COFFEE: YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG

Do you wake up and first thing have a cup of coffee? You’re doing it wrong. According to a study from the National Center for Biotechnology Information, scientists have found that there’s a better time to get your morning caffeine fix.
– The best time to drink coffee is an hour after you wake up. This is because in the first hour after you wake up, your body’s production of cortisol is at one of its three daily peaks. Cortisol is the “alertness hormone.” Consuming caffeine while our bodies are already at peak cortisol-production teaches the body to produce less cortisol. Adding caffeine to cortisol’s alertness effect blunts the purpose of coffee, and may contribute to developing a tolerance for coffee, so that you need more and more.
– To get the biggest jolt from your coffee, try to wait an hour after waking, and also avoid the other high-cortisol times, between noon and 1:00 p.m. and between 5:50 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
* Yeah, we’ll all get right on this.
* Hello? If my “alertness hormone” was peaking the first hour I was awake, I wouldn’t need the coffee.
* That’s why we have coffeemakers that start themselves in the morning. We can barely walk during the first hour.
* 5:50 p.m. is awfully specific.
* Do they mean Eastern Standard time? What happens during Daylight Savings?