nowadays it's incredibly difficult to stay focused while studying especially since social media has us connected at all times and that one friend is always bragging about having too much fun meanwhile here i am locked in the cave blasting my eyes with radio waves learning how to treat constipation uh for a friend though so it's no surprise that more than NUMBER_TOKEN of the population is regularly drugged up on psychoactive stimulants i'm talking about caffeine coffee and tea are two of the most highly consumed drinks in the world and as such they've been heavily studied over the years it's safe to say at this point that coffee and tea can be great additions to our diet but just knowing their quote-unquote good for you doesn't give us students any idea about how to incorporate them into our lives for full focus and benefit how should we drink them when should we drink them how much and of course the age-old question which one is better coffee or tea okay first let's start off with some similarities how should we drink coffee and tea well the answer is same for both plain and in moderation i know that we all love our whole milk double espresso caramel vanilla frappuccinos with whipped cream and extra sour gummies and diabetes but it's best to keep all that nonsense away because at that point it's a calorie and sugar overload it's like putting pineapple on pizza sure you're getting some fruit but that doesn't excuse the fact that you're eating a freaking pizza very high sugar spikes are counterproductive for work and study because they cause a spike in insulin which can lead to food comas in crashes and that defeats the whole purpose of caffeine by the way check out this video here where i actually measured my blood levels to show you those sugar crashes in full detail so unsweetened tea just plain black coffee contain all the goodies that we want the caffeine the antioxidants and they do so without the calories that's right for those of you who do intermittent fasting in the morning drinking a plain coffee or tea won't break your fast it might even help curb your hunger by activating hormones in the stomach that make us feel full just remember to limit your caffeine intake to the safe level of less than NUMBER_TOKEN milligrams a day so the next question is when should we get our caffeine fix i hear a lot of people say they drink coffee first thing in the morning i also know a friend who sets their coffee maker to go off right when he wakes up so that he can just get caffeine into his body as soon as possible well according to science this is not the most productive way to use caffeine and it has to do with our circadian rhythm our body's internal clock that manages our rhythm does this through various chemicals so in the morning our adrenal glands release cortisol which helps to wake us up and then slowly throughout the day cortisol drops in response our pineal gland releases melatonin at night which makes us feel sleepy and slowly throughout the night this drops so think of these two chemicals as opposites of each other cortisol keeps us up and the melatonin knocks us out and this makes sense because they're elevated at different times throughout the day so first let's focus on cortisol based on what we know cortisol levels naturally peak at about one to two hours after we wake up on the other hand caffeine has a side effect of artificially boosting cortisol
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