One of the best things I did on my healing journey was giving up coffee. I had been a hardcore addict, back from my days when I was having an eating disorder starving myself for long times, just drinking coffee to keep me going and stop the hunger.
Coffee is absolutely detrimential to health. Not only does it often contain heavy metals like lead and cadmium, or pesticides, but it also heavily depletes your kidney JING (in Traditional Chinese Medicine this is your battery's energy for your whole life). It overstimulates and burns out the adrenals, leaving you fatigued over time. It depletes your minerals and is extremely acid on the body. Caffeine addiction is a thing though, and I know best how it is to stop. Here and there I tried in the past to quit. I would stop for a week, get through massive withdrawal symptoms and then would restart again, telling myself, I only have 1 small coffee a day (it would always end up with 3-4). Coffee withdrawal is hard. Crazy headaches, grumpiness and irritability, plus you are feeling like you have been robbed of the best thing of your day, a comforting morning ritual, a delicious treat. For the latter you can try switching to herbal coffee substitutes, like chicory or lupine coffee. For a milder withdrawal substitute your coffee with green tea or hot chocolate or mate tea. This way you still get some caffeine. But be careful not to get addicted to those substitutes too in the end. I ended up using cacao as my stimulant of the day and when I did a detox, the withdrawl symptoms were almost as bad as with coffee. But still, cacao is way better than coffee in my opinion, especially if it is raw unprocessed and unsweetened cacao. Careful though about your sources as cacao also is known to often contain high levels of cadmium and lead. The absolute best way to replace coffee is with a green juice (cucumber, parsley, celery, ginger, lemon). This will wake your body up with nourishment, not with stimulants. Your tastebuds will change with time, and you will crave green juices instead of coffee that crashes your energy and leaves you with bad breath.
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