Science says you're probably drinking your coffee wrong

The latest buzz on coffee may have you rethinking your morning rituals, or at least rescheduling them.
 
The reputable and popular science guys at asapscience.com are suggesting that you are never more awake than when you awaken, and probably aren't doing yourself any favours by heading straight for the java, if that's your habit.

"What if I told you, you'd been drinking your coffee incorrectly the entire time?" ask investigators Greg Brown and Mitchell Moffit, founders of the site.

In fact, claim the roundly-endorsed web scientists and recently published authors, it is between 8 a.m and 9 a.m. that most people's bodies are producing the natural hormone that makes us all alert and ready to take on the day. (For the medically curious, the hormone your body makes is called cortisol – the stuff that will help you decide to fight a grizzly bear or run away and hide.) You're better off waiting until after 9 a.m. for that first hit of coffee, they say, when your body's natural rhythm is more in need of a pick-me-up than it was when you spitefully beat on your irascible alarm clock.
 
If you're ready for a second cup, and continue to dance to the rhythm of the day – for most – the scientists offer further advice on what time is coffee time, based on a pattern of natural highs and lows that will occur through the course of the day. The tips are: after 9 a.m., before noon, and not between 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.