Dr. Andy Galpin

So even if you're a normal habitual caffeine user, let's just say an average dose of caffeine in a, say a coffee or an espresso is 200 milligrams, right?

Like whatever tea is less and you get the idea.

So if you say you do two of those a day and you're like a three to 400 milligram per day user, you would come off of it entirely for a day or five days or something like that.

And then you would reintroduce it and you would have this like super response.

You will feel that.

But the question was, is that actually then doing anything for performance?

People would do this in like the powerlifting and weightlifting worlds and even in the endurance worlds for a long time.

but there's more recent data that suggests that it probably doesn't matter.

There doesn't seem to be a correlation.

Well, it doesn't seem to be a hundred percent crossover between your perception, your personal stimulation of it and the performance benefits.

Those seem to be disentangled quite a bit.

So even if you're normally at 400 milligrams a day, and then you take your normal 400 milligram dose and you don't feel anything different, you might still have those performance benefits.

You don't have to feel like you're, you know, like super stimulated or,

to get that thing.

So those data have changed over the years, right?

It's gone back and forth.

This is like, it has to be novel or now it looks like it doesn't really matter that much.

So that game of like, do you run a resensitize or desensitize yourself?

I leave it up to people, whatever you want to do.

Generally, we don't worry about it, but it seems to be the performance benefit.