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so hypothetically what would happen if

you did not consume any caffeine for 30

days this is actually very interesting

over 85 percent of adults in the U.S

consume some type of beverage that gives

them caffeine usually in the form of

coffee or tea children consume a

tremendous amount of caffeine doing

sodas and energy drinks now I will

totally admit this right up front I am

addicted to coffee okay but I don’t have

that much I mean it looks like this cup

is really large but if you get the

relative size it’s pretty small this is

how much coffee I have every single day

only in the morning simply because I

used to abuse it in college I used to

drink pots of very very strong coffee it

kind of burnt out my adrenals but

caffeine is the most widely consumed

mind-altering drug on the planet and

people drink it out of habit they just

like the taste some people drink it to

increase their energy I drink it for

creativity it does actually seem to help

me become more creative in the morning

but in reality not because it gives me

energy it just basically makes me more

awake and so there is some data or

studies that shows that caffeine can

increase

certain

like conceptual memory reasoning

reaction speed mood and even spatial

memory and those people that have

insomnia they’re fatigued or they have

jet lag it’s in 60 different plants and

the reason why plants make it they make

it as a pesticide to kill insects by

either killing them directly or stunting

their growth but it works slightly

different in humans okay in humans it’s

involved in a very specific

neurotransmitter called adenosine now

adenosine has many different functions

in the body one of the ones that relate

to caffeine is that it’s involved in the

promotion of your sleep cycles so it

helps you go to sleep at night so let’s

pretend this is adenosine the

neurotransmitter and this is the

receptor to activate it okay in the

cells so it goes in there and then it

opens up this which basically activates

your ability to start feeling tired and

sleepy so that’s what adenosine does but

what caffeine does is it comes in there

and it goes into the receptor for

adenosine like that preventing

been a scene to go into that receptor so

now we block this sleep molecule so you

become more awake so that’s really

what’s happening at the cellular level

and of course the more chronically you

drink caffeine uh the receptor

downgrades to the point where you need

more and more caffeine to create the

same effect so we talked about some of

the positive things about caffeine what

are some of the negative things that

would maybe motivate you to not do

caffeine for a month well a lot of

people have various symptoms that they

might not associate with that caffeine

like anxiety

high blood pressure

pulse rate

arrhythmias the loss of fluid digestive

problems like gastritis or increased

acid in your stomach and the other thing

that people don’t realize about coffee

is that there’s a very high level of

molds there’s two specific molds that

grow in coffee and that mold can create

allergies it can create irritation to

the liver especially for those people

that are sensitive and this mold is a

more of a problem in decaf okay why

because the chemical caffeine in Plants

normally inhibits mold growth which is

interesting so the more the coffee is

processed like an instant coffee for

example you have higher levels of mold

and this creates mold toxins called

mycotoxins and these can affect the

liver for those people that are

sensitive especially if you’re getting a

lot of this mold I noticed like one

thing when people start drinking coffee

sometimes uh they start sneezing or they

they feel kind of like this reaction

that use is the liver causing some type

of reaction you kind of get rid of

something so I think it’s important if

you’re going to drink coffee

go for Quality go for organic

and try to keep your coffee to a smaller

amount one a day would be the best thing

because coffee also depletes you of

vitamin B1 and so if you’re drinking

coffee a lot and you’re not replacing

that B1 you may start feeling more

anxious nervous uh jittery

hard to relax hard to sleep excessive

thinking all the time so those are a lot

of the negatives but there’s one

additional big negative that really I

think is the most important thing to

talk about and that is the stimulation

of the adrenal glands so not only does

caffeine block that neurotransmitter to

make you more awake it also increases

the adrenal uh neurotransmitter called

adrenaline so this is involved in the

stress response this is involved in the

flight or fight mechanism and so this is

more of a problem if you’re drinking a

lot of coffee over a long period of time

because it you’re just stimulating the

adrenals over and over and over and over

like I’ve done in college with so much

coffee like pots of very strong coffee

at first it was fine but then over the

months and years Coffee started losing

the effect I needed more and more and it

would stimulate my adrenals and then I

had problems sleeping and I was

really stressed out so a lot of people

want to get off caffeine just for that

aspect to to not stimulate the adrenal

so much to see how they would feel so

let’s talk about what would happen if

you did come off of it so one way to

slowly and gradually come off this

caffeine is start to wean off the coffee

so I would do that for a few days get

used to it and then go find some matcha

tea it’s a concentrated green tea powder

as a supplement and it has half the

caffeine as coffee so a cup of coffee is

like 140. this is 70 milligrams of

caffeine and you can do that for a while

until your body gets used to it and then

you graduate into regular herbal teas

that have roughly about 40 milligrams of

caffeine and as you’re slowly graduating

off this higher amounts of caffeine your

body is going to adjust to it and then

at this point you have some options you

can either just stop the tea altogether

or use tea that has no caffeine being in

it but that would be just kind of a

rough example of how you would graduate

off a higher level of caffeine and then

I’ll give you Solutions on how to

transition without going through all

those withdrawal symptoms so number one

I think you would definitely feel less

anxiety you would have actually more B1

so you’d feel more calm you would

definitely have better sleep which will

then give you more energy during the day

your blood pressure might just go normal

your pulse rate will come down if you

had any type of arrhythmias or heart

palpitations those would probably

disappear you may even notice that your

teeth are better because coffee does

stain the teeth and so does tea and you

might even find there’s benefits to the

liver because there’s going to be less

mold activation of some allergy that you

might have but I think the biggest thing

is you’re going to have less stimulation

of the adrenals you’re going to have

better adrenals that are not going to be

stimulated so often so what are some

good things you can do

you can do this very gradually by just

going from coffee to tea because tea has

less caffeine you’re going to find that

these receptors start to adapt

to the point where we have much less

withdrawal symptoms as you go through

this because sometimes these withdrawal

symptoms could last for

maybe an entire week usually not more

than a week but it could happen in a

week where you get headaches dizziness

uh you feel tired mood changes

irritableness number two herbal coffee

substitutes like tachino and there’s

many others as well and some of them are

actually quite good so you can

experiment with that also I would

recommend taking B1 and b12 those two

can actually greatly reduce the

withdrawal symptoms but I think there’s

some other things you can do as well

like take adaptogens ashwagandha is

awesome it helps you tolerate stress

well certain mushrooms give the

adaptogen effect another one would be

lemon balm tea so these are just things

to make the transition easier but I

think for a lot of people it’s

definitely worth trying especially if

you drink a lot of coffee and you have

some of the symptoms that I mentioned

now since we’re on the topic of you know

uh something preventing your ability to

sleep I think a good night’s sleep is a

very important thing in strengthening

your adrenal and also decreasing the

need for caffeine I’m going to give you

one little tip that I don’t have in

other videos if you’re sitting in front

of the TV or your computer or your cell

phone that blue light in the monitor

greatly messes with your um your

melatonin which can affect your sleep so

if you were to get a blue blocker type

Shades like this and where these the

last two hours before you go to sleep

you will find some amazing things

happening I’ve been using this recently

and just like two hours before I go to

sleep and I start to get tired a lot

faster because I’m filtering that blue

light that um keeps you up at night now

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