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Originally Posted by Ist Das Crazyboi
I stand corrected
Think I was confused as never heard it referred to as quarter-life before.
So basically if you drink caffeine ever, even if you wake up at 4am, there will still be residual caffeine in your system when you come to sleep, blocking adenosine receptors?
Well the typical term is half life, which is 6 hours for caffeine, but a quarter life is a thing too. It can take up to 72 hours I think to completely get it out of your system IIRC too. Hard to say how much of an affect it has; I think I recall a study in which people who drank caffeine in the mornings got a full hour less REM sleep on average than those who didn't.
But as I said anecdotally, when I detoxed from caffeine entirely, I had some of the worst insomnia of my life :')