@@olafkielczewski1 prolonged periods of anxiety keep the amygdala activated, which inhibits the mesolyombic dopamine system that can lead to a depression, as explained by Robert Sapolsky here: th-cam.com/video/fzUXcBTQXKM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=X0NODYd0gelEIBiC
Problems coffee gave me. Anxiety, anger, poor sleep, brittle nails and hair, poor erections, urinating 10-15 times a day, racing mind, lost my ability to be creative, poor posture, made me crave pastries, made me over eat later in the day, held fat and water on my belly that couldnt go away no matter calories or exercise, made me impulse buy, couldnt live in the present moment, not productive at work, made me internet surf all day, made me dizzy, afternoon crash, unable to read books….the list goes on.
Coffee will alter your neurons. For years, as an engineering student and veteran, I consumed caffeine in gum, energy drinks and coffee. At 30 I started getting anxiety/stress attacks that were never a thing before. So I kicked 8 cups of drip brew/day to the curb for a month. I didn’t cold turkey; I replaced drip brew with one espresso a day. I felt so much better, then one day I decided to drink a cup of drip brew. Oh boy! Within minutes, I felt anxious for no reason. I was at the breakfast table with racing thoughts! I stopped drinking coffee for a week and my sleep improved. My mind is a lot quieter and I’m more focused than before. IMO tea, coffee should be enjoyed ceremonially NOT recreationally.
Yes your right it is the devil's drug every day I wake up that is the first thing I think of is were I am going to go and get my coffee not a good way to live
@@PJShorty It's not just the caffeine it's the 2 opiates in it. I have a sneaking suspicion that it's the calming soothing opiates that people are hooked on not just the caffeine
@@a.k.5901 yeah bro im on and off constantly this drug has really fked me. But i am still unable to quit. I feel tons better off but i still keep drinking it. It makes a reallly boring life a tiny bit more interesting because im high on adrenaline all day not worrying about anything or thinking or reflecting.
This topic is under-discussed and needs to be talked about some more. I recently discovered what was causing my stress and anxiety and always feeling extremely frustrated by any little thing that won't go my way. I used to drink a Venti size Pike Coffee in the morning and sometimes I would switch it up to a Trenta Cold Brew, unknowingly making my anxiety worse and triggering the fight-or-flight response, leading to increased heart rate, blood pressure, and cortisol levels. If you are feeling overly anxious or stressed, consider quitting coffee do it for yourself and your loved ones around you because they suffer too.
Eight months without caffeine now i feel great no more anxiety, depression,panic attack and stress. My sleep is very very good and so refreshed early in the morning ❤
@@alexanderkelley1255 depends how much you used but usually for me after thr first week it starts to get better then even better. Give yourself one month
Caffeine is the hardest drug I’ve ever had to quit. Alcohol is so much easier. The problem I have is that I quit caffeine, then get offered it daily at work for free. Then I slip back into my old ways of drinking coffee and then Pepsi max all day. I will try again soon but it’s ridiculously difficult…
Alcohol is easier to quit because of how easily it makes you feel like shit after it wears off. When the caffeine high wears off you can just counter it with more caffeine and you won't end up blacked out in a ditch. And of course the social acceptability of coffee and caffeine let's you drink it morning till night guilt free.
Sharing because it might help someone else. It wasn't until I started doing extended fasts and wouldn't drink coffee on those days I started connecting how incredibly irritable just 8oz -10oz of coffee a day was making me. Not just irritable but anxious and would elevate my sensory issues A LOT. When I would reintroduce it in my eating windows I could notice what was happening. I literally had to throw it all away in the trash so i wouldn't make more of it
Very helpful talk! About the fasting, I quit caffeine cold turkey 5 weeks ago and what I experience is that fasting is a lot easier now, because caffeine interferes with your bloodsugar levels. So actually fasting with caffeine is not fasting. Also I had the same anxiety, having to do new tasks and meeting new people was terrifying, this is all gone now. Wish I knew this earlier!
A Cup of stress. Great shit. What you talk about here is spot on. I have just recently been able to quit and what a difference. Im actually starting to wonder if half of the issues we have today is from the entire world being on a drug that causes stress and high anxiety. We are hooked as a society and i dont think we know how bad it is for us. Also coffee dehydrates you obviously. But most people dont know that if your dehydrated it can affect brain function as well, with can affect your mood.
I went cold Turkey. I also quit drinking alcohol & eating sugar at the same time. This is week 2 for me. I felt AWFUL on week one. Extreme back& leg pain with headaches. I slept all day some days. Week 2 I’m feeling a sense of calm that is new to me. I’ve been drinking coffee since I was a teenager.
Just want to share my experience... been drinking coffee for 11 years everyday.. and always suffered with stress, anxiety and depression... and i would drink coffee adleast 2-3 a day!!! 1st thing id do as soon as i get out of bed is put the kettle on and make a coffee. Ive always tried to figure out what is causing my trouble.. recently bout 12 days ago i had a coffee and had some seriously intense heart pulpiations and was very scary as i was having a panick attack over something so small,.. i then thought straight away this is the caffeine causing this. I then stopped coffee and all forms of caffeine. Im now on my 12th day. And i can honestly say i feel more a peice and calm. Its very strange to explain but i feel like i did when i was 18 and younger so for 11 years ive litrally been under the influence of a drug (caffeine) and now i feel normal. Will never go back and will never drink caffeine again intentionally. Please try it because you will unlock parts of you youv forgotten from when you started consuming caffeine.
Just want to add i replaced my caffeine coffee for a good Nescafe decaff coffee. Made it so much easier quitting caffiene as i can now still enjoy a coffee but with out the caffeine side effects!! After all it is litrally a DRUG!!
Currently reduced to one cappucino before noon. It shows huge improvements and my life is changed for better by a margin. I will see if there is need to get rid of that one cappucino as well. Coming of from 5-7 black coffees a day this feels like a blessing.
One of the biggest reasons caffeine makes you feel bad is it draws B1 vitamin and many people are already deficient in B1. Even worse when you add a lot of sugar to the coffee as carbs deplete B1 as well. Take some B vitamins before consuming coffee and see if you feel any difference.
Coffee? Yea a little, but for me it was tea. You may not believed it but its true, bad headaches, feeling anxious i would never bound it with tea. Everyone says how green tea is so healthy... I stopped for a few days because i was bores with taste of it, and booom! Two days and i felt 10000 times better. It may not be solution for everyone but for me it was
@@Julez108 its something with l theanine... Thing is i used to drink strong tea for years and i was fine, dunno what happened, im trying some vitamin B supplementation, fairly safe stuff and hope it will help.
@@ShadowLord3220 the l-theanine levels actually play a big part. I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder a few years ago. I was highly caffeine sensitive but could drink Macha just fine. It has a large amount of l-theanine in it that counteracts the caffeine. Brand, origin, all of it matters. Some teas will drive you nuts while others are perfectly fine.
thank you so much , some people have more sensitivity than other , i think i am one of those people . i will take action and stop it , hope i can reach more fulfilling life
I quit 7 days ago. Great experience. Enjoy your calm full confident patient benevolent relaxed future self. You will notice how your true personality is. Getting tired is not a crime. Feeling tired is good your body can slow down and relax and recharge everywhere. In the bus on the sofa where ever you are sitting on a bench in a park. If you skip coffee then you can feel calm and relaxed everywhere
'hypnotized to believe it's good for us.' I'm well into my 2nd month of none, stopped cola also. Sleep didn't improve yet, and mornings are still tough, but I feel so different for better. You are spot on about the ritual, I travel and would have to coordinate around getting a cup, sucked. I didn't have the major headaches when I quit, so I don't think I was addicted, but the fact that I was relying on a drug was enough of the challenge for me to pursue. My digestion is improved. Coffee does affect urine due to diuretic effect, not just liquid, as people think. It would make me urgent soon, and quite a bit thereafter, my pee is also white not, not dark yellow implying dehydrated. I'm also at zero alcohol, aside from all the hypnosis 'that it's good for us.' My blood pressure dropped nicely, it popped up a little, but I'm still fixing other things.
As someone who has started carnivore woe, coffee which is generally allowed by many carnivores, is the last plant substance I've liberated myself from. Striving not to be domesticated by plants. 😂
@glycincheck7127 holy shit! Thanks for this comment. I've been off of caffeine for about a week now and have been waking up about halfway through my sleep period. It's been concerning, and I didn't know that it was a symptom of caffeine withdrawal.
Good talk. I'm currently off the coffee. I've habitually abused it for nearly 2 decades. That's when the serious fatigue set in. I was in my mid 50s. It got so bad and scary that I literally quit coffee, even though I didn't think I could. I chose health over a messed up habit. If I would have known what was actually going on in my body, I would have quit years ago.
Very very good video! I have exactly the same as you. Been on and off and on again. Quitting soon again. Amazing how this is legal and no warning signs on pakaging. I never knew that I could feel so good without it after being addicted for 15 years unknowingly
Bro, that bloodhound metaphor just exactly explained what was wrong with me. Never enough, never happy, always chase.. While real life was going around me.
Wow I had all exact symptoms you mentioned! Here is my story: I’ve tried to quit many many times and failed after I realized what damage to my nervous system coffee brings. So I threw away all bags of beans and replaced with: black tea, matcha and oolong tea. They all contain much less caffeine (50% less or more) but all of them have an aminoacid called L-theanine. So basically this is calming down your mind, you get a mild boost and on top of that brings you antioxidants. Im drinking these beverages for 3 months and I have better sleep, Im calmer, less agitated, more focused, I dont have racing thoughts anymore, and I feel like things are under control. With coffee it was the complete opposite I was always angry, anxious, racing thoughts, my sleep was more shalow, I was always in fight or flight mood, and had occasional panic attacks Try it, you will thank me ❤️
The caffeine free sleep is the best sleep I've ever had! I think quitting is different for everyone. For me cutting it out completely, and dealing with the withdrawals is the only way. If I try to cut down, I'll end up cheating. Alcohol, cigarettes, weed, sugar, caffeine, I did all of it cold turkey, except nicotine, I used patches, but quit smoking completely day 1.
I quit 44 years ago alcohol and nicotine a year later cold turkey. Caffeine is tough for me I’ve done it before for 9 months 30 years ago after an illness. My goal is to wean myself off coffee agin. Working on it this week. I’d like to be caffeine free starting June 1st.
From my personal experience, I stopped smoking five years ago and now I have stopped coffee for two weeks. Quitting coffee was more difficult than quitting smoking.
I drink coffee about once per week as needed for a boost of energy. It always works great at that frequency without a tolerance increase. It's a fool's errand to consume this drug daily
Great video- enjoyed listening to your perspective. I think if you suffer from anxiety or panic attacks, caffeine just has to go. People just don't realize how strong caffeine's affect on the nervous system really is.
Such a great video, I'm so happy for finding this. I just recently stopped coffee after having reviewed everything I do in life and consume due to having extreme anxiety and panic attacks during work. I never ever sat down and thought about coffee might being the issue. Not saying it is the solution (yet) or the single solution but I already feel so much calmer after a few days. I also did the exact same as you with intermittent fasting and now when I think of it, I've abused my gut with drowning it in coffee thinking I'm all nimble and good for fasting. I'm so thankful for your perspective, we will see how it goes!
For me, its not anxiety or depression, but crushing fatigue, never having energy to do whatever, it feels my life has come to a halt for over 20 years, such a waste of my precious life... now that is depressing...
1 year alcohol free .....now beginning a coffee free year also. Coffee was creating so much acidity in my system ......feel so much better without it even after a week .
Man, I notice alot of negative effects from coffee when I drink it more than a day or two in a row. Like if I have some every once and a while, it’s ok, but as soon as I get some and start making it everyday - increased stress, jaw/muscle tension, anger/irritability, hard to relax, not as good sleep, digestive issues, depressed mood when it wears off.. however, I’ve not noticed these negative effects when I drink tea like black or Yerba mate. Coffee just isn’t good for me, at least not on a long term basis.
I was like you. Stress , anxiety all of it! It´s freedom getting out from this jail quitting coffee! Never again! I am all carnivore with about 16 h fasting. Feel great! Coffee made me have inflammations.
Same here! 7 months carnivore and 4days caffeine free, withdrawals have been mild since I upped the butter and water intake!!! Feeling like superwoman:)
I felt depressed after drinking coffee everyday for a month but also did realize that depending the type of bean I’m drinking, it could affect my mood in different ways. Sometimes it doesn’t happen and I just enjoy drinking it. The stronger ones are the worst.
Im in bed with swollen lymph nodes and sore joints and muscles and a splitting headache. Day 5. Im sick as a dog. This stuff just isnt good for you if the withdrawals are this bad
Thank you for this straight forward and stress focused overview. I have been coffee free for 3 weeks now and am working towards becoming caffeine free slowly and surely. I was so addicted and didnt have a clue. Have been dealing with a totally drained stress response system since 2017 due to C-PTSD and PTSD. Changed my whole lifestyle slowly and surely but for some reason kept caffeine in it. Doing therapy, meditating, living slowly and so healthy but still burning out again and again and not understanding why. I think the hidden problem has been caffeine. Really want to go cold turkey with all caffeine but I know my body will not handle it. I wonder if I will need to take out all caffeine or if it´s enough to have very limited amounts in chocolate and herbal teas that include caffeine.
You can take this relax , feeling chill to the max. Pulsetto for vegus nerve for sleep and mayba after waking up Start yoga nidra (a good source from tradition) as a nap. Or do some minute healing tao Sauna ( infrared chamber for at home is doable) Lionsmane extract Other things may be harder but will pay out: exercise (maybe start easy walk longer) Sleep; go to bed deaf,blind,hungry, cold ketodiet ( no sugar stress, ketones) with all the nutrients , do bloodwork too check Microdose schroom Do this the rest of your life
just commit, you'll break the ritual and then lose the rote memory, and finally the taste. I loved coffee and I can still justify it, but I just abstain. I do cheat with a decaf once in a while (twice since quitting over 6 weeks ago).
I’ve been on and off coffee for years. It’s probably messing up a few things, like being up all night. If I have a bit too much, I can feel this intense anxiety move in. I mix mine with decaf now.
I am today trialing 7 days without cofee, i've been feeling anxious and on Fight or flight mode from noon to the evening while i work, and that is the time after i've had 2 coffees. Also the bad thing is i dont have much concentration ,focus and my sleep has been not what i want for some time, so i see no benefits from coffee other than it feels good for the 5 minutes you drink it and the smell is amazing. But is it worth it? Very , very , very unlikely.
Limit your coffee to one cup a day - and don't have your own coffee machine at home that's for sure. And then eventually replace it with a black tea. That will make it easy to get rid of.
I wonder whether low dopamine makes a person especially vulnerable to caffiene addiction. It would be interesting to see whether No Fap and No PMO gives a person more of a handke on dopamine dumping drugs like caffiene
I have been trying to figure out why my anxiety has been out of control lately. I've cut numerous other things, including energy drinks. But never coffee. It's been 2 days and I feel like myself before I started drinking it! I haven't had any headaches yet. I may never go back.
Coffee isn't needed, so quitting is great, awesome. If you truly enjoy coffee, don't quit. Anxiety isn't caused by a "thing". It's YOU. It's YOUR response to it. This is common with people plagued by anxiety, they will have issues with stuff and say it makes them feel bad. It could be coffee, soda, sugar, certain meats, etc...then they start AVOIDING and reenforcing their anxiety. Essentially your nervous system is simply hyper sensitive and caffiene makes it more apparent, quitting coffee isn't fixing the root cause, it's only taming the symptom, till you find something else to latch onto. Personally for me and the life I live, I don't NEED caffiene and so I avoid it. I LOVE LOVE the taste of latte, so I make my own and I buy local roasted DECAF beans. In a day, I'm sure I get less than 25MG of caffeine.
It’s not a exageration to say that the bean is a way of life, especially when you look at it as a commodity over the centuries. Here in the uk Starbucks and Costa are now everywhere, like MacDonalds. They tap into peoples’ need for ritual and make $$$. It just so happens we work more, buy more also. If you could pick one mood smell for a shopping mall, you know what it would be: the smell of coffee.
it wrecks your central nervous system, your endocrine system, & your digestion long term... Criminal the food industry doesn't at least provide some type of warning like with cigarettes.
I have always told myself I could have a lot worse vices. To me a nice flat white is a comfort thing. I could've been an alcoholic or a drug addict or had a junk food addiction, which are far worse. To me coffee intake is benign in comparison.
I don’t disagree! I just found that too much caffeine was wreaking havoc on my nerves and mental health at times. I still enjoy a cup of it here and there. The idea of this show is really to examine and understand why we do what we do, and not necessarily to feel guilt or rush to change.
I went nocaf for 2-3 months twice and it did nothing for me. I was feeling more depressed and less productive. But that's also because I probably have ADHD. So this video unfortunately doesn't apply to me.
Is there anyone switched to matcha from coffee cuz of caffeine worsening anxiety level. I have recently experienced horrible symptoms like heart racing and pressure in my head to pass out. Anyone with similar experience out here? Please advise
I thought i was anxious and depressed for years, then i quit coffee and all caffeine...and WOW...no more anxiety and depression....NONE...
Immediately or did you first have a period of withdrawal symptoms?
That’s amazing! How long until you felt those results? ❤
Update?
what?? I know caffeine can increase anxiety, but depression?
@@olafkielczewski1 prolonged periods of anxiety keep the amygdala activated, which inhibits the mesolyombic dopamine system that can lead to a depression, as explained by Robert Sapolsky here: th-cam.com/video/fzUXcBTQXKM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=X0NODYd0gelEIBiC
Problems coffee gave me. Anxiety, anger, poor sleep, brittle nails and hair, poor erections, urinating 10-15 times a day, racing mind, lost my ability to be creative, poor posture, made me crave pastries, made me over eat later in the day, held fat and water on my belly that couldnt go away no matter calories or exercise, made me impulse buy, couldnt live in the present moment, not productive at work, made me internet surf all day, made me dizzy, afternoon crash, unable to read books….the list goes on.
Same here, suffered from the same symptoms, once I got back on track and ditched coffee, I never looked back.
Coffree is the way to go.
So everything you mentioned magically disappeared after you quit coffee ha?
@@Synkronized7lol right
@@Synkronized7 Yes
10 months no coffee or caffeine. Sometimes I come back to videos like this to remind me to not start again.
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Coffee will alter your neurons. For years, as an engineering student and veteran, I consumed caffeine in gum, energy drinks and coffee. At 30 I started getting anxiety/stress attacks that were never a thing before. So I kicked 8 cups of drip brew/day to the curb for a month. I didn’t cold turkey; I replaced drip brew with one espresso a day. I felt so much better, then one day I decided to drink a cup of drip brew. Oh boy! Within minutes, I felt anxious for no reason. I was at the breakfast table with racing thoughts! I stopped drinking coffee for a week and my sleep improved. My mind is a lot quieter and I’m more focused than before. IMO tea, coffee should be enjoyed ceremonially NOT recreationally.
God this is the devils drug. My mind allways finds a excuse to drink it and then i go overboard and feel like shit.
Yes your right it is the devil's drug every day I wake up that is the first thing I think of is were I am going to go and get my coffee not a good way to live
@@PJShortyas if it burns your nervous system so you are unhappy without it
@@PJShorty It's not just the caffeine it's the 2 opiates in it. I have a sneaking suspicion that it's the calming soothing opiates that people are hooked on not just the caffeine
Same thing for me. I'll quit. Then find an excuse to drink "a little" which snowballs into 10 cups a day + pre workout drinks.
@@a.k.5901 yeah bro im on and off constantly this drug has really fked me. But i am still unable to quit. I feel tons better off but i still keep drinking it. It makes a reallly boring life a tiny bit more interesting because im high on adrenaline all day not worrying about anything or thinking or reflecting.
This topic is under-discussed and needs to be talked about some more. I recently discovered what was causing my stress and anxiety and always feeling extremely frustrated by any little thing that won't go my way. I used to drink a Venti size Pike Coffee in the morning and sometimes I would switch it up to a Trenta Cold Brew, unknowingly making my anxiety worse and triggering the fight-or-flight response, leading to increased heart rate, blood pressure, and cortisol levels. If you are feeling overly anxious or stressed, consider quitting coffee do it for yourself and your loved ones around you because they suffer too.
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Read caffeine blues too ! It shows that it can take 2-3 weeks for stress hormones to return to normal after quitting too
Explains why I gave up after 4 days.Lol that's not even close to giving enough time.
@@2024ChildoftheKing oh dude 90 days and then re evaluate
@@iamthefiremanjjWell I guess I need more patience and self-discipline.
Great book!
That's crazy. Really gotta give this a try.
Eight months without caffeine now i feel great no more anxiety, depression,panic attack and stress. My sleep is very very good and so refreshed early in the morning ❤
Oh dude right caffeine literally fucks u up
How long did it take for you to start feeling well once you quit?
@@alexanderkelley1255 depends how much you used but usually for me after thr first week it starts to get better then even better. Give yourself one month
Goddamn.
I'm day 5 no coffee. Thanks for this video, one of the best quit coffee videos ive seen.
I agree
How long the headaches lasted for you?
Caffeine is the hardest drug I’ve ever had to quit. Alcohol is so much easier. The problem I have is that I quit caffeine, then get offered it daily at work for free. Then I slip back into my old ways of drinking coffee and then Pepsi max all day. I will try again soon but it’s ridiculously difficult…
same thoughts, i stopped nicotine alcohol even video games! but caffeine is too much harder than all, one of the worst underrated drugs ever
Decades of alcohol and cigarettes were easier for me to cold turkey from than coffee I always go back.
@@conorm8 yes there is son
Alcohol is easier to quit because of how easily it makes you feel like shit after it wears off.
When the caffeine high wears off you can just counter it with more caffeine and you won't end up blacked out in a ditch.
And of course the social acceptability of coffee and caffeine let's you drink it morning till night guilt free.
Sharing because it might help someone else. It wasn't until I started doing extended fasts and wouldn't drink coffee on those days I started connecting how incredibly irritable just 8oz -10oz of coffee a day was making me. Not just irritable but anxious and would elevate my sensory issues A LOT. When I would reintroduce it in my eating windows I could notice what was happening. I literally had to throw it all away in the trash so i wouldn't make more of it
Yeah I relate
Ive bin drinking coffee for years, i also feel depressed and unhappy most of the time with horrible insomnia..
Very helpful talk! About the fasting, I quit caffeine cold turkey 5 weeks ago and what I experience is that fasting is a lot easier now, because caffeine interferes with your bloodsugar levels. So actually fasting with caffeine is not fasting. Also I had the same anxiety, having to do new tasks and meeting new people was terrifying, this is all gone now. Wish I knew this earlier!
That’s amazing
A Cup of stress. Great shit. What you talk about here is spot on. I have just recently been able to quit and what a difference. Im actually starting to wonder if half of the issues we have today is from the entire world being on a drug that causes stress and high anxiety. We are hooked as a society and i dont think we know how bad it is for us. Also coffee dehydrates you obviously. But most people dont know that if your dehydrated it can affect brain function as well, with can affect your mood.
Spot on . I def had the same exact line of thinking as you
You could be on to something there. Americans are the biggest consumers of coffee in the world and coincidentally are the most wired and angry.
Off coffee for 3 weeks now. Will watch this video as the one and only activity today and the crawl back to bed
@appletvaccount1364 its been 6 weeks for me and Im slowly getting some energy back.
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@Euro2020-yh6lk maybe. I wasnt that bad but close.
Yes, when I go off coffee, I need to sleep a lot for a couple days.
I went cold Turkey. I also quit drinking alcohol & eating sugar at the same time. This is week 2 for me. I felt AWFUL on week one. Extreme back& leg pain with headaches. I slept all day some days. Week 2 I’m feeling a sense of calm that is new to me. I’ve been drinking coffee since I was a teenager.
day 11 for me and a similar experience, people seemed highly sceptical of my back pain caused by caffeine withdrawal
@@1dirladuu Yes. My family insisted that I had just contracted a virus but I know that’s not true.
Just want to share my experience... been drinking coffee for 11 years everyday.. and always suffered with stress, anxiety and depression... and i would drink coffee adleast 2-3 a day!!! 1st thing id do as soon as i get out of bed is put the kettle on and make a coffee.
Ive always tried to figure out what is causing my trouble.. recently bout 12 days ago i had a coffee and had some seriously intense heart pulpiations and was very scary as i was having a panick attack over something so small,.. i then thought straight away this is the caffeine causing this.
I then stopped coffee and all forms of caffeine. Im now on my 12th day. And i can honestly say i feel more a peice and calm. Its very strange to explain but i feel like i did when i was 18 and younger so for 11 years ive litrally been under the influence of a drug (caffeine) and now i feel normal.
Will never go back and will never drink caffeine again intentionally.
Please try it because you will unlock parts of you youv forgotten from when you started consuming caffeine.
Yes. Caffeine free makes you feel alive down to earth in the present moment.
Just want to add i replaced my caffeine coffee for a good Nescafe decaff coffee. Made it so much easier quitting caffiene as i can now still enjoy a coffee but with out the caffeine side effects!! After all it is litrally a DRUG!!
3 months off coffee now. Social anxiety gone.
Currently reduced to one cappucino before noon. It shows huge improvements and my life is changed for better by a margin. I will see if there is need to get rid of that one cappucino as well. Coming of from 5-7 black coffees a day this feels like a blessing.
One of the biggest reasons caffeine makes you feel bad is it draws B1 vitamin and many people are already deficient in B1. Even worse when you add a lot of sugar to the coffee as carbs deplete B1 as well. Take some B vitamins before consuming coffee and see if you feel any difference.
Coffee? Yea a little, but for me it was tea. You may not believed it but its true, bad headaches, feeling anxious i would never bound it with tea. Everyone says how green tea is so healthy... I stopped for a few days because i was bores with taste of it, and booom! Two days and i felt 10000 times better. It may not be solution for everyone but for me it was
Interesting observation as tea is the go to alternative... to be honest, the best phase in my life was when if was off coffee and tea too...
Tea actually feels worse tha coffee for me, especially strong black tea. Feels like I can't think straight after drinking it.
@@Julez108 its something with l theanine... Thing is i used to drink strong tea for years and i was fine, dunno what happened, im trying some vitamin B supplementation, fairly safe stuff and hope it will help.
@@ShadowLord3220 That would make sense. I used to take l-theanine pills combined with coffee or caffeinated soda and I felt really weird so I stopped.
@@ShadowLord3220 the l-theanine levels actually play a big part. I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder a few years ago. I was highly caffeine sensitive but could drink Macha just fine. It has a large amount of l-theanine in it that counteracts the caffeine. Brand, origin, all of it matters. Some teas will drive you nuts while others are perfectly fine.
Your channels deserves way more views and subscribes
thank you so much , some people have more sensitivity than other , i think i am one of those people . i will take action and stop it , hope i can reach more fulfilling life
I quit 7 days ago. Great experience. Enjoy your calm full confident patient benevolent relaxed future self. You will notice how your true personality is. Getting tired is not a crime. Feeling tired is good your body can slow down and relax and recharge everywhere. In the bus on the sofa where ever you are sitting on a bench in a park. If you skip coffee then you can feel calm and relaxed everywhere
'hypnotized to believe it's good for us.' I'm well into my 2nd month of none, stopped cola also. Sleep didn't improve yet, and mornings are still tough, but I feel so different for better. You are spot on about the ritual, I travel and would have to coordinate around getting a cup, sucked. I didn't have the major headaches when I quit, so I don't think I was addicted, but the fact that I was relying on a drug was enough of the challenge for me to pursue. My digestion is improved. Coffee does affect urine due to diuretic effect, not just liquid, as people think. It would make me urgent soon, and quite a bit thereafter, my pee is also white not, not dark yellow implying dehydrated. I'm also at zero alcohol, aside from all the hypnosis 'that it's good for us.' My blood pressure dropped nicely, it popped up a little, but I'm still fixing other things.
Coffee’s negative effects are widely underestimated. Plenty of large chain cafe’s are selling products with absurd amounts of caffeine
As someone who has started carnivore woe, coffee which is generally allowed by many carnivores, is the last plant substance I've liberated myself from. Striving not to be domesticated by plants. 😂
Me too, I quit for almost 2 months last time but still had early wake insomnia induced by the caffeine withdrawal
@glycincheck7127 holy shit! Thanks for this comment. I've been off of caffeine for about a week now and have been waking up about halfway through my sleep period. It's been concerning, and I didn't know that it was a symptom of caffeine withdrawal.
Good talk. I'm currently off the coffee. I've habitually abused it for nearly 2 decades. That's when the serious fatigue set in. I was in my mid 50s. It got so bad and scary that I literally quit coffee, even though I didn't think I could. I chose health over a messed up habit.
If I would have known what was actually going on in my body, I would have quit years ago.
Coffee ruins my life but I keep drinking it. I’m very determined to quit it from tomorrow. I drink it only in the morning. Pray for me 🙏
It's been 2 weeks i feel so much better no anxiety no panic attack I'm sleeping great not going back.
Very very good video! I have exactly the same as you. Been on and off and on again. Quitting soon again. Amazing how this is legal and no warning signs on pakaging. I never knew that I could feel so good without it after being addicted for 15 years unknowingly
Bro, that bloodhound metaphor just exactly explained what was wrong with me. Never enough, never happy, always chase.. While real life was going around me.
Coffee does cause anxiety and dehydration for sure. This is a very good video.
Wow I had all exact symptoms you mentioned!
Here is my story: I’ve tried to quit many many times and failed after I realized what damage to my nervous system coffee brings. So I threw away all bags of beans and replaced with: black tea, matcha and oolong tea. They all contain much less caffeine (50% less or more) but all of them have an aminoacid called L-theanine. So basically this is calming down your mind, you get a mild boost and on top of that brings you antioxidants.
Im drinking these beverages for 3 months and I have better sleep, Im calmer, less agitated, more focused, I dont have racing thoughts anymore, and I feel like things are under control.
With coffee it was the complete opposite I was always angry, anxious, racing thoughts, my sleep was more shalow, I was always in fight or flight mood, and had occasional panic attacks
Try it, you will thank me ❤️
U still using the drug. Nothing to thank u for.
@@waldek32I’m sure you’re fun in real life (not).
Yes
The caffeine free sleep is the best sleep I've ever had! I think quitting is different for everyone. For me cutting it out completely, and dealing with the withdrawals is the only way. If I try to cut down, I'll end up cheating. Alcohol, cigarettes, weed, sugar, caffeine, I did all of it cold turkey, except nicotine, I used patches, but quit smoking completely day 1.
I quit 44 years ago alcohol and nicotine a year later cold turkey. Caffeine is tough for me I’ve done it before for 9 months 30 years ago after an illness. My goal is to wean myself off coffee agin. Working on it this week. I’d like to be caffeine free starting June 1st.
From my personal experience, I stopped smoking five years ago and now I have stopped coffee for two weeks. Quitting coffee was more difficult than quitting smoking.
Great video. I'm 68 drinking caffeine at my age is like whipping on old horse.
TEECINO is a nice alternative if you still want the ritual of making a warm comforting drink.
What's a Tecino
I drink coffee about once per week as needed for a boost of energy. It always works great at that frequency without a tolerance increase. It's a fool's errand to consume this drug daily
Cardio day?
I love the production, it’s great. Great quality both video and audio, setting the standard for other content creators
Leo gura vibes
@@pauloganyan604 thanks I appreciate that 🙏🏼
All must worship the Bean.
Great calming voice! Love this channel ❤️ thank you
Great video- enjoyed listening to your perspective. I think if you suffer from anxiety or panic attacks, caffeine just has to go. People just don't realize how strong caffeine's affect on the nervous system really is.
11:30 good point. Great video. Some new things i havent heard which is rare!
Glad to hear it, thanks for watching!
Such a great video, I'm so happy for finding this. I just recently stopped coffee after having reviewed everything I do in life and consume due to having extreme anxiety and panic attacks during work. I never ever sat down and thought about coffee might being the issue. Not saying it is the solution (yet) or the single solution but I already feel so much calmer after a few days. I also did the exact same as you with intermittent fasting and now when I think of it, I've abused my gut with drowning it in coffee thinking I'm all nimble and good for fasting. I'm so thankful for your perspective, we will see how it goes!
Watching this while drinking my third cup. HELP
I wish I've learned this before I got fired from my job 😔
For me, its not anxiety or depression, but crushing fatigue, never having energy to do whatever, it feels my life has come to a halt for over 20 years, such a waste of my precious life... now that is depressing...
Eat butter and TH-cam Carnivore diet.
1 year alcohol free .....now beginning a coffee free year also. Coffee was creating so much acidity in my system ......feel so much better without it even after a week .
Man, I notice alot of negative effects from coffee when I drink it more than a day or two in a row. Like if I have some every once and a while, it’s ok, but as soon as I get some and start making it everyday -
increased stress, jaw/muscle tension, anger/irritability, hard to relax, not as good sleep, digestive issues, depressed mood when it wears off..
however, I’ve not noticed these negative effects when I drink tea like black or Yerba mate. Coffee just isn’t good for me, at least not on a long term basis.
I read in a comment "caffeine is like pressing the accelerator pad in neutral" and since then ive worked to get off it
So true! It does nasty stuff to mood, anxiety, and, strange as it sounds, your personality.
I was like you. Stress , anxiety all of it! It´s freedom getting out from this jail quitting coffee! Never again! I am all carnivore with about 16 h fasting. Feel great! Coffee made me have inflammations.
Carnivore also plays a large role in counteracting inflammations.
Same here! 7 months carnivore and 4days caffeine free, withdrawals have been mild since I upped the butter and water intake!!! Feeling like superwoman:)
Oh boy a lot of missinformation here. But good yall feeling better
Excellent video ❤
11 months completely free. 🙌
How has it been?
Damn 4 minutes in and I feel like this video was made specifically for me.
I'd like to quit alcohol and caffeine. I appreciate all the info.
Bro I watched this video 3-4x because. Idea why, I guess because I relate to it so much.
I felt depressed after drinking coffee everyday for a month but also did realize that depending the type of bean I’m drinking, it could affect my mood in different ways. Sometimes it doesn’t happen and I just enjoy drinking it. The stronger ones are the worst.
I chose a decaf today because of this video.
Decaf was still causing me joint and muscle pain. Most plants are poison to me.
@@Michel-gb7glprobably had mold in it, processed/held in poor conditions.
@ancientflames some of the manufacturers test for mold but their coffee is $30 a bag.
Excellent video bro, it’s so true
I get vertigo if i drink coffee for a couple days in a row.
I didn't realize that it was causing my health issues until I quit a few years ago.
What kind of health issues? Do you still use it sparingly?
@@Iwish4zombies mainly heart palpitations, anxiety issues, tingling sensations in feet, sleep issues, blood pressure issues... hell no
So true! Thanks for laying this out. I’ve just given up and feel great for it.
Anyone get muscle tension and tightness, along with the anxiety?
Yes
I had all of the above plus I found out that my body was creating high amounts of antibodies for coffee essentially meaning I am allergic to coffee.
Today I start to quit caffeine! I will updated 2 weeks later!
Im in bed with swollen lymph nodes and sore joints and muscles and a splitting headache. Day 5. Im sick as a dog. This stuff just isnt good for you if the withdrawals are this bad
Literally everything if taken daily has withdrawals.
Americans love to refer to caffeine as just coffee. So many other things have caffeine like tea and energy drinks .
use Teeccino herbal coffee to taper down, replace some of your coffee with Teeccino until you are completely no-caf
Great video thank you
Don't even get me started on how much sugar I put into my coffee , and then there is coffee treats , etc
Thank you for this straight forward and stress focused overview. I have been coffee free for 3 weeks now and am working towards becoming caffeine free slowly and surely. I was so addicted and didnt have a clue. Have been dealing with a totally drained stress response system since 2017 due to C-PTSD and PTSD. Changed my whole lifestyle slowly and surely but for some reason kept caffeine in it. Doing therapy, meditating, living slowly and so healthy but still burning out again and again and not understanding why. I think the hidden problem has been caffeine. Really want to go cold turkey with all caffeine but I know my body will not handle it. I wonder if I will need to take out all caffeine or if it´s enough to have very limited amounts in chocolate and herbal teas that include caffeine.
I quit coffe truly for good. what a nightmare that was
Well said, thank you for sharing! ❤️
Good vid bro. Im on cold turkey cuz im a masochist who uses this torment as a liberating lash. 😂 worst headache wad over in about 40hours.
You can take this relax , feeling chill to the max.
Pulsetto for vegus nerve for sleep and mayba after waking up
Start yoga nidra (a good source from tradition) as a nap. Or do some minute healing tao
Sauna ( infrared chamber for at home is doable)
Lionsmane extract
Other things may be harder but will pay out:
exercise (maybe start easy walk longer)
Sleep; go to bed deaf,blind,hungry, cold
ketodiet ( no sugar stress, ketones) with all the nutrients , do bloodwork too check
Microdose schroom
Do this the rest of your life
'I don't like the road I was on, pissing my pants every morning' HAHA I hear you bro
im off the shit now it was stressing me out and making life shitty
Glad you realized this, thanks for watching
Congrats
Here in Brazil we start drinking coffe in childhood. I,m 28 and drink since 5 years old
What!!!
❤
1/2 a cup a few days a week still addicted
just commit, you'll break the ritual and then lose the rote memory, and finally the taste. I loved coffee and I can still justify it, but I just abstain. I do cheat with a decaf once in a while (twice since quitting over 6 weeks ago).
Coffee ? Coffee is life !!!
Suppressor of hunger, giver of energy, a stress reliever.
My favorite dr*g !
All things in moderation.
I’ve been on and off coffee for years. It’s probably messing up a few things, like being up all night. If I have a bit too much, I can feel this intense anxiety move in. I mix mine with decaf now.
I am today trialing 7 days without cofee, i've been feeling anxious and on Fight or flight mode from noon to the evening while i work, and that is the time after i've had 2 coffees. Also the bad thing is i dont have much concentration ,focus and my sleep has been not what i want for some time, so i see no benefits from coffee other than it feels good for the 5 minutes you drink it and the smell is amazing. But is it worth it? Very , very , very unlikely.
Limit your coffee to one cup a day - and don't have your own coffee machine at home that's for sure. And then eventually replace it with a black tea. That will make it easy to get rid of.
The funny thing about drugs is I've started to enjoy this state of caffeine paralysis even though I know it's horrible for me
I wonder whether low dopamine makes a person especially vulnerable to caffiene addiction. It would be interesting to see whether No Fap and No PMO gives a person more of a handke on dopamine dumping drugs like caffiene
I have been trying to figure out why my anxiety has been out of control lately. I've cut numerous other things, including energy drinks. But never coffee. It's been 2 days and I feel like myself before I started drinking it! I haven't had any headaches yet. I may never go back.
Coffee isn't needed, so quitting is great, awesome. If you truly enjoy coffee, don't quit. Anxiety isn't caused by a "thing". It's YOU. It's YOUR response to it. This is common with people plagued by anxiety, they will have issues with stuff and say it makes them feel bad. It could be coffee, soda, sugar, certain meats, etc...then they start AVOIDING and reenforcing their anxiety. Essentially your nervous system is simply hyper sensitive and caffiene makes it more apparent, quitting coffee isn't fixing the root cause, it's only taming the symptom, till you find something else to latch onto.
Personally for me and the life I live, I don't NEED caffiene and so I avoid it. I LOVE LOVE the taste of latte, so I make my own and I buy local roasted DECAF beans. In a day, I'm sure I get less than 25MG of caffeine.
Oh boy.. 10 years? I started drinking caffine at age 15 i think. Im now 35
It’s not a exageration to say that the bean is a way of life, especially when you look at it as a commodity over the centuries. Here in the uk Starbucks and Costa are now everywhere, like MacDonalds. They tap into peoples’ need for ritual and make $$$. It just so happens we work more, buy more also. If you could pick one mood smell for a shopping mall, you know what it would be: the smell of coffee.
Coffee was poision to me like most plants are to me.
When I decided that I would drink only one cup of coffee a day, I didn't procrastinate anymore
So did cutting out coffee drastically cut down your bathroom trips ? I feel like I’m suffering from exactly what you described for urination .
Day 3 without Coffee and Energy Drinks. Put tre by David berceli in my Protocol. Now i am happy chilled.
it wrecks your central nervous system, your endocrine system, & your digestion long term... Criminal the food industry doesn't at least provide some type of warning like with cigarettes.
Funny thing is. I'm a non coffer person trying to be a coffee person.
I have always told myself I could have a lot worse vices. To me a nice flat white is a comfort thing. I could've been an alcoholic or a drug addict or had a junk food addiction, which are far worse. To me coffee intake is benign in comparison.
I don’t disagree! I just found that too much caffeine was wreaking havoc on my nerves and mental health at times.
I still enjoy a cup of it here and there. The idea of this show is really to examine and understand why we do what we do, and not necessarily to feel guilt or rush to change.
You don’t need to be a drug addict or junk food addict. You can just not drink it and have a normal boring life. Boeing is good.
@@claireh.7605 Embrace boredom, I've never thought of it that way
@@glennrobinson7193 yes, BORING IS GOOD. I have an extra several grand in my bank account from not being a wild man going to three coffee shops a day!
@@glennrobinson7193 I’m about to break down and get a coffee though
I went nocaf for 2-3 months twice and it did nothing for me. I was feeling more depressed and less productive. But that's also because I probably have ADHD. So this video unfortunately doesn't apply to me.
Is there anyone switched to matcha from coffee cuz of caffeine worsening anxiety level. I have recently experienced horrible symptoms like heart racing and pressure in my head to pass out. Anyone with similar experience out here? Please advise
they sell half caffeine coffee half-caff.