Caffeine

“So for a very long time, I always said that the ultimate day, like the perfect day was 12 hours of caffeine followed by four hours of alcohol.”

“It's definitely a performance enhancer. So much so that, you know the people that regulate this stuff in sport set an upper limit on the milligrams of caffeine that you can ingest.”

“In the original Coca-Cola, for the first, I don't know, couple decades, it actually had four times the amount of caffeine that Coke does today, so it's effectively an energy drink, even leaving the cocaine aside.”

“I love caffeine, I love loud music, and then I'll go work out. But all of that helps with dopamine release, so it fuels to that drive of wanting more. I flip a coin. Heads I get it, tails I don't.”

“Yeah, heart rate is a very, it's a tough way to measure Output, first of all, right, because it's subject to so many external factors, whether it be stress or caffeine.”

“Because of the way the FDA regulates these products, it's very hard for us. Like we can't put caffeine in our gum that has nicotine in it. You can't mix actives, but if you're more of like a health clinic, you could actually prescribe caffeine, nicotine differ…”

“Most pre-workouts are in my opinion, like wildly overdosed.”

“So the half-life of caffeine, it's not a half-life of the caffeine molecule itself. It's a half-life of our ability, our enzymes ability to break it down, and that varies from person to person.”

“So if you keep caffeine out of your system for the first 90 to 120 minutes of waking and then have your caffeine, you'll notice that you'll push through the afternoon just fine without any afternoon drop.”

“Many people find that they can drink caffeine until eight or nine PM and then still fall asleep, but the quality of your sleep will be greatly disrupted.”

“The reason that coffee provides those health benefits is not because of the caffeine. It's because the coffee bean provides, for most people, because our diets are not really very good, the standard American diet, for example isn't ideal in its nutritional pro…”

“Caffeine has a half-life of probably around five to six hours. In other words, after five to six hours, 50% of that caffeine is still in your system, half of that caffeine, hence half-life. Which means that after two 10 to 12 hours, there's about a quarter of …”

“What you don't realize is that caffeine can actually decrease the amount of deep sleep that you're getting, stages three and four. And in fact, what we found is that even just one to two cups of coffee in the early or late evening can decrease the amount of yo…”

“They say within a couple of minutes, you know, five minutes later, oh gosh, you know, I feel so much better. All right. I'm ready to face the world. And you think that that's the caffeine. That's nonsense. The caffeine isn't probably, you know, working within …”

“If you've had a bad night of sleep, here is my following best advice. Do nothing. And what I mean by that is after a bad night of sleep, firstly, don't try to sleep it off by waking up any later than is natural. Don't sort of say, I'm going to then sleep in fo…”

“By waiting 90 minutes to two hours to ingest caffeine, 90 minutes to two hours after waking to ingest caffeine, It's a little bit of a struggle to learn how to do this, but your natural adenosine system that, that adenosine tapers down very, very low as a cons…”

“Don't do it with Modafinil and don't do it with any kind of stimulant, like any other kind of stimulant, like caffeine or anything. It alters the way that you experience it. It's a lot better with it just by itself.”