I might be immune to caffeine

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Caffeine usually doesn't work on me. Yet, I still drink coffee and hope that it would help me wake up more when I'm working. At times it helps me a little bit when I'm pretty tired, but not so much that I'm fully awake. Could it be that since I usually drink one or two cups of coffee each day that the effects just doesn't work on me? Or is it because that caffeine doesn't work on certain people like me?  

[Crimson Hawthorne]

Different people need different amounts to feel the effects, I think. It takes like 5 cups (I really like coffee) for me to feel any effects. Either it's natural or you've gotten immune to smaller amounts and need more for anything to happen.  

[Crafty Sketch]

It makes sense. I don't drink a whole lot of coffee because of the amount of sweet tasting creamer and/or sugar I put in it. I can't handle so much sweetness in one sitting like I've used to. sweatdrop  

[Lady Kayura]

I could be wrong but I think you build up a tolerance to caffeine. That might be your problem.  

[Jisatsu_no_Tenshi]

Coffee has no effect on me. But then again I survived high school drinking 36 cups a day.  

[Saint Sims]

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Caffeine is a stimulant. It's not so much that you build up a tolerance but that the chemicals in your body that naturally stimulate you become regulated in a way that creates the ideal level of stimulation for your body in part with caffeine.

That is to say, each of our bodies have a normal level of chemicals that naturally stimulate us. After habitually consuming caffeinated products our natural chemical levels heighten or lower so that when combined with the added caffeine from consumption our levels are once again balanced.

That's why people go through withdrawals when they suddenly go cold turkey on carbonated drinks, coffee, [insert caffeinated beverage here].

If coffee isn't having the effect that you want then you should, in order to feel more awake, increase your caffeine intake. You could do this by mixing in hot teas with your regular consumption of coffee. Also, certain foods contain caffeine, chocolate being one of the most widely recognized.

For you I'd say that it's not that caffeine doesn't work on you it's just that your body may have a higher threshold for chemical stimulation than other people so that while a cup of coffee may energize one person it has hardly any effect on you.

Personally, one cup of coffee a day helps me be more awake and alert but I'm noticing more and more that two cups is steadily becoming the amount I need to get through the day.

 

[Crafty Sketch]

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Caffeine is a stimulant. It's not so much that you build up a tolerance but that the chemicals in your body that naturally stimulate you become regulated in a way that creates the ideal level of stimulation for your body in part with caffeine.

That is to say, each of our bodies have a normal level of chemicals that naturally stimulate us. After habitually consuming caffeinated products our natural chemical levels heighten or lower so that when combined with the added caffeine from consumption our levels are once again balanced.

That's why people go through withdrawals when they suddenly go cold turkey on carbonated drinks, coffee, [insert caffeinated beverage here].

If coffee isn't having the effect that you want then you should, in order to feel more awake, increase your caffeine intake. You could do this by mixing in hot teas with your regular consumption of coffee. Also, certain foods contain caffeine, chocolate being one of the most widely recognized.

For you I'd say that it's not that caffeine doesn't work on you it's just that your body may have a higher threshold for chemical stimulation than other people so that while a cup of coffee may energize one person it has hardly any effect on you.

Personally, one cup of coffee a day helps me be more awake and alert but I'm noticing more and more that two cups is steadily becoming the amount I need to get through the day.

That makes a lot of sense. Knowing this, maybe I just need to drink 3 or 4 cups of coffee. cat_3nodding  

[Saint Sims]

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Hahha, there ya go!

Glad to help c:

You just have to think of it in the context of drug addiction, which is essentially what it is.