Could Coffee Be The Source of Your Stress & Anxiety!?
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
- From an early age we are told that coffee gives us energy and helps us be productive.
But, did you know that it definitely doesn't give us energy and may in fact impair our productivity?
In this episode Patrick breaks down a little bit of the science of how caffeine affects our body and leads us to stress and anxiety.
He also offers the three major ways that coffee affected his life negatively and how he finally quit his addiction to it.
Stress and anxiety are quite often a response to something going on under the surface. And while coffee is very popular, it is in fact a powerful stimulant that acts on our nervous system in ways we might not even be aware of.
There's no need to always feel irritated, upset, or challenged. If you're ready to honestly look at your caffeine intake and see how it might be ruining your quality of life, this episode has the information and the motivation you need to take the step towards quitting. Listen now!
I thought i was anxious and depressed for years, then i quit coffee and all caffeine...and WOW...no more anxiety and depression....NONE...
Immediately or did you first have a period of withdrawal symptoms?
That’s amazing! How long until you felt those results? ❤
Update?
Off coffee for 3 weeks now. Will watch this video as the one and only activity today and the crawl back to bed
This topic is under-discussed and needs to be talked about some more. I recently discovered what was causing my stress and anxiety and always feeling extremely frustrated by any little thing that won't go my way. I used to drink a Venti size Pike Coffee in the morning and sometimes I would switch it up to a Trenta Cold Brew, unknowingly making my anxiety worse and triggering the fight-or-flight response, leading to increased heart rate, blood pressure, and cortisol levels. If you are feeling overly anxious or stressed, consider quitting coffee do it for yourself and your loved ones around you because they suffer too.
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Very helpful talk! About the fasting, I quit caffeine cold turkey 5 weeks ago and what I experience is that fasting is a lot easier now, because caffeine interferes with your bloodsugar levels. So actually fasting with caffeine is not fasting. Also I had the same anxiety, having to do new tasks and meeting new people was terrifying, this is all gone now. Wish I knew this earlier!
I'm day 5 no coffee. Thanks for this video, one of the best quit coffee videos ive seen.
I agree
Eight months without caffeine now i feel great no more anxiety, depression,panic attack and stress. My sleep is very very good and so refreshed early in the morning ❤
Oh dude right caffeine literally fucks u up
How long did it take for you to start feeling well once you quit?
@@alexanderkelley1255 depends how much you used but usually for me after thr first week it starts to get better then even better. Give yourself one month
Goddamn.
Ive bin drinking coffee for years, i also feel depressed and unhappy most of the time with horrible insomnia..
Coffee? Yea a little, but for me it was tea. You may not believed it but its true, bad headaches, feeling anxious i would never bound it with tea. Everyone says how green tea is so healthy... I stopped for a few days because i was bores with taste of it, and booom! Two days and i felt 10000 times better. It may not be solution for everyone but for me it was
Interesting observation as tea is the go to alternative... to be honest, the best phase in my life was when if was off coffee and tea too...
'hypnotized to believe it's good for us.' I'm well into my 2nd month of none, stopped cola also. Sleep didn't improve yet, and mornings are still tough, but I feel so different for better. You are spot on about the ritual, I travel and would have to coordinate around getting a cup, sucked. I didn't have the major headaches when I quit, so I don't think I was addicted, but the fact that I was relying on a drug was enough of the challenge for me to pursue. My digestion is improved. Coffee does affect urine due to diuretic effect, not just liquid, as people think. It would make me urgent soon, and quite a bit thereafter, my pee is also white not, not dark yellow implying dehydrated. I'm also at zero alcohol, aside from all the hypnosis 'that it's good for us.' My blood pressure dropped nicely, it popped up a little, but I'm still fixing other things.
Caffeine is the hardest drug I’ve ever had to quit. Alcohol is so much easier. The problem I have is that I quit caffeine, then get offered it daily at work for free. Then I slip back into my old ways of drinking coffee and then Pepsi max all day. I will try again soon but it’s ridiculously difficult…
same thoughts, i stopped nicotine alcohol even video games! but caffeine is too much harder than all, one of the worst underrated drugs ever
Decades of alcohol and cigarettes were easier for me to cold turkey from than coffee I always go back.
There's no caffeine in Pepsi max ya mad man
@@conorm8 yes there is son
God this is the devils drug. My mind allways finds a excuse to drink it and then i go overboard and feel like shit.
Yes your right it is the devil's drug every day I wake up that is the first thing I think of is were I am going to go and get my coffee not a good way to live
@@user-sz3mr7xb7oas if it burns your nervous system so you are unhappy without it
@@user-sz3mr7xb7o It's not just the caffeine it's the 2 opiates in it. I have a sneaking suspicion that it's the calming soothing opiates that people are hooked on not just the caffeine
Same thing for me. I'll quit. Then find an excuse to drink "a little" which snowballs into 10 cups a day + pre workout drinks.
@@a.k.5901 yeah bro im on and off constantly this drug has really fked me. But i am still unable to quit. I feel tons better off but i still keep drinking it. It makes a reallly boring life a tiny bit more interesting because im high on adrenaline all day not worrying about anything or thinking or reflecting.
Read caffeine blues too ! It shows that it can take 2-3 weeks for stress hormones to return to normal after quitting too
Explains why I gave up after 4 days.Lol that's not even close to giving enough time.
@@2023NCIS oh dude 90 days and then re evaluate
@@iamthefiremanjjWell I guess I need more patience and self-discipline.
Great book!
A Cup of stress. Great shit. What you talk about here is spot on. I have just recently been able to quit and what a difference. Im actually starting to wonder if half of the issues we have today is from the entire world being on a drug that causes stress and high anxiety. We are hooked as a society and i dont think we know how bad it is for us. Also coffee dehydrates you obviously. But most people dont know that if your dehydrated it can affect brain function as well, with can affect your mood.
Spot on . I def had the same exact line of thinking as you
Currently reduced to one cappucino before noon. It shows huge improvements and my life is changed for better by a margin. I will see if there is need to get rid of that one cappucino as well. Coming of from 5-7 black coffees a day this feels like a blessing.
I was like you. Stress , anxiety all of it! It´s freedom getting out from this jail quitting coffee! Never again! I am all carnivore with about 16 h fasting. Feel great! Coffee made me have inflammations.
Carnivore also plays a large role in counteracting inflammations.
For me, its not anxiety or depression, but crushing fatigue, never having energy to do whatever, it feels my life has come to a halt for over 20 years, such a waste of my precious life... now that is depressing...
Your channels deserves way more views and subscribes
Very very good video! I have exactly the same as you. Been on and off and on again. Quitting soon again. Amazing how this is legal and no warning signs on pakaging. I never knew that I could feel so good without it after being addicted for 15 years unknowingly
Great calming voice! Love this channel ❤️ thank you
Coffee will alter your neurons. For years, as an engineering student and veteran, I consumed caffeine in gum, energy drinks and coffee. At 30 I started getting anxiety/stress attacks that were never a thing before. So I kicked 8 cups of drip brew/day to the curb for a month. I didn’t cold turkey; I replaced drip brew with one espresso a day. I felt so much better, then one day I decided to drink a cup of drip brew. Oh boy! Within minutes, I felt anxious for no reason. I was at the breakfast table with racing thoughts! I stopped drinking coffee for a week and my sleep improved. My mind is a lot quieter and I’m more focused than before. IMO tea, coffee should be enjoyed ceremonially NOT recreationally.
Coffee’s negative effects are widely underestimated. Plenty of large chain cafe’s are selling products with absurd amounts of caffeine
So true! Thanks for laying this out. I’ve just given up and feel great for it.
Thank you for sharing this
thank you so much , some people have more sensitivity than other , i think i am one of those people . i will take action and stop it , hope i can reach more fulfilling life
I quit 7 days ago. Great experience. Enjoy your calm full confident patient benevolent relaxed future self. You will notice how your true personality is. Getting tired is not a crime. Feeling tired is good your body can slow down and relax and recharge everywhere. In the bus on the sofa where ever you are sitting on a bench in a park. If you skip coffee then you can feel calm and relaxed everywhere
11:30 good point. Great video. Some new things i havent heard which is rare!
Glad to hear it, thanks for watching!
As someone who has started carnivore woe, coffee which is generally allowed by many carnivores, is the last plant substance I've liberated myself from. Striving not to be domesticated by plants. 😂
Me too, I quit for almost 2 months last time but still had early wake insomnia induced by the caffeine withdrawal
@glycincheck7127 holy shit! Thanks for this comment. I've been off of caffeine for about a week now and have been waking up about halfway through my sleep period. It's been concerning, and I didn't know that it was a symptom of caffeine withdrawal.
Excellent video bro, it’s so true
Coffee does cause anxiety and dehydration for sure. This is a very good video.
Wow I had all exact symptoms you mentioned!
Here is my story: I’ve tried to quit many many times and failed after I realized what damage to my nervous system coffee brings. So I threw away all bags of beans and replaced with: black tea, matcha and oolong tea. They all contain much less caffeine (50% less or more) but all of them have an aminoacid called L-theanine. So basically this is calming down your mind, you get a mild boost and on top of that brings you antioxidants.
Im drinking these beverages for 3 months and I have better sleep, Im calmer, less agitated, more focused, I dont have racing thoughts anymore, and I feel like things are under control.
With coffee it was the complete opposite I was always angry, anxious, racing thoughts, my sleep was more shalow, I was always in fight or flight mood, and had occasional panic attacks
Try it, you will thank me ❤️
U still using the drug. Nothing to thank u for.
One of the biggest reasons caffeine makes you feel bad is it draws B1 vitamin and many people are already deficient in B1. Even worse when you add a lot of sugar to the coffee as carbs deplete B1 as well. Take some B vitamins before consuming coffee and see if you feel any difference.
I chose a decaf today because of this video.
Decaf was still causing me joint and muscle pain. Most plants are poison to me.
Thank you for this straight forward and stress focused overview. I have been coffee free for 3 weeks now and am working towards becoming caffeine free slowly and surely. I was so addicted and didnt have a clue. Have been dealing with a totally drained stress response system since 2017 due to C-PTSD and PTSD. Changed my whole lifestyle slowly and surely but for some reason kept caffeine in it. Doing therapy, meditating, living slowly and so healthy but still burning out again and again and not understanding why. I think the hidden problem has been caffeine. Really want to go cold turkey with all caffeine but I know my body will not handle it. I wonder if I will need to take out all caffeine or if it´s enough to have very limited amounts in chocolate and herbal teas that include caffeine.
Yes
Americans love to refer to caffeine as just coffee. So many other things have caffeine like tea and energy drinks .
11 months completely free. 🙌
How has it been?
Good video! Ill tried stopping so often. Sometimes few months or weeks but its so difficult not to fall back into coffee. slowly stopping is even more difficult . Wish i never started it. Never liked it the taste but its like hard drug in my book.
TEECINO is a nice alternative if you still want the ritual of making a warm comforting drink.
Good vid bro. Im on cold turkey cuz im a masochist who uses this torment as a liberating lash. 😂 worst headache wad over in about 40hours.
Coffee ? Coffee is life !!!
Suppressor of hunger, giver of energy, a stress reliever.
My favorite dr*g !
Great video. I'm 68 drinking caffeine at my age is like whipping on old horse.
1 year alcohol free .....now beginning a coffee free year also. Coffee was creating so much acidity in my system ......feel so much better without it even after a week .
Here in Brazil we start drinking coffe in childhood. I,m 28 and drink since 5 years old
What!!!
he man good video did you cut back slowly over couple of weeks or did you quit cold turkey?
Thanks for watching. I cut back over a couple of months by gradually adding more and more decaf to the mix
Limit your coffee to one cup a day - and don't have your own coffee machine at home that's for sure. And then eventually replace it with a black tea. That will make it easy to get rid of.
I had all of the above plus I found out that my body was creating high amounts of antibodies for coffee essentially meaning I am allergic to coffee.
Well, I had been drinking way too much coffee for a long time. I could finish a pot in a day and supplement with the pre-made cold brewed coffee, which is stronger than how I brew it. I'd drink so much caffeine I'd just feel bad, angry and aggressive all the fucking time. For a couple months now I've cut back to only swiss decaf, so I'll put a couple tablespoons into the pot. The coffee comes out brown, not black, so it's watered down decaf. I usually mix it now with fresh ginger, honey and another non-caffeinated tea like ashwaganda or tulsi or even tumeric, so it's a mildly coffee flavored herbal ginger tea. I have enjoyed this more than getting amped on caffeine. My tolerance has gone down so much that I can STILL feel the caffeine though in my system and I don't even like that small amount, but it's not enough to get my adrenals overclocked.
You can get ashwaganda tea?
@@girohead yep, my local grocery stores carry it.
Awesome, Video, thank you for sharing, it is truly, Addictive and not, our friend, sincerely, Diana Lipski, I know I should, Quit, even when I say to myself the Excuse I only drink one Cup, actually, it is 2 cups in a 16 ounce, have a Wonderful, Saturday 👍
Coffee was poision to me like most plants are to me.
Watching this while drinking my third cup. HELP
I wake every hour or so .Im second day in and so tired in the afternoon
'I don't like the road I was on, pissing my pants every morning' HAHA I hear you bro
So did cutting out coffee drastically cut down your bathroom trips ? I feel like I’m suffering from exactly what you described for urination .
I did it again used it for two days and now I feel ao bad coming down so anxious and feeling so gross it's awful I didn't realize how much my mood would swing because of thisv
I wish I've learned this before I got fired from my job 😔
The caffeine free sleep is the best sleep I've ever had! I think quitting is different for everyone. For me cutting it out completely, and dealing with the withdrawals is the only way. If I try to cut down, I'll end up cheating. Alcohol, cigarettes, weed, sugar, caffeine, I did all of it cold turkey, except nicotine, I used patches, but quit smoking completely day 1.
I quit 44 years ago alcohol and nicotine a year later cold turkey. Caffeine is tough for me I’ve done it before for 9 months 30 years ago after an illness. My goal is to wean myself off coffee agin. Working on it this week. I’d like to be caffeine free starting June 1st.
im off the shit now it was stressing me out and making life shitty
Glad you realized this, thanks for watching
Congrats
it wrecks your central nervous system, your endocrine system, & your digestion long term... Criminal the food industry doesn't at least provide some type of warning like with cigarettes.
It’s not a exageration to say that the bean is a way of life, especially when you look at it as a commodity over the centuries. Here in the uk Starbucks and Costa are now everywhere, like MacDonalds. They tap into peoples’ need for ritual and make $$$. It just so happens we work more, buy more also. If you could pick one mood smell for a shopping mall, you know what it would be: the smell of coffee.
1/2 a cup a few days a week still addicted
just commit, you'll break the ritual and then lose the rote memory, and finally the taste. I loved coffee and I can still justify it, but I just abstain. I do cheat with a decaf once in a while (twice since quitting over 6 weeks ago).
Im weaning down of 4 or 5 a day to now 1 in the morning only. When i finish this bag of beans then decaf
When I decided that I would drink only one cup of coffee a day, I didn't procrastinate anymore
Im in bed with swollen lymph nodes and sore joints and muscles and a splitting headache. Day 5. Im sick as a dog. This stuff just isnt good for you if the withdrawals are this bad
I have always told myself I could have a lot worse vices. To me a nice flat white is a comfort thing. I could've been an alcoholic or a drug addict or had a junk food addiction, which are far worse. To me coffee intake is benign in comparison.
I don’t disagree! I just found that too much caffeine was wreaking havoc on my nerves and mental health at times.
I still enjoy a cup of it here and there. The idea of this show is really to examine and understand why we do what we do, and not necessarily to feel guilt or rush to change.
You don’t need to be a drug addict or junk food addict. You can just not drink it and have a normal boring life. Boeing is good.
@@claireh.7605 Embrace boredom, I've never thought of it that way
@@glennrobinson7193 yes, BORING IS GOOD. I have an extra several grand in my bank account from not being a wild man going to three coffee shops a day!
@@glennrobinson7193 I’m about to break down and get a coffee though
OMG what an amazing video. Yes, that little bit of edge I can't figure out. I have been carnivore for 9 months. Eat only meat and eggs. I have given up EVERYTHING. Sugar,
grains, vegetables, fruits, seed oils and on and on. I'm a recovering alcoholic. 5 1/2 years sober. Of course the mentality is, I've given up everything, I can have coffee. I read
all the carnivore success stories and I'm thinking what is it? I'm not totally there yet. I had to laugh at your hotel story. I too, would be in a panic if there was no coffee maker
in the room. My daughter lives in Costa Rica. What amazing coffee that is!! Espresso was amazing. The barista didn't open until 7 am. Panic mode. I bought a travel
coffee pot and brought coffee grounds. Maybe a little addicted? My addiction spans over many years. I am ready to quit. I am 5 days of weaning off coffee. I am
cutting it with chicory. It tastes pretty awful but it has coffee in it! I really appreciate your candid video. Wish me luck!!!
When you say carnivore, do you identify more as a lion, eagle, polar bear or shark?
I can’t relax be clear and satisfies with life when I am on coffee. I can’t get deep sleep consistently
I drink coffee and I feel really gay, could quitting coffee make me not feel gay anymore?
I get vertigo if i drink coffee for a couple days in a row.
Anyone else cleaning their screen?
I am going through caffeine withdrawal now
Been through it, strong headaches lasted almost for 3 weeks. Now I’m addicted to dark chocolate and matcha green tea powder, which I used to lighten the headaches 😂
How long did it take for the anxiety to subside I feel like garbage physically drinking this stuff
I recall that it was pretty much instant relief of anxiety once I got below 1 cup/day. But remember I weaned off the stuff over 2 months.
It’s different for everyone but if you “feel like garbage” that’s a sign to look deeply at your habits for sure.
@@BuildaBetterLife yah I feel so much better off of it to be honest way more like relaxed and present if that makes sense I feel here
@@iamthefiremanjj Absolutely makes sense. When you realize that too much caffeine can cause your nervous system to go into "fight or flight mode," a lot of things start to add up
Ok so you did this vid a year ago. How’s it going now? I’ve been trying to quit for 5 years 🤦🏻♀️
Can it cause anger?
Big time I would be so irrationally angry and irritated . Kind of like everything was in my way and like it was happening to me on purpose .
Oh yah big time
are u still off the caffeine? what benefits are u seeing?
yo- after a year basically no caffeine, I have brought back 1/2 cup of coffee a few days a week in the morning. Still nowhere near where I was. The benefits of less stress and better energy haven't been affected by this amount.
thats great.@@BuildaBetterLife
@@OGAesthetics Where are you at with it these days?
@@OGAestheticshey again ! We always watch the same videos
yeah i got issues@@iamthefiremanjj
It’s just hot bean water.
If social media was causing you as much anguish as coffee would you give that up
Not sure why you're censoring so much when I'm agreeing with you, but also adding a balanced and necessary perspective. There are pros and cons. If you can't handle such a benign conclusion, turn comments off. But you'll get better responses and have far more reach (aka views, earning potential) if you allow natural discourse to happen. That is what social media is about, no? Or are you not interested in other viewpoints, education, or anything other than your own unmovable convictions? I'll keep posting the comment, there's no reason you should be so fearful of it, and it'd look better if you'd just left the original, benign comment, where I offered additional facts to promote discussion and foster an educational environment, rather than one where I point out that you're relying on censorship and flagging comments that break no rules in hopes that youtube will remove it and/or ban a user for you, for no reason other than your own pride and ego. Now as I was saying:
Hey there, I haven't personally censored any comments here. Happy to discuss with you anytime!
I did see your original comment but it does seem to have disappeared
@@BuildaBetterLifehey do you have that interview anywhere with your friend talking about the sub conscious etc ? Would love to watch it
Are you currently having decaf?
To be honest, I have added a small amount of regular coffee back into my life. I have found I can manage any stress better after taking a year off. People may call me a hypocritical here... maybe I will do a follow up episode on this. Life for me has phases of using and not using things.
@@BuildaBetterLife I gotcha. It’s not phases of using and not using. It’s addiction. No offense but it’s not surprising you added “some” of the drug back. That’s how it works. I did it in the past too before quitting for good. Caffeine is caffeine in any amount. Dose does not make the poison. Don’t let anyone fool you and don’t fool yourself. I won’t go into too much detail but… it’s a drug.
A psychoactive neurotoxic drug and a lot of people make RUclips videos not knowing that and just how bad caffeine is. I see it everyday with what I do. Like any other drug you feel “good” because you’re still getting high. I may sound over the top but no more than those people who found out early what cigarettes were doing to people.
@@LrgPicture Yeah I don't disagree, appreciate the frankness
@@BuildaBetterLife no worries
@@LrgPicture "It’s not phases of using and not using". Haha, the things we can tell ourselves eh.
what even is the point of drinking this bean juice? there absolutely no benefits, at all
I really love coffee. In Eastern Europe, this was not a very popular drink; we mostly drank tea. I skipped the early culture and jumped straight into the third wave and even worked as a barista for several years. Coffee is a cool thing, very tasty and varied. This is a fairly dense drink that you drink without sugar and it's a cool thing. By the way, I never drank coffee because of the caffeine. Yes, it's an unpleasant thing, but you can live with it.
3.5 weeks on from a head throbbing cold turkey I am just beginning to understand how much caffeine had a grip on me.
Improving sleep and dreams for the first time in many years. 85% of the head fog lifted. Anxiety and fight or flight at the slightest hint of stress. Peeing day and night. These things and many more means cutting out caffeine is more than hype... it really is a life changer.
I agree and thanks for watching. I went 10 months off and 4 months on, and have decided to cut it out again. We'll see what results.
@@BuildaBetterLife why did you start again after making THAT (awesome) video? i dont get it. Im only 1 week off and i will never go back. Caffeine made me into a stressed out, unable to live and function, low energy, weak ass mess being stressed out to the burnout by simply socialising, making me crash so bad at afternoon i could barely stay awake and often took naps that messed with my sleep even worse to nights where i slept 2h and lied there awake frustrated for 6 more. Fuck that shit.
@@xKillYourTVx good question. The laxative effect probably. Let me know if you stay off for a year. good luck and thanks for watching!
I appreciate your content but you could have left out the porn comment. I know you were trying to make a point but I finally got my wife to watch it and she was taken aback somewhat. Keep up the good work.
Appreciate the feedback. I will try to give content warnings in the future. Thanks for watching!
I think the comment was a very good comparison to show and describe human beings. There are terrible things out there in the world. Let's not pretend and sugar coat.
Is she from a century ago??Must be the biggest prude 😂
You are moving so much it looks like you had coffee before making the video
Never quit coffee, it gives you energy, if you feel you have too much energy after a cup, go to the zoo and run with a kangaroo. If you do quit coffee at least start drinking a fifth of vodka a day it will make you feel mellow when the bottle is empty. I still drink coffee and an hour later my arms are flying around like a boxer for 5 hours I must be burning calories like a running gazelle and my urine is a bright yellow so i can write love letters in the snow. Good luck!
Are people even too fragile for coffee these days? Boomers where driving when they were drunk and now people can't even handle caffeine and flashing lights?
@@Ventryx And no one remembers the ones who did. Instead we remember Lemmy. I guess living a stress free life just doesn't get you anywhere in life. But it's convenient. Honestly, working in IT in Europe is pretty chill. But being squeamish when it comes to coffee would be a big problem in that business 😁
@@Ventryx That was meant as a joke but you could say the coffee break is similar to the smoking break or going to karaoke in Japan
@@ltxr9973 joke understood, especially in regards to the fragile new generations, but I see it more as continuous improvement/fine tuning - allowable with social interacting on the net. People used to only listen to commercials, and fads and what they were told, never hearing of the opposite view.
I would bet that their coffees were a fraction of the strength of our day's coffees. Also we have energy drinks caffeine pills, pre-work out pills, INSTANT coffee and caffeine. They had to spend more time to obtain their coffee.
"Boomers where driving when they were drunk" yeah and because of the senseless deaths, once the tech became available to bust people, laws were passed preventing it. I'm not sure what your point is there? :)
Coffe also make people skin older
Coffe its not for everybody some people can be affected by caffeine make increase anxiety but some people not being affected at all , we are different
What about yerba mate? 🫣 There's quite a lot of coffeine, but so is in tea... Did you give up tea as well? 😅