Does your body "store" caffeine?!
Question: This may sound strange, but I've given up caffeine for over a week now (after 30 years of regular use) and at first had the headaches but no real loss of energy. But now I find a real loss of energy, finally. Does the body "store" caffeine, and that's why it takes so long to overcome its effects?
Answers: This may sound strange, but I've given up caffeine for over a week now (after 30 years of regular use) and at first had the headaches but no real loss of energy. But now I find a real loss of energy, finally. Does the body "store" caffeine, and that's why it takes so long to overcome its effects?
No, it does not store caffeine. The problem you are having is that for 30 years, you have caused a stress reaction by using caffeine heavily. This has exhausted your adrenal glands and caused many other issues that your body has had to deal with all these years.
When you eat or drink caffeine, it forces your adrenal glands to produce cortisol, the stress hormone. Our genetics have not changed in over 12,000 years, but 0.1%. So we are still acting like primitive people that did not eat refined sugar, white flour, hydrogenated oils and so our bodies are reacting to these things just like they would have 12,000 years ago if they had been in the diet. In fact, the average American in 1905 ate a whopping 10 pounds of sugar per year that was consider a lot and caused cavities, etc. Today, the average American is eating about 200 pounds of sugar each year. Consider this, a 6 ounce COKE contains 39 grams of sugar. A 64 ounce big gulp contains about 416 grams of sugar. 454 grams = 1 pound. So if you get a big gulp, drink it, and then get a little refill, you have just consumed over 1 pound of sugar! This overloads your body with sugar and makes the pancreas excrete huge amounts of insulin and then huge amounts of glucagon to counteract the sugar attack. Then, the adrenal glands are called into action, just like a primitive man that is being chased by a saber tooth tiger, because the body believes it is under high stress and the muscles need energy! So the limited amount of pregnenalone is called into action to make CORTISOL, the stress hormone. You feel good, but what it's doing to those adrenals is amazing. Early man only used his adrenals occasionally. All that caffeine caused you to use those adrenals constantly. It's a wonder they even work at all. No wonder you are tired.
O.k., what to do. You now have to build up the adrenals and give them what they need to rebuild. It's going to take time and don't rely on drugs or your doctor to tell you what to do, because they know nothing of nutrition.
Two things that will make you feel better and help to start building the adrenals is to get at least 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep at night allowing your body to go into an REM sleep. This is critical. Sleep in a room with no light in it.
Go to: www.healthline.cc ( not the .com web site, it is bogus) and order the following:
Adrenal Complex ---- Take 9 of these before noon each day
Gold 360 --- Take 1 teaspoon at breakfast, 1 at lunch, and 1 at dinner. This will rebuild the pituitary gland activity that you are going to need.
Also, purchase the following for your digestion so you will be actually digesting what you eat.
Betaine HCL --- Take 2 to 3 of these after each meal
HCL Activator --- Take 1 after each meal
Digest -- Take 2 of these DURING the meal
Probiotic - Take one in the morning and one in the evening
After doing this for about 2 days, you will start feeling a lot of energy. You will need to keep doing this for about a month and then you can taper off. E-mail me and I will help you take the next steps to health.
good luck to you
It doesn't "store" caffeine in that within 12 hours the effects of it have been purged from your system.
What happened first with the headaches was withdrawl. I know how bad they can get as I too in the past have given up caffeine for various reasons. Once they pass, you're going to be groggy and kinda sleepy for the next week or so. T
After this point however, you should be fine.