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when we ingest caffeine, provided that we don't have a lot of food in our stomach and that our blood sugar isn't particularly high, generally, we experience an increase in alertness within about five minutes. And that increase in focus and alertness peaks around 30 minutes after ingestion of caffeine and persists for as long as 60 minutes.
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if it's within the first five minutes that you're experiencing that it's got nothing to do with the caffeine because the peak plasma concentration of your caffeine is not going to arrive with you until about you know 12 to 17 minutes so why do you feel better some of it is Placebo because you're smelling the coffee and you associate it with the L it's really not that though or or um when you say Placebo I also wonder whether or not it's possibly a a conditioned effect you know like a pavlovian thing because the smell of the coffee the taste of the coffee the the hum of the machine the walking into the cafe to to um and ordering it from the Barista also creates an anticipatory arousal like here the the alertness is coming and in that anticipation there's its own form of alertness I think that's that's certainly a big component of it
That initial “jolt” you feel from your first sips? It’s often just natural sleep inertia fading (or maybe the placebo effect from coffee’s smell and ritual).