04/11/2026
☕️ Are you a do-or-die coffee drinker? Can you drink it at night without getting insomnia?
🎓 College students often START their coffee habit freshman year, meeting new friends for an afternoon coffee break- which is great, as long as they are sleeping well!
🤦♀️ Believe it or not, I never drink coffee! Although I love the smell, I don’t love the taste- and I can’t handle the caffeine. Fun fact- I also don’t like tea. Or beer. (All the give-away drinks!)
🤷♀️ Some of us (10%) are born with ultra slow caffeine metabolism- so if we have ANY caffeine, even in the early morning, it still screws up our sleep.
🫁 I discovered this in college, not from coffee, but because I was given one dose of an asthma medication (theophylline) & 3 days later I still had crazy high levels of this med that was making me ill. Caffeine shares the same metabolism pathway.
☕️ Coffee can have both positive & negative health effects, with more positives than negatives for most people (in appropriate doses)
👌🏼 This reel is simply to explain to my fellow 10% slowpoke caffeine metabolizers that this is not something we can change or control
💡Parents be sure your college-bound kid knows how caffeine can potentially disrupt their sleep (& tired brains do NOT function optimally)
🙋🏽♀️ Anyone else out there a caffeine slow-mo?
