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Discover the effects of caffeine on anxiety, sleep, and productivity.

The Case Against Caffeine

A Note To The Naysayers (I know you're lurking)

Interesting, I drink 2 cups of coffee a day and sometimes 2 hours before bed. I fall sound asleep with no issues, though I also drink instant coffee, so maybe it’s different.
The bias in this article is unreal. He should at least try to view it from 2 sides. Whenever he refers to “a witness”, it’s on a subreddit dedicated to decaf. Adhering to that logic implies if we used proof from a flat earth forum, the earth being flat is true.
Although caffeine’s indeed unhealthy, I don’t think drinking in moderation affects you, like 2-3 cups a day. I only drink coffee at the office, so some periods I go without coffee for weeks on end and feel no difference

I incorrectly read this header image as “Long Hair Life” and I read the article expecting to see some mind-blowing assertion that caffeine makes people’s hair fall out… and then I realized I just can’t read. It feels like Monday :*(

My issues with sleep abated when I realized this:
<blockquote>
My ancestors did back breaking work in fields for 12+ hours a day so they needed to sleep 8 hours a night at least to heal enough to do it again the next day
While containing those genetics, I don’t do that sort of labor even walking everywhere on purpose. Same reason I don’t need to eat three solid meals a day or I get fat
Therefore, I probably don’t need to force myself to sleep every night.
</blockquote>
No caffeine necessary, I just only sleep when I actually need to and do not stress myself out about it problem solved.
I also been broke as a joke for a while, so my once mechanical clockwork consumption of caffeine has decayed to the point of going weeks only to realize I had not consumed any in the period of time and guess what?
Since caffeine is a weak stimulant that is only heavy in its body load if you take too much, it has little effect to go without it once withdrawals subside. Now if I get a migraine, which I barely do since the sleep discovery above, I can pop some Excedrin (caffeine, aspirin, other NSAID combo), makes my head stop hurting and I don’t get strung out, nor do I need stimulants to write out these wall posts. Stimulants only make you enthusiastic about the work you would have already done (or should have done) and changes little in performing complex tasks. … whatever unrealistic experimental models psychologists can barely interpret seem to suggest…

I had same problem with Caffeine.