Caffeine May Be Related to Soldiers Falling a Sleep

Caffeine May Be Related to Soldiers Falling a Sleep

  • Submitted By: macm
  • Date Submitted: 11/15/2012 12:09 AM
  • Category: Miscellaneous
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Caffeine and sleep/sleepiness: Sleep in humans is readily affected by caffeine for I have found this out in first and experience. I drink my coffee for the feeling and its gains when I am a little tired. Until recently, looked of how much I drink, upon researching this topic. I realize that in moderation this is acceptable. I enjoy coffee, and have felt it worked for me most of the time. I realize, by me taking in more than one cup a day increase my chance of not sleeping well or in my case to be awake when I need to be without unneeded fatigue siting in. There is an association between the daily intake of caffeine, sleep problems, and daytime sleepiness. Which is found that, “Caffeine is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive substances and it has profound effects on sleep and wake function. Studies have documented its sleep-disruptive effects. It clearly enhances alertness and performance in studies with explicit sleep deprivation, restriction, or circadian sleep schedule reversals. However, under conditions of habitual sleep, the evidence indicates that caffeine, rather than enhancing performance, is merely restoring performance degraded by sleepiness. The sleepiness and degraded function may be due to basal sleep insufficiency, circadian sleep schedule reversals, rebound sleepiness, and/or a withdrawal syndrome after the acute, over-night, caffeine discontinuation typical of most studies. Studies have shown that caffeine dependence develops at relatively low daily doses and after short periods of regular daily use. Large sample and population-based studies indicate that regular daily dietary caffeine intake is associated with disturbed sleep and associated daytime sleepiness. Further, children and adolescents, while reporting lower daily, weight-corrected caffeine intake, similarly experience sleep disturbance, and daytime sleepiness associated with their caffeine use. The risks to sleep and alertness of regular caffeine use are greatly...

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