It’s going to affect different people differently, so take any specific advice as anecdotal, rather than necessarily applicable to you. It’s also going to affect you differently as you age, even separately from any habituation or dependency effects.
Fortunately, it’s legal and mostly harmless over any short run, so experimenting is pretty safe. It is easier to ramp up than to ramp down, so starting small in order to find your minimum effective dose (the smallest amount that you can see any difference) is probably wise, then varying times of day and slight dosage increase (and/or multiple doses per day) to see if it’s better or worse.
Note that this is NOT what I did—I just drank a lot of coffee in my youth, to make up for poor sleep hygiene and social/party habits that left me pretty tired for most work mornings. Only later in life did I cut back, but by then I enjoyed the taste and ritual of coffee enough that I didn’t really optimize anything.
It’s going to affect different people differently, so take any specific advice as anecdotal, rather than necessarily applicable to you. It’s also going to affect you differently as you age, even separately from any habituation or dependency effects.
Fortunately, it’s legal and mostly harmless over any short run, so experimenting is pretty safe. It is easier to ramp up than to ramp down, so starting small in order to find your minimum effective dose (the smallest amount that you can see any difference) is probably wise, then varying times of day and slight dosage increase (and/or multiple doses per day) to see if it’s better or worse.
Note that this is NOT what I did—I just drank a lot of coffee in my youth, to make up for poor sleep hygiene and social/party habits that left me pretty tired for most work mornings. Only later in life did I cut back, but by then I enjoyed the taste and ritual of coffee enough that I didn’t really optimize anything.