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The Effects of Caffeine, Alcohol, and Exercise on Sleep: Analyzing the Surprising Results
How much coffee is too much? A case study and tutorial on self-tracking to improve sleep.
A little while ago, I wrote about an experiment that I had done several years back. I had recorded every single caffeinated beverage that I’d consumed over the span of about a month. I looked at the results, and analyzed the patterns that I noticed.
However, I have to admit that I never really answered the titular question: how much coffee is too much?
I needed to dig deeper. In addition to analyzing my caffeine consumption in detail, as well as alcohol and exercise, and their effects, I wanted to give you some general guidelines for self-experimentation, as well as specific tools and the code to replicate my experiments and analysis.
Read on for those results.
Before we can answer how much caffeine is too much, we need to first clarify what we even mean by “too much”. We need to look at caffeine’s influence on other parameters of interest.
Sleep seemed like the most obvious metric to me. Besides, I have already been tracking my sleep for several years now with an Oura Ring. I bought my original one through their…