<story><title>Health Effects of Coffee</title><url>https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/6/1842</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eloff</author><text>Normally I&amp;#x27;m content to follow the data where it leads, but I opened this with trepidation lest it give me a reason not to enjoy my morning coffee. Fortunately it confirms my pre-existing biases.&lt;p&gt;I find I can never just have one cup, so I make a 50% decaf mix and have 3-4 cups spaced out over as many hours. Not only does this give a smooth and constant hit of caffeine, but it suppresses my appetite as well and I easily power right through from 5:30 until midday lunch. These are by far the most productive hours of my day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atombender</author><text>I went 100% decaf. I sleep better at night and no longer wake up groggy. It&amp;#x27;s amazing.&lt;p&gt;I always considered myself a &amp;quot;night owl&amp;quot; who didn&amp;#x27;t like mornings and preferred to stay up late. I often spent the first hour or two of the day waiting for my body to boot up fully and for the caffeine to kick in. Now I like mornings better, and I don&amp;#x27;t look forward to the sun going down.&lt;p&gt;Switching wasn&amp;#x27;t really a problem. I didn&amp;#x27;t experience headaches or any kind of physical abstinence effects.&lt;p&gt;There are downsides to eliminating caffeine. One is that one becomes very sensitive to it. Many coffee shops don&amp;#x27;t serve decaf, and if I happen to drink a double shot of espresso even as early as 2-3pm, I will find myself stupidly awake at 2am. (On the other hand, if I feel tired one morning, some caffeine can be miraculous.)&lt;p&gt;The other problem is that the pleasure of drinking my daily latte has been greatly diminished. I used to look forward to getting it, even thinking about it before going to bed. Now it&amp;#x27;s... fine. The taste is still great. But there&amp;#x27;s something that feels like it&amp;#x27;s missing. &lt;i&gt;I&lt;/i&gt; still crave it, but my body no longer does.</text></comment>
<story><title>Health Effects of Coffee</title><url>https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/6/1842</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eloff</author><text>Normally I&amp;#x27;m content to follow the data where it leads, but I opened this with trepidation lest it give me a reason not to enjoy my morning coffee. Fortunately it confirms my pre-existing biases.&lt;p&gt;I find I can never just have one cup, so I make a 50% decaf mix and have 3-4 cups spaced out over as many hours. Not only does this give a smooth and constant hit of caffeine, but it suppresses my appetite as well and I easily power right through from 5:30 until midday lunch. These are by far the most productive hours of my day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cryptonector</author><text>Confirmation bias can be nice!&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m glad not to be alone in using decaf!  I too will mix caf and decaf according to how much I feel I need the caf, but the &lt;i&gt;coffee&lt;/i&gt; I definitely want because I just love good coffee.  A bit of coconut oil in my morning coffee will power me through to lunch.  I do also add about ~20g of high-quality 100% cocoa powder to my morning coffee, making it something of a hot chocolate, and the only deeply satisfying coffee&amp;#x2F;chocolate mix I&amp;#x27;ve found yet.&lt;p&gt;That said, I&amp;#x27;ve learned to avoid caffeine after noon.  So if I have any more coffee after that, it&amp;#x27;s always decaf.  Yes, decaf is never fully decaf, but it&amp;#x27;s decaf enough to not mess with my sleep.</text></comment>