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Wake up time for coffee1/9/2024 Chronically drinking too much caffeine can burn out your adrenal glands to the point where they can’t produce enough cortisol on their own. When you drink more than 500 mg of caffeine per day (five cups of coffee two energy drinks ten sodas or a combination of the three), you will feel nervous, restless and cranky with an upset stomach, muscle tremors and heart palpitations. If you’re drinking coffee just because you love the taste, then switch to decaf to prevent developing a tolerance, and fatiguing your adrenal glands. The more you drink, the less effective it is. What this means: The law of diminishing returns applies to drinking coffee three times a day. The caffeine pill group? Their cortisol response to coffee was reduced or eliminated. The control group, after having coffee again, showed a “robust” increase in cortisol. On day six, both groups were allowed to have coffee again and their saliva was tested for cortisol levels. For five days, they abstained from coffee and took pills that were either a placebo or varying doses of caffeine three times a day. Researchers at the University of Oklahoma tested the cortisol response in a double blind study of nearly a hundred male and female subjects. If you do that, you’ll develop a tolerance for caffeine, and won’t get the benefit of taking the drug. Not to suggest that you should drink copious amounts of coffee during every cortisol dip. (For your chronotype’s optimal coffee window, see “The Best Time to Have Coffee” below. For the average Bears, those dips occur between the hours of 9:30 am and 11:30 am, and between 1:30 and 5:30 pm. Scientific research and bio-time have provided a very clear schedule for coffee breaks to coincide with cortisol dips. If you drink coffee when cortisol is low, caffeine gently nudges your adrenals to give you a hit of adrenalin and you will feel more awake and alert.The only thing coffee does for you within two hours of waking is to increase your tolerance for caffeine. Compared to cortisol, caffeine is weak tea. If you drink coffee when cortisol is high, the effects are almost non-existent.It carefully maintains the cortisol rhythm, a few cycles of releasing and suppressing the “fight or flight” hormone over the course of the day. Like most of our organs and glands, the adrenal gland (producer of adrenalin and cortisol) has a biological clock of its own. When you are about to wake up, your body releases hormonal stimulants to get your juices flowing and heart pumping: a brew of insulin, adrenaline and cortisol. All it does, according to science, is raise your tolerance for caffeine so that you need to drink more and more of it to feel any effects at all. I’m about to say something that will be a shock to many.ĭrinking coffee first thing in the morning does not wake you up, make you alert or give you an energy boost. People program their coffee makers to start brewing when their alarm goes off so they can roll out of bed and right into a pot of Costa Rican brew. Somehow, it’s become a cultural norm to associate coffee with waking up. Your Morning Boost, timed appropriately can give you that extra energy you may require and my new book The Power of When can help.Ĭaffeine is a drug, a legal stimulant. There is a Starbuck on every corner, and fun new specialty coffee shops are popping up all over. Let’s face it, everyone drinks coffee, or at least it seems like it. Today I thought it would be fun to look at a very different topic in the workplace: When to have your fist cup of coffee. In this series of posts I have reviewed topics like, When to ask your boss for a raise? Or When to go on a Job Interview? Next, When to Present your ideas. When is the best time to drink coffee? The Power of When can help! Check out the book trailer for The Power of When
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