Drinking 3-4 Cups of Coffee Is “More Likely to Benefit Health Than to Harm It”
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#2I don't know. When I drink more than 2 cups my sleep suffers and even my personality changes. I get pretty hyper and less patient. With my girlfriend I can tell immediately whether she has had coffee just from the way she talks.
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#3I feel like I have a real problem with some scientific studies on the human body, which apparently link things to specific outcomes and later on reverse those links and sometimes even linking the opposite to the same outcomes. As a researcher myself, but not in a biological field, I believe more and more that it is just insanely difficult to understand the complex interactions inside our bodies. This doesn’t mean that I’m against this type of research, on the contrary, we need more and more studies.
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#4I don't know. When I drink more than 2 cups my sleep suffers and even my personality changes. I get pretty hyper and less patient. With my girlfriend I can tell immediately whether she has had coffee just from the way she talks.
Try to cut off the caffeine consumption by 3pm and your sleep should not suffer (based on the half life of caffeine and average human adult body weight).
Disclaimer: I consume ~4 cups of coffee per day between 8am and 3pm and get ~8 hours of sleep per night.
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#5I don't know. When I drink more than 2 cups my sleep suffers and even my personality changes. I get pretty hyper and less patient. With my girlfriend I can tell immediately whether she has had coffee just from the way she talks.
Try to cut off the caffeine consumption by 3pm and your sleep should not suffer (based on the half life of caffeine and average human adult body weight). Disclaimer: I consume ~4 cups of coffee per day between 8am and 3pm and get ~8 hours of sleep per night.
The CYP1A2 gene affects how quickly you metabolize caffeine. Stopping at 3pm may not be enough.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try to cut off the caffeine consumption by 3pm and your sleep should not suffer (based on the half life of caffeine and average human adult body weight). Disclaimer: I consume ~4 cups of coffee per day between 8am and 3pm and get ~8 hours of sleep per night.
The CYP1A2 gene affects how quickly you metabolize caffeine. Stopping at 3pm may not be enough.
I’ll check my CYP1A2 SNPs on 23andme in the AM and report back.
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#7I wonder what the health benefits are for different caffeine metabolizers (i.e. for different CYP1A2 genotypes). The source article only mentions that slow metabolizers have a higher risk of hypertension, but is that outweighed by the other benefits?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ll check my CYP1A2 SNPs on 23andme in the AM and report back.
I'm not sure if that's sarcasm or not. Maybe I'm just not hip.
Not sarcasm at all. Last time I checked, 23andme reports if you’re a fast or slow caffeine metabolizer. I just don’t recall offhand which I am.
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#10Can coffee still be more beneficial than harmful if you suffer withdrawal effects? I have some co-workers who get headaches if they try to have a morning without coffee.