The Claim
In healthy young men, acute caffeine intake reduces heart rate during sleep in a dose-dependent manner, with an average reduction of 3.24 ± 0.77 beats per minute, and this effect becomes significant at plasma concentrations above approximately 4.3 μmol/L.
What the research says
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When healthy young men consume caffeine shortly before sleep, their heart rate during sleep decreases by an average of 3.24 beats per minute, and this reduction becomes measurable when caffeine levels in the blood exceed 4.3 micromoles per liter.
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In healthy young men, acute caffeine intake reduces heart rate during sleep in a dose-dependent manner, with an average reduction of 3.24 ± 0.77 beats per minute, and this effect becomes significant at plasma concentrations above approximately 4.3 μmol/L.
Caffeine blocks natural sleep-promoting signals in the brain and heart, which causes the vagus nerve to slow the heartbeat more than usual during sleep, and this effect gets stronger as more caffeine builds up in the blood.
What the research says
1 studyWhen healthy young men drink caffeine before bed, their heart rate slows down while they sleep — and the more caffeine in their blood (above about 4.3 micromoles per liter), the slower their heart beats, by about 3.2 beats per minute on average.
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