16 posts
There persists this belief that coming off caffeine will result in headaches for a few days. I hear it frequently on health podcasts as if it were accepted gospel. Even Michael Pollan, who wrote...
Read more →Here on this blog I talk a lot about health and on my other (more popular) blog INeedCoffee, I publish content related to coffee. One might think that I would be a big cheerleader on the health...
Read more →When I've done experiments in the past, I focus on one thing. For June 2013, I'm going to mix some past experiments together to see if I can get a synergistic effect. I'm also going to try a new...
Read more →I've got three health items on my mind today. Is Dairy Kefir Anabolic? About a month ago I started making dairy kefir again. I stopped making kefir a year ago when I started getting a reaction to...
Read more →It has been a while since I did a post on Back Pain. Honestly, I thought I said everything I needed to say on the topic. For those new to the site, let me quickly recap my background with back pain....
Read more →I completed my most challenging health experiment to date. I went the entire month of October 2012 without coffee. No decaf either or any food that used coffee for flavoring, such as ice cream. For...
Read more →I ended my no caffeine experiment yesterday exactly 21 days after it began. Around Noon I had a single cup of green tea. And then around 4 PM, I had about 1/3 cup more tea. The good news is I beat my...
Read more →I'm still on my caffeine-free plus coffee-free experiment. This is Day 21 without coffee and Day 15 without caffeine. My goal was to go 15 days without caffeine. I'll hit that milestone in a few...
Read more →Since going caffeine-free just over a week ago, I have noticed an odd side effect: I'm super hungry. Even though I eat right before I go to bed\\, I get massively hungry in the middle of the night. I...
Read more →The month is almost half over, so I thought I'd provide a quick update on My Caffeine Detox Plan. My last coffee was on September 30th. Then for a week, I continued to drink some tea. On Sunday,...
Read more →Today is Day 1 of my most challenging self experiment to date. I am going to go the entire month of October without coffee. No decaf either. My prior record was 4 days in 1997. :o I outlined my goal...
Read more →Last week I posted Caffeinated Delusions, which outlined my addiction to caffeine and my desire to overcome that addiction. It also covered how my prior detox attempts were flawed or too short. Well...
Read more →> My name is MAS and I'm a caffeine addict. For the past few years, I have been deluding myself that my relationship with caffeine was healthy. When I mention that on a typical day I only consume 3...
Read more →In the post Health Goals - Late 2011 Edition, under #3 Dialing in an Optimal Coffee Level, I asked this question: > Do I have some form of adrenal fatigue? It is easy to understand why I might...
Read more →I have about 15 half-written blog posts in the queue right now. I'm not happy with any of them. The sun is rising at 5:10 AM in Seattle and not setting until after 9 PM. I have blackout drapes, but...
Read more →Ori Hofmekler, the author of The Warrior Diet, is a fan of having coffee instead of food prior to a workout. From the chapter on exercising he writes: > Good, fresh coffee is a wonderful natural...
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