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Trying to lower my intake of caffeine starting today.
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Eight cups sounds like a lot. I'd be concerned what that would do to your blood pressure and heart rate over time. I gave up my black tea every morning to cut down on carbs and caffeine (doctor was worried about a tachycardia I had on initial intake). Echo didn't show anything concerning but, I haven't really drank any tea in a year since then.
I drink 12-24 cups of coffee a day. My resting heart rate is high (maybe 90?) but my blood pressure has always been textbook normal. Studies show (for example) that blood pressure spikes from caffeine are temporary, so more of something to look out for in people with already-high blood pressure rather than something to worry about from people who don't have it.
Didn't know that. I just was reaching around for anything that would make the palpitations stop. That stuff scared the shit out of me. One day it scared me enough that I took a sick day from work to go to a clinic. Everything's normal now on the beta blocker I'm taking but, I never understood what it was when the echo and EKG came back with nothing concerning.
That does sound scary.
Well, at least it's not a heart rhythm problem. I've felt better for a year now.
How much is rhr influenced by caffeine vs exercise? Because I'm trying to my rhr as low as possible but don't want to cut back on my caffeine intake.
Endurance athletes love caffeine and their heart rates are still in "Either this man's dead or my watch has stopped" territory so exercise must be a bigger factor. No idea if there's a tipping point, where you need to run ultramarathons to cancel out your Balzac-level caffeine intake.