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Coffee doesn’t have to keep you awake to disrupt your sleep

ScienceDailyTuesday, September 22, 2026 at 1:42 PM

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Coffee doesn’t have to keep you awake to disrupt your sleep
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Caffeine may make sleep less restorative even when you fall asleep normally and stay in bed for eight hours, with EEG recordings revealing fewer of the slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.

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Scientific signal separates durable discovery from noise — and often foreshadows policy and product. Caffeine may make sleep less restorative even when you fall asleep normally and stay in bed for eight hours, with EEG recordings revealing fewer of the slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.

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Caffeine may make sleep less restorative even when you fall asleep normally and stay in bed for eight hours, with EEG recordings revealing fewer of the slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.

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Scientific signal separates durable discovery from noise — and often foreshadows policy and product.

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