Omni:Can I drink coffee?
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Can I drink coffee?
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Question #1682: A little question concerning your use of caffeine
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Lydia [JG]
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Look into the difference between coffee and yerba mate. The caffeine in yerba mate is much healthier, gives no jitters and no crash, and boosts the brains productivity, whereas the caffeine in coffee is more disruptive.
I've never had coffee myself, but I never get caffeine problems from yerba mate.
Question #1682: A little question concerning your use of caffeine
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Stormblood
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Drinking caffeine on a daily basis makes you addicted and undermines your ability to focus without having it on a day. It also damages your kidneys and adrenal glands over time, making it more difficult for you to have energy to accomplish tasks, because it forces them to give up more and more of your energy reserves until they are damaged and start atrophying.
Caffeine may be drunk occasionally and always needs to be cycled, not drunk on a daily basis.
Caffeine response also varies between individual and individual. For example, a test highlighted for me that I'm a poor responder, which means it takes a lot for my body to process it and it explains while it has no effect on my energy levels or focus levels, unlike with other people.
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To recover from the damage to kidneys and adrenal glands, it has been recommended by others in the health forum (it was either JG Blitz or centralforce) to supplement your diet with ashwagandha and/or schisendra berries.
You can drink coffee, tea, yerba mate, dark chocolate or whatever in limited doses. For coffee and tea, you may look into cycling and drinking a moderate amount (nowhere near the upper limit; if anything, less than halfway to the upper limit). For dark chocolate, one or two small squares a day may be fine, as the caffeine amount is much lower. Combined with berries and some nuts (i.e. walnuts) it's great to boost your productivity when at work or whenever you need focus. Yerba mate, I don't know anything about it.
Energy drinks should be avoided, preferably at all costs, as they usually have 30-32mg for every 100ml. This adds up to 150-160mg as most energy drinks are 500ml. It's too much.
