Greenings Green Warrior! Reducing caffeine consumption can have several benefits, including improved sleep quality, reduced anxiety, and better digestion. Caffeine can also mask true hunger, leaving you out of touch with your body’s needs. Additionally, excessive coffee intake has been shown to suppress the immune system.
Potential Health Effects of Excessive Caffeine Intake
Consuming too much caffeine can lead to a range of health issues such as:
- Increased heart rate and high blood pressure
- Insomnia and disrupted sleep patterns
- Anxiety and nervousness
- Digestive problems, including acid reflux
- Dependence and withdrawal symptoms
- Caffeine consumption can mask true hunger and leave you out of touch with your body’s needs.
- Coffee has also been shown to suppress the immune system.
If you are trying to eliminate coffee, I suggest you taper off slowly as many people get awful headaches if they quit coffee too quickly.
Most of us use coffee for a sweet high, caffeine high or to help us to get more energy or avoid constipation.
Try to taper off coffee by diluting caffeinated coffee with decaffeinated. Drink 75% caffeinated with 25% decaffeinated and go down in caffeine from there. Also consider decreasing the number of cups you drink per day.
If you adhere to a whole food, plant based diet with minimally processed foods, preferably sugar, oil and salt free, your need for an energy drink should eventually be eliminated.
There are some delicious teas which are health promoting and do not contain caffeine.
I enjoy green tea and it can be fun to try other caffeine free teas like Hibiscus Tea.
Hibiscus Tea can help lower blood pressure and also help with erectile dysfunction. You can buy Hibiscus Tea Bags for one cup serving or make it by the gallon.
I always have a one gallon container of Hibiscus Tea in my refrigerator as my family drinks one cup daily.
I simply fill my tea leaf diffuser with Hibiscus Tea Leaves and water.
I put one gallon of water in a glass pitcher with 2 cinnamon sticks and fill the tea leaf diffuser. You can sweeten the tea with date sugar and taper off the sweetener over time. I don’t boil the tea water and after a few hours in the refrigerator, I have delicious tea!
I keep my tea stored in the glass pitcher with the cinnamon sticks and tea diffuser, in the refrigerator. It is refreshing warm or chilled.
Is caffeine an issue in your life? If so, how to you combat the Caffeine cravings? Tell me in the comments.
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Coffee is one craving that I give in to. 😉 But green tea (and other teas) are much healthier so I try to drink that first.
That is a good strategy! Be Strong, Be Well, Be Green!🌱