You can
go the decaf route, but supposed coffee substitutes like decaf coffee and tea still have caffeine in them and so will not eliminate the stress on the adrenals completely.
Just limit your amount, and if it makes you feel jittery, just cut back or
go decaf (which still has some antioxidants)!
Hey, if you just like the taste of coffee and don't really need the caffeine fix, why not
go decaf?
Not exact matches
I have to second Chelsea's comment: in fact, I would
go farther and say that
decaf drinkers are the true coffee lovers.
Im running out of room:) Of course I still have my pitcher of
decaf tea in my fridge (non organic) that I can't seem to let
go!
Another doctor, who drank up to 2 L of
decaf a day, had a premature baby who
went into episodic convulsions.
This is
going to sound completely and utterly insane, but my one suggestion is for you to drink a cup of coffee (regular or
decaf) and then nurse him half an hour later.
I drug myself to work yesterday and it suddenly became very apparent to me just how much I do in the morning: get up, shower, dressed, put on makeup, make breakfast, make my
decaf pumpkin spice latte, eat breakfast, pack lunches, get kids teeth brushed (hubby got them up, dressed and fed), get kids shoes and coats on, get everyone in the car, drive 45 minutes in traffic, get kids and their stuff out of the car, walk to each kids» classroom, take out lunches and put in the fridges, get kids to put their stuff in their cubbies and wash their hands,
go back to the car, drive to my office, get out, walk across the lot, down stairs and through two heavy doors to my office, and finally sit down.
I still drink
decaf coffee (no way am I
going to drink full caff and risk these guys staying up all night!)
(If you're trying to limit your caffeine intake,
go for
decaf — it has antioxidants too, though fewer than the caffeinated kind.)
And it also doesn't have to
go through a chemical - dependent decaffeination process like
decaf green or black teas.
So in an ideal scenario, what you would do is you would have a little bit of coffee each day, mostly caffeinated other than those couple of weeks where you're switching to
decaf but then you would switch farther and farther as you
go on through your day to closer to bedtime, tea sources preferably like a high L theanine containing source of tea like green tea and you would kinda combine both of those that you're getting the ultimate and cognitive performance that coffee in the morning, the L theanine throughout the day, as kinda like a slow bleed as you're drinking your green tea and then every couple of weeks, you switch to
decaf coffee but you can still continue to drink that green tea because that L theanine doesn't have the same effect on your adenosine receptors or on your adrenal glands so now you know everything you need to know about biohacking your life with coffee and tea.
If you're
going to do that, at least make it
decaf.
If you want
decaf coffee, this is the way to
go.
So give your adrenals a break and respect the fact that's a pretty potent chemical and stick to one a day, then
go for
decaf.
Whereas, if you take in
decaf coffee, you're still gonna get some of that decent brain anti inflammatory effect.
Now I got ta
go have some
decaf tea, a shower and then do my night time routines.
People are
going to get suspicious when Lauren suddenly switches to
decaf, suddenly stops drinking at cocktail parties, and starts
going to the obgyn... a lot.
The default Roku theme is pretty shade of purple, but if you'd like to switch it up,
go to Settings, then Themes, and try one of the other free themes (including Graphene,
Decaf, Nebula, or Daydream).
Go for a
decaf and you've got a great idea.
I am
going to
go to the
decaf DC first and from there try the reducing until I can give it up altogether!