Deanna Bramble
Author & Clinical Nutritionist


Caffeine

Teeccino has No Stimulants or Caffeine and is Alkaline. Tastes even better than coffee. My favorite flavor is Vanilla Nut.You can use in your coffee machine or espresso machine. Espresso Machine tastes amazing with steamed FrenchVanilla Flavored Coconut Creamer by "So Delicious". Make an amazing cappuccino! Made from Organic carob,organic barley,organic chicory, dates, almonds & figs.

Coffee: We used to think coffee was a wonderful way to spike our energy. Sadly coffee dehydrates us, raises our chortisol levels (aging us rapidly), and makes us acidic. Coffee also hurts our natural intestinal flow, raises anxiety to high levels, aggression and blood pressure, along with staining our teeth as the least of the issues. Coffee is another way to borrow energy from the future, but crashes us in the end. Coffee makes our anxiety heightened and therefore hurting our ability to focus. Coffee has also been linked to cancer. Heating the coffee bean creates the chemical Methylglyoxal, benzopyrene, and chlorogenic atractyosides.  A 1981 study from the Harvard School of Public Health concluded that drinking coffee was the cause of half of all pancreatic cancer cases. It also found that drinking three cups of coffee a day increased the risk of pancreatic cancer by three times. Furthermore, all disease is promoted in an acidic environment and the goal of health is to create an alkaline body.

 

A healthy body maintains a blood pH of around 7.3. Coffee is 25.1 on the acidic scale. Caffeine causes a large amount of sugar to be released into the bloodstream. The pancreas reacts by releasing an excessive amount of insulin. The sugar is burned by the body rapidly producing quick energy. Caffeine can cause chromosomes in the cell’s nucleus to break apart. These genes get re-arranged by the toxin. This defect can be seen in the delivery room of hospitals.  Coffee also increases urination frequency which inhibits absorption of nutrients (especially Iron). Decaffeinated Coffee is just as bad as an even more acidic than regular coffee. With most our world already being toxic from our everyday diets high in acidity this is the last thing we need to add. 
 
Anxiety - Since caffeine is a stimulant it interferes with adenosine, which is actually a brain chemical that helps to calm us down. We all know that panic attacks arise from situations that leave us at the opposite end of calm, so if caffeine is affecting this process within the brain, it is obviously going to lead to more frequent and more severe attacks. Caffeine also raises our lactate levels which are a known contributor in producing panic attacks. If you are addicted to the taste of Coffee try “Teeccino”. It is non-acidic and tastes better than coffee. Teeccino comes in many flavors. 

Coffee, Cola, Diet Cola, Espresso, Caffeine Energy Drinks, Diet pills, Pain killers, and many cold remedies all have caffeine in common. This is one of the largest legal mind altering drugs in the world. About 80 to 90 percent of Adults say they use it regularly. 30 Million a year is spent on just caffeine tablets, and 50 billion on caffeinated sodas in the US alone.

While news articles will continue to try to persuade you to believe there are antioxidants in coffee. Living in this century requires us to be more than intensely discriminating on what we believe. Twisted studies promoted by the media is common. Corrupt researchers who are paid for an outcome can make that result happen. Use your good common sense and you will not need scientific approval before consuming foods.

Caffeine is so widely accepted as normal that it is even fed to young children even though it is a psychoactive drug. Caffeine becomes a constrictor to the brain by blocking the blood flow to vessels, thereby decreasing circulation and oxygen supply by up to 30%. When we have a stimulant such as caffeine it increases our heart rate and raises blood pressure. Is this creating health?

Numerous studies link caffeine to calcium loss contributing to osteoporosis, and more bone fractures. Calcium is robbed from our bones to neutralize every time we consume something acidic. A study printed in the January 1994 Journal of the American Medical Association found that women who drank just two cups of coffee a day increased their risk of hip fracture by 69 percent.

Cortisol is what our bodies produce when there is a fight or flight response needed. Taking a chemical that imposes this such as caffeine induces the state of stress continuously on the body and therefore also ages us more rapidly. This also reduces our immunity. Our main energy that is needed for normal metabolic function gets halted by caffeine toxemia.  This can stay in the blood stream for 18 hours after consuming caffeine.

In about 60 to 70 percent suffering from diabetes or hypoglycemia caffeine promotes even further blood sugar imbalances. Insulin and the amount of sugar in the blood is increased when caffeine is in the system. Numerous patients of J Curtis Nickel, MD were able to reverse their Type II Diabetes simply by omitting caffeine consumption.

The toxicity of caffeine can be found when trying to remove this stimulant from your diet. The withdrawal symptoms of detoxification alone should clue you into how terrible it is for our bodies. Common symptoms include headaches (caused by sudden increase circulation to the brain when blood flow is no longer constricted), fatigue, sleepiness, lethargy, irritability, depression, muscle pain and stiffness, and sometimes even flu like symptoms. The narcotic effect of caffeine is so powerful that its influence is abundantly clear when the addict reintroduces this stimulant and all symptoms vanish.

Social acceptance is a big reason we stay on our poor patterned choices. It is easy to pull one piece of research or information to try and justify that something is good for us. Are there antioxidants in coffee? Yes, but they also exist in heroin and cocaine. If you want the best antioxidants try raw grape skins (again that is no reason to drink them mixed with ethyl alcohol as some researchers push). It is best to get your antioxidants and polyphenols (plant compounds) from real whole raw plant food sources. Those avoiding fructose can acquire these from green raw vegetables, which are also high in fiber, minerals, and absorbable vitamins.