CAFFEINE IN YOUR ROUTINE?

What do you tell your patients about caffeine?

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1. Counselling Conundrum: a real question from a patient

2. Concise Conclusion: a straight-forward patient-friendly answer 

3. Quick Wrap-up 

Clearly, there are nuances that may not be captured in this format. The goal here is to provide you with helpful counselling tips which often draw from multiple sources or those which are not commonly accessed by busy healthcare providers serving the community.

Counselling Conundrum: "As an adult, is caffeine healthy for me? Should I avoid it because it's bad for sleep?"

Concise Conclusion: Great question! As long as you aren't experiencing side effects (problems sleeping, anxiety, tremors, withdrawal, and so on), most studies seem to suggest a benefit across many areas, like gout, Parkinson disease, Alzheimer disease, diabetes, liver health and others.

Quick Wrap-up: There is also some data showing reduced all-cause mortality. We don't discourage caffeine in our practice unless there are related issues with its use. Recommend a maximum of 400 mg per day as rule of thumb, and to keep it earlier in the day to minimize sleep effects.

Dive Deeper

1) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28693038/

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