As a heavy caffeine consumer since at least middle school (I'm 37 currently): consider why you're wanting so much and maybe talk to your doctor about it. Turns out I was dealing with ADHD probably my whole life and caffeine abuse was a cope.
Coffee Stats – Maximize Caffeine Intake and Get to Bed at Night
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Re: Coffee Stats – Maximize Caffeine Intake and Get to Bed at Night
#42I had a >300mg caffeine/day energy drink habit for a few of years. It took around six months to get past the additional fatigue after quiting. There seems to be some long term effect on me way beyond the half life. Does everyone else get past the effects of going cold turkey in a matter of hours?
Would gradually decreasing the amount of caffeine consumed have made quitting the habit easier?
I quit caffeine in January and it took me about the same - 6 months for the fatigue to go away - though I would say it gets much easier after 3 months. I think gradual decrease would make it easier but it would take longer. You might need to step down to one cup of coffee/tea a day for 6 months before quitting. I ended up mixing small amounts of instant coffee with decaf instant coffee so that at the end of the day it was like I had only consumed one cup of coffee. I only did that for a few weeks and then just quit altogether and still got huge fatigue. I have recently started going for runs almost every day and that has helped me a lot so you may be in a better position if you exercise. I tried lifting weights for ages but couldn't get into it then I switched to running and found that to be way better at reducing fatigue for me.
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#43I've been replacing most of my morning coffee with yerba mate. Yerba Mate isn't a roller coaster ride of highs and lows but a smooth, elevated sense of caffeine alertness.
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#44Caffeine sensitivity and metabolism is highly, highly individualized, and it's affected by medications, etc. Its a much better idea to learn your own body tolerance/limits than rely on a generic app. It will vary.
You might also have many other reasons to limit caffeine besides being able to sleep at night - heart issues or migraines for example. An app can't take these sorts of things into account.
Caffeine pretty much doesn't effect me, so I will have a cup of coffee and go right to bed if I want to. I also can be a regular consumer for weeks-to-months and stop suddenly and have none of the terrible withdrawal symptoms people always talk about.
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#45This is such a foreign way of looking at caffeine to me. I've got no problems falling asleep. My constraint is that the more caffeine I have today, the more I will need tomorrow morning to even get started feeling like a person.
I have some of those friends too. They can drink coffee at 11pm and sleep at 11.30. Meanwhile I can't sleep until 8 hours after drinking coffee. I don't know whether this is differing sensitivity to coffee or something else (better production of whatever it is that makes you tired at night perhaps).
A clear and curious correlation is this: The same people that can drink coffee late can and do take naps during the day too. That is: if they lie down in the middle of the afternoon, they could sleep for a little while. That's completely foreign to me, I have never in my soon 50 year life been able to take a daytime nap (at least not since I was 5). It's curious that it seems like a related capability, in my small sample.
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#46I've been replacing most of my morning coffee with yerba mate. Yerba Mate isn't a roller coaster ride of highs and lows but a smooth, elevated sense of caffeine alertness.
I would have like that, but trialing it for several weeks it seems too much effort and caution is required (I.e. easier to ruin a brew).
I take Does it get much better with experience?
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
same here.. i can consume a caffiene ladened drink and go to sleep no issues.
idk what other quirks you've got but this one turned out to be an adhd symptom for me lol Coffee actually works on me now I'm on stimulant medication haha
I've found that high caffeine drinks make me very sleepy. I'm still trying to get hold of some kind of ADHD medication
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#48Or drink green tea that negates these effects via l-theanine automatically.
The more likely explanation is that green tea is just much lower in caffeine.
l-theanine is available in pills & powder, which can be consumed with coffee.
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#49I've been replacing most of my morning coffee with yerba mate. Yerba Mate isn't a roller coaster ride of highs and lows but a smooth, elevated sense of caffeine alertness.
I would have like that, but trialing it for several weeks it seems too much effort and caution is required (I.e. easier to ruin a brew). I take Does it get much better with experience?
11 seconds mate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laZ72qWdBSQ
Re: Coffee Stats – Maximize Caffeine Intake and Get to Bed at Night
#50I've been replacing most of my morning coffee with yerba mate. Yerba Mate isn't a roller coaster ride of highs and lows but a smooth, elevated sense of caffeine alertness.
I would have like that, but trialing it for several weeks it seems too much effort and caution is required (I.e. easier to ruin a brew). I take Does it get much better with experience?
Don’t overthink it: add some yerba mate into a container, put the straw (bombilla), use a thermos to pour some hot water[1], sip it, pour again.
[1]: Or cold if you fancy – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terer%C3%A9