Do You Need Caffeine to Make it Through the Day?

June 23, 2010 admin No comments

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Hi,

It is the start of a new day, but you can barely get out of bed. Are you the one that needs caffeine to make it through the day?

While having an occassional cup of coffee or caffeine drink won’t hurt you, it can lead to a perception that you need it to function.

And you really don’t. But, if you are getting more than 350-500 mg a day of caffeine – and it doesn’t matter what or how many sources it comes from – then you are going to have adverse health affects.

The average cup of coffee has about 95 mg, the average soda around 35, the average energy drink up to 170mg and the average piece of chocolate about 15 mg. of caffeine.

So a couple of medium cups of coffee, a couple sodas and an energy drink and you are really, really, really alert. Maybe even a little jittery.

So maybe you want to cut down, but you don’t want to loss the alertness or energy burst.

First, if you do cut down do so gradually. Cut down one soda or one cup of coffee and do that for about a week.

Then cut down another 1/2 cup the next week and so on. Trying to go cold turkey will really mess up your metabolism and you will have no energy.

While you are cutting back start eating more raw vegetables and fruits. Raw fruits and vegetables do two things. These raise your alkalinity levels and provide enzymes that act as energy boosters.

Also eat more nuts and suck on some sugar free peppermint lozenges. They help increase alertness.

Finally, drink more water. This will compensate for the drop in liquid intake from your other drinks, improve your energy and flush the caffeine out of your body.

Figure on doing this over a month or so and you won’t even notice you are cutting down on your caffeine. Except that you will probably sleep better at night.

And you will wake up more refreshed so that you won’t need that caffeine to make it through the day.

Thanks,

Mike Val