Dr. Michael Breus

Now, you might be saying, why?

So here's how this works.

There's two factors here that are important.

Number one is sleep in and of itself is a dehydrated event, meaning when you wake up in the morning, your body's actually dehydrated.

You lose almost a full liter of water every night just from the humidity in your breath.

And so when you wake up in the morning, if you drink caffeine, remember, caffeine's a diuretic.

It makes you have to pee.

You've already lost a liter of water, okay?

So if you drink caffeine as the first thing, it's going to make you lose more water.

I want you to hydrate before you caffeinate.

Number two is another interesting fact.

In order to exit a state of unconsciousness, you need two hormones, adrenaline and cortisol, and they actually have to be very, very high in order to pull your brain out of a state of unconsciousness.

Here's what gets interesting.

When adrenaline and cortisol are wandering around your brain, they stay there for a good 90 minutes after you wake up.

Here's what's fascinating.

If you add caffeine to adrenaline and cortisol, it does nothing.

If you look at the powerfulness of these two, adrenaline and cortisol are like cocaine and coffee is like weak tea in comparison.

So you've got a brain that's highly stimulated by adrenaline and cortisol.

Dumping caffeine on it does nothing.

But if you just wait 90 minutes after you wake up and then have your first caffeinated beverage,