*promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Thursday, August 28th, 2014 3:49pm PDT - promote requested by eric3579.

So caffeine still has an affect on your sleep way after you have put it into your system. Twelve hours later its still has a 25% presence/affect as it had when you drank it. So coffee in the morning can still make it potentially more difficult to sleep at night. I'd always heard it shouldn't affect your sleep if you had consumed it longer then six hours ago. So i guess the multiple cups before noon may potentially be part of my difficulty sleeping at night.

The more you know

Don't forget if you're drinking it frequently every day, the effect of alertness is diminishing and while you may have caffeine in your body hanging around at bed time. The "alertness" effect shouldn't really be that strong.

I can drink a cup within 3hrs of sleep and be ok for bed, so for me, the drop off effect is pretty quick. Of course the effect for you may be quite extended

If you're having trouble sleeping, you should try "winding down" exercises to see if it's really coffee or if you just keep yourself over simulated. The basics of it is *zero* screens 45mins before bed, no phones, no tv, no tablets etc, throw in a slow breathing exercise (a good start is 6-7 breaths per minute, work your way down to 4-5) for 10-15minutes, nose only.