Caffeine Sensitivity

[TickTockMan]

Can someone get more sensitive to caffeine as they age?

 

[seven2go]

Absolutely.
But if that happens to me I might as well get it over with and check out.......

 

[Peloso]

Yes. It happened to me. I went from 3 cups a day to one cup of half-caf. Or tea.

Also caffeine seems to hit me again eight to nine hours after I consume it.

I've discovered brewed decaf has enough caffeine in it to affect me if I drink enough of it.

 

[TickTockMan]

I am finding a can of soda will keep me up for days.

 

[azanallover]

I went from 2 soft drinks a day to a couple a week and replaced it with 4 cups of coffee and a diet change. I have always had little to no effect from caffeine, I used to drink a quad espresso at a shop that serves Illy espresso but these days I feel more alert from it but can still fall asleep from it. Salt on the other hand has had a big effect on me and if I consume over the daily recommended amount of it is drink more water to wash it out. So yes things can effect you as you get older. There are foods and restaurants I loved that I can no longer enjoy due to the salt levels in the food. Researching salt in foods after I had a major blood pressure increase I found there were days I consumed 3-5 times the daily amount and some of my favorite meals had 4-5,000 mg of sodium in it. So maybe if the young folks read this limit yourself before your body limits you.

My salt sensitivity happened over two days, 3 meals eaten out over 2 days turned my life food wise upside down

 

[Kulindahr]

In college caffeine hardly affected me at all, which made staying up reviewing for exams an interesting challenge. Now, a liter of week tea gives me the jitters.

 

[Kulindahr]

I went from 2 soft drinks a day to a couple a week and replaced it with 4 cups of coffee and a diet change. I have always had little to no effect from caffeine, I used to drink a quad espresso at a shop that serves Illy espresso but these days I feel more alert from it but can still fall asleep from it. Salt on the other hand has had a big effect on me and if I consume over the daily recommended amount of it is drink more water to wash it out. So yes things can effect you as you get older. There are foods and restaurants I loved that I can no longer enjoy due to the salt levels in the food. Researching salt in foods after I had a major blood pressure increase I found there were days I consumed 3-5 times the daily amount and some of my favorite meals had 4-5,000 mg of sodium in it. So maybe if the young folks read this limit yourself before your body limits you.

My salt sensitivity happened over two days, 3 meals eaten out over 2 days turned my life food wise upside down

Our doc made my mom switch to sea salt, and I followed suit. There's something about different kinds of salt in the ocean water that supply minerals that aren't there in factory salt. Factory salt is sodium chloride, but sea salt includes potassium, magnesium, and calcium chlorides as well.

My old psych-doc recommended sea salt as well; apparently there are mood disorders that can be stabilized by having those other minerals.

 

[m2mlover]

I'm only in my twenties but coffee always caused me headache...