Food like dairy, nuts, gluten and
coffee can disrupt your sleep.
Not exact matches
Endocrine -
disrupting plastic chemicals from the pods
can end up in the finished
coffee, and these plastics have been linked to various health problems.
Research shows that even just one medium cup of drip
coffee,
can disrupt sleep, even if taken early in the day.
The only nutrient that
coffee can really
disrupt is your iron; it
can reduce absorption by about 70 %.
I encourage my patients to replace their
coffee with tea to decrease the amount of caffeine they are drinking, which
can make you feel stressed or
disrupt your sleep if you metabolize caffeine slowly like I do (along with 51 % of Americans).
And so this kinda highlights the importance of maybe doing a morning cup of
coffee and then considering some other source of wakefulness if you need it in the afternoon, like one of my favourite for that is L - theanine which you get from green tea and that doesn't cause those sleep disturbances that caffeine
can cause, but know that based on this recent research if you're doing caffeine or you're having a big cup of
coffee in the afternoon, that
can stay with you for up to 6 hrs so really interesting and I thought that was kind of a cool little test just to see how long it took for caffeine to stay in your system and actually still
disrupt sleep.