My guess is that you build half as much tolerance taking X mg every other day compared to taking X mg daily.
Not my personal experience. Taking 300-400 mg caffeine every other day leads to ~no tolerance, or a very slowly developing one; taking that amount every day maxes out the tolerance very fast. My current schedule is just that, plus a once-a-month stretch where I skip caffeine for three days in a row to wipe out whatever tolerance may have crept up. (But obviously everyone’s biochemistry differs significantly, etc.)
on the caffeine days you’d feel similar to having taken 200mg in a caffeine-naive state
on the off days you’d feel similar to abstaining from caffeine after having taken 200mg daily for a while
200mg in a caffeine-naive state would feel pretty stimulating for most people I’d think. Do you feel more tired than a caffeine-naive baseline on the off days?
Not my personal experience. Taking 300-400 mg caffeine every other day leads to ~no tolerance, or a very slowly developing one; taking that amount every day maxes out the tolerance very fast. My current schedule is just that, plus a once-a-month stretch where I skip caffeine for three days in a row to wipe out whatever tolerance may have crept up. (But obviously everyone’s biochemistry differs significantly, etc.)
My model says that if you took 400mg EOD:
on the caffeine days you’d feel similar to having taken 200mg in a caffeine-naive state
on the off days you’d feel similar to abstaining from caffeine after having taken 200mg daily for a while
200mg in a caffeine-naive state would feel pretty stimulating for most people I’d think. Do you feel more tired than a caffeine-naive baseline on the off days?
Yup, I expect the same regarding both.
Yup, it is.
Hard to say, but probably somewhat.
Sounds like you don’t actually disagree with “you build half as much tolerance” then?
stop being so similar to me lol