Why Should You Have Breakfast Before Your Morning Coffee?

No need to worry, nobody wants to take your favorite morning coffee cup away, but experts say they’ve found a better way to consume this cup of coffee. After a restless night, we all hurried to the coffee pot. “We know that nearly half of us will wake in the day and, before doing something else, drink coffee – rationally the more sluggish we feel, the stronger the coffee,” said Professor James Betts, co-director of the University of Bath’s Centre, Diet, Exercise, and Metabolity (via the University of Bath). The research investigated the impact of sleep and caffeine on blood sugar. Poorly controlled blood sugar has impaired our health, leading to problems such as type-2 Diabetes.

Researcher Harry Smith noticed that nobody was really disturbed by one night of lost sleep. Notice that a continuous lack of sleep is also considered to have a detrimental influence on the body. From a weak night’s sleep to a good cup of black coffee, people still seem to have a negative effect. Notes Smith: “…starting the day after a bad night’s sleep with a good coffee did have a bad influence on glucose metabolism by around fifty percent.” Instead, researchers recommended having the coffee after a healthful breakfast.

Coffee should not replace sleep or breakfast

The sample itself was definitely quite small and consisting of only 29 healthy males and females. Three separate overnight experiments were performed randomly. Test 1 was a normal sleep night with sucrose in the morning. Test 2 consisted of five minutes waking up every hour and the same succulent drink in the morning. Test 3 replicated test 2 when sleep disturbance happened, but participants got solid black coffee after 30 minutes backed up with sugar drink. Researchers were specifically shown that coffee was not an appropriate replacement for sleep or breakfast. Generally, these results cannot provide a complete overview.

Harry Smith believes that further analysis is needed in the opinion that this study leads to highlight major knowledge gaps. “There is a bit more we have to examine the impacts of sleep on our metabolism, like how much sleep disturbance is needed to affect our metabolism and what some of the longer-term consequences of this are, and also how exercise, for example, could help to combat some of this.” While the findings are unsound, this research helps to extend our awareness of coffee, sleep, and metabolism.