Are you consuming caffeine consciously?

Dec 21

Caffeine is a great productivity tool. It’s a powerful supplement if consumed properly but we’re too reliant on it to the point of abusing it.

Caffeine works by blocking your sleep receptors, and in turn triggering hormones to produce adrenaline and other stress hormones including cortisol.

This is why you feel active, focussed, aware, heart rate increases, breathing becomes heavy. And while it’s a great

Here are some guidelines as to how one can consume caffeine more consciously:

Limit caffeine intake within 2 hours of waking up - when you wake up, your cortisol levels are already peaking, consuming more caffein can interfere with this.
Stop consuming caffeine by 1 pm or at least 8 hours before your bed time - the half life of caffeine is about 6 hours with it taking around 48 hours to be completely out of the system. Which means if you had 200mg around 2pm, you’d still have a 100mg in your system around 8pm having a substantial effect on your sleep quality.
Have an honest assessment of how it affects you initially and throughout the day as everyone’s tolerance levels are different.
Do not exceed caffeine consumption by 250mg in the day.
Reframe your use of caffeine as a performance enhancement tool rather than your fuel for the day.
Here’s a few things that contain caffeine - their quantity - caffeine dosage in that quantity:

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