exponential decay function.
Makes sense, thanks for the confirmation! :)
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#144Either I developed tolerance or I am an extremely faster caffeine metabolizer. I can have an expresso half an hour before going to bed and I will be asleep in a few minutes.
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#145To determine whether you're a slow or fast caffeine metabolizer.. Wait for a sale at Nebula.org. Get your whole genome sequenced. ~$200. Having your whole genome sequenced could have added benefits down the road. Download the .BAM file. It will be several gigabytes. Use WSG Extract to generate the 23andMe raw data files. https://www.geneticlifehacks.com/convert-whole-genome-file/ Connect that data file to Genetic Lif…
> Wait for a sale at Nebula.org. Get your whole genome sequenced. ~$200
Does anyone track these sales and send notifications? How exactly would someone wait for a sale?
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same here.. i can consume a caffiene ladened drink and go to sleep no issues.
Question, how old are you? I lost the ability to be able to drink coffee late at night and still sleep well in my mid/late 30s. Also, coffee power naps are totally a thing, I get a real boost if I drink a coffee and immediately lie down to sleep, then get woken up 25-30 mins later when the caffeine is doing it's thing. Definitely end up feeling better and able to concentrate deeper into the afternoon when I do that r…
50 this year. Though I can no longer drink coffee as it now gives me IBS like issues. Other forms of caffeine are fine, just not coffee or decaf or instant. :-(
It's worth noting, from a youngish age (15) I spent about 10 years working as a Baker, sleeping all sorts of strange hours... so I developed by nessacity the ability to put my head down and sleep no matter whats going on. Caffeine has never hindered that in me.
Coffee powernaps sounds wonderfull and totally logical. I might have to experiment with that concept!
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I went cold turkey after developing a facial tic and realizing I was consuming 1000 - 1200 mg of caffeine a day (mostly coffee, French press and canned, with some energy drinks too). I was 100% not aware that caffeine is physically addictive and causes receptor changes in your brain. Aside from withdrawal symptoms (joint aches and pains for me), the fatigue didn't fully go away after several months. What did "fix" it…
Not to intrude but I highly recommend you “play around” with longer acting ADHD meds. Generic short acting Ritalin is the worst. It doesn’t last long and you can “feel it go away”. There are much better meds that have the same underlying drug but in much better delivery mechanisms. I’m sure you’ve done the homework but if anybody is reading who hasn’t… if generic short acting ritalin works, great! You know you respon…
I've actually done very little research on it, other than the mandatory "make sure your doctor isn't a pill pusher" kind of research. Mostly I figure they don't try and tell me how to fix hardware or software so I don't tell them how to fix meat :P
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Nebula.org does the data sequencing. They support anonymous sequencing. https://nebula.org/anonymous-seq/ Genetic Life Hacks provides the analysis on a number of health and disease related topics. Their analysis is simply allele matching for any given topic (string comparisons). It's all done within the browser. https://www.geneticlifehacks.com/faqs-about-genetics/#:~:tex...
> They support anonymous sequencing. > https://nebula.org/anonymous-seq/ The button to purchase says "coming soon" for me.
...and now it's gone