https://nitter.1d4.us/nytimes/status/1643538978014986240

  • bigboopballs [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    drinking a healthy dose of coffee early in the morning so your body can filter out the cortisol build up.

    what's this? I need to filter out cortisol when I wake up, and coffee helps with that? I am ignorant about physiology

    • Pog_De_Maistre [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      The opposite, coffee gives you more cortisol and it takes much longer to process than caffeine (3-4 hours, 5 hours max) so if you drink any coffee past like 11am then you're likely going to carry some of that cortisol into the night

      • bigboopballs [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        and it takes much longer to process than caffeine (3-4 hours, 5 hours max)

        isn't that how long caffeine lasts? how long does it take to process cortisol?

        • Pog_De_Maistre [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Well yeah, caffeine stays in the body for roughly 3-5 hours.

          I'll admit that I don't really have as scientifically accurate numbers for cortisol other than that in my personal experience it stays much longer and that it's accumulative. For example if I have coffee in the morning and booze at night I know I wont sleep, but if I have only one of those during the day I'll probably be fine