🤣🤣🤣 I thought the same way! My coffee cup litterally has engraved on it...Scary before coffee! I have no other vices...nor think thc is a suitable replacement...so for the love of God and all things holy LEAVE MY COFFEE ALONE! 🤭 I do need to drink less. It's honestly, besides San Pelligrino or Pierre, all that tastes good to me. We got a reverse osmosis water system from our neighbor for Christmas and the water is wonderful! It just needs carbonation! LOL
My coffee cup says ”Perkatory (pur kah tawr e) n. The anguished, prolonged period spent waiting for a fresh pot of coffee to be ready.” Isn’t it so true - LOL! Seriously, though, I think caffeine is a problem for people who metabolize it slowly. For those of us who metabolize it quickly, not so much. To me, there’s nothing better than the smell of fresh coffee brewing in morning; the smell of bacon, baked extra crispy, is a close second. When abstinence of coffee & bacon was forced upon me for 9 months due to pregnancy making the smell of either sickening, I experienced no withdrawal symptoms. To this day, decades later, if I experience a bout of insomnia, all I have to do is get out of bed & drink a cup of coffee to fall asleep in 15 minutes.
🤣 Love it! I agree with metabolize it different or hey not everyone can eat/drink same thing! I can drink coffee and sleep fine. I can have 1 cup of hot tea before 7-8 and I'll be awake all night! I just enjoy coffee and I'm NOT giving it up! My homeopathic MD told me coffee is good for us. Have you heard of Eat For Your Blood Type? It was mostly SPOT ON for me! One blood type shouldn't drink coffee. I shouldn't eat alot of meat. I wasn't shocked. I can't digest or process protein well, so I'm on enzymes for that. I feel TONS better when my only protein source is our farm fresh eggs! Store bought eggs I burp/taste/feel in my gut all day. 🤮 So anyone who wants or needs to give up coffee...knock yourself out...I am NOT! 🤗🤭😆
Yes! My blood type is supposed to eat mainly meat and I know I don’t eat enough protein. I think your homeopathic MD has it right. Numerous studies have linked health benefits to moderate coffee consumption: reduced risk of stroke, diabetes, heart failure, Parkinson’s disease, and some cancers. Additionally, Harvard researchers followed 6001 subjects over the age of fifty for 7 years and found moderate coffee consumption to be associated with a 28% lower risk of dementia. Didn’t need a reason to drink coffee but these are pretty good! https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/aaic/111365
Thanks for the article! It's definitely better than those that drink Dr Pepper or Coke...regardless if it's diet...for breakfast! I think what you put in your coffee has cons for some too? I don't put tons of sugar NOR do dairy. I like Oatly reduced fat milk in mine. My homeopathic MD says NO ONE in the planet should ingest dairy from stores. It litterally has zero nutritional value because they cook everything good out of it! Then add all the hormones and antibiotics cows are given. Dairy...ESPECIALLY if in combo with hfcs...KILLS me! I mean IMMEDIATELY toss it up! Ice Cream! 🤮🤮🤮 Everyone just BOASTED and BOASTED on Kennedy, but he gave companies FOUR YEARS to remove red dye and hasn't mentioned ONE WORD about hfcs! Yet I've met SO many people like me! Maltodextrin too! Both break me out and cause horrible gut issues!
So, I don't drink caffeine. It has a paradoxical reaction on me in where it tightens my GI, so I just stay away from it. Last night however, I didn't get the best sleep, and with a long day ahead of me, I decided to grab and drink some caffeine today. Literally, as soon as I took my first sip, I get this email that says, "Caffeine Stole Your Motivation" and I couldn't help but burst out laughing. This is simply the universe saying that caffeine should only be used on an as needed basis, but should not be relied on. That's the interpretation I'm choosing to go with haha!
PS: Caffeine can biohack you, causing you to make bad decisions and lead to anxiety:
I have to be upfront about this. I began my coffee habit about 50 years ago, when I started my journalism career with the guys. Now at 72, I still enjoy drinking light coffee. It takes me back to some of the best memories I have. I may not have another decade ahead, but I believe coffee hasn’t been all that bad for me, after all.
The not only legal drug, but the very much unconscious drug! Yes I am on tea - only a bit better.
I have wondered for quite some time why governments allow coffee, tea, alcohol, pharma drugs, sone of them lethal, but not the other ones - the forbidden ones. It is quite obvious that people like to poison themselves. Why not allow them all, and only arrest the people that commit crimes? Lots of people take (illegal) drugs but never commit a crime - while others on legal ones, commit one after another.
Governments are happy for you to poison yourself as long as it is profitable to pharma. Those in government and pharma are the criminals to be arrested.
But respects free agency. God gave us free will; it is not up to some government bureaucrat, no matter how good intentioned they are, to restrict someone's free agency just because the substance is 'bad for you'. The government is free to warn you about a substance, but they are not free to interfere with someone's free agency because that act violates natural law.
I will give you an example from the pet world. Some dogs adjust to spaying or neutering quite well; others do not. Government bureaucrats unwilling to respect the free agency of bodybuilders to take testosterone restrict its availability, including to vets who wish to put a dog on HRT. So by 'protecting bodybuilders from ruining their own bodies', something that the MeToo movement demanded to end, that is others deciding what they could do to their own bodies, they made legitimate uses of testosterone so difficult that vets aren't willing to do it...and dogs suffer.
The dogs are suffering because they have been denatured by cruel humans who are fixated on having "pets", especially pets (dogs) who suck up to you with their much vaunted "loyalty".
Cutting off an animals' gonads then trying to make them "normal" with testosterone supplementation?
#2. In a vasectomy, one half of the living material needed to create another human is supposedly harmlessly re-absorbed instead of leaving, as it should. You cannot block any bodily substance from its natural course and think everything is going to be A-OK.
No man can get away with this; there is going to be a sting in the tail.
Green Tea, the EGCG Epigallocatechin-3-gallate is the most abundant and biologically active polyphenol found in green tea, white tea, and black tea, where it acts as a potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent. As for coffee, I have had to conclude that my body really would rather I didn't.
the centenarians around here guzzle the stuff. They absolutely thrive on coffee. It really depends on so much . Ive been awestruck by how many highly talented friends of mine live on it. I rarely have any but it clearly works as part of their lifestyle.
I think caffeine affects people differently. Humans are individuals, and just like one size doesn't fit all, the same is true of caffeine. Some people's threshold for it is quit high, and other people's are not. I am also wondering how much the quality and sourcing matter. 7-11 coffee affects me differently than freshly brewed Fair Trade coffee sent through a French Press. So it seems that processing of the coffee, how it is grown and by whom also matter. Coffee beans have caffeine because it helps the plant withstand the hot conditions required for its cultivation.
IMO decaffeinated coffee is worse because while decaf coffee beans exist and can be bred, most decaf is processed with petroleum type products to remove the caffeine. Some companies that specialize in coffee beans that impart a specific flavor when blended and sell organic, use steam distillation to remove the caffeine, but I doubt that many of these drive through places, even those that sell $5.00 blended coffee do.
Extracting a single activity, such as drinking caffeinated beverages, to study and judge it, in order to draw one conclusion about it, that applies to all persons permanently, pervasively, and personally, is an example of an all so common ego-mind's leaping and desiring to understand the world of manyness in terms of things and circumstances being Permanent, Pervasive, and Personal, when, the big picture/truth logically reveals it is all Temporary, Specific, and Situational. So many considerations get set aside when one allows assumptions of certainty (scarce) for the sake of comfort and simplicity, rather than invite uncertainty (abundant) and appreciate the discomfort and complexity which encourages one learning and growing and exercising critical/creative thinking.
Ron, I sense that there is something valuable in your comment, but it's hard to understand. Could you possibly rewrite it in simpler language? I am not being snooty or critical, I am trying to help. Possibly some other readers here would like some insight into your ideas, too. Thanks.
Horsea T, I may have included a few too many ideas in this brief commentary.
Since you "sense something valuable", perhaps it would do well were you to specify an ida you would like clarified.
In the mean time, I could suggest looking at the thinking behind "germ theory" versus "terrain theory". Many people have come to desire to know the ONE cause of their illness/symptoms which is often claimed (imagined) to be an infectious/contagious microbe; also, the name of the illness ("I have ______."); and the One expert-prescribed treatment {often "a pill for every ill").
In terrain theory thinking, there are numerous potential contributors to overall cause and how the mind-body will approach healing and regaining stasis.
I would love to read your take on an idea you valuable.
Thanks for your prompt response and for your invitation to get my opinion. I guess when people say, "I have _____" they are just catering to the modern way of speaking, where we've been trained to believe (it's like a religion!) that flu is just one thing and a cold is just one thing and smallpox is just another thing and cholera is just another and shingles another...and then we stick that label on our poor bodies, which are just trying to deal with old metabolic wastes and poisonous material. And most folks, as you say, just "take a pill" and then think they are OK. As I see things, they are driving their disease deeper.
I guess this is not a popular viewpoint, but I've not made up my mind about contagion. I see this in two ways (my own opinons): #1 Maybe our bodies synthesize some sort of bacteria (or virus?) when they see that we are overloaded with bad things in our cells and these little entities set to work, provoking a cleanse - which then causes those uncomfortable symptoms. Or: #2 Perhaps those germs which sick people have are automatically attracted to other persons who are full of unhealthy matter, thereby inducing a cleanse and set of symptoms (contagion of a sort).
I have relatives who back in 1918 were living in a 2 room (rural) hovel in the poorest part of the country. 7 people all packed together in about 600 sq.ft. No amenities. One of the boys "got" that so-called flu (he died); everyone else did not get sick. And that is why I am not so sure about the bullshit idea that if someone merely breathes on you, you will suffer and probably die of "corona 19" or _________.
Ron, I have re-read your comment a few times and I do understand your point now.
Coffee doesn't raise the cortisol high for regular uses. . It only raises cortisol in the few day of use. These old books were guessing that it raises cortisol. "What does this mean? For most people, one morning cup of coffee is simply not “burning out” their adrenals as so many internet personalities would have you believe. It’s often actually giving you a boost that your body is primed for in the morning anyway." See the original article> https://nutrichem.com/blog/should-you-ditch-your-morning-coffee-the-coffee-cortisol-conundrum/
John, if you need priming in the morning, yerba mate is a better choice. It still contains caffeine, almost as much as coffee, yet does not have the negative effects, nor IMO is it addictive. As they say, "look it up".
I have the occasional cup of yerba mate and it is a nice drink. Increases good feelings but no buzz or extra, un-natural energy. No crash. No need or desire for more and more and more, as in coffee, which I quit years ago, not having been addicted to it in the first place but I just decided to quit anyway.
Thanx for your comments. You may be right, or not. I don't know. The way to find out is to just stop coffee cold turkey and see what happens. When people want to do something, the reasons are endless.
I spent years without caffeine, flat as a pancake energywise. It was awful. There are old ladies in their 90s and 100s absolutely thriving on strong coffee in my neighbourhood .. and plenty of others I know about. I'm sorry this is way more complex. So many musicians I know just live on coffee and it hones their focus somehow .. It really depends on lifestyle , personality, niche etc ..
You are correct about the positive effects of coffee (in some people).
Tobacco (i.e., smoking) also has a positive effect on mood, focus and creativity. We don't have to avoid it (or coffee) completely; it is a matter of understanding whether or not we have an addictive nature. I smoke about 2 or 3 packs of Natural American Spirit per year (that's 40-60 cigs per 12 months) and they are wonderful. But I know when to stop.
Tobacco somehow is antagonistic to Calcium, and I take that into account. I think that's why women who smoke a lot, for years, have health problems even if they have no heart or lung disease.
Long story short: regarding coffee, alcohol, tobacco, and you-name-it, every coin has two sides. Even ayahuasca helps some people delve into the Meaning of Life, and who's to say that isn't beneficial. And then there's khat. It has benefits for people stuck in boring jobs in third world countries. But they chew it continually and there ya go - problems galore. I'd draw the line at weed, though: it makes you stupid and hungry.
So, when you say, "I'm sorry this is way more complex", you are 100 per cent correct.
Yup. Even more than that tho tbh. The ritual combined with the drug seems to give people strong focus .. worldwide drugs seem to be very powerful in helping us control certain moods or mental spaces .. Probably why we developed so many !. The context and psychology and various aspects of environment all interact . Ive known people live well on the weirdest of diets and habits. Its when folk are trying to grow and build children they have to be far more careful about the basic building blocks of life .. I’m healthy and wholesome but I get outcompeted all the time by folks doing well on various drugs lol .
" I’m healthy and wholesome but I get outcompeted all the time by folks doing well on various drugs lol ."
Ain't that the truth! However, I do recall a herbalist (Lesley Tierra) commenting on a similar sort of situation in her book. She was talking not about drugs, though, but about "good" diets VS "bad" diets and how some people seem to be doing just great but you need to take a closer look at them and their situation and then you will see that they are not doing so hot after all. The whole picture is what matters.
You have just waved a red flag in front of a bull with your article.
Everyone talks about coffee as if it is nothing more than caffeine. This is not so. People don't drink caffeine; they want COFFEE. Otherwise, they'd just take a pure caffeine supplement. My point and I do have one is that there's a lot more to coffee than caffeine content. If you want to drink coffee, try reading this. Chinese Medicine does not reduce everything to one component of a herb.
I think any concern regarding caffeine consumption must include soda pop or cola drinks. These drinks contain caffeine, often in higher ratios than coffee drinks.
Thank you for this link! I really enjoy my one cup of coffee each morning. I don't drink it for the caffeine - I just like coffee - alot :) I buy the best beans I can- from a company that actually provides a living wage for coffee growers and I very much enjoy my morning ritual.
You are welcome. That article on itmonline opened my eyes. It is not just about caffeine and nothing else. Suzy, like you, I just kind of enjoyed my one cup a week (every Saturday when we went into the city and I thought that McDonald's coffee was the best and cheapest). You're right - morning coffee is a ritual, and an enjoyable and harmless one for many, many people who are not addicted.
Still, I am not drinking it anymore. However, if I go visiting and that is what they are serving and I am not given any options, I'll drink a little to be polite. That little bit raises one's spirits a tad.
Nice to hear from the both of you. TL Parker: However, re cola drinks, it's still not just about caffeine. There's other things in there. They all go together. The food scientists are geniuses. That's why Coke & Pepsi truly hit the spot. :) And why their formulas are kept secret and apparently locked away.
Interesting. I'm not sure if I'm remembering correctly but I think I read in a great book called "Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival" that coffee contains a huge quantity of anti-oxidants, if that's still a thing. Though I'm sure you're talking about more than that.
Thanks. The article on itmonline describes the positive effects of consuming coffee.
Interesting that you say about anti-oxidants "if that's still a thing". VERY GOOD! There is a fixation for years in the socalled natural health world on this or that, and then it sometimes eventually wanes.
I am old enough to remember when just about everybody and his dog had "candida". MDs, naturopaths, you name it. Extremely limited diets were prescribed - diets which were so lacking in variety and nutrients that the candida sufferer developed serious health problems much worse than "candida". Literally dozens of healthful foods were forbidden. Any vegetable that touched the soil in the field or garden was not allowed. I mean, how stupid is that. You wash your vegetables and cook then and that should kill any micro organisms (yeasts, etc.), last I heard. Even children were forced onto highly restricted diets. Criminal.
Then there's magnesium. I've yet to see a health food store which doesn't have a long shelf of bottles of it. The way the mfrs are pushing this is beyond belief. Look at health magazines - endless ads for Mg. Repeatedly telling us that Mg is involved in 300 enzyme reactions or whatever it is supposed to do. Buy our brand - it's the BEST!! There's about 10 different magnesium compounds available today. Everyone is supposedly deficient in magnesium.
When it comes to antioxidants, we hit the motherlode; the propaganda just doesn't stop. They don't tell you that there is more to being healthy than taking such 'n' such "because it's full of antioxidants!" You'd conclude that you don't need to eat a variety of normal foods, just take antioxidant-containing pills.
Of course, it's not just natural health or supplements by a long shot. For quite some time now, everything is caused by...viruses. They have blamed you-name-it on viruses. No proof whatsoever - just make the claim and everyone gobbles it up. "The doctors shit and the public slides."
I've not access to enough definitive information to judge a lot of these claims either way (Candida, magnesium, supplements, and even more supplements, etc.), but one thing I do know is that when things are readily pushed into the view of large audiences, it's worth looking very closely at the foundations. Appearances are easy to create.
I recently heard a statement to this effect: "If you find out something without having to do any work to find it out, it is very possible that it's not on the up and up."
Wow. What a convicting article. My own symptoms of brain fog and lack of motivation perfectly fit what you describe. I've always limited myself to no more than two cups and those early in the day but it still can affect my sleep at night. I will have to really look at this going forward. Meanwhile my 30-something son is completely addicted. He works 10 hour shifts on 2nd shift and then tries to switch to non-vampire hours on the weekends, otherwise we'd never see him. He is all the coffee memes. I'm hesitant to even show him this..
I felt like a speed freak crashing. It's was hell, but I knew that this was good for me.
Then I became a sugar junkie trying to replace the caffeine.
I gained weight....depressing in itself.
When the hell phase passed and my body remembered how to keep itself going with out my six cups of Cuban coffee daily, my extra weight melted away and I felt like a ship in calm seas.
I sleep better. Am able to nap, and my body has remembered how to work on it's own.
Perfecto!
But...
I wished I had weaned myself off of it. It was tough.
I keep saying that if you want to stage a political revolution, never mind the weapons and plotting and so on and so forth. Just arrange (OK, it won't be that easy) to have importation of coffee cease. 100%. There will be large numbers of folks who go halfways nuts with symptoms like yours and maybe even worse; they won't notice that revolutionaries and fanatics will set to work rejigging society. Don't laugh; it's doable. How about the Boston Tea Party. The settlers were not too happy being without their tea. :)
I enjoy coffey from time to time - mostly i drink tea, i also like monster energy drinks - my flight doctor called my kolesterol numbers very very low - and that the other tests showed i had a 3% risk of heart problem the next ten years which is also very low --
What stresses me greatly and keeps me awake at night and steal my energy and the care to think long term about my farm etc is not coffey, but the government, the satanic globalist shitheads who start wars and kill people left to right, those who want to send me and my kids to war and steal their future -- that drains my energy to try to make it stop, for this retarded world to see reason and logic and to not keep walking into the enslavement system that will destroy my will to live!!
Now out of the work force I start my day early with a day to day list of things, chores, that must be done before I can get my first cup and this delays my instant gratification. I find that waiting an hour after waking and getting something done gives me the exact excuse to use coffee as a reward, gee my addiction on display, what a concept, has anyone else noticed how much coffee has gone up in price, yea me too.
About 7 years ago, I quit caffeine (coffee drinker) for 6 months. I don't feel that my brain ever really got used to it and I found work to be more difficult. Eventually, a meeting here or a presentation there gave me an excuse to have some caffeine, just an occasional cup of tea at first. But like any addiction, its a slippery slope and I ended up back on coffee every day. I'm retired now and only drink 2 cups of coffee (half decaf/half regular) a day in the morning. But maybe without the pressure of constant performance I could be more successful if I tried again to go without.
I really appreciate this article..I love coffee but it zaps my radiance and dries my skin, so tea is my preference. But my partner says there’s tons of research that coffee is great for longevity and prevents Alzheimer’s. My body tells me tea is probably a better choice for longevity, but clearly tons of people think coffee is super healthy.
I mean tea has caffeine in it as well. In terms of destroying motivation – I don't believe so at all. It is a gift but like all gifts it can be misused and unappreciated. For example – if I get sleepy driving in the evening, it is far better for me to pull over somewhere and take a 20 minute power nap than have more coffee. I don't drink alcohol anymore but I do love a cup of coffee or tea! The most important thing is to listen to what the Spirit of Jesus is telling us!
I used to like you
Good one Cris .😂
🤣🤣🤣 I thought the same way! My coffee cup litterally has engraved on it...Scary before coffee! I have no other vices...nor think thc is a suitable replacement...so for the love of God and all things holy LEAVE MY COFFEE ALONE! 🤭 I do need to drink less. It's honestly, besides San Pelligrino or Pierre, all that tastes good to me. We got a reverse osmosis water system from our neighbor for Christmas and the water is wonderful! It just needs carbonation! LOL
My coffee cup says ”Perkatory (pur kah tawr e) n. The anguished, prolonged period spent waiting for a fresh pot of coffee to be ready.” Isn’t it so true - LOL! Seriously, though, I think caffeine is a problem for people who metabolize it slowly. For those of us who metabolize it quickly, not so much. To me, there’s nothing better than the smell of fresh coffee brewing in morning; the smell of bacon, baked extra crispy, is a close second. When abstinence of coffee & bacon was forced upon me for 9 months due to pregnancy making the smell of either sickening, I experienced no withdrawal symptoms. To this day, decades later, if I experience a bout of insomnia, all I have to do is get out of bed & drink a cup of coffee to fall asleep in 15 minutes.
🤣 Love it! I agree with metabolize it different or hey not everyone can eat/drink same thing! I can drink coffee and sleep fine. I can have 1 cup of hot tea before 7-8 and I'll be awake all night! I just enjoy coffee and I'm NOT giving it up! My homeopathic MD told me coffee is good for us. Have you heard of Eat For Your Blood Type? It was mostly SPOT ON for me! One blood type shouldn't drink coffee. I shouldn't eat alot of meat. I wasn't shocked. I can't digest or process protein well, so I'm on enzymes for that. I feel TONS better when my only protein source is our farm fresh eggs! Store bought eggs I burp/taste/feel in my gut all day. 🤮 So anyone who wants or needs to give up coffee...knock yourself out...I am NOT! 🤗🤭😆
Yes! My blood type is supposed to eat mainly meat and I know I don’t eat enough protein. I think your homeopathic MD has it right. Numerous studies have linked health benefits to moderate coffee consumption: reduced risk of stroke, diabetes, heart failure, Parkinson’s disease, and some cancers. Additionally, Harvard researchers followed 6001 subjects over the age of fifty for 7 years and found moderate coffee consumption to be associated with a 28% lower risk of dementia. Didn’t need a reason to drink coffee but these are pretty good! https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/aaic/111365
Thanks for the article! It's definitely better than those that drink Dr Pepper or Coke...regardless if it's diet...for breakfast! I think what you put in your coffee has cons for some too? I don't put tons of sugar NOR do dairy. I like Oatly reduced fat milk in mine. My homeopathic MD says NO ONE in the planet should ingest dairy from stores. It litterally has zero nutritional value because they cook everything good out of it! Then add all the hormones and antibiotics cows are given. Dairy...ESPECIALLY if in combo with hfcs...KILLS me! I mean IMMEDIATELY toss it up! Ice Cream! 🤮🤮🤮 Everyone just BOASTED and BOASTED on Kennedy, but he gave companies FOUR YEARS to remove red dye and hasn't mentioned ONE WORD about hfcs! Yet I've met SO many people like me! Maltodextrin too! Both break me out and cause horrible gut issues!
So, I don't drink caffeine. It has a paradoxical reaction on me in where it tightens my GI, so I just stay away from it. Last night however, I didn't get the best sleep, and with a long day ahead of me, I decided to grab and drink some caffeine today. Literally, as soon as I took my first sip, I get this email that says, "Caffeine Stole Your Motivation" and I couldn't help but burst out laughing. This is simply the universe saying that caffeine should only be used on an as needed basis, but should not be relied on. That's the interpretation I'm choosing to go with haha!
PS: Caffeine can biohack you, causing you to make bad decisions and lead to anxiety:
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/weve-been-biohacked-to-make-bad-decisions
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/anxiety-is-the-disease-of-our-time
I'm more of a fan of THC instead: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-doesnt-anyone-get-high-anymore
What a coincidence 🤣
Opening up your email and finding the title of this article!
Maybe AI was reading your thoughts 💭 🤔 (joking)
I have to be upfront about this. I began my coffee habit about 50 years ago, when I started my journalism career with the guys. Now at 72, I still enjoy drinking light coffee. It takes me back to some of the best memories I have. I may not have another decade ahead, but I believe coffee hasn’t been all that bad for me, after all.
The not only legal drug, but the very much unconscious drug! Yes I am on tea - only a bit better.
I have wondered for quite some time why governments allow coffee, tea, alcohol, pharma drugs, sone of them lethal, but not the other ones - the forbidden ones. It is quite obvious that people like to poison themselves. Why not allow them all, and only arrest the people that commit crimes? Lots of people take (illegal) drugs but never commit a crime - while others on legal ones, commit one after another.
Governments are happy for you to poison yourself as long as it is profitable to pharma. Those in government and pharma are the criminals to be arrested.
And programming us to drink coffee is very intentional. Look to Jason Christoff/Planet Mind Control to figure out how they do it and how to undo it.
I've always felt similarly. Arrest upon bad behavior, not merely upon ingestion of something.
That’s a low bar.
But respects free agency. God gave us free will; it is not up to some government bureaucrat, no matter how good intentioned they are, to restrict someone's free agency just because the substance is 'bad for you'. The government is free to warn you about a substance, but they are not free to interfere with someone's free agency because that act violates natural law.
I will give you an example from the pet world. Some dogs adjust to spaying or neutering quite well; others do not. Government bureaucrats unwilling to respect the free agency of bodybuilders to take testosterone restrict its availability, including to vets who wish to put a dog on HRT. So by 'protecting bodybuilders from ruining their own bodies', something that the MeToo movement demanded to end, that is others deciding what they could do to their own bodies, they made legitimate uses of testosterone so difficult that vets aren't willing to do it...and dogs suffer.
The dogs are suffering because they have been denatured by cruel humans who are fixated on having "pets", especially pets (dogs) who suck up to you with their much vaunted "loyalty".
Cutting off an animals' gonads then trying to make them "normal" with testosterone supplementation?
lots of us men get the vasectomy (figurative gonads docked) in our forties when we know no more kids is the gameplan.
#1. You choose it. The dogs don't.
#2. In a vasectomy, one half of the living material needed to create another human is supposedly harmlessly re-absorbed instead of leaving, as it should. You cannot block any bodily substance from its natural course and think everything is going to be A-OK.
No man can get away with this; there is going to be a sting in the tail.
https://www.advancedurologyinstitute.com/the-long-term-effects-of-vasectomy-what-you-need-to-know/
ooo facts!! sizzle✊🏽
Green Tea, the EGCG Epigallocatechin-3-gallate is the most abundant and biologically active polyphenol found in green tea, white tea, and black tea, where it acts as a potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent. As for coffee, I have had to conclude that my body really would rather I didn't.
the centenarians around here guzzle the stuff. They absolutely thrive on coffee. It really depends on so much . Ive been awestruck by how many highly talented friends of mine live on it. I rarely have any but it clearly works as part of their lifestyle.
It also has l-theanine, which counters the stimulating effect of the caffeine.
EGCG in green tea also reduces activity in cancer cells.
I think caffeine affects people differently. Humans are individuals, and just like one size doesn't fit all, the same is true of caffeine. Some people's threshold for it is quit high, and other people's are not. I am also wondering how much the quality and sourcing matter. 7-11 coffee affects me differently than freshly brewed Fair Trade coffee sent through a French Press. So it seems that processing of the coffee, how it is grown and by whom also matter. Coffee beans have caffeine because it helps the plant withstand the hot conditions required for its cultivation.
IMO decaffeinated coffee is worse because while decaf coffee beans exist and can be bred, most decaf is processed with petroleum type products to remove the caffeine. Some companies that specialize in coffee beans that impart a specific flavor when blended and sell organic, use steam distillation to remove the caffeine, but I doubt that many of these drive through places, even those that sell $5.00 blended coffee do.
One wonders what chemicals are sprayed on coffee beans, let alone the processing.
Extracting a single activity, such as drinking caffeinated beverages, to study and judge it, in order to draw one conclusion about it, that applies to all persons permanently, pervasively, and personally, is an example of an all so common ego-mind's leaping and desiring to understand the world of manyness in terms of things and circumstances being Permanent, Pervasive, and Personal, when, the big picture/truth logically reveals it is all Temporary, Specific, and Situational. So many considerations get set aside when one allows assumptions of certainty (scarce) for the sake of comfort and simplicity, rather than invite uncertainty (abundant) and appreciate the discomfort and complexity which encourages one learning and growing and exercising critical/creative thinking.
Ron, I sense that there is something valuable in your comment, but it's hard to understand. Could you possibly rewrite it in simpler language? I am not being snooty or critical, I am trying to help. Possibly some other readers here would like some insight into your ideas, too. Thanks.
Horsea T, I may have included a few too many ideas in this brief commentary.
Since you "sense something valuable", perhaps it would do well were you to specify an ida you would like clarified.
In the mean time, I could suggest looking at the thinking behind "germ theory" versus "terrain theory". Many people have come to desire to know the ONE cause of their illness/symptoms which is often claimed (imagined) to be an infectious/contagious microbe; also, the name of the illness ("I have ______."); and the One expert-prescribed treatment {often "a pill for every ill").
In terrain theory thinking, there are numerous potential contributors to overall cause and how the mind-body will approach healing and regaining stasis.
I would love to read your take on an idea you valuable.
Thanks for your prompt response and for your invitation to get my opinion. I guess when people say, "I have _____" they are just catering to the modern way of speaking, where we've been trained to believe (it's like a religion!) that flu is just one thing and a cold is just one thing and smallpox is just another thing and cholera is just another and shingles another...and then we stick that label on our poor bodies, which are just trying to deal with old metabolic wastes and poisonous material. And most folks, as you say, just "take a pill" and then think they are OK. As I see things, they are driving their disease deeper.
I guess this is not a popular viewpoint, but I've not made up my mind about contagion. I see this in two ways (my own opinons): #1 Maybe our bodies synthesize some sort of bacteria (or virus?) when they see that we are overloaded with bad things in our cells and these little entities set to work, provoking a cleanse - which then causes those uncomfortable symptoms. Or: #2 Perhaps those germs which sick people have are automatically attracted to other persons who are full of unhealthy matter, thereby inducing a cleanse and set of symptoms (contagion of a sort).
I have relatives who back in 1918 were living in a 2 room (rural) hovel in the poorest part of the country. 7 people all packed together in about 600 sq.ft. No amenities. One of the boys "got" that so-called flu (he died); everyone else did not get sick. And that is why I am not so sure about the bullshit idea that if someone merely breathes on you, you will suffer and probably die of "corona 19" or _________.
Ron, I have re-read your comment a few times and I do understand your point now.
Excellent response: clear, sincere, and honest.
Allow me to recommend listening to the research and study done by Marizelle Arce
Here is one podcast regarding germs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lXiSiiQ-KA
Look into pleomorphism.
OK. I will watch that youtube video.
Coffee doesn't raise the cortisol high for regular uses. . It only raises cortisol in the few day of use. These old books were guessing that it raises cortisol. "What does this mean? For most people, one morning cup of coffee is simply not “burning out” their adrenals as so many internet personalities would have you believe. It’s often actually giving you a boost that your body is primed for in the morning anyway." See the original article> https://nutrichem.com/blog/should-you-ditch-your-morning-coffee-the-coffee-cortisol-conundrum/
John, if you need priming in the morning, yerba mate is a better choice. It still contains caffeine, almost as much as coffee, yet does not have the negative effects, nor IMO is it addictive. As they say, "look it up".
I have the occasional cup of yerba mate and it is a nice drink. Increases good feelings but no buzz or extra, un-natural energy. No crash. No need or desire for more and more and more, as in coffee, which I quit years ago, not having been addicted to it in the first place but I just decided to quit anyway.
Thanx for your comments. You may be right, or not. I don't know. The way to find out is to just stop coffee cold turkey and see what happens. When people want to do something, the reasons are endless.
I spent years without caffeine, flat as a pancake energywise. It was awful. There are old ladies in their 90s and 100s absolutely thriving on strong coffee in my neighbourhood .. and plenty of others I know about. I'm sorry this is way more complex. So many musicians I know just live on coffee and it hones their focus somehow .. It really depends on lifestyle , personality, niche etc ..
You are correct about the positive effects of coffee (in some people).
Tobacco (i.e., smoking) also has a positive effect on mood, focus and creativity. We don't have to avoid it (or coffee) completely; it is a matter of understanding whether or not we have an addictive nature. I smoke about 2 or 3 packs of Natural American Spirit per year (that's 40-60 cigs per 12 months) and they are wonderful. But I know when to stop.
Tobacco somehow is antagonistic to Calcium, and I take that into account. I think that's why women who smoke a lot, for years, have health problems even if they have no heart or lung disease.
Long story short: regarding coffee, alcohol, tobacco, and you-name-it, every coin has two sides. Even ayahuasca helps some people delve into the Meaning of Life, and who's to say that isn't beneficial. And then there's khat. It has benefits for people stuck in boring jobs in third world countries. But they chew it continually and there ya go - problems galore. I'd draw the line at weed, though: it makes you stupid and hungry.
So, when you say, "I'm sorry this is way more complex", you are 100 per cent correct.
Yup. Even more than that tho tbh. The ritual combined with the drug seems to give people strong focus .. worldwide drugs seem to be very powerful in helping us control certain moods or mental spaces .. Probably why we developed so many !. The context and psychology and various aspects of environment all interact . Ive known people live well on the weirdest of diets and habits. Its when folk are trying to grow and build children they have to be far more careful about the basic building blocks of life .. I’m healthy and wholesome but I get outcompeted all the time by folks doing well on various drugs lol .
" I’m healthy and wholesome but I get outcompeted all the time by folks doing well on various drugs lol ."
Ain't that the truth! However, I do recall a herbalist (Lesley Tierra) commenting on a similar sort of situation in her book. She was talking not about drugs, though, but about "good" diets VS "bad" diets and how some people seem to be doing just great but you need to take a closer look at them and their situation and then you will see that they are not doing so hot after all. The whole picture is what matters.
You have just waved a red flag in front of a bull with your article.
Everyone talks about coffee as if it is nothing more than caffeine. This is not so. People don't drink caffeine; they want COFFEE. Otherwise, they'd just take a pure caffeine supplement. My point and I do have one is that there's a lot more to coffee than caffeine content. If you want to drink coffee, try reading this. Chinese Medicine does not reduce everything to one component of a herb.
http://www.itmonline.org/arts/coffee.htm
Thanks for the link to Coffee in China
I think any concern regarding caffeine consumption must include soda pop or cola drinks. These drinks contain caffeine, often in higher ratios than coffee drinks.
Thank you for this link! I really enjoy my one cup of coffee each morning. I don't drink it for the caffeine - I just like coffee - alot :) I buy the best beans I can- from a company that actually provides a living wage for coffee growers and I very much enjoy my morning ritual.
To TL Parker & Suzy F.
You are welcome. That article on itmonline opened my eyes. It is not just about caffeine and nothing else. Suzy, like you, I just kind of enjoyed my one cup a week (every Saturday when we went into the city and I thought that McDonald's coffee was the best and cheapest). You're right - morning coffee is a ritual, and an enjoyable and harmless one for many, many people who are not addicted.
Still, I am not drinking it anymore. However, if I go visiting and that is what they are serving and I am not given any options, I'll drink a little to be polite. That little bit raises one's spirits a tad.
Nice to hear from the both of you. TL Parker: However, re cola drinks, it's still not just about caffeine. There's other things in there. They all go together. The food scientists are geniuses. That's why Coke & Pepsi truly hit the spot. :) And why their formulas are kept secret and apparently locked away.
Me too!
Interesting. I'm not sure if I'm remembering correctly but I think I read in a great book called "Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival" that coffee contains a huge quantity of anti-oxidants, if that's still a thing. Though I'm sure you're talking about more than that.
Thanks. The article on itmonline describes the positive effects of consuming coffee.
Interesting that you say about anti-oxidants "if that's still a thing". VERY GOOD! There is a fixation for years in the socalled natural health world on this or that, and then it sometimes eventually wanes.
I am old enough to remember when just about everybody and his dog had "candida". MDs, naturopaths, you name it. Extremely limited diets were prescribed - diets which were so lacking in variety and nutrients that the candida sufferer developed serious health problems much worse than "candida". Literally dozens of healthful foods were forbidden. Any vegetable that touched the soil in the field or garden was not allowed. I mean, how stupid is that. You wash your vegetables and cook then and that should kill any micro organisms (yeasts, etc.), last I heard. Even children were forced onto highly restricted diets. Criminal.
Then there's magnesium. I've yet to see a health food store which doesn't have a long shelf of bottles of it. The way the mfrs are pushing this is beyond belief. Look at health magazines - endless ads for Mg. Repeatedly telling us that Mg is involved in 300 enzyme reactions or whatever it is supposed to do. Buy our brand - it's the BEST!! There's about 10 different magnesium compounds available today. Everyone is supposedly deficient in magnesium.
When it comes to antioxidants, we hit the motherlode; the propaganda just doesn't stop. They don't tell you that there is more to being healthy than taking such 'n' such "because it's full of antioxidants!" You'd conclude that you don't need to eat a variety of normal foods, just take antioxidant-containing pills.
Of course, it's not just natural health or supplements by a long shot. For quite some time now, everything is caused by...viruses. They have blamed you-name-it on viruses. No proof whatsoever - just make the claim and everyone gobbles it up. "The doctors shit and the public slides."
Amen.
I've not access to enough definitive information to judge a lot of these claims either way (Candida, magnesium, supplements, and even more supplements, etc.), but one thing I do know is that when things are readily pushed into the view of large audiences, it's worth looking very closely at the foundations. Appearances are easy to create.
I recently heard a statement to this effect: "If you find out something without having to do any work to find it out, it is very possible that it's not on the up and up."
Excellent observation, CMC (your 2nd paragraph). Thanx.
Wow. What a convicting article. My own symptoms of brain fog and lack of motivation perfectly fit what you describe. I've always limited myself to no more than two cups and those early in the day but it still can affect my sleep at night. I will have to really look at this going forward. Meanwhile my 30-something son is completely addicted. He works 10 hour shifts on 2nd shift and then tries to switch to non-vampire hours on the weekends, otherwise we'd never see him. He is all the coffee memes. I'm hesitant to even show him this..
I quit caffeine a year ago cold turkey.
I felt like a speed freak crashing. It's was hell, but I knew that this was good for me.
Then I became a sugar junkie trying to replace the caffeine.
I gained weight....depressing in itself.
When the hell phase passed and my body remembered how to keep itself going with out my six cups of Cuban coffee daily, my extra weight melted away and I felt like a ship in calm seas.
I sleep better. Am able to nap, and my body has remembered how to work on it's own.
Perfecto!
But...
I wished I had weaned myself off of it. It was tough.
Grins.
A most interesting story!
Thank you, Horsea
I keep saying that if you want to stage a political revolution, never mind the weapons and plotting and so on and so forth. Just arrange (OK, it won't be that easy) to have importation of coffee cease. 100%. There will be large numbers of folks who go halfways nuts with symptoms like yours and maybe even worse; they won't notice that revolutionaries and fanatics will set to work rejigging society. Don't laugh; it's doable. How about the Boston Tea Party. The settlers were not too happy being without their tea. :)
:)
Determination is a good things👍
Congratulations for riding it through
Thank you, Marcelo
Awesome.
I enjoy coffey from time to time - mostly i drink tea, i also like monster energy drinks - my flight doctor called my kolesterol numbers very very low - and that the other tests showed i had a 3% risk of heart problem the next ten years which is also very low --
What stresses me greatly and keeps me awake at night and steal my energy and the care to think long term about my farm etc is not coffey, but the government, the satanic globalist shitheads who start wars and kill people left to right, those who want to send me and my kids to war and steal their future -- that drains my energy to try to make it stop, for this retarded world to see reason and logic and to not keep walking into the enslavement system that will destroy my will to live!!
Now out of the work force I start my day early with a day to day list of things, chores, that must be done before I can get my first cup and this delays my instant gratification. I find that waiting an hour after waking and getting something done gives me the exact excuse to use coffee as a reward, gee my addiction on display, what a concept, has anyone else noticed how much coffee has gone up in price, yea me too.
About 7 years ago, I quit caffeine (coffee drinker) for 6 months. I don't feel that my brain ever really got used to it and I found work to be more difficult. Eventually, a meeting here or a presentation there gave me an excuse to have some caffeine, just an occasional cup of tea at first. But like any addiction, its a slippery slope and I ended up back on coffee every day. I'm retired now and only drink 2 cups of coffee (half decaf/half regular) a day in the morning. But maybe without the pressure of constant performance I could be more successful if I tried again to go without.
I really appreciate this article..I love coffee but it zaps my radiance and dries my skin, so tea is my preference. But my partner says there’s tons of research that coffee is great for longevity and prevents Alzheimer’s. My body tells me tea is probably a better choice for longevity, but clearly tons of people think coffee is super healthy.
See itmonline (my comment above).
Thank you!
I mean tea has caffeine in it as well. In terms of destroying motivation – I don't believe so at all. It is a gift but like all gifts it can be misused and unappreciated. For example – if I get sleepy driving in the evening, it is far better for me to pull over somewhere and take a 20 minute power nap than have more coffee. I don't drink alcohol anymore but I do love a cup of coffee or tea! The most important thing is to listen to what the Spirit of Jesus is telling us!