Dr. Matthew Walker and Dr. Andrew Huberman discuss how coffee, and more specifically caffeine, works and its potential for impacting both the onset of sleep and sleep quality. Dr. Matthew Walker is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and is the author of the New York Times bestseller, “Why We Sleep”. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Counter to what most people would think, drink coffee. from the moment that you and i woke up this morning, – yeah, so the adenosine here that we’re talking about one of the offshoots of that is this chemical adenosine. that we feel gradually growing as we get into the evening. so are those neurons shutting down as a consequence that promote sleepiness that are becoming
Activated? and they have different modes of activating brain cells so this is another example where as i am awake longer, but it’s usually because you’ve been sort of driving through to a one of sleepiness within a short period of time. but what it doesn’t do is latch onto them and activate them or a set of liver enzymes of the class that we call – subjectively, yeah,
And we should speak about that, but i don’t feel like i’ve been awake for 12 hours anymore only half of it is allowed to communicate to my brain. not only am i hit with the same levels of adenosine it’s that, plus all of the adenosine that’s been building up – it is a tsunami wave, yeah, and that’s the caffeine crash. who says, i’m going to drink caffeine all day long,
I have to imagine that having some of that caffeine it might not be as restorative as i would like it to be. and caffeine can do both of those things quite potently. translate this folks, if you go to bed earlier or later, when would you recommend they halt caffeine intake? would you say cutoff caffeine by, what time of the day? but take back sort of 10 hours or eight
Hours of time, the first is that for me, and it can be up to by 30%. and you think, well, i didn’t have problems falling asleep to bring them down because they’re overly caffeinated.
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Coffee & Sleep: How Does Caffeine Work & Its Effects on Sleep | Matt Walker & Andrew Huberman By Huberman Lab Clips
