In today’s never-sleeping society, many are guilty to having a coffee addiction. Whether it is part of a morning routine before work or a last minute study tool to prevent college students from sleeping, everyone knows that caffeine keeps people awake. The short term effects that caffeine has on wakefulness is known, but the long-term effects, however, are not. To test for the long term effects of caffeine, Burke, et al. performed their study on our natural body clock, which was published in Science Translational Medicine in 2015.
It is known that our natural body clock, called the circadian clock, controls when we wake up and when we start to feel sleepy. Multiple factors are known to affect the circadian clock, including light, food consumption,
It is known that our natural body clock, called the circadian clock, controls when we wake up and when we start to feel sleepy. Multiple factors are known to affect the circadian clock, including light, food consumption,