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by TapWaterBandit 1822 days ago
Holy shit, I would be bouncing off the walls if I drank that much coffee. I can't even handle one in the morning and one in the afternoon or I will be awake until 4 in the morning
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People metabolize caffeine at wildly different rates depending on their genes. One cup every other day in the morning is my limit until I see significant effects on deep sleep (as measured by a Dreem 2.) :/
IIRC the half-life of caffeine is approx 12 hours. So if you put caffeine in your body at 2:00 PM, half of it is still there at 2:00 AM.
Different sources quote a half-life of 3-5 hours in healthy individuals who are not pregnant.

https://sleepeducation.org/sleep-caffeine/ Caffeine begins to affect your body very quickly. It reaches a peak level in your blood within 30 to 60 minutes. It has a half-life of 3 to 5 hours.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK223808/ The mean half-life of caffeine in plasma of healthy individuals is about 5 hours. However, caffeine's elimination half-life may range between 1.5 and 9.5 hours,

https://www.news-medical.net/health/Caffeine-Pharmacology.as... The half-life of caffeine (time taken for the body to eliminate one-half of the caffeine) varies widely between people, depending on factors such as age, body weight, pregnancy status, medication intake and liver health. In healthy adults, the half-life is approximately 5 to 6 hours. Heavy cigarette smoking can decrease the half-life of caffeine by up to a half and in pregnancy, the half-life may be increased by as much as 15 hours. [...] The stimulatory effects of caffeine may begin as early as 15 minutes after ingesting the drug and last as long as six hours.