{"id":6177,"date":"2022-07-26T09:36:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T09:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6177"},"modified":"2024-02-08T09:56:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:56:19","slug":"caffeine-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6177","title":{"rendered":"HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Caffeine &amp; Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k5BMGmf1ai0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Watching a video on YouTube, with Dr Rangan Chatterjee and Matthew Walker about caffeine and it\u2019s effects on sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caffeine is, as they discuss, a psychoactive drug, and a stimulant. According to Walker caffeine is the second highest traded commodity after oil! I\u2019ve heard it said before that coffee is the drug of capitalism\/consumerism. If Walker\u2019s claim is true, nothing could better illustrate the link between this drug and our self-medicating slave-driver culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Caffeine is a sleep disruptor, there\u2019s no question about that,\u2019 says Chatterjee. Two answers these guys give are de-caff, or, better still, no coffee, or caffeine &#8211; tea, inc. green tea, also contains caffeine &#8211; after midday. The third and more radical option is to go tee-total, and simply cut caffeine out altogether. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"639\" height=\"972\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/img_8236.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6176\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/img_8236.jpg 639w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/img_8236-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Just ordered a copy of this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the very little skimming of Google I\u2019ve just done on Walker, in light of this YouTube vid and re buying his book, he\u2019s \u2018in love\u2019 with sleep. So am I! But I imagine his love for and knowledge about sleep are far healthier than mine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One reason I love sleep is that it\u2019s an escape from the constant and oppressive demands of waking life. And I suspect that both this basic fact about my love of sleep, not to mention my actual sleep habits themselves, are not as healthy as they ought to be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, a very interesting and informative podcast style YouTube video, well worth watching. And I\u2019m looking forward to reading Walker\u2019s book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching a video on YouTube, with Dr Rangan Chatterjee and Matthew Walker about caffeine and it\u2019s effects on sleep. Caffeine is, as they discuss, a psychoactive drug, and a stimulant. According to Walker caffeine is the second highest traded commodity after oil! I\u2019ve heard it said before that coffee is the drug of capitalism\/consumerism. If &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6177\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Caffeine &amp; Sleep&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[89,94,93,81,77,68,20,100],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-1BD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11571,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177\/revisions\/11571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}