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Coffee might be the most popular drink in the entire world with over 400 billion cups consumed every single day, but if you are experiencing some of the woes of high caffeine intake, it might be time to quit coffee for good or at least cut back.<\/h3>\n

Whether or not you\u2019re going to quit cold turkey or just limit drinking coffee, this guide will walk you through how to do it.<\/h3>\n

Don\u2019t worry, we also address the dreaded caffeine withdrawal symptoms that can pop up along the way.<\/p>\n

Like millions of other people, we\u2019re a huge fan of coffee at Breakfast Criminals. It\u2019s delicious, and can certainly help jump start a busy, action-packed day. However, knowing that there are functional herbs, adaptogenic mushrooms, and highly antioxidant teas along with other coffee substitutions that not only boost your health, but provide sustainable energy and optimum brain wave states without the crash that coffee can induce is something we want to offer as alternatives to all you coffee drinkers out there.<\/p>\n

In this comprehensive guide, you\u2019ll find reasons for enjoying your morning cup as well as sound substitutes and why you\u2019d even want to look for one (or a few).<\/p>\n

After reading this guide, you may be convinced to quit coffee altogether, but if you still want to enjoy the occasional cup, you certainly can!<\/p>\n

Why a Cup of Joe is Still Awesome<\/h2>\n

Research from multiple institutions from Harvard to Johns Hopkins will tell you that the right amount of coffee won\u2019t hurt you. Not only that, it contains high levels of antioxidants and other nutritive substances that reduce inflammation, lower your incidence of heart disease, and even fortifies your immune system. Coffee has also been proven to lower incidence of kidney disease and diabetes, ostensibly because it acts as a diuretic and can help purge toxins from your body.<\/p>\n

Coffee can also reduce breakage in your DNA strands, reduce your risk of certain types of cancers, including colon cancer, and even help prevent Alzheimer\u2019s disease, Parkinson\u2019s and other types of dementia.<\/p>\n

Is It Good to Stop Drinking Coffee?<\/h2>\n
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\u201cWhen people ask me if I drink coffee, I say I don\u2019t do hard drugs.\u201d \u2013 Dr. Andrew Weil<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After sharing a cup of ceremonial cacao<\/a> with Dr. Weil and his team at his Tucson home, we got to sit down to discuss all things wellness, consciousness and entrepreneurship. As well as Dr. Weil\u2019s thoughts on coffee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When you drink just one cup of coffee a day, around 50 mg, you\u2019re getting all of those great benefits with a small dose of caffeine. Here\u2019s the rub though, start adding additional cups of coffee and you\u2019re frying your adrenal glands, messing up your biorhythmic physiological patterns that controls sleep and stress, (along with\u00a0 cortisol and adrenal hormonal\u00a0 flows), and also creating a caffeine addiction.<\/p>\n

There are also studies coming out that say the energy we get from caffeine is a bit false. Caffeine doesn\u2019t really create sustainable energy, but borrows energy from our system to ramp it up right after we drink a cup of coffee, robbing us of energy later in the day, kind of like negative interest rates at a bank for a savings deposit. When we then \u201crecover\u201d from that energy boost and use of resources energetically, the withdrawal can cause an increase in theta waves, while decreasing alpha brainwaves. Once you stop using coffee, or you skip a day, anxiety and sleeplessness can set in. Caffeine can also reduce low frequency delta brainwaves in your sleep. Low frequency delta brainwaves are critical for deep restoration, healing, and detoxing in the brain and body.<\/p>\n

Are You Experiencing Coffee Woes?<\/h2>\n

Watch this video to see what you can experience when you quit coffee: Joe Rogan Interview: What Michael Pollan Learned from Quitting Caffeine for 3 Months<\/a><\/p>\n

Your body is affected by everything in its environment, and obviously the things you eat and drink, too. Stress, on its own, won\u2019t hurt you, but too much of it, and substances that minimize your ability to handle stress in a healthy way can be harmful to your long term health. Anytime we experience a perceived stress, either physical or mental, our bodies go through a three-stage alarm response, evolved over millennia, and called the general adaptation syndrome (GAS):<\/p>\n

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  1. Alarm:<\/strong> The trigger that we feel in our gut, or obviously in several areas of our brains that something isn\u2019t o.k. with our world.<\/li>\n
  2. Resistance:<\/strong> This induces us to leave said stressor, and to sleep off our initial exhaustion from fighting or fleeing. Adaptogens help us stay in resistance to stress longer so that we\u2019re not as exhausted by internal triggers, like freaking out when your to-do list gets too long, or bigger stressors like a divorce or death. Adaptogens help us sustain our energy even when we\u2019re facing big challenges.<\/li>\n
  3. Exhaustion: <\/strong>From an evolutionary standpoint, exhaustion is when our body tells us we need to sleep off (heal and repair) from our initial response to stress (fighting or fleeing).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now, if we were all enlightened monks or sages, we would never react to any<\/em> stress triggers, not even death or taxes, but most of us have varying levels of stress-handling skills, and they can get depleted over time when a lot is coming at us at once.<\/p>\n

    When you drink too much coffee for too long your adrenals are forced to overproduce hormones like cortisol and adrenal steroids, epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine. This causes adrenal fatigue. Signs you may be experiencing overtaxed adrenals are:<\/p>\n