Is Your Afternoon Coffee Keeping You Awake? ☕️

☕️ Ah coffee, wonderful bean juice, how I love thee! ☕️ ⁣

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Are you a coffee lover or hater? ♥️❌⁣

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Does it kick start your morning? ☀️⁣

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Do you reach for it to beat an afternoon slump? 🥱⁣

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If it's the latter, and you suffer from poor sleep - then hey…..coffee could be your issue.⁣

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Caffeine has an AVERAGE half life (the time is takes for half of the active dose to leave your system) of 6 hours.⁣

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It can be much shorter in some individuals, but much longer in others.⁣

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Therefore, if you're reaching for a double espresso shot at 4pm to try and find the energy to make it through to the end of the day, there's a chance that this is still buzzing around your system and impacting your sleep at bed time.⁣

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We've spoken about how important sleep is, and good quality sleep at that - SO THIS IS AN ISSUE!!⁣

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As a rule of thumb, I avoid coffee for the 9hours before I plan to go to bed. ⁣

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Being sleepy in the evening is a good thing, it prepares your body for rest.⁣

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Sleeping is a good thing.⁣

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Coffee is a great thing - but let's keep it to those AM hours ☕️⁣

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NB Everyone is different. Some people can have a coffee at 10pm and still sleep. If you work night shifts the rules are also different!⁣