Coffee won’t give you extra energy, just borrow a bit that you’ll pay for later

Re:Coffee won’t give you extra energy, just borrow a bit tha... by JumpCrisscross on Monday February 13, 2023 @06:51PM (#34782766)

> consumption of 3 to 5 standard cups of coffee daily has been consistently associated with a reduced risk of several chronic diseases

Is this a standard coffee dose? Maybe I'm just sensitive to caffeine, but a two-cup day generally ends with me being jittery before a crash.

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Re:Coffee won’t give you extra energy, just borrow a bit tha... by DiabloD3 on Monday February 13, 2023 @07:00PM (#34782875)

Some people are caffeine hyper-metabolizers. You may be one.

And no, the "standard" coffee dose is a single "double"/"cafe" cup (ie, 12oz or ~350ml total) of drip or immersion or pour-over (extraction methods vary caffeine extraction, see recent James Hoffman video on an example of how much). Drink this cup somewhere between an hour after waking up and 8 hours before going to bed.

Anything more does not increase the focusing effect of caffeine much, but does greatly increase the side effects in some individuals. Anything more than that can drive up tolerance.

3-5 cups a day (measured in single 6oz/~125ml cups) would be too high of a dose (even if taken along that prescribed timing window, not in one go), and would also be driving up tolerance; however, this approximates the standard western use of it, ie, is "normal/average".

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Re:Coffee won’t give you extra energy, just borrow a bit tha... by gadflyinyoureye on Monday February 13, 2023 @06:56PM (#34782831)

A standard cup of coffee is 6 oz. https://fluentincoffee.com/coffee-cup-sizes-chart/

Most people have two standard cups for every one mug.

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