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Re: Quitting Caffeine

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Post by rockostrich »

PacketPaul wrote: post #191
gedrap wrote: post #170

I am a coffee drinker but I don't really get boost or anything. Nor do I feel tired or anything else that could be called withdrawal during the weekends, when I don't drink it. For me, making a cup of coffee is just a... ritual of sorts. Weighting the beans, pouring over water, all these things. And I really enjoy the taste, trying different beans. I don't want to sound pretentious, it's just a hobby for me. Maybe th…

Two days is not enough. Try being off it for a week. I bet you will feel terible on day 4.

I drink a cup of coffee every day. If I go a day without it, then I'll get a minor headache around 4pm and then the next day I'll be fine. It heavily depends on the person.

Re: Quitting Caffeine

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Post by ApolloFortyNine »

gizzlon wrote: post #212
kahnpro wrote: post #202

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Seriously, try 1-2 weeks without coffee... you'll feel it.

I did that, and after a couple of days the withdrawal disappeared and I felt exactly as before. No better and no worse. Started drinking coffee again since it's good, cheap and healthy-ish (at least more so than what I would replace it with). YMMV

Same here. Except I don't notice any signs of withdrawal (and I drink multiple cups a day). There are people who drink a pot plus a day, maybe those are the ones who would really benefit.

Re: Quitting Caffeine

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Post by 6d6b73 »

ApolloFortyNine wrote: post #289
JTenerife wrote: post #281

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Where there're sponsors there're studies. Don't trust those. Not saying that they're scientifcly wrong, but similar studies have been made for red wine and dark chocolate. Also, there was / is the green tea trend. You need to take all effects of a substance into account when judging the health benefits. If you want to do something good for your health, drink herbal tea. But why do most of the people prefer coffee or…

Woah woah woah. Did I miss the bandwagon for hating green / black tea? How are those bad? Is it just the caffiene?

45mg for black tea and 25mg for green tea

Re: Quitting Caffeine

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Post by faltad »

brianwawok wrote: post #253
Myrmornis wrote: post #213

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Bitters (e.g. Angostura) is typically alcoholic though isn't it?

So is mouthwash but I doubt you put enough in to trip the drink past .1% ABV.

But this could be of importance for people stopping alcohol due to liver disease. But otherwise should not matter at all indeed!

Re: Quitting Caffeine

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Post by e40 »

jraby3 wrote: post #265
StanislavPetrov wrote: post #209

What the author didn't mention, and I haven't seen mentioned in these comments, are the extremely beneficial health effects of coffee (not caffeine, decaf has shown the same benefits). Most significantly, studies have shown that coffee reduces overall mortality rates significantly, with the reduced chance of dying from any cause increasing with coffee consumption (up to a point). >Compared with nonconsumers, particip…

For a more complete list of all the health benefits of coffee, and separately of caffeine: http://nutritionstrategy.com/coffee-good-or-bad/

Coffee is full of antioxidants

That is one of my pet peeves. There is no proof that antioxidants are good for humans. Years ago I read an article by a researcher that traced the origin of the idea to... nowhere. There was never any research that indicated they are good for us. It's one of those things that was injected into a news cycle and was picked up and repeated over and over again.

Re: Quitting Caffeine

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Post by graphitezepp »

roel_v wrote: post #219
crehn wrote: post #159

As for me, I enjoy drinking coffee and I enjoy drinking alcohol. They're small pleasures of life that contribute to my overall happiness.

"As for me, I enjoy drinking coffee and I enjoy drinking alcohol. They're small pleasures of life that contribute to my overall happiness." Yeah - it's like the old saying "it's easy to live to 100 years old, just give up all the things that make you want to live until 100'.

I am typically very health conscious, even an aspiring sort of pseudo-vegetarian, with the exception of cured meat. Keep hearing about how bad the stuff is for you but you can pry my prosciutto from my cold dead hands.

Re: Quitting Caffeine

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Post by sulam »

seanp2k2 wrote: post #153
exhilaration wrote: post #61

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I overheard one of my male co-workers telling a female co-worker that he doesn't drink. Her reaction was a literal "eww". That's when I learned that - much like smokers - drinkers were a tribe.

Were? Smoking isn't very cool anymore, but drinking is still pretty cool. It's losing popularity in some circles, but in pop culture, rappers are still in the club ordering bottles, and not of Voss. Weed has a big chance to shake up the alcohol industry, because you can smoke like a Cummins 12-valve until you pass out, then feel fine the next morning. You also don't die if you have too much to smoke. It does have to…

I am suspicious that smoking pot is just as bad for your lungs as smoking tobacco and we simply don't have decades of evidence yet. It stands to reason that inhaling burnt organics is going to have many of the same effects regardless of which plant is involved.

Re: Quitting Caffeine

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Post by rpiguy »

StanislavPetrov wrote: post #209

What the author didn't mention, and I haven't seen mentioned in these comments, are the extremely beneficial health effects of coffee (not caffeine, decaf has shown the same benefits). Most significantly, studies have shown that coffee reduces overall mortality rates significantly, with the reduced chance of dying from any cause increasing with coffee consumption (up to a point). >Compared with nonconsumers, particip…

I have read these studies and often wonder if it is not the coffee itself, but rather what you aren't doing when you are drinking coffee.

For example, coffee suppresses the appetite so maybe you snack less and that is driving the difference in the two study groups. Or people on the non-coffee drinking group have Coke-Cola instead.

I feel very badly for my Grandparents, who were told not to drink coffee because it was "bad" for them. They all stopped drinking coffee in the early 90s and subsequently put on a ton of weight and then suffered all the related health problems (diabetes, heart failure).

I often wonder if they stuck with coffee instead of giving it up would they have been in better health.

Re: Quitting Caffeine

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Post by free_everybody »

endorphone wrote: post #284
nowherecat wrote: post #139

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Hm..reading this makes me wonder ... I noticed that life is running extremely fast lately and I am having a hard time being "in the moment" ... and I drink a lot of coffee. I really enjoy everything about coffee from roasting to brewing though, so it would probably be quite hard giving it up. Anyway, thanks for sharing this, I will take a long look at that.

I noticed that life is running extremely fast lately and I am having a hard time being "in the moment" ... and I drink a lot of coffee. I drink a lot of coffee. I'm a very in the moment person, meditate regularly, enjoy and live in the moment, etc. This is an approach to life thing that is quite orthogonal to whether you drink coffee or not.

I totally agree. The most "in the moment" person I've ever known ran a non-profit coffee shop and drank coffee every weekday. I drink one cup of coffee three or four times a week and I feel like it boosts my awareness rather than takes away from it.
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