The Science of Sleep and How to Improve it, With Devin Burke
Hardiness with Dr Paul Taylor
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Caffeine and Sleep
Caffeine doesn't support sleep, unfortunately. It blocks the receptor site of adenosine and that's why you have that sort of lift when you have caffeine. Caffeine is like dumping gasoline on a already hot fire. Your cortisol is highest naturally in the morning. And so to dump some something on your adrenal glands, like caffeine, it's going to heighten that cortisol even higher. Plus it's you lose a leader, sometimes in some cases, more than a leader of water throughout the night.
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