I quit booze a few years ago. It's a 10x improvement on my life. Quitting caffeine is probably not a 10x'er, but seems worth a go.
The case against caffeine
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#32High amounts shrink the brain, increase dementia risk. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1028415X.2021.19... And very few people drink 1-2 cups. The travel mugs and typical coffee place cups are close to this danger range.
This paper is so ass, it brushes off reduced sleep and then implies it’s caffeine’s fault instead of the user drinking caffeine when they aren’t supposed to.
Shit like this is why nobody trusts science anymore
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#33I had a very similar experience as this author. All throughout high school and college, I was prescribed Adderall. After graduation, I got a job, and realized Adderall wasn't good for me long term, so I switched to coffee. This alone helped with my anxiety, ability to sleep, and social interactions.
After a while, I started to wonder if coffee is good for me also. So I quit cold turkey for a few weeks as an experiment. I couldn't believe the effect it had. I am angry at myself that I didn't just do this earlier. I sleep fine all night now, I don't have to pee as often, my anxiety is basically gone, I feel better about life in general, my brain fog disappeared, and I no longer have "good days and bad days" mentally, just good days.
There is no more powerful drug or therapy in the world than:
1) Exercising regularly.
2) Eating healthy.
3) Quitting the stimulants.
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#34At least personally, I've found that starting to drink coffee has had a pretty dramatic positive impact on my depression. I wonder if the difference in experience could come down to the specific circumstances and nature of the issues that someone faces?
It's probably best to treat the articles like these (and the dietary advice in general) as an invitation to experiment and see how it works for your particular case, not as a definitive statement that "X is good for everyone always, Y is bad for everyone always"
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#35Tangental but as someone who used to have sleep issues but has no intention of ditching coffee, taking Magnesium L-Threonate has utterly transformed the quality of my sleep. Used to wake up a ton in the night, take forever to get to sleep, etc. and now I sleep extremely well and if I'm up in the night it doesn't take me long to get back to sleep.
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#36I wish this was initially disclosed as an opinion piece rather than reading through it and finding it out in the end.
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#37Next you're going to say I need to lay off the crystal meth too.
"Crystal meth" is probably fine as long as you're responsible with it and take it at therapeutic doses. It's available as a prescription drug and is indicated for ADHD and obesity[1].
[1] https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2017/00...
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#39Reminds me of this very useful graphic. https://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbdgbfiz4g1qb25dg.jpg
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#40You can also just lower the dose instead of following this black and white “am I a drinker” thinking. A single (1/2 double) espresso in the morning is not so much.
That's what I'm thinking as well.
I have 2 espressos per day and I don't get anywhere close to the state when I drink a single black coffee from .
Not all coffees are the same. Some types of drip coffees (such as Tim Hortons) make me wonder if it's laced with cocaine.