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None. Never had any desire to drink coffee. I like how it smells, though.
Specifically, caffeine sensitivity depends partly on a liver enzyme called CYP1A2, which is coded by the CYP1A2 gene. The enzyme is responsible for "inactivating 95 percent of all ingested caffeine," the report said. In other words, this liver enzyme breaks down caffeine in the body.
I drink two mugs worth of coffee from my mini Mr Coffee machine. Counting their 6 oz cups, it counts as 4, but it fills two 12 oz coffee mugs which I drink every morning. I have no taste for coffee at any other time of the day.
2 cups regular coffee in the morning. 2 to 5 cups decaf later in the day.
Regular coffee has never affected my sleep, but I switch to decaf only because I've read that too much caffeine can be unhealthy.
Like others, I've never had a cup of coffee my entire life. People are flabbergasted when I tell them this haha
Like some others here, I can drink coffee later in the day and not have trouble sleeping. Apparently, there's a gene for that.
https://www.livescience.com/62772-caffeine-sensitivity.html
Like some others here, I can drink coffee later in the day and not have trouble sleeping. Apparently, there's a gene for that.
Interesting. This sent me down a fun rabbit hole learning about this gene.
Turns out I am have the "normal metabolizer" variant of this gene. Other folks are slow metabolizers and are more affected by caffeine.
One more fun thing to look up in your DNA report...
Or how much wine you drink with dinner in Europe?That is interesting.
I have an interesting quirk... when I am home I can't consume caffeine after about 1 in the afternoon and still sleep at night.
But, when I am in "vacation mode", for instance when I'm in Italy or France, I have an espresso after dinner nearly every night and sleep just fine.
It's probably a blend of genetic/psychosomatic influences.