@@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
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
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.
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.
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.
Go decaf its the easiest way to get benefits without cutting it out of your daily routine. My sleep quality was 75 on a daily and since ive gone decaf my sleep goes around 93-97 every night after 8 hours sleep and i feel pretty good. No anxiety and i still have the routine of waking up to a nice milky coffee in the morning. Withdrawal is really hard though 3-5 days of feeling like shit@@dm8127
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.
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!
@@WideAwakeHuman I'd say the overwhelming majority do not drink black coffee. Generally speaking, people are spiking their glucose levels with all the extra added Garbage to their coffee.
I definitely don't feel that fasting is easier without caffeine. Caffeine suppresses appetite and does not affect blood sugar at all from what I've read. There's no evidence for that. There's a reason diet pills are laced with caffeine. I could see if it upsets your empty stomach enough to want something to offset that, or if it causes anxiety/stress eating, but that's a completely separate issue and dependent on the individual.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
When I used to drink coffee I used to always feel nervous for no reason. There was always this sense of foreboding. Since I quit that is all gone and I feel more relaxed and peaceful.
I'm Portuguese and in Portugal drinking 2 to 3 expressos during the day is super normal ! Thats about 600 mg of cafeine! In fact there is not a house in Portugal that doesn't have a expresso machine in it... hell, I have one... Now, in my case I started drinking coffee since I was really young and I'm now in my 40's. Turns out I'm very sensible to caffeine, symptoms ranged from Psoriasis, trembling hands and irregular bowl movements to anxiety, lack of concentration and focus among many other consequential effects. Since I started drinking coffee from very young age I thought these things were just inate to me, thank God I learned a few years back that coffee was the problem. It was in fact really difficult to let go of the daily expresso caffeine shot but I did it and the symptoms totally cleared off not immediately but after about 2 months . Now my wife still uses the expresso machine at our house and she seems to handle caffeine just fine so I guess some people are more sensible to it like in my case. If you struggle with symptoms described here is worth to give it a shot and stop getting that caffeine in to your system.
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
Thanks for the great video! I have quit coffee before with great health benefits and swore I would never go back. Well I started again and feel the most anxious I have ever felt in my life. Thanks for the reminder about this bad habit. I bought a bag of decaffeinated coffee and will ween myself off once again.
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
great piece , thankyou, my anxiety levels are bloody tearfull, but for trhe last few days I have started doing without and the effects are being felt ,less anxiety and money saved , thankqs again !
@@-whackd I don’t think it’s fair to be so critical about coffee, I have also dealt with anxiety on a severe level, and I stopped drinking coffee because I was drinking too much and caffeine does trigger anxiety if you are sensitive to it, I didn’t drink it for a year, and yes I felt good, but it was other things that I did as well to handle anxiety, I did miss coffee though, I like coffee, and from the research I’ve done it actually does have benefits, so I slowly started drinking it again, however I know how to balance it, because I know my body and how much caffeine is too much, there’s no scientific evidence that proves caffeine to be harmful, only if it’s too much, or in the case of people who are very sensitive to it, but some people are fine with a cup of coffee daily or occasionally.
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!!
When I used to work sitting down in my desk job coffee used to freak me out but now that I switched to working physically it litterally never happens. My guess is that coffee without moving enough is building up stress but coffee before moving, exercising, etc. Is just fine.
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.
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.
I've cut down to about 500mg from close to 2000mg of caffeine a day the last month. I'm less stressed, I'm now dreaming when I sleep, which I haven't for a couple of decades. I already feel much better, even with the adjustment my body is going through
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.
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.
The smell and taste of coffee is intoxicating. I’m glad that many can enjoy it without any negative side effects. Unfortunately, I’m not one of those people. Even decaf coffee messes me up.
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!
I've got high caffeine sensitivity. Drinking more than one cup, made me feel stressed and nervous. Took a long time before I found out what made me feel wrong. I enjoy coffee mostly in the weekends at the moment ☕
'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.
True! Went off coffee 2 or 3 weeks ago, still drink tea for a kick , but the anxiety levels truly went down. Also severe body pain i felt in the morning as if i got beaten up at night is gone now!
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 point about caffeine being present in foods like chocolate! I've seen articles mentioning that as well along with other foods like green tea, brownies, etc. It's tough to give up, but gotta ask yourself if you've rather get a good nights sleep vs. poor sleep.
I had been experiencing all the exact same issues up until tomorrow, so I decided to quit coffee from this morning. I wondered if there were any channels discussing symptoms similar to mine. Then I found this one - he's describing exactly what I went through!
Was drinking 1 half decaf coffee per day. Just for fun I dropped the caf and now just 1 full decaf. Not seeing any major changes like others are. I'm not convinced life with or without coffee is better. For now, I'll stick with 1 decaf per day and the tiny bit of caffeine it comes with is hardly noticeable, and I love the taste especially in the morning.
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.
That hot cup of stress 😭🤣 That's the first I've heard it raises cortisol levels for 18 hours. If true imagine we spend only 6 hours stress free at best 😭🥵
Just very recently started to wonder about coffee and its effects on me. I would be so happy prior to my first coffee then after about an hour later I would absolutely feel so low. I love the taste of coffee too. 😢Have drank it for years with no bad effect. So far I’ve given up Carbs and sugars Looks like my body is pushing me to be better. Great video thx
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
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:)
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.
if you have a solid 4-5 days off work, you can do cold turkey and just have a few days of headaches and being tired. takes about a week or two to get back to normal after hitting 0 caffeine
I was just about to make a cup of decaf coffee and some how stumbled onto this video. I look like a healthy woman. I eat properly and workout. On the inside I was having a tough time. Coffee and dark chocolate gave me such bad anxiety I started having severe panic attacks and heart problems. I’m only 36 but I have a cardiologist because I thought I was having a heart attack. It’s taken some years quitting coffee on and off but I do like the flavor so I can enjoy a decaf in the morning. Look into magnesium supplements to help with the anxiety and drink a lot of water.
Coffee is good if you do hard manual labor like a construction worker, coffees not good for office worker or unemployed or retired people who dont need to be over stimulated and anxious from drinking coffee all day.
Well, I had been drinking way too much coffee for a long time. I could finish a pot in a day and supplement with the pre-made cold brewed coffee, which is stronger than how I brew it. I'd drink so much caffeine I'd just feel bad, angry and aggressive all the fucking time. For a couple months now I've cut back to only swiss decaf, so I'll put a couple tablespoons into the pot. The coffee comes out brown, not black, so it's watered down decaf. I usually mix it now with fresh ginger, honey and another non-caffeinated tea like ashwaganda or tulsi or even tumeric, so it's a mildly coffee flavored herbal ginger tea. I have enjoyed this more than getting amped on caffeine. My tolerance has gone down so much that I can STILL feel the caffeine though in my system and I don't even like that small amount, but it's not enough to get my adrenals overclocked.
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 .
Coffee relaxes me, I love the taste, especially first thing in the am, think this might apply to people who drink excessive amounts as with all things..
This is how I’ve quit 4 different times. I go to Walmart and by their caffeine pills. I can track exactly how much caffeine I take that way. If you’re at 400mg per day, do that for 3 days. The. The next 3 days do 350mg. Every 3 days I drop 50mg and take 2-3 weeks to be completely free with very minimal withdrawal effect.
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.
The hardest part about caffeine addiction is that it's so easy to blame the symptoms that coffee causes on sugar or dairy. Because caffeinated products usually come with those two.
I didn't think caffeine would even be that Addicting & bad for my health until I found myself doing it Every single Night & actually having fun with it like I would with other drugs, than withdrawing from it caused me to be really impatient, stressed & wanting to start stuff
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 ❤️
Every so often I stop coffee for a week. If I feel bad when I stop I know it’s time to cycle off for a while. I also don’t drink it if something stressful in my life is making me nervous. No point in putting more stimulation into a system that needs the opposite. And never let it affect your sleep. Not sleeping well is the worst thing you can do for energy and physical fitness and health. I prefer teas anyway but sometimes I get in a season of drinking coffee. Though water processed decaf works too since it’s about the taste for me.
@@marciestoddard730 Yeah that's just regular culinary grade matcha. It's not the same thing. A good matcha will cost anything from 16€-60€ per 30 grams, and is not bitter, but has notes of umami and sweetness. Find a local teahouse which sells fancy teas, and get it from them. Your typical Asian supermarkets don't usually have ceremonial grade matcha, because it's an expensive specialty item, but they have matcha that's used for cooking. You can also order matcha online. I've heard good things from Ippodo, but never ordered from them. Good matcha is cartoonishly green, both in powder and liquid form.
@@marciestoddard730 my reply got deleted for some reason, but yeah. You bought food grade matcha that's supposed to be used in desserts and other cooking (usually with a lot of sugar). Try finding a local teahouse that sells ceremonial matcha from Uji, or order it online. It's usually sold in cylinders of 20-30g.
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
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.
How did you quit?
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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Ive bin drinking coffee for years, i also feel depressed and unhappy most of the time with horrible insomnia..
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
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.
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.
Probably a big part of why zoomers look so old.
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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How did you quit the coffee?
@@dm8127 cold turkey. Suffered for two weeks.
Go decaf its the easiest way to get benefits without cutting it out of your daily routine. My sleep quality was 75 on a daily and since ive gone decaf my sleep goes around 93-97 every night after 8 hours sleep and i feel pretty good. No anxiety and i still have the routine of waking up to a nice milky coffee in the morning. Withdrawal is really hard though 3-5 days of feeling like shit@@dm8127
I didn't think caffeine addiction would be that bad for my health & it being addicting in the first place
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?
but still not great, lik 80 percent of content on youtube, but my channel is top 10 of the baddest content
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.
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
I’ve never seen anything showing black coffee has any effect on blood glucose
@@WideAwakeHuman I'd say the overwhelming majority do not drink black coffee. Generally speaking, people are spiking their glucose levels with all the extra added Garbage to their coffee.
Coffee literally does not mess with your blood sugar levels. My gosh, you people have lost the plot 😂
I definitely don't feel that fasting is easier without caffeine. Caffeine suppresses appetite and does not affect blood sugar at all from what I've read. There's no evidence for that. There's a reason diet pills are laced with caffeine. I could see if it upsets your empty stomach enough to want something to offset that, or if it causes anxiety/stress eating, but that's a completely separate issue and dependent on the individual.
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.
I hear ya , when I quit coffee alcohol and carbs I also eradicated my social life
Removing caffeine has been nothing but positive. Calm thougout the day. Consistent energy, no crashes. Never again.
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.
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.
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
15 years caffeinated and now 2 years caffeine free. Best decision made!!!
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.
When I used to drink coffee I used to always feel nervous for no reason. There was always this sense of foreboding. Since I quit that is all gone and I feel more relaxed and peaceful.
I'm Portuguese and in Portugal drinking 2 to 3 expressos during the day is super normal ! Thats about 600 mg of cafeine! In fact there is not a house in Portugal that doesn't have a expresso machine in it... hell, I have one... Now, in my case I started drinking coffee since I was really young and I'm now in my 40's. Turns out I'm very sensible to caffeine, symptoms ranged from Psoriasis, trembling hands and irregular bowl movements to anxiety, lack of concentration and focus among many other consequential effects. Since I started drinking coffee from very young age I thought these things were just inate to me, thank God I learned a few years back that coffee was the problem. It was in fact really difficult to let go of the daily expresso caffeine shot but I did it and the symptoms totally cleared off not immediately but after about 2 months .
Now my wife still uses the expresso machine at our house and she seems to handle caffeine just fine so I guess some people are more sensible to it like in my case. If you struggle with symptoms described here is worth to give it a shot and stop getting that caffeine in to your system.
best video on quitting the drug coffee.
Thankyou nice presentation ill try this because things are getting out of hand for me with anxiety.
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
Your channels deserves way more views and subscribes
Thanks for the great video! I have quit coffee before with great health benefits and swore I would never go back. Well I started again and feel the most anxious I have ever felt in my life. Thanks for the reminder about this bad habit. I bought a bag of decaffeinated coffee and will ween myself off once again.
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
great piece , thankyou, my anxiety levels are bloody tearfull, but for trhe last few days I have started doing without and the effects are being felt ,less anxiety and money saved , thankqs again !
It's a double edge sword ,yes it probably does all those things but having a quiet moment to yourself with a nice cup of coffee is just bliss.
It's the quiet moment to yourself that is the bliss, not the muddy, bitter bean juice that screws up your sleep and cortisol later.
Replace the word coffee with a cigarette or cocaine or any other drug. And it doesnt sound so romantic anymore
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I don’t think it’s fair to be so critical about coffee, I have also dealt with anxiety on a severe level, and I stopped drinking coffee because I was drinking too much and caffeine does trigger anxiety if you are sensitive to it, I didn’t drink it for a year, and yes I felt good, but it was other things that I did as well to handle anxiety, I did miss coffee though, I like coffee, and from the research I’ve done it actually does have benefits, so I slowly started drinking it again, however I know how to balance it, because I know my body and how much caffeine is too much, there’s no scientific evidence that proves caffeine to be harmful, only if it’s too much, or in the case of people who are very sensitive to it, but some people are fine with a cup of coffee daily or occasionally.
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!!
@@lukemontana9860i'll be drinking matcha green tea for a few weeks to ween off, the l-theanine should balance the caffeine
When I used to work sitting down in my desk job coffee used to freak me out but now that I switched to working physically it litterally never happens. My guess is that coffee without moving enough is building up stress but coffee before moving, exercising, etc. Is just fine.
11:30 good point. Great video. Some new things i havent heard which is rare!
Glad to hear it, thanks for watching!
So true! Thanks for laying this out. I’ve just given up and feel great for it.
Yes! Having a feeling of an “edge” or almost an angsty feeling. Getting irritated by things and people - coffee definitely makes me feel that way
3 months off coffee now. Social anxiety gone.
Thank you I feel the same way just needed heads-up, it’s definitely a crutch ❤
Way to go! You said it! Not just caffeine-it's in the coffee.
Great video thank you! I quit caffeine due to my anxiety issues and it’s helped tremendously!
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.
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.
Great calming voice! Love this channel ❤️ thank you
I've cut down to about 500mg from close to 2000mg of caffeine a day the last month. I'm less stressed, I'm now dreaming when I sleep, which I haven't for a couple of decades. I already feel much better, even with the adjustment my body is going through
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.
Quitting coffee tomorrow, will get back in one month for the updates. Wish me luck!!!
Give som update now?
@@johannesmathisen9414 life is amazing without coffee!!!!! When you stop drinking it you don’t even crave it anymore.
@@marym3355 Do you drink decaf or no coffee in general?
So did your social anxiety heal?
@@vicc8457 no coffee, herbal teas. It’s not that scary to leave without coffee.
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.
I'd like to quit alcohol and caffeine. I appreciate all the info.
Coffee does cause anxiety and dehydration for sure. This is a very good video.
The thumbnail is magical 😅
The smell and taste of coffee is intoxicating. I’m glad that many can enjoy it without any negative side effects. Unfortunately, I’m not one of those people. Even decaf coffee messes me up.
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!
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
I read in a comment "caffeine is like pressing the accelerator pad in neutral" and since then ive worked to get off it
Coffee’s negative effects are widely underestimated. Plenty of large chain cafe’s are selling products with absurd amounts of caffeine
I've got high caffeine sensitivity. Drinking more than one cup, made me feel stressed and nervous. Took a long time before I found out what made me feel wrong. I enjoy coffee mostly in the weekends at the moment ☕
'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.
11 months completely free. 🙌
How has it been?
True! Went off coffee 2 or 3 weeks ago, still drink tea for a kick , but the anxiety levels truly went down. Also severe body pain i felt in the morning as if i got beaten up at night is gone now!
So true! It does nasty stuff to mood, anxiety, and, strange as it sounds, your personality.
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 point about caffeine being present in foods like chocolate! I've seen articles mentioning that as well along with other foods like green tea, brownies, etc. It's tough to give up, but gotta ask yourself if you've rather get a good nights sleep vs. poor sleep.
I had been experiencing all the exact same issues up until tomorrow, so I decided to quit coffee from this morning.
I wondered if there were any channels discussing symptoms similar to mine. Then I found this one - he's describing exactly what I went through!
Damn 4 minutes in and I feel like this video was made specifically for me.
It's been 2 weeks i feel so much better no anxiety no panic attack I'm sleeping great not going back.
I quit coffe truly for good. what a nightmare that was
Was drinking 1 half decaf coffee per day. Just for fun I dropped the caf and now just 1 full decaf. Not seeing any major changes like others are. I'm not convinced life with or without coffee is better. For now, I'll stick with 1 decaf per day and the tiny bit of caffeine it comes with is hardly noticeable, and I love the taste especially in the morning.
I'm 50. I drink Half caff. I like the ritual. I get decent quality decaf whole beans & ground it myself. The aroma is a lite dopamine fix for me.
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
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.
That hot cup of stress 😭🤣
That's the first I've heard it raises cortisol levels for 18 hours. If true imagine we spend only 6 hours stress free at best 😭🥵
Just very recently started to wonder about coffee and its effects on me. I would be so happy prior to my first coffee then after about an hour later I would absolutely feel so low. I love the taste of coffee too. 😢Have drank it for years with no bad effect.
So far I’ve given up Carbs and sugars Looks like my body is pushing me to be better. Great video thx
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 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
@@TrasheyeGymeating the most bio available food without the BS is not misinformation
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.
Americans love to refer to caffeine as just coffee. So many other things have caffeine like tea and energy drinks .
if you have a solid 4-5 days off work, you can do cold turkey and just have a few days of headaches and being tired. takes about a week or two to get back to normal after hitting 0 caffeine
I was just about to make a cup of decaf coffee and some how stumbled onto this video. I look like a healthy woman. I eat properly and workout. On the inside I was having a tough time. Coffee and dark chocolate gave me such bad anxiety I started having severe panic attacks and heart problems. I’m only 36 but I have a cardiologist because I thought I was having a heart attack. It’s taken some years quitting coffee on and off but I do like the flavor so I can enjoy a decaf in the morning.
Look into magnesium supplements to help with the anxiety and drink a lot of water.
Great video. I'm 68 drinking caffeine at my age is like whipping on old horse.
he man good video did you cut back slowly over couple of weeks or did you quit cold turkey?
Thanks for watching. I cut back over a couple of months by gradually adding more and more decaf to the mix
Here in Brazil we start drinking coffe in childhood. I,m 28 and drink since 5 years old
What!!!
Coffee is good if you do hard manual labor like a construction worker, coffees not good for office worker or unemployed or retired people who dont need to be over stimulated and anxious from drinking coffee all day.
Well said, thank you for sharing! ❤️
Well, I had been drinking way too much coffee for a long time. I could finish a pot in a day and supplement with the pre-made cold brewed coffee, which is stronger than how I brew it. I'd drink so much caffeine I'd just feel bad, angry and aggressive all the fucking time. For a couple months now I've cut back to only swiss decaf, so I'll put a couple tablespoons into the pot. The coffee comes out brown, not black, so it's watered down decaf. I usually mix it now with fresh ginger, honey and another non-caffeinated tea like ashwaganda or tulsi or even tumeric, so it's a mildly coffee flavored herbal ginger tea. I have enjoyed this more than getting amped on caffeine. My tolerance has gone down so much that I can STILL feel the caffeine though in my system and I don't even like that small amount, but it's not enough to get my adrenals overclocked.
You can get ashwaganda tea?
@@Johnslist yep, my local grocery stores carry it.
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 .
All must worship the Bean.
Coffee relaxes me, I love the taste, especially first thing in the am, think this might apply to people who drink excessive amounts as with all things..
Well old saying everything in moderation. Sugar can make you hyper
I drank coffee for many years then started getting panic attacks so i swithed to organic decalf. Im ready to give that up too now.
Bro I watched this video 3-4x because. Idea why, I guess because I relate to it so much.
This is how I’ve quit 4 different times. I go to Walmart and by their caffeine pills. I can track exactly how much caffeine I take that way. If you’re at 400mg per day, do that for 3 days. The. The next 3 days do 350mg. Every 3 days I drop 50mg and take 2-3 weeks to be completely free with very minimal withdrawal effect.
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 quit tea and coffee the anxiety it brings is off the chain it’s a terrible drug!
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 🙏
The hardest part about caffeine addiction is that it's so easy to blame the symptoms that coffee causes on sugar or dairy. Because caffeinated products usually come with those two.
I didn't think caffeine would even be that
Addicting & bad for my health until I found myself doing it Every single Night & actually having fun with it like I would with other drugs, than withdrawing from it caused me to be really impatient, stressed & wanting to start stuff
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).
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.
Every so often I stop coffee for a week. If I feel bad when I stop I know it’s time to cycle off for a while. I also don’t drink it if something stressful in my life is making me nervous. No point in putting more stimulation into a system that needs the opposite.
And never let it affect your sleep. Not sleeping well is the worst thing you can do for energy and physical fitness and health.
I prefer teas anyway but sometimes I get in a season of drinking coffee. Though water processed decaf works too since it’s about the taste for me.
'I don't like the road I was on, pissing my pants every morning' HAHA I hear you bro
Im so used to coffee that it makes me calm but when I try to quit I get anxiety
Matcha gives you the same energy boost as coffee, without the anxiety and midday crash. I made the switch, and am never going back.
I was so excited to switch but I bought a shitty brand I think. It's not bright green and tastes bad after like 3 minutes lol
@@marciestoddard730 Yeah that's just regular culinary grade matcha. It's not the same thing.
A good matcha will cost anything from 16€-60€ per 30 grams, and is not bitter, but has notes of umami and sweetness.
Find a local teahouse which sells fancy teas, and get it from them. Your typical Asian supermarkets don't usually have ceremonial grade matcha, because it's an expensive specialty item, but they have matcha that's used for cooking.
You can also order matcha online. I've heard good things from Ippodo, but never ordered from them. Good matcha is cartoonishly green, both in powder and liquid form.
@@marciestoddard730 my reply got deleted for some reason, but yeah. You bought food grade matcha that's supposed to be used in desserts and other cooking (usually with a lot of sugar).
Try finding a local teahouse that sells ceremonial matcha from Uji, or order it online. It's usually sold in cylinders of 20-30g.
Watching this while drinking my third cup. HELP
Yes
TEECINO is a nice alternative if you still want the ritual of making a warm comforting drink.
What's a Tecino