03/13/2025

The Best Ways to Use Caffeine to Boost Your Alertness

Caffeine can improve cognitive performance

We’ve built a complex culture around caffeine. Not only do we have a variety of caffeinated products such as coffee, tea, sodas, energy drinks and pills, but we also have a lot of advice, especially on social media, on how to use caffeine to best effect.

Much of this advice, such as a social media claim that delaying caffeine intake in the morning by a couple of hours will help you avoid an afternoon crash, is unsupported by science, some experts said.

This common psychoactive drug remains pretty straightforward in how it works on our bodies, they said. And there are science-based ways that we can use caffeine to boost cognitive performance.

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