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by krzat 133 days ago
> The most pronounced associated differences were observed with intake of approximately 2 to 3 cups per day of caffeinated coffee or 1 to 2 cups per day of tea.

Weird, tea is supposed to have half the caffeine of coffee.

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Both coffee and tea have thousands of other constituent parts which could play a role.

The decaffeination process also removes more parts than just the caffeine.

Anecdotally, I never feel more awake when having coffee. I can drink coffee at night and sleep great. On the other hand, if I try to sleep too soon after tea I feel very mentally awake and can’t sleep for restlessness. Maybe Qi is real!
3 cups of coffee a day is way too many
A cup of coffee has 95mg caffeine, and the FDA has long held 400mg as a reasonable stopping point for the day.

I guess I'm not really concerned about three cups of coffee in that case.

For toddlers, absolutely.
That's not even enough for doctors to consider "drinking coffee" on a chart lol.