Making Healthy Choices -- The Need for Caffeine Detox

Many Americans grab a cup of coffee in the morning in order to start their day. Some say the aroma, the taste, the warmth all combine to give that morning boost. But actually, it's the caffeine that revs up the system and gets the nervous system excited and generally over-stimulated. Let's take a closer look however, at just how the daily caffeine affects the body and overall health. Does an herbal medicine approach exist to address this?

Caffeine stimulates the nervous system and adrenal glands. For many of us these systems are already overworked which leads to our feeling constantly tired and exhausted. Furthermore, caffeine disrupts natural sleep patterns making you even more tired. By adding caffeine to an already overly stressed - overly tired system, we only add to and extend the problem. Caffeine is a drug and anyone who has started this cycle and then tried to abruptly stop has experienced the withdrawal systems of stopping cold turkey. The feelings of irritability, sluggishness, anxiety, nervousness, and headaches are all common symptoms.

Coffee is by far our favorite method of digesting large amounts of caffeine. Just six ounces of brewed coffee contains 102 mg of caffeine. Just thinking about all the Grande Lattes from my past, the amount of caffeine that must have been in them, and the impact on my health makes me shutter even today.

Instant coffee contains only half the caffeine of brewed. Although, when I drank coffee, I never thought that instant tasted quite as good as fresh brewed. Now I'm not sure if it was really the taste or the fact that instant probably didn't feed into my caffeine addiction as much as the fresh alternative did!

Brewed tea has even less caffeine than coffee. Eight ounces of brewed tea contains approximately 40 mg of caffeine. Tea also contains antioxidants which makes it a much better alternative, especially green tea.

If you are looking to improve your health and trying to wean yourself from caffeine and don't want to suffer from all the withdrawal symptoms, drink lots of pure water and get plenty of exercise -- enough to work up a good sweat. This will help sweat out the toxins and help you with overall detox. An alternative is to use herbal support to minimize withdrawal side-effects. One great product to alleviate detox symptoms is a product offered by Herbal Nutrition Systems called Caffeine Detox. This is homeopathic medicine solution that provides natural relief for caffeine withdrawal. One product to consider combining with this is called Nutri-Calm. It provides an herbal combination of B-complex vitamins and nourishing herbs to support and nuture the nervous system and improve relaxation and encourage restful sleep. This herbal one-two punch not only assists with detox symptoms but also helps to address the underlying cause for the feeling for extra caffeine in the morning.

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