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What Drinking Coffee Actually Does To Your Body. 1  The caffeine enters your bloodstream and quickly finds its way to your brain, where it works as a stimulant and boosts alertness and energy. 2  The downside is that drinking too much can cause insomnia. 3  Thatâs partially because caffeine stays in your system for hours and hours. The way we metabolize coffee is called a half-life, Hunnes says. In most people, caffeine's half-life is 4 to 6 hours. It takes about 6 hours to reduce the amount of caffeine in our blood by about 50 percent, she explains.