Re: coffee addiction

[Guest guest]

Don't know if this will help stopping but what do you have in your coffee?

I've

had mine black for the last few years since giving up processed milk. What a

relief to my head and stomach! Quit sugar in it dozen years ago. Recently I've

been adding a teaspoon of Thai Kitchen Pure coconut milk and am drinking less

as its more filling.

Wanita

At 01:22 AM 2/23/02 +0000, you wrote:

>Any advice on how to deal with a caffeine addiction?  I have just 1-2 cups

of

>coffee per day but I know the effects are bad. 

>Thanks, Folks.

>

>BP

[Guest guest]

>My teeth are becoming yellow.

>Also when I go without, I get headache, muscle ache and nausea. This

>tells me

>my dependency is greater than that of my partner, who drinks about 4 cups

>daily but has no withdrawal symptoms other than being sluggish.

I've never had any problem kicking coffee -- I just get sluggish for a few

days -- but that doesn't mean I can't speculate freely. <g>

I think Wanita was on the right track suggesting that you add fat to your

coffee, but even better than coconut milk would be raw cream from grass-fed

Jersey cows if you can get it. If the taste and texture are hard to get

used to initially, just step up the amount of cream in the coffee bit by

bit. Try to have as much as you possibly can. One way caffeine affects

you is to exacerbate blood sugar problems, heightening insulin

resistance. So if you have more and more fat with your caffeine, you might

be able to progressively ameliorate the affects of the caffeine by reducing

the rate at which it's absorbed and lessening your blood sugar swings.

Another important thing to do is drink more water. Coffee is a diuretic,

so odds are you're chronically dehydrated to begin with. Drink water

*before* you drink your coffee. Make a cup of coffee a reward for drinking

a couple tall glasses of water. This will help with the dehydration and

also reduce your body's cry for coffee, at least over time. You might even

want to put a couple crystals of Celtic sea salt into each glass to help

your body hold onto the water. You could also try mixing in some azomite

clay or a bit of Coral Legend, a ground coral mineral supplement.

Perhaps the most important thing is to change your insulin response by

altering the basic composition of your diet. Since you're on this list I'm

sure you already know a lot about proper foods and their correct

preparation, but the less you stimulate insulin secretion, the better

you'll be able to deal with kicking coffee. Eliminate sugars from your

diet, cut out starches, eat more fat if you're not already eating a good

deal of fat. Eat vegetables with low glycemic indices. (And of course

only eat the best fats, proteins and vegetables you can find.)

Hope this helps.

-

[Guest guest]

There's an excellent book out called Caffeine Blues by Cherniske. It

lays out the many many ways caffeine negatively affects your health. I was

amazed to find that caffeine was what was causing my calf muscles to be

hideously tight all the time for several years---once I got the caffeine out

of my system, the muscle tension evaporated.

The book also has a weaning program for detoxing...he does not recommend the

cold turkey approach. One thing that helped me was drinking Teeccino, an

" herbal coffee " (no actual coffee or caffeine) that is pleasant and gave me

the hot drink I wanted and the " ritual " of " brewing " it. It took me a couple

of months of abstinence to feel fully recovered.

On Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446673919/qid=1014524805/sr=8-1/ref=

sr_8_7_1/102-5306640-1248924

On Teeccino.com:

http://www.teeccino.com/cgi-local/web_store/web_store.cgi

As for you drinking coffee for the mood lift, I'd recommend Ross's

book, The Diet Cure (www.dietcure.com). She uses nutrition and supplements

(herbal and amino acids) to stop food and drug cravings of all kinds and

restore natural body chemistry. I found use of the amino acids very helpful

for emotional stability, mood, mental clarity, etc.

On Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140286527/qid=1014525144/sr=8-3/ref=

sr_8_71_3/102-5306640-1248924

Also, I just saw a stack of hardcover Diet Cures on remainder at &

Noble for $4 each...don't know if they'll have those at every store.

Jill Nienhiser

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-----Original Message-----

From: biophile410 [mailto:biophile410@...]

Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 8:23 PM

Subject: coffee addiction

Any advice on how to deal with a caffeine addiction? I have just 1-2 cups

of

coffee per day but I know the effects are bad. My teeth are becoming

yellow.

Also when I go without, I get headache, muscle ache and nausea. This tells

me

my dependency is greater than that of my partner, who drinks about 4 cups

daily but has no withdrawal symptoms other than being sluggish.

I drink less for the energy boost and more for the mood lift -- I become

depressed without my coffee.

Recently Bianca wrote that a sugar addiction can be dealt with by unlimited

unheated honey. What could possibly be an analog for coffee?

Thanks, Folks.

BP