Name: Professor: Course: Date: Consumption of coffee affects the amount of sleep you get at night. Coffee contains caffeine which of course is a natural substance hence coffee drinkers do not have to get worried about chemicals. The caffeine in the coffee promotes how alert a person is, and the action of caffeine in the body is a pretty fast one taking a maximum of 1 hour with a half-life of up to 5 hours which means that caffeine will remain in the body for quite a long time. Coffee is not a solution for avoiding sleep; it acts as a depressant by blocking the chemicals necessary for inducing sleep on people (Drake, Christopher, et al. 1195). Its other role is to increase adrenaline on a...
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